Lusanda Dumke promises Bulls Daisies will maintain good run into new season
5th April 2024
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Bulls Daisies captain Lusanda Dumke says she’s looking forward to a competitive new season of the Women’s Premier Division, with most teams looking to dethrone them.
The Daisies come into the 2024 season as defending champions, having finished top of log with 60 points and a 100% winning streak last term.
The women’s rugby domestic league resumes next weekend, and Dumke is confident the Daisies will continue from where they left off last season.
''What I am looking forward to this season is the team's performance, we finished well last season and I think a lot of teams will be looking to have a competition with us. This will improve the game,'' said Dumke.
The 27-year-old flank believes the DHL Western Province and Boland Dames are two teams that may give the Daisies a tough time this season, considering their new recruits – who will be coming in with international experience. Province finished second on the log with 42 points last season, while the Dames finished fourth with 23 points.
''The two teams that will give us a run this season is Western Province and Boland. Simply because Boland have recruited a number of good players who are now part of the national set up, and Western Province because they have a very good development structure, but we are ready for what's to come,'' added Dumke.
The two-time Premier Division champion told SABC Sport that, apart from retaining their title this season, she wants to see more of her teammates called up for national duty.
''My ambition for this is definitely to defend the title and I think that is possible and I want to see most of the Daisies girls being noticed in the national set up,'' she concluded.
Dumke further called upon corporate South Africa to support women’s sport, so that leagues can be professionalised through sponsorships and grow the women’s game.
