End Of Year Tours: BaaBaas side named with 6 Bokke starters & 2 on the bench (Revised)

Published 26 November 2013 | By grootblousmile

Barbarians RugbyThere are 6 Springboks in the starting 15 and a further 2 on the bench for the Barbarians’ clash with Fiji at Twickenham on Saturday. It would have been 7 Springbok starters as the initial side was named including Flip van der Merwe as No 4 lock, but he has been withdrawn from the squad after the Blue Bulls said NO under such short notice. Flip is directly replaced by Mick O’Driscoll of Ireland.

The Springbok captain, Jean de Villiers, will captain the side from inside centre and he will be joined in the backline by flyhalf Patrick Lambie whilst Schalk Burger, Duane Vermeulen, Bismarck du Plessis and Tendai Mtawarira have all been named in the forward pack. Coenie Oosthuizen and Willie le Roux is on the bench.

 

Barbarians: 15 Santiago Cordera, 14 Frank Halai, 13 Gavin Williams, 12 Jean de Villiers (Captain), 11 Charles Piutau, 10 Patrick Lambie, 9 T J Perenara, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Steven Luatua, 5 Dominic Bird, 4 Mick O’Driscoll, 3 Matias Diaz, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Guillermo Ruan, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Manuel Carizza, 20 Luke Whitelock, 21 Martin Landajo, 22 Tom Taylor, 23 Willie le Roux.

 

Date: Saturday 30 December 2013
Venue: Twickenham, London
Kick-off: 16:30 SA Time (14:30 GMT)
Referee: Pascal Gauzère (France)
Assistant Referees: Luke Pearce, Greg Garner (England)
TMO: David Grashoff (England)

4 Responses to End Of Year Tours: BaaBaas side named with 6 Bokke starters & 2 on the bench (Revised)

  • 1

    grootblousmile on 26 November 2013 at 4:48 pm

    Interesting side… and a strong one… with Coenie and Willie le Roux on the bench to even bolster it more.

    Recon Luke Whitelock will also bolster it from the bench.

    This team has the ammo to run absolute riot against Fiji… and could well do it, no matter what side Fiji puts out there.

    9 Bokke
    8 All Blacks
    5 Pumas
    1 Samoan with strong New Zealand ties who plays for Stade Francais

  • 2

    grootblousmile on 27 November 2013 at 11:13 am

    I see Flip van der Merwe has been withdrawn from the Barbarians side, after the Blue Bulls said NO to the release under such short notice!

    He is replaced in the starting lineup by Irishman Mick O’Driscoll.

  • 3

    MacroBull on 27 November 2013 at 4:11 pm

    Die spelers wat die Bulle verlaat hanteer die bulle soos goud, maar die spelers wat by ons bly hanteer die Bulle soos kak.

  • 4

    MacroBull on 27 November 2013 at 6:02 pm

    I see that JJ Engelbreght was also selected but the bulls blocked it.

    I wonder where Hansen would have played him?

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