Mostert, Du Preez back for Boks against the All Blacks
Franco Mostert and Jean-Luc du Preez are back in the Springbok starting team for Saturday’s Castle Lager Rugby Championship clash against the All Blacks.
Franco Mostert and Jean-Luc du Preez are back in the Springbok starting team for Saturday’s Castle Lager Rugby Championship clash against the All Blacks.
Experienced flyhalves Handré Pollard and Lionel Cronjé are amongst 14 players invited to a Springbok medical and conditioning assessment camp, which will be held in Stellenbosch next week.
The Springboks finally buried their Ellis Park bogey against the French with their first-ever victory against the Tricolors in Johannesburg.
Hardworking prop Ruan Dreyer will make his debut for the Springboks on Saturday in the final Castle Lager Incoming Series Test against France.
After the Springboks’ 37-15 win in a game that saw the home side attack with sparkle and vigour and defend with doggedness and defiance, Allister Coetzee said there was still a lot of work to be done.
Lionel Mapoe will replace Jesse Kriel at outside centre in the only change to the Springbok line-up for the second Castle Lager Incoming Series Test match against France in Durban on Saturday.
You might say a shiny locomotive has been attached, in the form of Warren Whiteley, and certain gratifying, sleek new carriages added as well. But Allister Coetzee’s first Springbok train of 2017 also carries a few too many conspicuous “passengers”.
Springbok coach Allister Coetzee on Tuesday named a 31-man squad for a three-Test series against France in June.
Springbok captain Jean de Villiers has been ruled out of the 2015 Rugby World Cup due to a broken jaw as his tournament jinx returned to haunt him.
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