Aaron Mauger will lead out Leicester Tigers for the historic match against South Africa at Welford Road on Friday evening.
Leicestertigers.com
The New Zealander international lines up at fly-half for a fixture arranged to officially open the new Caterpillar Stand.
Academy prospects Andy Forsyth and Manu Tuilagi combine as the centre partnership, and Ben Youngs starts at scrum-half.
The forward pack features the eight who started last Saturday’s Guinness Premiership win over Northampton Saints, including young lock Calum Green who made his first senior start in that game.
New signing Lote Tuqiri is also included in the 22 after the Australia international wing arrived earlier this week and hooker George Chuter is also named among the replacements.
Head coach Richard Cockerill takes the opportunity to rest Anthony Allen and Jeremy Staunton who have started all nine games in league and cup so far this season.
Richard Blaze, Harry Ellis, Toby Flood, Geordan Murphy, Billy Twelvetrees, Sam Vesty and Ben Woods are ruled out by injury.
Friday’s game is a 24,000 sell-out. Live coverage is being shown on Sky Sports 2 and on Supersport 1.
Leicester Tigers (v South Africa, Welford Road, Friday 7.30pm [9:30pm SA Time])
15 Scott Hamilton
14 Lucas Amorosino
13 Andy Forsyth
12 Manu Tuilagi
11 Johne Murphy
10 Aaron Mauger (c)
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 Mefin Davies
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Calum Green
5 Ben Kay
6 Geoff Parling
7 Ben Pienaar
8 Brett Deacon
Replacements:
16 George Chuter
17 Dan Cole
18 Tom Armes
19 Dan Hemingway
20 James Grindal
21 Greig Tonks
22 Lote Tuqiri
Tiger ben Janne !
I would assume that Ben Pienaar is a SAFFA.
Kick off for this game is 9:45pm and the game will be live on SuperSport 1
3 – KingPaul
Good news that. Thought maybe we wont get it. A bit late though for a kick off but UK is now 2 hours behind us.
This is a bloody good team which 9 Rookie Bokke will come up against….
A number of players also have not played an actual game in a few weeks, Bulls and Cheetahs players excepted.
Some have not played in 3 or 4 weeks (Lions and Griquas players)….
Do not, I repeat, do not underestimate the Tigers… their field, their conditions…. and a strong team.
5 – GBS
That is my feeling too. The players have not had enough game time together and some have not played any rugby for some time now.
See some good players in the Leicester team.
Then we do have some good players in our Dirt Tracker side too. Just hope they gel quick together and have kept themselves fit while not playing any rugby in the last few weeks.
Conditions could be a factor too.
6@ Puma – Virtually NONE of the Bokke players have played together as combinations, only Gurthro & Chilli has
Danie Pakslae & Andries Bekker has not formed a combo yet, neither has 3 loosies from all over the show (inluding 1 sub-standard Currie Cup Player – Raubenheimer).
Heini Adams and Ruan Pienaar are unfamiliar with one another, as is Wynand Olivier and Juan de Jong.
The wings are also not familiar with their centres or their full back….
Very risky team which was assembled, they will be rusty and disjointed to start with, if you ask me!!
Evening Gents, will you be able to watch this match?
8 GBS – Hello ***?
9@ Karlien – Yip, the game will be on our Sports Channels…
Boots & All starts in 10, so quickly it would have to be.
8 – GBS They will be very rusty for sure. Not enough time to train together. Hope they can gel quick like the E. Boks did.
Hello Carol.
9 – Yes Carol, We will have it on SS1. Are you getting it?
13 SS1 means SuperSport 1 and not Sky Sport 1 😉
Well I hope the will not have to play in the pouring rain…..vile night in England tonight….!!
Hi Puma
Rassie Erasmus’s birthday today… only 37 years old
Lemoenetyd at Boots & All… hehehe
15 – Carol,
Hi Carol, Just spoke to a mate of mine living up there and he says its very cold round 6 the temp. That is just freezing for our players.
17 – GBS
I was watching Boots and then there was no sound after about 40 min. Daft bunch there at SS. All other channels have sound except Boots. Did you experience the same thing?
Cheers all. No-one logged on tonight. Catch you all tomorrow.
Still no sound on SS 1. Hope there is sound back tomorrow when the game is on.
Last posting about 12h00 ago.
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I only saw the Leicester side now. Mauger, Tuilagi, Hamilton, Kay etc. Its going to be alot closer than I thought!
Looking forward to seeing Potgieter, De Jong etc.
Also the Pienaar/WO combination.
Our scrum must just front up!
why is this site so quiet these past few days?
Haloooooooooo, waars almal vandag.
25 – Omdat die bulle gekroek het.
Miskien blog die ouens en vrouens vanaand met die rugby.
26# More Snoek en Triples
Wie wil geld sit op Earl om vanaand ‘n “blinder” te hê? 😆
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