Ruan Pienaar: 'I wanted to come to Ulster as a foreigner and make a difference'

Ruan Pienaar is being forced to leave Ulster as the IRFU want to ‘develop indigenous talent in this position’, but he is not bitter – just proud of the way he helped to develop the club and the young players who are replacing himBy Jonathan Drennan for Behind the Lines, part of the Guardian Sport NetworkUlster’s Springbok scrum-half Ruan Pienaar remembers arriving in Belfast six years ago vividly. He got out of the club car, looked up at a slate-grey sky and a crumbling stadium and gazed at his young wife incredulously. He had just enjoyed a beautiful South African summer by the Indian Ocean i…