The problem is once a Bok picks up a niggling injury, they’ll play with it trough the S15, Championship, CC, EOYT nad then straight back into S15 training for the next season

They never get an opportunity to rest and to recover properly

Rugby is a professional sport now, they should have a reasonable break

Look at the NFL, NHL or NBA, they break for a couple of months to recover

Fine lets say Lieb & Andries this time were freak accidents, Jean’s hammy has obviously been bothering him for some time and he has looked tired even during end of rug championships. Really could have come of sooner against cheetahs or rested completely.
Plum seems to be doing a much better job at it and hopefully it will pay off for Sharks/Boks.
Too much “pressure” with all the religation business perhaps for old Coetzee

Wilhelm Steenkamp for Andries Bekker

Lekka een bakkies

The Currie Cup should be full strength from week 1. It’s this joke of a Super 15 format that’s the problem.

SARU sold it’s own people down the river. F***ers!

Bekker injured his bloody toe! Tiaan barely ran on the field…

As for JdV, this should have always been his last year of Rugby anyways, he’s beyond average.

You guys are welcome to him He can replace one of your foreigners.

last week he couldn’t wait to tell us that as long as the unions still own the players contracts he will play ALL his Boks now 3 players are crocked… eish.

One thing if JdV don’t go eoyt then we will have a very young centre pairing. Not so sure about Taute at outside centre either. His defence was just terrible against ABs. For now think Mayer will still start Taute there and probably then JdJ as Mapoe is also out injured. This could get Jordaan a call up.

It hasn’t taken long for the fears of Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer to be realised, with the decision to allow teams to contest the last stages of the Absa Currie Cup at full strength now threatening to backfire spectacularly on the national squad.

DHL Western Province coach Allister Coetzee confirmed at a team announcement press conference on Wednesday that Tiaan Liebenberg and Andries Bekker, two WP Boks who were ruled out of this week’s semifinal against the Lions in Johannesburg, will be out for the rest of the season.

That means they will miss the end-of-year Bok tour to Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

And it doesn’t end there either for those who are concerned at what impact too much rugby is having on Meyer’s chances of drawing some relevance from the three-match trip to the northern hemisphere.

Bok skipper Jean de Villiers was forced to leave training at Newlands with a hamstring strain that has been bothering him for the past few weeks and prevented him from taking part in WP practice last week.

Just why De Villiers played against the Cheetahs in the final league match last week was a question many were asking, and it seems their worst fears may be realised, with De Villiers undergoing a scan on the injury at the time of writing.

Coetzee did not want to speculate, and said that his captain had been called off because “I see no point in risking him”, but it is understood he could be doubtful for the November tour.

“Jean is definitely out of this game after he went off with a hamstring strain and we will be able to confirm further once he has undergone his scan,” said Coetzee.

“The situation with Tiaan and Andries is that both of them are out for the rest of the season. Tiaan is out for eight weeks with a vertebrae injury while Andries has a toe injury. Both injuries were picked up in the match against the Cheetahs.”

Coetzee added that both were freak injuries and were not down to the players being over-played, but the fact remains that if they were not on the playing field representing their provinces in a competition that was played for 90% of the league season under-strength and in front of small crowds, neither of the injuries would have happened.

With the Cheetahs’ Coenie Oosthuizen being ruled out after the WP/Cheetahs game, there are effectively three Boks – and maybe four if the worst news about De Villiers is confirmed – who have been ruled out a stage of the season where the players should really be resting

@katman-16:

Suffer_guy is right then, no ways WP will win this games with qualified nwatas on board the struggling quatas flying bird.