Cheetahs name strong squad for Leopards opener

Published 14 July 2011 | By grootblousmile

Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske named a strong team filled with Super Rugby players for their opening Currie Cup clash against the Leopards in Bloemfontein on Saturday.

Lock Waltie Vermeulen has recovered in time from a shoulder injury sustained in Super Rugby to make it into the starting XV and Springbok centre Andries Strauss was also back to full fitness to captain the side.

Cheetahs:

15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Riaan Smit, 13 Corne Uys, 12 Andries Strauss (C), 11 Ryno Benjamin, 10 Sias Ebersohn, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Boom Prinsloo, 7 Lappies Labuschagne, 6 Johan Wessels, 5 Waltie Vermeulen, 4 Francois Uys, 3 WP Nel, 2 Michael van Vuuren, 1 Marcel van der Merwe.

Replacements: 16 PW van Vuuren, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen, 19 Pieter Myburgh, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Philip Snyman, 22 Philip Burger.

4 Responses to Cheetahs name strong squad for Leopards opener

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grootblousmile on 14 July 2011 at 11:14 am

This squad should spank the Leopards silly!
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Loosehead on 14 July 2011 at 12:18 pm

@ grootblousmile:
I tried to post this team yesterday, but couldn’t get the divider [the button that separates the lead sentence from the main article]to work.Any idea’s?
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grootblousmile on 14 July 2011 at 12:59 pm

2@ Loosehead:
Bottervingers??
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smallies72 on 14 July 2011 at 2:20 pm

staan terug vir die manne in wit al is jy n flank n vleul of n stut

Cheetahs name strong squad for Leopards opener

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