Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has mixed and matched with his team selections for this Saturday's 'rematch' against the Wallabies.
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has mixed and matched with his team selections for this Saturday’s ‘rematch’ against the Wallabies.Morne van den Berg and Ruan Nortje will earn their first Test starts in a Springbok team that showsSalmaan Moerat will captain the team from lock while regular captain Siya Kolisi is one of nine players from Saturday’s 33-7 victory who is rotated.
Five other players who were members of that emphatic 64-21 victory also join them in Van den Berg, Aphelele Fassi , Lukhanyo Am , Makazole Mapimpi and Manie Libbok , with the latter starting on the replacements bench showing a traditional split of five forwards and three backs.Kolisi , Frans Malherbe, Gerhard Steenekamp , Bongi Mbonambi , Cobus Reinach , Kurt-Lee Arendse , Damian de Allende and Willie le Roux .
Should the Springboks win, it will be the first time they have won four successive tests against the Wallabies in more than half a century . Kaizer Chiefs have already signed four players under Nasreddine Nabi but where does this put the players that were signed by Ntseki?
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