Vodacom Bulls director of rugby Jake White instantly regretted signing Madosh Tambwe. Now he’s hopeful the wing will cancel his flight to France.
“In his first week training with us, Madosh was trying to show the team every trick he knows,” White told the URC. “He was running sideways across the field, and then in the huddle he was running the show, telling everyone what to do, how to fold and where to go.
He scored 30 tries in 42 first-class appearances over the course of three seasons, including four against the DHL Stormers in 2018, before leaving for the Cell C Sharks in 2020. But his stay in Durban failed to produce fireworks and in 2021 he again packed his bags, this time for Loftus Versfeld. An Olympic 100m sprinter covers an average of 10.4 metres per second and the Bulls have recorded Tambwe at 10.3mps. However, there’s more to integrating into a rugby team than pure athleticism and this isn’t something that the wing seemed to fully appreciate on his arrival in Pretoria.
“We had to call him in and tell him he’s the new kid in the town and, to be fair to him, he was just 23 years old.” Tambwe started 18 times for the Bulls in the league, carrying the ball 116 times and beating 42 defenders to score eight tries.“And I think he’s had about eight tries disallowed!” said White. “It’s become an inside joke in the team that we’ve told the goal-kickers to hurry after every time Madosh scores because I can’t remember how many tries he’s had called back for offsides, or a knock-on at the previous ruck.
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