Bulls, Free State dominate SA Schools
16 Jul 2011
The Blue Bulls and Free State have 11 players selected in the 22-man SA Schools squad announced on Saturday.
The Blue Bulls have six players picked while the Craven Week unofficial champions Free State have five boys that earn national colours. The Lions (four), KZN, WP (two each), SWD, Pumas and Boland (one each) make up the rest of the squad.
Lions No 8 Ruan Steenkamp will captain the team while outside centre Dries Swanepoel will be his deputy.
SA Schools squad
Backs: Dries Swanepoel (Free State), Jaco van der Walt (Lions), Jan Serfontein (Free State), Nhlanhla Hlongwane (Free State), Percey Williams (SWD), Ruwellyn Isbell (Free State), Sean Robinson (Blue Bulls), Siyabonga Tom (KZN), Tim Swiel (WP), Tyler Fisher (KZN).
Forwards: Andrew Beerwinkel (Boland), Eugene le Maitre (Lions), Irne Herbst (Blue Bulls), Jacques du Plessis (Pumas), Leneve Damens (Free State), Marne Coetzee (Blue Bulls), Morne du Plessis (Blue Bulls), Philip du Preez (Lions), Pierre Schoeman (Blue Bulls), Ruan Steenkamp (captain, Lions), Sikumbuzo Notshe (WP), Thabo Mabuza (Blue Bulls).
SA Academy team:
15 Lorenzo Baaitjies (EP), 14 Gideon Meiring (Lions), 13 Edwin Sass (WP), 12 John Kotze (WP), 11 Suprise Mayekiso (Lions), 10 Dalton Kannemeyer (WP), 9 Cyprial Mkhabela (KZN), 8 Niklaas Rossouw (Boland), 7 Malcolm Marx (Lions), 6 Willie Newman (Lions), 5 Armand du Preez (EP), 4 Stefan Vermeulen (Lions), 3 Bart le Roux (EP), 2 Chadley Wenn (Boland), Matthew Jones (KZN).
Subs: 16 Hewson Petersen (WP), 17 Siwa Mandlakhe (EP), 18 Luan de Bruin (Blue Bulls), 19 Tienie Burger (Free State), 20 Balunga Mbangi (EP), 21 Damian Engledoe (Boland), 22 Linden Rhode (SWD).
4 Comments
16 Jul 2011, 16:02 pm
Short pants Dragons.
16 Jul 2011, 17:34 pm
This is a f ucking joke! Look at all those EP guys in the Academy side!?
The Griffons won all their games, and don’t get one representative? Loftus Marais and that Enslin center are alowed too feel “currently disadvanteged”.
16 Jul 2011, 18:10 pm
Useless donnerse week die
17 Jul 2011, 11:22 am
I am a province suporter.
I almost have 2 ask… Sikumbuzo Notshe who? Even Ramone Samiels (who is in the wp team but plays 2nd team 4 Paul Roos had a better week than Notshe. Ive seen alot of the wynberg games, and this guy dosnt do any hard work, he just stands in the backline, waiting 2 run.
Im disgusted at how wp picked their team, there is no hard workers 2 speak of. jus a disjointed bunch looking to throw the ball around.
There is def not a lack of talent. I was at the cape schools tournament. The best guys are not being selected. The Boland landbou Nr 6 comes to mind. a SA wrestler and best fetcher ive seen around. He playd in the grant khomo week last year, but this year we just went 4 the showponies and no substance. Rugby cant be playd like this people!
2010,2011 grant khomo champs annow we are about 5th best at craven week this year? Selectors whats hapening here?
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