Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske named a strong team filled with Super Rugby players for their opening Currie Cup clash against the Leopards in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
Lock Waltie Vermeulen has recovered in time from a shoulder injury sustained in Super Rugby to make it into the starting XV and Springbok centre Andries Strauss was also back to full fitness to captain the side.
Cheetahs:
15 Hennie Daniller, 14 Riaan Smit, 13 Corne Uys, 12 Andries Strauss (C), 11 Ryno Benjamin, 10 Sias Ebersohn, 9 Tewis de Bruyn, 8 Boom Prinsloo, 7 Lappies Labuschagne, 6 Johan Wessels, 5 Waltie Vermeulen, 4 Francois Uys, 3 WP Nel, 2 Michael van Vuuren, 1 Marcel van der Merwe.
Replacements: 16 PW van Vuuren, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Izak van der Westhuizen, 19 Pieter Myburgh, 20 Piet van Zyl, 21 Philip Snyman, 22 Philip Burger.
This squad should spank the Leopards silly!
@ grootblousmile:
I tried to post this team yesterday, but couldn’t get the divider [the button that separates the lead sentence from the main article]to work.Any idea’s?
2@ Loosehead:
Bottervingers??
staan terug vir die manne in wit al is jy n flank n vleul of n stut
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