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Springboks bank on Brussow
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| November 02 2009 at 11:23PM |
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Submit your comment Johannesburg - Flanker Heinrich Brussow was a surprise inclusion in the South African team named on Monday to face the Leicester Tigers at Welford Road. However, Spies withdrew from the tour on Monday after injuring a finger in training and was replaced by Jean Deysel, a team-mate of Kankowski at the Durban-based Coastal Sharks. Blue Bulls reserve hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle captains a team containing an all-Bok tight five completed by props Gurthro Steenkamp and Jannie du Plessis and locks Danie Rossouw and Andries Bekker. The only uncapped forwards are Blue Bulls flanker Dewald Potgieter and Free State Cheetahs number eight Ashley Johnson, a player who will be easily noticed as his mop of black hair confirms visits to the barber are rare. Wings Odwa Ndungane and Jongi Nokwe, centre Wynand Olivier and fly-half Ruan Pienaar have worn the green and gold and fullback Earl Rose, centre Juan de Jongh and scrum-half Heini Adams complete the backline. A concern for coach Dick Muir, one of two assistants to coach Peter de Villiers who stays in Johannesburg to prepare for the Toulouse Test, will be goal kicking with no obvious replacement if erratic Pienaar fails to click. There are also two Boks on the bench, centre Meyer Bosman and tighthead prop Heinke van der Merwe, whose selection has been criticised after an injury-induced absence from the Currie Cup season. Team (15-1) Earl Rose; Odwa Ndungane, Juan de Jongh, Wynand Olivier, Jongi Nokwe; Ruan Pienaar, Heini Adams; Ashley Johnson, Dewald Potgieter, Heinrich Brussow; Andries Bekker, Danie Rossouw; Jannie du Plessis, Chiliboy Ralepelle (captain), Gurthro Steenkamp. Replacements: Bandise Maku, Heinke van der Merwe, Alistair Hargreaves, Davon Raubenheimer, Francois Hougaard, Meyer Bosman, Riaan Viljoen. - AFP
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6 Weeks ago Kurt the Capetonian wrote :
I am South African of previously disadvantaged ability (sounds really hadicapped) and I gotta agree that certain selections made are really poor. Earl Rose??? Come on Pieter. You are a coach first and foremost and all coaches want their teams to win. When he played down here he played okay, I wouldn't say worthy of Bok colours but much better than he is at the moment. Joe Pietersen may be small in stature but he had an outstanding season (ask Earl about being on the receiving end of a Pietersen hand off). So too had Tiaan Liebenberg. Come on Pieter, don't be intermidated by the politicians.
6 Weeks ago Zak wrote :
Evidently we have politicians commenting! anyone who knows just a little bit about rugby, their first comment would be about Earl rose- the man who can easily loose a game for any team single handedly all 80KG's of him, Chilly boy you suck! captained before cause of pressure from the politicians running rugby- he really is a shit player and by far derrick kuhn is better, Jano will be like brent russel was, a great player who will only get a call up when all the other scrumies are injured and play a stormer by then get dropped again and use his size as justification.
6 Weeks ago WP till I die !! wrote :
I have absolutely no problems with quotas in the Springbok team, but some of the players selected are grossly inferior. Players such as Heini Adams, Dewald Potgieter, Heinke van der Merwe, Ashley Johnson, and Francois Hougaard have played extremely well in the past and this season and are deserving of Springbok caps. On the otherhand players such as Davon Raubenheimer, Bandise Maku, Earl Rose are rubbish players and would never be selected for a Springbok team on merit.
6 Weeks ago HJ wrote :
"A concern for coach Dick Muir will be goal kicking with no obvious replacement if erratic Pienaar fails to click" I f Pienaar is not up to scratch why not get Riaan Viljoen to take over the goal kicking. He has proved gimself on more than one accasion of his abbility to land kicks from well into his own half. Who knows: maybe Pienaar can learn something from Viljoen with regards to goal kicking...
6 Weeks ago eddie wrote :
I dont understand, what was Pieter De Villiers thinking, the bulls 2nd and 3de stringer in the squad, waht about Tiaan Liedenberg, front row of Province was the best whole season. Chilliboy captian, he does not even start for the bulls, common guys.
6 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
What are the Ringheads thinking? Are they thinking at all? No place for Wian du Preez, undoubtedly the prop of the season? The Bulls' second and third choice hookers in the squad ahead of Richter and Kuhn? Heini Adams ahead of Jano Vermaak? Ralepelle to captain ahead of Potgieter? Adi Jacobs at inside centre ahead of Wynand Olivier? Davon Raubenheimer ahead of Jean Deysel? But of course, there are no quotas in SA rugby, are there??????
6 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
i dont think so hey....he has captained them before
6 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
@Goodstuff - Chiliboy did captain the team last end of year tour if I am not mistaken
6 Weeks ago Goodstuff wrote :
I might be wrong..but doesn't that make Chiliboy the first Non-white captain?....hmmmm....not to bring colour back into sports ( as if it ever left), but it's a good thing for country as a whole.
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