Pienaar happy to be top dog at Ulster after Sarries experience

It’s doubtful in their professional careers if any of the Ulster or Saracens players have had to shovel dog pooh off pitches before training, but that was exactly Francois Pienaar’s experience when he first joined the English side.

“When I arrived at Saracens in 1996, at my first training session they gave me a shovel,” the iconic South African World Cup winning captain said.

“I thought it was a joke and someone was filming me. But we were training in a public park and we had to take the dog pooh off the field.”