Aaron Mauger will lead out Leicester Tigers for the historic match against South Africa at Welford Road on Friday evening.
Leicestertigers.com
The New Zealander international lines up at fly-half for a fixture arranged to officially open the new Caterpillar Stand.
Academy prospects Andy Forsyth and Manu Tuilagi combine as the centre partnership, and Ben Youngs starts at scrum-half.
The forward pack features the eight who started last Saturday’s Guinness Premiership win over Northampton Saints, including young lock Calum Green who made his first senior start in that game.
New signing Lote Tuqiri is also included in the 22 after the Australia international wing arrived earlier this week and hooker George Chuter is also named among the replacements.
Head coach Richard Cockerill takes the opportunity to rest Anthony Allen and Jeremy Staunton who have started all nine games in league and cup so far this season.
Richard Blaze, Harry Ellis, Toby Flood, Geordan Murphy, Billy Twelvetrees, Sam Vesty and Ben Woods are ruled out by injury.
Friday’s game is a 24,000 sell-out. Live coverage is being shown on Sky Sports 2 and on Supersport 1.
Leicester Tigers (v South Africa, Welford Road, Friday 7.30pm [9:30pm SA Time])
15 Scott Hamilton
14 Lucas Amorosino
13 Andy Forsyth
12 Manu Tuilagi
11 Johne Murphy
10 Aaron Mauger (c)
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 Mefin Davies
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Calum Green
5 Ben Kay
6 Geoff Parling
7 Ben Pienaar
8 Brett Deacon
Replacements:
16 George Chuter
17 Dan Cole
18 Tom Armes
19 Dan Hemingway
20 James Grindal
21 Greig Tonks
22 Lote Tuqiri
59 – Nou het SA darem n kans om n goue medalje te wen weer!
supa @ 55
ja eks self so bietjie confused, dink ook ons gaan dit net-net maak, maar rugby365 voorspel ñ wen vir die tigers!!
my voorspelling? bokke 7 – 10
47 – Ashley
Die bokke met so 20. De jongh gaan so 2 driee druk.
#59 Sodra daar meer gestruktueerde kompetisies op skoolvlak is sal die meeste groot skole miskien begin inkoop, maar op die oomblik is dit maar nog deurmekaar.
supa @ 56
miskien was j dronk?
flok, hoop nie joost is OOK op daai foto nie, hehehe
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ek sal natuurlik nie omgee om ñ fototjie saam met hersh en so ñ paar “vriendinnetjies” te vat nie, hehehe
#62 Ashley
Ek hoop ons skrum staan sterk. Guthro, Chilli, Bekker, is nie die sterkste ouens om in n vaste 5 te he nie.
Maar Potgieter, JDJ, Wynand, Pienaar is darem goed.
snoek @ 63
we, IEMAND is vol selfvertroue!!
#60..Wat ek bedoel is dat die ou in die foto darem nie jy is nie…net ‘n bulls fan, maar dis snaaks!…
#65 Ashley
Moes baie dronk gewees het. So erg dat iemand my op n vliegtuig gesit het SA toe…hehe
Joost het vir hom lekker twak geboek nou…en hy hou aan met jok.
#68 Oooo….nou verstaan ek, sal wil sien!
#68 Polla, jy weet nie hoe ek lyk nie, dalk is dit ek! 🙄
supa @ 69
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good morning everyone
#72 Ek sien net tanne so breed lag jy!
#69 Het julle daai Nike ad gesien?..Wat hulle spot met Joost?…Naatjie..Joost Did it!
73 More Sardien.
#75 Ja, die mense het weer in die argiewe gaan grou van toe die bom die eerste keer gebars het. Daai e-pos seker 5 keer gekry…so helse foto!
Maar dis snaaks.
supa my worry is the back 3
odwa is not on form and has lost pace
rose i aint even gonna comment and nokwe has all the pace in the world , butthe rest of his game means zero
shit under the high ball
cant defend blah blah blah
thats where we could pick up problems
#71..Nou wie’s daai outjie op die Bloggers Fotos?…lol Lyk nes ‘n Fourie van Humansdorp!..Jy het nie dalk famielie daar in die Oos-Kaap nie Supa?…lol
Kan nie wag vir die GROOT game nie.
Portugal teen Namibie! Gaan awesome wees.
and its a pity vermeulen aint on tour
would have liked to see him deysel and pottie together again like against the lions
man they were superb as a trio
#78 Sharky
Good point. Lets hope Earl has one of his two ‘good’ games every season.
We better run the ball, because there are no great kickers in that backline.
Howzit Sharky
The thing is that the tigers has a patched up team as well. So i feel positive that the okes can go big tonight.
#79 Polla, ek was al in die Oos-Kaap as dit tel?
Hulle gaan glo drie dromme stront daar by die Portugal-Nam game langs die veld sit….Om die vliee van die spelers weg te hou!…so kak is hulle!
I hope we win. Actually, when the Boks second best team plays an England club side, there shouldnt even be a discussion about who will win! But with all these good players staying behind in SA…eish
Hellooooooooo, Preview Thread vir vanaand se game gaan netnou op wees.
supa true that, i also think they will be playing the running game
gm snoek mate ^5 yeah i saw and yes i think we should win np , but it could have been a better team
to me for example mvovo should be replacing odwa in the sharks team
85 Portugal gaan Namibie klop.
moreeeeeeeee blou rosyntjies gbs ballietjies 😆
hows you ??
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