Bulls at Loftus

The Sharks Currie Cup team will play the Bulls in Pretoria on Wednesday night. Tito Bonilla will partner with Cam Wright – so unless Boeta Chamberlain is out injured he may feature for the Sharks URC squad against Zebre this coming weekend.

Emile van Heerden and Hyron Andrews come in for Reniel Hugo and Le Roux Roets (who featured against Scarlets) on Friday night. Marnus Potgieter moves to outside centre with Curwin Gertse starting on wing.

A couple of new faces feature on the bench – Braam Reyneke, Ntsika Fisani and Ethan Fischer.

Jake White / Gert Small have again loaded the Bulls CC team with a number of players that normally features for the URC team (e.g. Morne Steyn, Kurt-Lee Arendse, Harold Vorster, Madosh Tambwe, Arno Botha, Ruan Nortje, Elrigh Louw, Chris Smith, Cornal Hendricks) – so I am afraid the Sharks will be serious under-dogs for this game.

1. Dian Bleuler

2. Fez Mbatha

3. Wiehahn Herbst

4. Emile van Heerden

5. Hyron Andrews

6. James Venter (c)

7. Thembelani Bholi

8. Celimpilo Gumede

9. Cameron Wright (v/c)

10. Tito Bonilla

11. Curwin Gertse

12. Murray Koster

13. Marnus Potgieter

14. Yaw Penxe

15. Inny Radebe

Replacements

16. Dan Jooste

17. Braam Reyneke

18. Lourens Adriaanse

19. Jeandre Labuschagne

20. Ntsika Fisani

21. Sanele Nohamba

22. Jordan Chait

23. Ethan Fisher