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Currie Cup

Team for Cheetahs

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Gideon Koegelenberg will start with Slabbert dropping out. Matt Ramao starts at 7 with Jannes Potgieter dropping to the bench. The scrums were good last week, but the lineouts were a mess. The forwards were bullied at the breakdown and the maul. Hopefully the lineouts can at least improve this week.

Marnus Potgieter, Diego Appollis come into the midfield with Yaw Penxe on the wing. Jaco Williams moves into the fullback position (he does seem to have more BMT than Kunene – hopefully he gets a couple of games there).

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Currie Cup

Junior Boks for Bulls

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Coach JPP have added the Sharks’ Junior Boks to his match day squad for the Bulls at Loftus. Additionally Tino Mavesere and Corne Rahl will add a bit more experience to the pack.

The Sharks will be up against a Bulls team with plenty of experience. The Bulls pack was dominant against WP and scored a number of maul tries. Expect more of the same this weekend.

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Currie Cup

Young team for the Lions

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JPP has selected a fairly inexperienced team (7 debutantes) for the first game of the Currie Cup. The official squad for the Currie Cup contains a number of the Junior Bok players that won the U20 World Cup in style but these have been given another week’s break after their heroics. Bathobele Hlekani who sparked one of the Junior Boks’ most spectacular tries has been called up to train with the Boks – so we will not see him hopefully doing the same for the Sharks soon.

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Springboks

Cobus Wiese at 8 against the Georgians

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Rassie has made more wholesale changes for the game against the Georgians. The remaining uncapped front row forwards (Boan Venter, Marnus van der Merwe and Neethling Fouche) will start against Georgia while Cobus Wiese will be tried out at 8. Eben Etzebeth and Siya Kolisi are back in the starting team. The bench has a lot of experience with the likes of Pollard, Bongi and co.

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Springboks

Hooker to get his Bok opportunity

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Rassie has overhauled the team from last weekend to give other players in his squad the opportunity to face Italy. Ethan Hooker should get his Bok cap in the second half along with Asenathi Ntlabakanye and Cobus Wiese (the brother of Jasper). Salmaan Moerat willl captain the team.

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Springboks

Vincent to get his Bok cap

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Rassie has made a number of rotational changes to the Bok side. Vincent Tshituka will get his first start in an official test after a storming game against the Barbarians. Damian Willemse and Handre Pollard will start at 15 and 10 respectively, with Jasper Wiese, Eben Etzebeth and Wilco Louw starting in the pack. Jesse Kriel retains the captaincy.

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Springboks

Vincent starts for the Boks

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Vincent Tshituka will debut for the Boks against the Barbarians on Saturday. Apart from the half backs the Boks will feature a pretty experienced back line. Lood de Jager makes his return to the Boks, while Jean-Luc du Preez gets another opportunity at 8. Asenathi Ntlabakanye will anchor the scrum along with the Malcolm Marx and Ox Nche. The four players including Vincent who make their debut will not be capped though – as the game does not count as an official test.

I am disappointed not to see Ethan Hooker in the mix, but apparently Rassie wants to use this game to get the Japan based Boks some match practice.

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