Jano Vermaak
Ruan Pienaar has been ruled out of the year-end tour because of a knee ligament injury and he will be replaced by Jano Vermaak.
Pienaar picked up the injury in the Springboks’ Test against New Zealand in Wellington in September and has been out of action since then.
“Ruan was re-assessed on Tuesday following the on-field fitness tests from Monday, and unfortunately he has developed some swelling and puffiness around the knee, indicating that he is not yet ready to partake in full training and playing in a match,” said Springbok team doctor Craig Roberts.
“He needs a few more weeks of rehabilitation before he’ll be ready to return to play and hence we’ve taken the decision to rule him out of the tour.”
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Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said he felt for Pienaar.
“We’ll miss his experience, especially when it comes to playing rugby in the Northern Hemisphere, but luckily Jano knows our structures and should not have a problem to slot back in,” said Meyer.
“The decision to bring in Jano was because he is familiar with our structures and is also very experienced, especially since Cobus Reinach is still in his first season of Test rugby.
“There are a number of good young scrumhalves in South Africa, but to bring someone in who has not yet trained with us in a pivotal position such as scrumhalf would’ve been a risk.”
Vermaak, who played in three Tests in 2013 and has been part of the squad for most of the previous two seasons, will join the Springbok squad in Dublin by Wednesday.
My span vir Saterdag
Willie
JPP
Jan
JDV
Habs
Pollard
Hougies
Duane
Burger
Marcel
Vic
Bakkies
Jannie
Bissie
Beast
Trevor
Adriaan
Julian
Eben
Kriel
Reinach
Pat
Hendricks
Oh goodie, a 100% improvement on Ruan Pienaar!
best news ever
Good news is always welcome.
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@ gunther:
wahahahahaha The IT Crowd is hilarious
Great news. Jano should have had more caps by now.
FDP
Jano
Cobus
Piet Van Zyl
Brok Harris (Needs to work on his kicking game)
Sorted.
@ Stormersboy:
Indeed now that we have Lambie and Pollard the wunderkind at 10 there’s really no need to play Brok there.
@ gunther: Yes, but we need to Cap Brok before the Irish snap him up and he goes on to play 100 test caps and help them lift the WC next year! ….
@ Stormersboy:
Look it might not be a bad idea to give him to the Irish his good bill has been affecting the trade deficit.
Proteas baie goed geboul en veldwerk, hoop hul bly kalm en choke nie, dan behoort hul te wen.
Aussies 144/6.
SA 8/1 na 2 beurte.
Amper nog ‘n paaltjie, die Aussie het ‘n sitter geknock.
80/1 na 10, lyk nou baie goed vir SA.
Rossouw en De Kock besig om die kangaroos stukkend te slaan.
13 @ Ben-die-Bok:
Aussie Krieket is op ‘n kwaai laagtepunt op die oomblik… nie naastenby so gevaarlik soos hulle eens was nie.
14: baie waar, is dit hul beste span of laat hul ook spelers rus? Ons mis vir Amla, AB, Faf, Morkel, Steyn … of eintlik mis ons hul nie ! hehe
124/1 na 14 beurte
15 @ Ben-die-Bok:
Nee, ek weetie… ek sien maar net hulle resultate die afgelope tyd… en giggel dan lekker!
136/3 nog 9 nodig van 18 balle.
Bokspan onveranderd.
Ben-die-Bok wrote:
Anderhalf dag terug het Aus hul ‘n 5-dag Toetsreeks teen Pakistan in UAE verloor.
Derhalwe is geen van AUS se toetspelers vir hierdie T20 wedstryd oorweeg nie.
Geluk aan die Blomme, wen met 6 balle oor. De Kock, Rossouw en boulers was baie goed.
Kyle Abbott ons beste speler vandag
Abbott & Parnell se boulwerk aan die einde was uitstekend.
Ons het dit broodnodig in ons spel.
@ grootblousmile:
die kak is. hulle het nogsteeds vir ons n pakslae gegee onlangs.
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