The Barbarians take on the Leicester Tigers in an untelevised match tonight, with Sharks veteran Jacques Botes set to play his last game before retirement, starting in the number 8 jersey.
Botes packs down with Mike Rhodes (7) and Heinrich Brussow (6) in an all-South African back row; fellow Sharks players Thomas du Toit and Lourens Adriaanse will start in the front row, with Matt Stevens set to replace one of them off the bench.
Lions flyhalf Marnitz Boshoff, who scored a great try against Australia on Saturday off the bench, will start this week, with Western Province centre Juan de Jongh completing the South African contigent from the number 13 jersey.
Barbarians:
15. Tevita Li (Blues)
14. Frank Halai (Blues and New Zealand)
13. Juan de Jongh (DHL Western Province and South Africa)
12. Francis Saili (Blues and New Zealand)
11. Nick Cummins (Coca-Cola West Red Sparks and Australia)
10. Marnitz Boshoff (Golden Lions and South Africa)
9. Fumiaki Tanaka (Highlanders and Japan)
8. Jacques Botes (Sharks)
7. Heinrich Brussow (Cheetahs and South Africa)
6. Michael Rhodes (DHL Western Province)
5. Alastair Kellock (Glasgow and Scotland – captain)
4. Dominic Bird (Canterbury and New Zealand)
3. Lourens Adriaanse (Sharks and South Africa)
2. Mahonri Schwalger (Chiefs and Samoa)
1. Thomas du Toit (Sharks)
Replacements (from):
Niall Annett (Worcester Warriors)
Jason Marshall (Hawke’s Bay and Canada)
Matt Stevens (Sharks and England)
Angus Ta’avao (Blues)
Steven Luatua (Blues and New Zealand)
Matt Todd (Crusaders and New Zealand)
Adam Thomson (Canon Eagles and New Zealand)
Sarel Pretorius (Cheetahs)
Sean Duke (UVIC and Canada)
Tom English (Rebels)
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Have a blast Boots.
Coca-Cola West Red Sparks
Damn wish this was televised! Congrats boots on an epic career!
Good luck to Jcques and all the Sharks boys, enjoy.
On another matter entirely, I watched a rerun of the All Blacks – US Eagles game last night:
a)So great to see 60,000 people pack out the stadium on Chicago to watch a game of rugby,
b) the american commentators were classic, never watched a game of rugga and heard the word ‘rumble’ used so many times. Was a gas.
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 2) : who the hell is the Coca-Cola West Red Sparks?
@JD (Comment 5) : I dont know, but I see Nick Cummins plays for them so I presume that he made up the name when they were compiling the programme.
They’re a Japanese Rugby Team ???? So disappointed this is not televised as I enjoy watching Leicester lose ????
My ‘smily faces’ have changed to?????? Weird
@SharkyTaylor (Comment 8) : you using the app?
@SharkyTaylor (Comment 7) : why you smiling because they’re Japanese?
Legend
BaaBaas won 59-26
Jacques scored the last try and converted it.
His other conversion attempt was a bit wonky
Highlights:
@Baylion (Comment 13) : Pity they didn’t show du Toit’s try. Loved the “Everyone pretend to have the ball” move. And flipping fantastic to see JdJ pass the ball to Botes to finish off his his career in style!
@Baylion (Comment 12) : Great clips…