Career
He first came to prominence with the surprising inclusion in Springbok coach Peter de Villiers"s 42-man training squad in 2008. In 2011 he was drafted into the Stormers team on tour in Australasia. Earl has since moved back to the strand where he helped his local club Sirlowrians gain promotion to the top tier of club rugby in the Western Cape.
His excellent form was rewarded by His selection for Western Province sevens team in 2014.
In 1999, Rose was selected for the Western Province Under-Fifteen Merit Team, an accolade followed up two years later with his inclusion in the Under-Sixteen WP Academy. He played in Hoërskool Strand"s First XV from 2000 to 2002, in which year he also made the WP Under-Eighteen Craven Week, the WP Under-Nineteen squad, the Société Anonyme Schools team for matches against France and Wales, and the South African Under-Nineteen training squad.
2003 brought the Institutional Review Board Sevens World Series in New Zealand and Brisbane, Australia, and the Société Anonyme Under-Nineteen Foreign Investment Review Agency-American Economic Review World Championship. He was included in the Western Province Under-Twenty squad in 2004 and, three seasons later, the Lions Super 14 outfit.
There followed De Villiers"s training squad.
He was also selected as the only flyhalf for the Springbok tour of the United Kingdom in 2008, a move that has aroused further controversy, the South African Press Association describing it as a "shock". In retrospect, respected sports columnist Luke Alfred dubbed the decision "short-sighted", arguing that his place ought to have gone to Morné Steyn. A disappointing 2010 Super 14 campaign led to Rose being dropped by the Lions starting 15.
He played in the Vodacom Cup during 2011 for the Griquas and once the competition concluded he was offered a short term contract to play for the Stormers in Super Rugby.
However, Griquas didn"t extend his contract for the 2012 season and Rose joined the Eastern Province Kings on a trial.