Lourens Adriaanse
Stephan Lewies
Flip van der Merwe
Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira
Lourens Adriaanse (prop) and Stephan Lewies (lock) of the Cell C Sharks have been called up to the Springbok squad in Port Elizabeth, where they face Scotland in the final Test of the Castle Lager Incoming Series on Saturday.
Adriaanse replaces his provincial team-mate Tendai Mtawarira, who sustained an injury to his neck in last Saturday’s 31-30 victory over Wales in Nelspruit.
Lewies comes into the squad for Flip van der Merwe, who injured knee ligaments late in the Welsh Test.
Both Mtawarira and Van der Merwe underwent scans in Port Elizabeth on Monday.
“Tendai has a bulging disc in his neck and he will consult with a specialist in Durban as soon as possible,” said Springbok team doctor Craig Roberts.
“Flip hyper-extended his knee in a tackle and scans confirmed our clinical suspicions of a posterior cruciate injury. He will consult a knee specialist in Pretoria later on Tuesday.”
Furthermore Willem Alberts, who can provide lock cover, left the field against Wales last Saturday after suffering a concussion and Bakkies Botha was released from the squad this week.
“We take concussion very seriously and have a set return-to-play protocol that Willem needs to progress through. A final call on his availability will be made later in the week,” explained Roberts.
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said that Adriaanse and Lewies were the next players on the standby list.
“Lourens has been with us before and I’m sure he will slot back in easily,” said Meyer of Adriaanse, who made his Test debut last November against France in Paris.
“Stephan was part of our training squad in Durban at the end of last month. He arrived in Port Elizabeth earlier today and looked good at our afternoon training session. He has been very good in Vodacom Super Rugby this year and deserves this opportunity.”
Adriaanse will join the Springbok squad in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday.
A loosehead replaced by a tighthead? Does this perhaps mean that HM will play Coenie at loosehead? Has he finally seen the light?
Loosehead wrote:
Possibly the train heading top speed towards him? “The light at the end of the tunnel.”
How time flies.
Scrumdown wrote:
WOW!!!
It seems like only yesterday….but what a day it was, the Rainbow Nation became actors on the world stage over night with Madiba in the leading role!!!
@ Pietman:
Doctor told my wife not to go into labour UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. He was at the game the bugger.
My second daughter born by C-Section the Monday morning there-after.
Scrumdown wrote:
Can’t blame him, a world cup final is a once in a lifetime occasion mostly, a baby he can deliver any day of the week!
6 @ Pietman:
Yes but when the brat decides it’s time then it’s time and F the sport.
When your first choice loosehead is injured, as well as his reserve going back to France who out performed him, the third choice was maybe always Coenie? Coenie is just best suited to fill the Tight head void that exists, it is not as if the bok coaching staff decided “he is a better tighthead than a loosehead”
Horses for courses.
8 @ MacroBok:
Luckily all 3 of Coenie die Boef, Trevor Nyakane & Marcel van der Merwe can play both sides of the scrum.
I’d like to see a Cheetahs front row for the Bokke for Saturday… Trevor Nyakane, Adriaan Strauss, Coenie Oosthuizen. Then 1 Cheetahs lock behind them (Lood de Jager) plus the old maestro, Victor Matfield.
Not a shabby tight 5 at all… and a Sharks trio of Doc Jannie, Bismarck & Lewies can be backup tighties.
@ grootblousmile:
The huge problem with beasts injury is that the sharks will finally realize that dale chadwick is a better player
@ grootblousmile:
1. Coenie, 2. Strauss, 3. Marcel, 4. Lood, 5. vic (I think they would have planned to play flip at 5)
With flow gone we will need players who plays to the ball and with coenie, strauss and marcel, we have 3 good fetchers just in the front row lol
oh right…HM will have no choice but to start Trevor this week, probably also Siya
MacroBok wrote:
Let’s first see whether he plays against the Cheetahs next week, then we can decide how serious the “injury” really is.
I don’t agree with you that Bissie and Boetie mustn’t start, they ,and Alberts, must play every minute, because they are the best and do we really want to see them rest when the Boks are playing?
14 @ nortierd:
Astute observation Nortie, there is no way the sharks or bokke could win without them 😀
@ nortierd:
14 @ MacroBok:
15
😆 😆 😆
Sound like a smear campaign with a good cause as the driver?
the one who really has a good rest last 5 years is the Beast actually, who does basically nothing other than jumping on the mound, imitating rucks and clean ups
😉
16 @ Hondo:
And then the crowd also boo’s him three times a game 🙂
@ Hondo:
Beast does a mountain of work when compared to Jannie.
He does farkall for 50 minutes, then they rest him for 30.
Sometimes he even thinks he deserves more rest and cops a yellow to slip in an extra 10 minutes of rest.
When have you ever heard any crowd shout Jaaaaaaanieeeeee
You hear calls of Beeeeeeaaaaaaast once very couple of weeks
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