The convincing win of the Springboks on Saturday was followed by news on the injury front.
Most notably Francois Steyn, who rolled his left ankle last Monday morning, will have to undergo an operation to clean the ankle up and will be sidelined for 3 months recovering from the surgery.
“Losing Frans is a big blow as he is one of our most experienced players,” said Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer. However, it’s better that he gets the ankle sorted out properly as he still has a long rugby career ahead of him and can play many more Tests for South Africa.”
In addition, Coenie Oosthuizen’s “general stiffness” seems to be more than just that, as Dr Craig Roberts, medical doctor of the Springboks has decided to send Coenie for a second opinion to Durban, fearing that Coenie has not recovered fully from the neck operation.
“I’ve not been completely happy with his neck, as he still showed symptoms after having played in the Currie Cup last weekend,” said Springbok team doctor Craig Roberts. “We’re seeking another opinion as we need to make the right decision for his career. Coenie is a young player and potentially he has a long career ahead of him, so long term we need to make the right decisions and can’t put him at risk in any way.”
Jacques Potgieter who sustained a groin injury in the Blue Bulls game Saturday before last and who then pulled up during practise last Monday at the Springboks is also out injured and sent back to recover.
“Jacques could not train last week and we were hoping to get him ready for selection for this week, but he has not responded as well as we had hoped and subsequently it was decided to withdraw him from the squad as he would not be available this weekend.”
The result is that cover for CENTRE and for BLINDSIDE FLANK had to be called up to the Springbok squad as they prepare to meet the All Blacks at the Soccer City complex near Soweto on Saturday. Heyneke Meyer’s choice has fallen on Lionel Mapoe who has been doing sterling work at the Golden Lions in the Currie Cup and also on Arno Botha the exciting Blue Bulls youngster who covers both blindside flank and No 8.
Four other Springbok players were nursing game bruises following Saturday’s Test, with Zane Kirchner, Willem Alberts, Jannie du Plessis and Johan Goosen sitting out of training on Monday.
Zane Kirchner bruised his hip when Adam Ashley-Cooper’s head and shoulder hit him in that fateful crash which saw Adam Ashley-Cooper stretchered off, out stone cold. Johan Goosen’s bruised left heel was rested today as a precautionery measure, seeing as he was still suffering with it during the Test, he should be ready for the weekend though. Jannie du Plessis is nursing a bruised knee and Willem Alberts is nursing a sore hip after the massive tackles he put in on Saturday.
“Seeing that Willem is also not 100% at the moment, we only have three fit loose forwards in the squad and needed someone to provide cover at blindside flank and No 8, which is why Arno is coming to join us. He was part of our Young Guns squad in June as has been in our plans before,” said Meyer.
“Lionel has been in great form lately and apart from providing cover in the midfield, he can also be used on the wing if necessary.”
27 @ ashley:
They certainly are at the moment.
Strange that they’ll probably have to play the Kings in a Promotion / Relegation series for CC survival, but the Lions just got shafted.
Certainly gotta love SARU.
30 @ DonteverfollowmyBrupicks- Jan:
If they’re average where are the Proteas?
scrumdown @ 31
kan dit weer sê!
scrumdown @ 29
jip
33 @ ashley:
Welnouja, wat kan n man se?
Ek het ‘n vriend wat altyd vir my se, “close only counts with hand granades”, maar dit was te naby gewees.
33 @ ashley:
Hello MATE… flok ek was half bang om vir jou MATE te seg, netnou dink jy ek is weer in die ou Suid-Afrika teruggeruk….. hehehe
34 @ Scrumdown:
Hey, how’s the bruises, you breathelizer-dodger…. hehehe
scrumdown @ 34
net bly jy’s orraait, maar ja, mens wil nie te veel van daai close ones ondervind nie!!
35 @ grootblousmile:
I never dodged anything!
I did as the officer requested and duly blew into the pipe which CLEARLY showed that I was under the limit that allows one to drive on a public road!
36 @ ashley:
Dankie. Waardeur dit.
35 @ grootblousmile:
Bruises are very bright and somewhat eina.
Tried to play golf on Sunday – somewhat in vain I might add, but actually felt better afterwards.
37 @ Scrumdown:
Peppermint Gums are wonderful things… hahaha
40 @ grootblousmile:
If I were in the US of A I would invoke the 5th amendment to the constitution.
41 @ Scrumdown:
Hehehehe
I might just come past your place tomorrow to come pick up that VIP Parking Ticket… have to go to a few places in Midrand.
India 23 / 1 after 3.3 overs… Morné Morkel bowls Gambir clean, middle stump!
42 @ grootblousmile:
It’s here on my desk in front of me, but there’s a good chance I’ll have to go to Centurion at some stage tomorrow.
Work a bit quiet so have to grab everything available. Especially as I now need a new vehicle!
43 @ grootblousmile:
Vark didn’t even realise it had started.
Where has the day gone?
44 @ Scrumdown:
Will liaze… can come by before or after Midrand.
45 @ Scrumdown:
Day poer in it’s moer… and I almost feel as I’ve done very little today, yet I was freegin busy the whole time!
India 30 / 2 after 4.5 overs… E-Coli (Kholi) out for 2
Rofhitter Swarma (Rohit Sharma) now in….
46 @ grootblousmile:
The sign of a sucessfull businessman?
48 @ Scrumdown:
Fark, a youngster ordered a MASSIVE Gamers PC from me today… price tag of R 23 785.00…. and I was gentle with my pricing!
64Gb Ram, 2 x Seriaaaaas nVidia Graphics Cards, 1000 Watt Power Supply, state of the art Gamers case, Liquid Cooling System, lekker Core i7 CPU and fantastic Motherboard… this thing can do anything, even suck zaber!
No monitor included in the price….
Oh, and India has lost another wicket too… they are now 37 / 3 after 6.1 overs
The Blue Bulls and WP sides have been announced for Friday’s match… will put an Article up later with the Currie Cup teams for this week.
Fark, India klapping the ball big now… sixes flowing
@ grootblousmile:
Got any contacts at MWEB? I need to kick some butt as they are being a typical big company and I am getting shifted from pillar to post. All I want to do is change ISP and keep my domain. 48 hrs and all I can do is use MWEB for internet. Old ISP still has my domain.
India 61 / 3 after 9 overs.
We’re staring a big total in the face here
53 @ Lion4ever:
No contacts there… but Domain Transfer takes a couple of days.
Had the same thing when I shifted R-T to new Web Hosts.
Domain Name Propagation takes a while….
India 71 / 4 after 11 overs
53 @ Lion4ever:
Why MWeb?
Blomme drops a catch.. Johan Botha
57 @ Scrumdown:
That’s what I want to know as well….
@ grootblousmile:
Beautiful!! They have great salesmen. “Can take anything from almost immediately, to some time, I don’t want to say days” I have to move because my current ISP has been having huge issues with their mail server, and don’t seem to have redundancy built int their network, so I have been without mails twice in the last 7 days.
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