Retiring Pienaar to earn stripes before return

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Retiring Pienaar to 'earn stripes' before return

"If I told my wife we were moving back to Ulster tomorrow, she'd be the first one on the plane."

Ruan Pienaar is getting set to hang up his boots, about seven years after leaving Ulster and two months after turning forty.

Thought to be the Irish province's best-ever recruit, the Springbok World Cup winner has represented Montpellier, the Sharks, and the Cheetahs since saying an emotional goodbye to Kingspan Stadium due to the IRFU's blocking of a proposed contract extension.
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