Frans out for three months
2 Oct 2012
Frans Steyn will undergo an ankle operation on Wednesday that will rule him out of rugby for the rest of 2012.
Steyn sustained the injury in training last week, and was not considered for the Test against Australia at Loftus Versfeld. The latest news from the Bok medical team is that Steyn’s injury is serious, and that immediate surgery is the best course of action in the context of his long-term career.
‘We made the decision to have the surgery, to get in there and clean it out properly,’ said Bok team doctor Craig Roberts. ‘He will be out for three months, which is a blow in terms of the coming game [against the All Blacks] and the end-of-year tour, but we felt it’s a good decision in the long-term.
‘Frans is a youngster and can play 60 more Tests if we manage him well. This is the right thing to do. We will get him into good shape before the 2013 season, and he will enjoy a full pre-season programme.’
Meanwhile, prop Coenie Oosthuizen won’t be available for the next Test against the All Blacks. Oosthuizen recently made his comeback from a neck injury, but Roberts is not happy that the prop has completely recovered. Roberts said the Boks will seek the advice of a specialist this week to determine whether Oosthuizen needs more time on the sideline.
Flank Jacques Potgieter picked up an abdominal strain when he played for the Bulls last week, and so is also unavailable for the Boks.
Of those that were hurt in last Saturday’s Test in Pretoria, fullback Zane Kirchner is the biggest concern. Kirchner came out of that clash with a bruised hip, the result of colliding with Wallabies centre Adam Ashley-Cooper’s head when he attempted to score a try.
Kirchner did not train with the Boks at St Peters College on Monday, but Roberts said the Boks would give Kirchner another two days to recover before making a call on his availability.
Bok coach Heyneke Meyer said on Monday that he wouldn’t change the starting line-up this week unless he had to. If Kirchner is fit, he will play at fullback. If he fails to recover sufficiently, Pat Lambie will wear the No 15 jersey.
Flyhalf Johan Goosen (ankle) didn’t train either on Monday, but Roberts said this was precautionary more than anything else.
The same applied to prop Jannie du Plessis and flank Willem Alberts, who did not take part in any of the training drills but are expected to be fit for the Rugby Championship finale at Soccer City.
Utility back Lionel Mapoe and loose forward Arno Botha have been called up to provide cover.
‘Seeing that Willem is also not 100% at the moment, we only have three fit loose forwards in the squad and needed someone to provide cover at blindside flank and No 8, which is why Arno is coming to join us. He was part of our Young Guns squad in June as has been in our plans before,’ said Meyer.
‘Lionel has been in great form lately and apart from providing cover in the midfield, he can also be used on the wing if necessary.’
By Jon Cardinelli, in Johannesburg
271 Comments
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 [6] Show All
2 Oct 2012, 13:54 pm
@trupisero-244:
Oh please
Bruce Willis is the shizniz
2 Oct 2012, 13:56 pm
@goodstuff-176:
Actually blacks are the most racist group in SA as they fully support BEE which explicitly discriminates against whites based on race.
Whites on the other hand have at least 30% of their group clamouring to give away their childrens future to the blacks. How is that racist?
2 Oct 2012, 14:00 pm
@BruceWillis-243: Bruce Willis??Bwaaaahh.I would rather have four letters of the alphabet as a nick than to be associated with one of Hollywood’s kukkest actors.
2 Oct 2012, 14:01 pm
@STBUR-252:
Like I said yesterday, and I’m saying politely again today, because my parents raised me polite, you made your point.
We all read it, we all know it.
Now can you please stop.
2 Oct 2012, 14:04 pm
@wnbb-253:
he’s not a kuk actor
2 Oct 2012, 14:05 pm
@Dawn-254:
Nah. New people will read it. And until the BEE situation changes it is a relevant topic. Not to mention all the non-whites on here having a go at the whiteys every change you get or disgruntled Jews insinuating Meyer is a Nazi. I think I will continue until I lose interest or work load reaches the point again where I don’t have the time.
2 Oct 2012, 14:10 pm
@STBUR-256: Just for that Jew comment you deserve to be shot.
2 Oct 2012, 14:12 pm
Indeed.
Even Capo is a better name than than Bruce.
Woof.
2 Oct 2012, 14:18 pm
@wnbb-257:
Go read that fitz1ella comment. He is constantly naming Meyer and any Afrikaans person a Nazi, German or something of that type. I have no beef with the Jews, but he as a Jew has a beef with anyone of Germanic descent.
So I am going to assume you weren’t aware of that before you allowed your marxist-liberalist brainwashing to cause you to immediately jump to conclusions when you say the word Jew without any ***-kissing attached to it. Sad dude… why do you let others control your thoughts like this?
2 Oct 2012, 14:23 pm
@wnbb-257:
Why are you so sensitive about Jews btw? I made no insult to them yet you threaten me with violence. Are you one yourself? If you are are you not ashamed of how this fitz1ella d.ouche carries on wanting to exterminate Germans?
2 Oct 2012, 14:44 pm
Don’t drag me into your sick world buddy.I will not entertain subject further with you.
2 Oct 2012, 14:46 pm
@wnbb-261:
So you are a close minded bigot. Got it. You condone fitz1ella hating on Afrikaners in every post but I point that out and you threaten me with violence. For any neutral observer it is plain to see what you are.
2 Oct 2012, 14:51 pm
@STBUR-262:
You are crossing the line
2 Oct 2012, 14:56 pm
@Dawn-263:
Dawn, please organise the eviction.
2 Oct 2012, 14:58 pm
@Dawn-263:
Explain?
2 Oct 2012, 15:14 pm
No-one is advocating the extermination of the whites, Nazis, Jews, Germans, Swedes nor Norwegians, nor anything European.
There is no genocide here.
And there wont be.
No-one is threatening anyone with violence.
2 Oct 2012, 15:34 pm
@Dawn-266:
I don’t know about that. fitz1ella keeps on going how we shouldn’t exist if we care for our children’s future survival or how we should get out of Africa etc.
@wnbb-257: Here he tells me I should be shot because I pointed out fitz1ella is a Jew that hates all Germans and calls all Afrikaners Nazi’s.
So ja, I am definitely being threatened by both of these guys yet you tell me I am the one stepping over the line?
2 Oct 2012, 21:04 pm
Thank the lord for small mercies.
Saturday proved that Frans is not necessary for our back line to be able to run the ball.
2 Oct 2012, 21:32 pm
Im so glad Lambie is playing against the all blacks now everyone will see how cak he really is when savea and dagg run circles around him.
taute should be 15
and de jongh centre that would be the logical thing to do
o ja this is SA rugby im probably asking for too much
2 Oct 2012, 21:36 pm
@STBUR-260: sounds like something Hitler would say
2 Oct 2012, 21:37 pm
this poor STBUR gotta be a nazi otherwise he wouldn’t be so goddamn self protective over them
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 [6] Show All
Have your say
You must be logged in to post a comment.