The Springboks will travel to the Northern Hemisphere next weekend with five uncapped players but without their all-time leading try-scorer and most experienced player, Bryan Habana.
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Habana was the latest key player to be added to a long injury list when he sustained a knee injury in Saturday’s Absa Currie Cup final. Scans on Sunday confirmed he will miss the tour of Ireland, Scotland and England.
South Africa Under-20 winger Raymond Rhule, who was part of the squad that won the IRB Junior World Championship in Cape Town earlier this year and who has shone for the Toyota Free State Cheetahs in the Absa Currie Cup, was named in the squad along with uncapped Jano Vermaak, Franco van der Merwe, Lionel Mapoe and Arno Botha. Of the five, only the 19-year-old Rhule has not been part of a Springbok squad yet this year, but his inclusion forms part of Meyer’s plan to blood promising youngster for the future.
Rhule is one of five wing options with the fit-again JP Pietersen, Francois Hougaard, Lwazi Mvovo and Mapoe. Pietersen, Rhule and Mapoe can also be used at centre, while Hougaard can also play at scrumhalf.
Two Springboks currently based in Europe, Schalk Brits (hooker) and Gurthrö Steenkamp (loosehead prop), have also been recalled to the national squad, bringing the European based contingent to 4 players in the squad. Due to the significant injury toll, the national selectors will only decide on a 32nd player to be added to the squad at a later stage.
Two Springboks who missed the entire Castle Rugby Championship because of injury, JP Pietersen and Chiliboy Ralepelle, are back in the squad.
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer, whose squad assembles in Cape Town on Wednesday, said it was not easy to select the squad in the light of the high number of players unavailable due to injury.
Injured players that had been part of the Springbok squad thus far this year, but were not considered for selection, are Coenie Oosthuizen, Bismarck du Plessis, Tiaan Liebenberg, Andries Bekker, Siya Kolisi, Jacques Potgieter, Pierre Spies, Johan Goosen, Frans Steyn and Bryan Habana. In addition Springboks Schalk Burger, Juan Smith and Heinrich Brüssow are still out injured.
“We’ve got a settled core of players that did the job during the England series and The Castle Rugby Championship and we decided to stick with them,” said Meyer.
“Obviously losing so many players to injury, the latest being Coenie, Tiaan, Andries, Jacques and Bryan during the Absa Currie Cup, makes it difficult, but this now provides opportunities for other players.
“Gurthrö and Schalk are experienced front rankers who have played for South Africa before and know the conditions in the Northern Hemisphere. This tour provides a good opportunity to assess them as we plan ahead. Arno, Lionel, Franco and Jano have all been part of our squad earlier in the season.
“Raymond put up his hand for the Junior Boks and the Cheetahs and I’m very excited to see what he can do. It’s also great to have JP and Chiliboy back from injury as they bring a lot of experience to the squad.”
Meyer said he expected three extremely difficult Tests: “Although the Springboks won on their last visit to Dublin (in 2010), they lost three in a row before that,” he said.
“In 2010, we lost to Scotland in Edinburgh. They beat the Wallabies in Australia earlier in the year, so it won’t be easy there.
“And in June we’ve experienced first-hand how difficult and opponent England are. They will be fired up at Twickenham and it will be a challenging Test to end the tour with.
“Our aim is to end the season on a positive note. We set ourselves high standards and we want to improve with every Test, but we have a team that is still gaining valuable experience as we strive to constantly be amongst the top sides in the world. We know we’re not there yet, but we’ve laid a foundation in the first nine Tests this year and we will build on that.
“The Rugby World Cup in 2015 also takes place in England, so we will use this tour to see how our players adapt to the conditions as we look ahead to that very important tournament.”
The Springbok squad will assemble in Cape Town on Wednesday and depart to the UK from Johannesburg on Saturday. They will return to South Africa on Monday, 26 November.
The Springbok squad for the Castle Outgoing Tour to Ireland, Scotland and England:
Forwards:
Willem Alberts (The Sharks) Loose forward – 17 Tests
Arno Botha (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Loose forward – 0 Tests
Schalk Brits (Saracens, England) Hooker – 3 Tests
Pat Cilliers (MTN Golden Lions) Prop – 3 Tests
Marcell Coetzee (The Sharks) Loose forward – 9 Tests
Jannie du Plessis (The Sharks) Prop – 39 Tests
Eben Etzebeth (DHL Western Province) Lock – 8 Tests
Juandré Kruger (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Lock – 5 Tests
Francois Louw (Bath, England) Loose forward – 14 Tests
Tendai Mtawarira (The Sharks) Prop – 41 Tests
Chiliboy Ralepelle (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Hooker – 21 Tests
Gurthrö Steenkamp (Toulouse, France) Prop – 38 Tests
Adriaan Strauss (Toyota FS Cheetahs) Hooker – 18 Tests
CJ van der Linde (MTN Golden Lions) Prop – 73 Tests
Flip van der Merwe (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Lock – 20 Tests
Franco van der Merwe (MTN Golden Lions) Lock – 0 Tests
Duane Vermeulen (DHL Western Province) No 8 – 4 Tests
Backs:
Juan de Jongh (DHL Western Province) Centre – 12 Tests
Jean de Villiers (Captain and DHL Western Province) Centre – 81 Tests
Francois Hougaard (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Scrumhalf / Wing – 24 Tests
Elton Jantjies (MTN Golden Lions) Flyhalf – 2 Tests
Zane Kirchner (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Fullback – 21 Tests
Pat Lambie (The Sharks) Fullback – 17 Tests
Lionel Mapoe (MTN Golden Lions) Wing / Centre – 0 Tests
Lwazi Mvovo (The Sharks) Wing – 7 Tests
Ruan Pienaar (Ulster, N Ireland) Scrumhalf – 60 Tests
JP Pietersen (The Sharks) Wing / Centre – 45 Tests
Raymond Rhule (Toyota FS Cheetahs) Wing – 0 Tests
Morné Steyn (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Flyhalf – 41 Tests
Jaco Taute (MTN Golden Lions) Utility back – 2 Tests
Jano Vermaak (Vodacom Blue Bulls) Scrumhalf – 0 Tests
120 @ superBul:
Ja, ek is op die boomlys gewees… wil jy die lys van bome gesave hê as ‘n document… want ek het hom gesave so, sou jy dit wou hê.
@ grootblousmile:
Ek kon hom nie save nie, se my hoe of mail hom asseblief
Die gesave-de file is 6.8 Mb groot… jou mailbox is te klein, maar ek sê jou wat, ek gaan hom Upload na My DROPBOX toe, en vir jou die link E-Mail om hom te kan download en oopmaak.
Baie dankie
124 @ superBul:
Is PDF formaat OK?
@ grootblousmile:
ja dis reg
126 @ superBul:
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appelblaar.padstal@gmail.com
128 @ superBul:
OK, ek het die link gestuur na jou appelblaar adres, kyk bietie of jy hom gekry het.
Dankie Grootblou nou smile ek ook
130 @ superBul:
Ek neem dan aan jy het hom gekry.
Daai glibberige gmail kak adresse kan net 5mb E-Mails hanteer, nie groter nie, dis hoekom ek die ding op DROPBOX vir jou moes sit. Wanneer kry jy vir jou ‘n web adres, met ‘n web site en die werke?
Jy al uitgevind oor die Point Of Sale Sagteware wat ons nou die aand bespreek het?
nee , nog nie. ek gaan later die week Tzaneen toe en dalk ook Nelspruit toe, sal dan uitvind wat ander gebruik.
@ The_Young_Turk:
So you don’t know anything about Pavel but call him a bullshitter. Yea right. Nevermind that he trained these SWAT teams. And I heard this story from other people as well. Thats the reason why the SWAT teams changed all their training. They didn’t just change it on the shooting range but in all there physical and martial art trainning. All for the same reason. And if you see how they adapted their training, you can see that it all about that incident. There was a few more of these incidents I know of.
But whatever what you want to believe, the lesson still stay true. So I don’t really care if the story is true or not.
grootblousmile wrote:
Ja file gekry en gesave , Thanks, demmit jy is slim.
134 @ superBul:
Ek moes ‘n tweeling gewees het… hehehe
Heeeltemal te veel breins vir ene…. dra swaar aan die kop, jong!
Hehehe
132 @ superBul:
Ek kry dalk more die nuutste Quickbooks… wil net sien of die ding die POS element by het.
Ook relatief goedkoop en sterk Laser Barcode Scanners raakgeloop…. om dit makliker te maak. Miskien moet mens dink aan touchscreen ook….
@ grootblousmile:
Ja mens moet maar dit maklik maak vir die voor personeel en natuurlik die baas ook, hahaha
137 @ superBul:
Dis groot werk om die bar codes in te lees en die stock in te lees… maar daarna is dit nogal great.
Ek en BonzaiGBS was vandag daar na Tukkies toe, sy inskrywing heeltemal gaan klaarmaak, more kry die klong sy Universiteitsnommer vir volgende jaar… dan gaan pappie beginne hoes!
OK, ek gaan inkruip… het nog ‘n lang week voor en Vrydag is ek juis nie op kantoor nie, gaan na die Blou Bul Makietie toe…
@ grootblousmile:
hy is al klaar kreatief dink net as hy n graad darin kry, Pa gaan bontstaan
@ grootblousmile:
139
dankie weereens, rus lekker
140 @ superBul:
Jy weet nie dalk waar ek ‘n 2de Handse Nikon SLR kamera wat nog film gebruik kan optel nie?
Hulle gebruik dit glo in die kursus en doen donkerkamerwerk ook.
Ek het vir hom ‘n Nikon D3100 DSLR Kamera gekoop nou die dag met 2 moooooi lense, so ek wil die film kamera ook graag ‘n Nikon hê, sodat hy lense kan ruil tussen die goed.
Hy het nou al so paar Matriekafskeide gedoen en een troue met die kamera, is besig om te ontwikkel in ‘n begaafde fotograaf…. hy beter sakgeld daarmee verdien!
@ The_Young_Turk:
Here you go:
http://www.officer.com/article/10249630/april-6-1970. Its also known as the newhall shootout.
I made a mistake, wasnt swat, was california highpay patrol. I did this seminar in early 2003, so some the details are a bit vague.
So much for calling him a bullshitter.
@ leon:
There’s a nice story which pavel tsatsouline always tell at his seminars. It’s about the the Los Angeles swat team training. At their shooting range the shooting trainer demanded that all trainees pick up the shell after every shot. He liked a nice and clean shooting range. At a swat operation a few months later,5 swat members were killed. They were all found with shells in their hands. The investagion later found that they were shot during the shoot out while picking up the shells. This just goes to show that under pressure you revert to training. If you don’t train perfect, you will not execute perfect
Leon mate, I am not attacking you, so don’t shoot the messenger. Maybe you couldn’t remember things clearly as it happened so long ago. So instead just say so. I was just reacting to what you said Pavel always retells in his seminars. As you can see from the article you quoted, all the facts are wrong.
(1) They were not SWAT and 4 were killed not 5 (2)There was a suspicion that ONE officer had “policed his brass” but this was later dismissed. In your above story, the officers were all found with their spent shells in their hands. This is blatantly FALSE: 1 was shot at point blank range without even having fired his weapon!
Your point of this story was to show how training affects practice. Well this event doesn’t bear any relation to that quoted in your example. Who’s bullshitting who?
@ grootblousmile:
Ek het wel n Pentax z70 wat ek nog nooit gebruik het nie , hy le seker al 8 jaar in my kas, iewers moet lense ook wees, sal bietjie soek, ek het geen job vir hom nie. Sal hom met graagte vir hom gee, al dismantle hy hom net vir oefening.
Now i head for the bed, night anyone awake, i might just be the last mad guy up
@ The_Young_Turk:
So that seminar was about tactical fitness. It was hosted by the SWAT west states range masters. Pavel was the head instructor. This was one of the incidents that significantly changed their training. There are many more of these incidents and they go through them to illustrate how they came to their current training strategies. If this incident has no relation, why would they change their strategies after the incident. Maybe they know more about the incident then what you read on the internet.
I don’t research every incident as I don’t care about the history. I just care about the strategy.
147 @ leon:
Whatever the situation, the LIFE LESSON in your initial comment is very valid, and brilliant!
Practice does not make perfect, Perfect Practice makes perfect!
145 @ superBul:
Greaaaaattttttttt!
Sal dit onthou en jou mail daaroor!
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