DHL Western Province head coach Allister Coetzee has made six changes ahead of Saturday’s Absa Currie Cup meeting with GWK Griquas in Kimberley (14h30).
(See Audio clips at the bottom of the Article)
Official DHL Western Province Media Release
Most of the changes have been brought about by injuries – and one is positional – but the return of No.8 Duane Vermeulen is the big news from Cape Town this week.
Vermeulen has been missing since April because of a knee injury and his return sees Jebb Sinclair drop to the bench – in one of the six changes from the side that started in the 23-25 defeat to the Sharks last Saturday.
Nine players made their Absa Currie Cup debuts for DHL WP last week, with just four new players named this week – left-wing Ederies Arendse and flyhalf Kurt Coleman and the two unused replacements from last week, lock Wilhelm van der Sluys and centre/wing Damian de Allende.
There is also a new halfback pairing in the shape of Demetri Catrakilis (flyhalf) and Louis Schreuder (scrumhalf), with the former replacing the injured Burton Francis and the latter rotating with Dewaldt Duvenage.
Duvenage, in fact, gets a total break this week – after a tough playing schedule in 2012 – with Vodacom Cup winner Nic Groom providing scrumhalf cover from the bench.
In a final change to the starting XV, loosehead prop Steven Kitshoff has recovered fully from the knee injury which kept him out of last week’s Sharks match.
“Griquas are at least 20 percent better in Kimberley – it will be a tough game,” warned DHL WP coach Allister Coetzee.
“In the past we’ve had to work very hard for points up there and I don’t expect it to be much different this week. It’s going to be a tough game… we’re under no illusions.”
The DHL Western Province team to take on GWK Griquas is as follows:
15. Gio Aplon
14. Gerhard van den Heever
13. JP du Plessis
12. Marcel Brache (vice-captain)
11. Ederies Arendse*
10. Demetri Catrakilis
9. Louis Schreuder
8. Duane Vermeulen
7. Jebb Sinclair
6. Tyrone Holmes
5. De Kock Steenkamp
4. Don Armand
3. Frans Malherbe
2. Deon Fourie (Captain)
1. Steven Kitshoff
RESERVES:
16. Siyabonga Ntubeni
17. Brok Harris
18. Wilhelm van der Sluys*
19. Yaya Hartzenberg
20. Nic Groom
21. Kurt Coleman*
22. Damian de Allende*
* On Absa Currie Cup debut for DHL Western Province.
Our friend and Author Rob Peters from NewsPod Media Group also sent us our own Audio clips from today’s press conference where Allister Coetzee announced his DHL Western Province side and where captain Deon Fourie also made some statements on behalf of the team, here they are:
Allister Coetzee:
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Deon Fourie:
Tecklenburg en ‘Da Ellende’ !!!!!
Albei spanne sal MOET ‘teckle’ vir dood in Bloem en Kimberley, of daar wag voorwaar ‘ellende’.
Both WP and Bulls to get whipped this weekend, I fear…let me go and do my picks less I forget.
1 @ Pietman:
Ek hou ookie van daai ellendige de Allende knaap nie… jinne, WP skraap ok nou darem bodem met sommige van hulle dieptespelers in die reserwes. Maar Griekwas was vir my lusteloos, hulle het toegelaat dat die Bulle oorheers, in alle fassette.
Wat Warwick Tecklenburg in die Bulle span aanbetref, harde makker daai, sal nie die span in die steek laat nie. Cheetahs sukkel maar self jong, Boom is beseer (het seker ‘n tak gebreek) en hulle was maar baie flippie-floppie teen die Lions, hel hulle het die Lions laat goed lyk, verlede Saterdag!
Grap net, Bulle behoort dit te maak.
WP sal egter moet bontstaan….Kimberley is hulle ‘bogey’; ek was daar daai koue middag toe die ou uit die Noord-pawiljoen in Robbie Blair se oge geflits het met n spieel tydens die finale wenskop!
Later jare met Robbie daaroor gesels, toe ek hom vertel ek het reg oorkant die veld teenaan die lyn gesit n paar meter van hom af toe hy die bal stel, toe sy hy dadelik, “O fok, daai dag het ons darem amper teen Tertius-hulle verloor!”
Tertius Koch, nefie van Chris (sy broer Bertus van Moorreesburg se seun) was daai dag Griekwakaptein, hy het sommer van die afskop gaan druk.
Daar stap die ‘Griek’ somme reguit in die WP span in, na hy nie eers laasweek die span of bank kon maak nie…. verby Francis, verby Gary van Aswegen, verby Kurt Coleman… kry R 200 sonder om by begin verby te skuiwe.
Dink Toetie is desperaat nadat die WP skakelpaar verlede naweek so swak was… jinne Burton Francis was lieplapperkak!
3 @ Pietman:
Wat het ooit van Robbie Blair geword na rugby… hy het soos mis voor die son verdwyn.
Hel ek het hom baie verwens daai tyd toe hy vir WP gespeel het, met daai geleerde voet van hom.
Hy kon mooi breek ook, het mooi afgetrap van die een voet af, met daai swart bob-style hare, 70’s style.
@ grootblousmile:
Robbie het afgetree, was kommunikasiebestuurder by Medi-Clincic in Stellenbosch.
Speel golf en kuier by sy klong in die VSA, toe ek lass gehoor het, mannetjie rig tennis af daar oorkant.
Ek ken Robbie van die dae toe hy en Andries Kroggie vir Kronenbrau Breweries ge-rep het….dis waar ek begin vatbier suip het!
Stout man, daai Robbie, dikwels gekuier tot vroegoggend voor n groot wedstryd….skop hy drie keer mis van voor die pale teen Natal na een so n kuier en verloor WP, was groooot marakkas daaroor destyds, hehehehe!!
@ grootblousmile:
Ja, met sy hotklou geskop.
Net een toets gespeel, ek dink teen daai wereldspan op Loftus.
@ grootblousmile:
@4 Die Griek mag dalk net hulle gatte red a la Robbie, hy trek ngal op n manier na RB, nou dat ek daaraan dink.
8 @ Pietman:
Ja, nogal… Blair was net korter, en sy neus wassie so prominent nie… so vooroor geleen as hy skop.
My jinne Piet, nou ken jy nog vir Blair ook, g’n wonder ons vra altyd vir jou wat het van die klomp geword nie…. miskien moet ek jou vra wat het geword van so paar skermunkels wat my geld skuld en verdwyn het, jy ken die flokkers tien teen een ook, dalk kan ek dan hulle balle behoorlik vir hulle vas trap en hulle goed laat kak!
Hahaha
@ grootblousmile:
Nee man, ken Robbie deur Ewald Bonzet en die atletiekmanne, ek en hy is mos van daaaai tyd af pelle saam gewerk as ‘eppies’ in een kantoor destyds. Ewald en daai lot het op n stadium saam saam n huis (‘commune’) gedeel op Jonkershoek innie ‘Bos’, dikwels daar gebraai na die Boland Bank uur- byeenkomste op Coetzenburg. Dis maar hoe ek die ouens raakgeloop het.
10 @ Pietman:
Ja, maar dalk was die ouens wat my geld skuld ook atlete…. siende dat hulle so kon weghardloop, die flokkers! Hehehe
Added some Audio from the Press Conference after the WP side was announced, you will find it at the bottom of the Article
Updated:
15. Gio Aplon
14. Gerhard van den Heever
13. JP du Plessis
12. Marcel Brache (vice-captain)
11. Ederies Arendse
10. Demetri Catrakilis
9. Louis Schreuder
8. Duane Vermeulen
7. Jebb Sinclair
6. Tyrone Holmes
5. De Kock Steenkamp
4. Don Armand
3. Frans Malherbe
2. Deon Fourie (captain)
1. Steven Kitshoff
RESERVES:
16. Siyabonga Ntubeni
17. Brok Harris
18. Wilhelm van der Sluys
19. Yaya Hartzenberg
20. Nic Groom
21. Kurt Coleman
22. Damian de Allende
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