**The South African teams enjoyed a successful debut season in the United Rugby Championship and Cameron Wright and Johan Goosen believe the competition compares favourably with the Super Rugby they left behind.** After a slow start, the newcomers rallied to the point that only the Emirates Lions failed to qualify for the quarter-finals and a fortnight later the DHL Stormers and Vodacom Bulls battled it out in the event's showpiece. Wright, scrum-half for the Cell C Sharks, admits it took time to acclimatise to the standard of opposition and difference in playing style.