The Springboks are at last choosing more experienced forwards for their tough tour in the Northern Hemisphere, with a player like CJ who is well experienced and used to the conditions up North, he is also joined by Wian Du Preez and Hooker Adriaan Strauss

With Courtecy of News24

Tighthead prop CJ van der Linde will join the Springbok squad in France on Wednesday as a replacement for Jannie du Plessis, who has withdrawn from the European Tour with a hand injury.

Leinster-based Van der Linde made the last of his 56 Test appearances for South Africa against Australia in a Vodacom Tri-Nations fixture in August 2008.

His most recent appearance for Leinster was in the Irish champions’ 23-6 victory over Cardiff Blues on 31 October, before the break in the European season for the autumn internationals.

Van der Linde made his Test debut as a 22-year-old against Scotland in 2002 and was a member of the World Cup-winning squad of 2007.

“It’s fantastic that we’re able to call on a player with CJ’s experience to join the squad,” said Bok coach Peter de Villiers.

“With such a tight schedule it is also helpful to be able to bring in someone who has been part of the group before, knows the systems and will settle in quickly. CJ is also a specialist tighthead who will provide the type of cover we will need.

“It is unfortunate that we have lost three players so early in the tour but that is part of the game and we have to be able to manage such setbacks,” de Villiers said.

Hooker Chiliboy Ralepelle and prop Gurthrö Steenkamp were also forced home with injuries following the opening match against Leicester on Friday.

Van der Linde will travel to France on Wednesday where the rest of the squad, arriving from Johannesburg and London, will converge in Toulouse. The other two replacements Wian du Preez and Adriaan Strauss will join the squad in Johannesburg on Sunday.

125 Responses to CJ Van de Linde Joins Boks in France

  • 91

    Halloooooooooo almal……..

    good heavens maar was eknie moerig vrydag aand nie…..daar worry ek my dood oor blerry Earl the Pearl maar moes eerder oor Ruan friggin Pienaar geworry het!!!! Kan nie glo die ou was al eerste keuse in die bokspan, ek dink sy kop het hom nou heeltemal gelos……hy moet terug na die tjarks toe…Earl het ‘n fantastiese game gehad (kan nie glo ek het dit nounet gesê nie)

    daar was nie iets soos ‘n vaste vyf nie…..dit was pateties, en chilliboy is die nuwe glasman, flippen hel, die man het eeue laas ‘n volledige game gespeel…die Bulle moes hom maar laat gaan het, hy kos hulle net geld en deliver nie

  • 92

    More

    My Bokspan vir Vrydagaand:

    Zane
    JPP
    JF
    WO
    Hab
    MS
    FDP

    Pottie
    Burger
    Brussow
    Vic
    Bakkies
    CJ
    Smit
    Wian

    Beast
    Bismark
    Danie
    Deysel
    FH
    RP
    Adi

  • 93

    #89 stem saam supa, nie net die skopwerk nie maar die kop hy werk nie

  • 94

    #90 Craig Joubert het nie bad geblaas nie. Ja, daai was wel defnitief n hoog tackle.
    Maar in die begin was daai Walliese skare so ordentlik as hy skop. Na daai hoog tackle boo hulle hom hoor! Verl toe hy motm word, toe moet jyhulle hom hoor boo. Hom jammer gekry toe hulle hom daaroor vra.

  • 95

    Ruan moet homself nou daarop toespits om net skrumhalf te speel en intestaan vir FdP in die games waar FdP gerus word. Wat nice is daarvan is dat Ruan kan uithelp op losskakel of heelagter vanaf die reserwe bank indien dit nodig is. Ons backup op losskakel moet JLP wees. Ek kan nie aan enige ander losskakel dink wat goed genoeg is nie…

  • 96

    Lyk goed BDB.

  • 97

    @94
    Joubert het sterng geblaas, maar weerskante toe. Veral die losskrums is baie beter geblaas as wat Dickhead geblaas het.
    @92
    Snorre gaan beslis vir Adi kies!

  • 98

    95 Stem saam, moes vir JLP saamgevat het sodat hy solank gewoond kan raak aan die bok-opset en bietjie ‘game time’ kon kry.

  • 99

    95#
    Ek wonder partykeer of Pienaar nie overrate word nie. Is hy nie maar net nog n Russel wat nou en dan iets goed doen nie. Op 10 sukkel hy regtig. Op 9 – is hy regtig beter Vermaak, Hougaardt ens? Hyt moet maar n sub bly wat my betref. Soos jy se, dan dek hy 9,10, 11, 14 en 15. As hy die beginspan wil haal moet hy maar weer heelagter gaan probeer. Snorre het hom daar gekies vroeer die jaar. MAar hy gaan verseker nie vir FDP en Morne lug nie.

  • 100

    97 – Flippen Adi en Chilliboy is ewe lucky as dit by Bok span kom.Word gekies no matter what.

  • 101

    supa @ 99
    “Soos jy se, dan DEK hy 9,10, 11, 14 en 15” 😯

    sies man!! 😆

  • 102

    Hello mense van RT!
    Hoessit almal?
    net vinnig, het julle daai David sentertjie van die franse gesien?
    Hy is 21 en weeg 105 kg, ek het hom n paar keer op tv gesien, hy is moos vinnig.
    Daai agsteman van die Franse is net so gevaarlik, hy hou Chabal uit die span, nou moet julle weet….
    Dit gaan een hengse wedstryd wees Vrydagaand, hoop ek is betyds terug om te kyk.
    Ok, ek is oppad, sal julle weer kom loer nader aan game time, is nie altyd naby die internet nie.
    Tjeers.

  • 103

    102 – Piet

    Morning Piet, Jeepers that centre for France weight 105kg? We in the poo boet if they select Adi. They going to target that channel all night.

    Also our FB not so sure about Zane but we have no-one else now that Frans Steyn is not playing there. Huge pity.

  • 104

    99 – Supa

    Morning Supa, I think if Ruan was not messed about and left at scrummie and never have been moved to play FH he may still be our number 2 scrumme. He has lost pace there now and he is no FH. Just like Frans Steyn was messed about. Eventually finding the right positon for him at FB which all of us knew was where he should have been playing. Now if PdV selected Fransie last year there he just may never have left this country. Instead he was on the bench to cover ever position 10, 12 and 15. Now we have lost him. We will lose Ruan too. He is a huge talent but is losing it because of shifting about too much in different positions.

    I know I am a Sharkie but I really enjoy watching Kockott play at 9. He is in-your-face kinda player the way a scrummie should be. Never gets selected either so we will lose him too. Also rate Vermaak but none of those players come near FdP we just got to hope like crazy FdP never gets injured.

    Play Ruan at FH all the time and maybe he will get that form back and be our back up to FdP. He is just too talented to lose.

    For Friday somehow I am not too worried about our scrum anymore. More our centre channel if Adi plays and probably FB.

  • 105

    Afternoon to anyone out there. Where is that Castro chappie from that played for the English club that beat us on Friday evening.

  • 106

    Hi There
    #105 He plays for Italy……..

  • 107

    Well since there is no one here and am not interupting anything, i will tell any one that is interested about my divine little vervet monkeys and what they did this weekend that totally blew my mind.

    The temperture was in the mid thirties this weekend so very hot as you can imagine and filled up the horses drinking containers and the other animals water containers, next thing the monkeys started jumping in and out the old bath filled with water so my hub dragged an old fiberglass pond into the garden and filled it up.

    I now know that they love to do doggy paddle and some of them jump in go under the water and surface on the other side and they do this repeatedly.

    They did this the whole weekend and this morning.

    Hope any animal lovers out there enjoyed hearing about this. 🙂

  • 108

    Oh hiho Trips thanks for that 🙂 didnt know anyone was online, actually thought he might be french and couldnt understand why he wasnt in their team.

  • 109

    That is absolutely awesome!!!! You are privilaged to be able to interact with animals, us stadsjapies are jealous!!!

  • 110

    I have only just come on again…..site is rather quiet, and times when I hav a little time to chat all others seem to be ‘working’ hehehe

  • 111

    Thankyou Tripples, it was wonderfull, couldnt believe them going under the water like that, might enter one of them to swim for SA in the Olympics lol

  • 112

    We have a lot of grey loeries in Pretoria, and we feed all the wild birds and these loeries have started calling us when they are there for food and two of the 6 already eat out of our hands….it is amazing, then here at work we have meerkat, 4 grownups and 6 babies, they have a burrow and everything….we also watch them from a distance, they are so cute

  • 113

    I was going to email dstv telling them is something wrong and it s not working and then it came on, so thought computer is out let me check RT.

  • 114

    I have to go now TH, hope you have an awesome day, talk tomorrow again

  • 115

    That is truely amazeing we have a lot of them and they are very shy. The hub puts out half a bucket of seed for the birds everyday and pawpaws in all the bushes and shrubs and then sits in the garden every afternoon drinking his beer reading the paper and watching the birds.

  • 116

    Ok hub says ours arnt loeries but mousebirds. 🙂

  • 117

    You to Tripples byeeeeee

  • 118

    #107 Treehugger

    Great story about the monkeys and the water. Come to think of it, I thought our pack did a bit of doggy paddling themselves in the Leicester rain on Friday night. 😉

  • 119

    #118

    On reflection, maybe less doggy and more dodgy paddling then….

  • 120

    Hello Mellow Man, am going to have to disconnect this dam machine it has used up 4 megs and i havnt done any thing am just watching them go by. Think i need to go into town this is not the first time, last time i let it go till 180 megs so something is not right.

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