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Rassie Erasmus adds 8 new players to Springboks squad

Thomas du Toit

Lwazi Mvovo is one of eight players from the Cell C Sharks who have been added to the Springbok training squad. They will join the camp on Thursday in Stellenbosch, where the group is currently busy with preparations for the next month’s Castle Lager Rugby Championship.

The Durban-based group consists of four forwards, namely Beast Mtawarira (prop), Thomas du Toit (prop), Akker van der Merwe (hooker) and Jean-Luc du Preez (loose forward) and also four backs – Lukhanyo Am (centre), André Esterhuizen (centre), Makazole Mapimpi (wing) and Mvovo (wing).

Players from the Emirates Lions will be added to the training squad once they have completed their Vodacom Super Rugby commitments. The Gautengers play the Waratahs in a semi-final match on Saturday in Johannesburg.

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Meanwhile, Cobus Wiese and JD Schickerling have both been released from the training camp back to the DHL Western Province Currie Cup team.

The Springbok coaching and conditioning staff are managing the workload of the national players after a strenuous Vodacom Super Rugby campaign, which for instance sees resting periods for several Springboks who were involved in the June Internationals.

The updated Springbok training squad (with Cell C Sharks players marked in bold):

 

Forwards:

Jean-Luc du Plessis (Cell C Sharks)

Pieter-Steph du Toit (DHL Stormers)

Thomas du Toit (Cell C Sharks)

Eben Etzebeth (DHL Stormers)

Steven Kitshoff (DHL Stormers)

Siya Kolisi (DHL Stormers)

Wilco Louw (DHL Stormers)

Frans Malherbe (DHL Stormers)

Bongi Mbonambi (DHL Stormers)

Salmaan Moerat (DHL Stormers) *

Tendai Mtawarira (Cell C Sharks)

Sikhumbuzo Notshe (DHL Stormers)

Trevor Nyakane (Vodacom Bulls)

Coenie Oosthuizen (Cell C Sharks)

RG Snyman (Vodacom Bulls)

Akker van der Merwe (Cell C Sharks)

Marco van Staden (Vodacom Bulls) *

 

Backs:

Lukhanyo Am (Cell C Sharks)

Damian de Allende (DHL Stormers)

André Esterhuizen (Cell C Sharks)

Warrick Gelant (Vodacom Bulls)

Jesse Kriel (Vodacom Bulls)

Makazole Mapimpi (Cell C Sharks)

Lwazi Mvovo (Cell C Sharks)

 

Embrose Papier (Vodacom Bulls)

Handré Pollard (Vodacom Bulls)

Ivan van Zyl (Vodacom Bulls)

Damian Willemse (DHL Stormers) *

 

* Denotes uncapped players

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That's Cron's job though. Australia has had one of the most penalised scrums in international rugby for a long time. Just look at the scrum win loss percentage and scrum penalties. That is your evidence. AA has been the starter during that period. Pretty simple analysis. That Australia has had a poor scrum for a long time is hardly news. If bell and thor are not on the field they are woeful. So you are just plain wrong. They have very little time for the lions so doing the same old things that dont work is not going to get them there.


Ainsley is better than our next best tighthead options and has been playing well at scrum time for Lyon in the most competitive comp in the world. Superstar player? No. But better than the next best options. So that is a good enough guide. The scrummaging in the Prem is pretty good too so there is Sio's proof. Same analysis for him. Certainly better in both cases than Super, where the brumbies had the worst win loss and scrum pen in Super. Who plays there? Ohh yes... And the level of scrummaging in Super is well below the URC, prem and France with the SA teams out.


Nongorr is truly woeful. He's 130kg and gets shoved about. That just should not be happening at that weight for a specialist prop who has always played rugby cf pone with leauge. He has had enough time to develop at 23. You'd be better off with Pone who is at least good around the field for the moment and sending Nongorr on exchange to France or England to see if they can improve him with better coaching as happened with Skelton and Meafou. He isn't going to develop in time in super if he has it at all.


Latu is a better scrummaging hooker than BPA and Nasser. and he's the best aussie player over the ball at ruck time. McReight's super jackling percentage hasnt converted to international level but latu consistently does it at heniken level, which is similar to test level in the big games. With good coaching at La Rochelle he's much improved though still has the odd shocker. He should start the November games.

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