{"id":591413,"date":"2026-04-07T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591413\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:39:09","slug":"de-bruin-applauds-daisies-and-pick-n-pay-wsl-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591413\/","title":{"rendered":"De Bruin applauds Daisies and Pick n Pay WSL 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

De Bruin had special praise for the Isuzu Bulls Daisies, who won the competition for the fourth time<\/a> in succession.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Daisies have set a benchmark for others to follow, there can be no doubt about that and I have to say, they hardly put a foot wrong all season,\u201d said De Bruin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey really played at a good pace and intensity, giving their opponents a clear indication of what is needed to be successful at the top levels of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good to see that a number of players that played well for us in last year\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup continued that form into this competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also need to thank Pick n Pay for their involvement in particular, but also Vodacom and the other sponsors involved this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Springbok Women will have their first assembly of the year next week and De Bruin is hopeful that they can pick up the momentum created by the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some tough matches coming up this year as we move into the top tier of the game and it is good to know some players are battle hardened already. We will need that,\u201d the coach concluded.<\/p>\n

The Isuzu Bulls Daisies not only finished the season unbeaten, but their players again dominated the points scoring statistics as well.<\/p>\n

Jakkie Cilliers, who scored the most points in the last two seasons, did so again in 2026, adding 88 points to the Daisies\u2019 overall tally, with 31 conversions and four tries.<\/p>\n

Daisies wing Thobile Msizazwe topped the try-scoring list with 12 tries for the season. In total, the teams scored 1634 points, with 264 tries and 136 conversions adding to the excitement of spectators all around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Bruin had special praise for the Isuzu Bulls Daisies, who won the competition for the fourth time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}