BREAKING | Handre Pollard to join Springbok squad at Rugby World Cup
The 2019 World Cup winner replaces the injured Malcolm Marx. Handre Pollard has been confirmed as South Africa's replacement for the injured Malcolm Marx in their 2023 Rugby World Cup squad. FIRST TAKEPollard will join the national team in Paris on Monday after he played for his English club Leicester against Sale Sharks on Friday, showing he has fully recovered from the calf injury that ruled him out of the initial 33-man squad.
"We are confident with the cover we have at hooker with Bongi Mbonambi and Deon Fourie, and Marco van Staden has been slotting in the position since our alignment camps in February, so we opted to call up Handre, who has been in our system for years and who was a member of our team in 2019 when we won the World Cup," coach Jacques Nienaber explained.
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