The sharks have made changes to the squad for Friday evenings match against the Leopards, Players returning from injury are Micheal Rhodes and Odwa Ndugane and Patric Cilliers, Also returning are players from the Springbok training camp being Tendai Mtawarira and Bismark DuPlessis.
Departing are JP Pietersen, Jannie DuPlessis, Ryan kankowski, who have joined the Springbok squad, and the loss of Jean deysel due to a serious knee injury which will keep him sidelined for atleast 6 months.
Other then that Plumtree has switched a few players around from the bench to the starting lineup with Ross Skeate and Rory Cockott getting a start with Sykes and Mcleod dropping to the bench, Odwa replaces JPP on the wing and Micheal Rhodes replaces Jean Deysel on the bench.
Team as follows:
15. Louis Ludik
14. Odwa Ndungane
13. Stefan Terblanche (Captain)
12. Andries Strauss
11. Lwazi Mvovo
10. Patrick Lambie
9. Rory Kockott
8. Willem Alberts
7. Keegan Daniel
6. Jacques Botes
5. Alistair Hargreaves
4. Ross Skeate
3. Eugene van Staden
2. Craig Burden
1. Patric Cilliers
Replacements
16. Bismarck du Plessis
17. Tendai Mtawarira
18. Steven Sykes
19. Michael Rhodes
20. Charl McLeod
21. Monty Dumond
22. Riaan Swanepoel