The Boks will start their preparations for the Outgoing Tour to the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday with a three-day coaching camp in Stellenbosch, the place 26 gamers are set to assemble.
The group consists of 17 South African-based gamers and 9 who’re at the moment plying their commerce in Japan. All 26 gamers shaped a part of Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber’s squads that participated within the Incoming Series towards Wales and the Rugby Championship.
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They will be within the camp till Wednesday, 26 October, with a number of of the gamers set to return to their groups for United Rugby Championship responsibility a number of days later.
Notably, Johan Goosen is the one specialist flyhalf to be included within the coaching camp. Damian Willemse is known as as a utility again, however he’ll undoubtedly be the Boks’ first-choice 10 on this tour.
During a wide-ranging press convention on Tuesday, it was confirmed that Handre Pollard has been dominated out due to a knee harm, whereas Elton Jantjies won’t but be thought-about for choice due to the very fact he hasn’t performed sufficient rugby of late.
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Yet, in what comes as an enormous blow for each the Bulls and Boks, Goosen has now been dominated out of the Bulls’ upcoming United Rugby Championship match towards Benetton on Friday after taking a head knock towards Munster.
The 30-year-old solely just lately returned to motion after a prolonged restoration from knee surgical procedure, but additionally missed one other latest Bulls sport as coach Jake White needed to keep away from exposing him to a 4G pitch due to that floor typically being a nightmare for gamers when it comes to knee accidents.
On Thursday, White was requested whether or not he thought Goosen was prepared to play worldwide rugby once more, and admitted that he felt “sorry for him”.
“People have this expectation – and it happened in the last two games for us – that he’s just going to arrive on the field and be the best player in the competition. He was on fire last year, he was by far the best player in the competition last year. Then he was out for 11 months. I’ve never coached a guy who comes back from an 11-month injury and just pulls the strings again.
“I would have liked him to have played a lot more rugby before going into the Springbok set-up, but he’s going into a very, very good team, a settled, world champion team. Ideally, you want him to be playing like he was this time last year, when he beat the SA A side on his own in Cape Town.
“I signed him until 2026, and that’s why I handle him as I do – I have a long-term plan for him. But our goal was always to get him back into the national set-up, that was part of the talk I had with him when he joined us.”
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Bulls staff: 15 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 14 David Kriel, 13 Stedman Gans, 12 Harold Vorster, 11 Wandisile Simelane, 10 Chris Smith, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Elrigh Louw, 7 Marco van Staden, 6 Marcell Coetzee (captain), 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Janko Swanepoel, 3 Francois Klopper, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Gerhard Steenekamp
Substitutes: 16 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 17 Simphiwe Matanzima, 18 Mornay Smith, 19 Walt Steenkamp, 20 WJ Steenkamp, 21 Zak Burger, 22 Morne Steyn, 23 Stravino Jacobs
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Players invited to Boks’ Stellenbosch coaching camp:
Props: Thomas du Toit (Cell C Sharks), Steven Kitshoff, Frans Malherbe (each DHL Stormers), Ox Nche (Cell C Sharks)
Hookers: Malcolm Marx (Kubota Spears), Bongi Mbonambi (Cell C Sharks)
Locks: Lood de Jager (Wild Knights), Eben Etzebeth (Cell C Sharks), Salmaan Moerat (DHL Stormers)
Loose Forwards: Pieter-Steph du Toit (Toyota Verblitz), Siya Kolisi (Cell C Sharks), Elrigh Louw (Vodacom Bulls), Kwagga Smith (Shizuoka Blue Revs)
Utility Forwards: Deon Fourie (DHL Stormers), Franco Mostert (Honda Heat)
Scrumhalves: Faf de Klerk (Yokohama Canon Eagles), Jaden Hendrikse (Cell C Sharks)
Flyhalf: Johan Goosen (Vodacom Bulls)
Centres: Jesse Kriel (Yokohama Canon Eagles), Damian de Allende (Wild Knights)
Outside backs: Kurt-Lee Arendse (Vodacom Bulls), Willie le Roux (Toyota Verblitz), Makazole Mapimpi (Cell C Sharks), Canan Moodie (Vodacom Bulls), Sbu Nkosi (Vodacom Bulls)
Utility again: Damian Willemse (DHL Stormers)
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