Sharks coach John Plumtree has named his touring squad of 25 players.
Adrian Jacobs and Riaan Swanepoel, who are doing service for the Sharks XV today, join Craig Burden as the only three players who are not in the 22 man squad to take on the Blues today who will be going on tour.
Jean Deysel who is still recovering from injury has not been included in the squad.
Young Anton Bresler who has impressed with the limited time he has had in the Sharks jersey is included for his debut Sharks tour of Australasia.
The Sharks squad leave for Australia tomorrow (Sunday). The will start their tour in Perth against The Western Force after which they travel to Melbourne to test Super Rugby newcomers The Melbourne Rebels. They then travel over to New Zealand for matches against the Cheifs and Crusaders before returning to South Africa to face the Stormers in Durban.
The Touring squad is.
Willem Alberts
Meyer Bosman
Jacques Botes
Anton Bresler
Craig Burden
Keegan Daniel
Bismarck du Plessis
Jannie du Plessis
Alistair Hargreaves
Conrad Hoffmann
Adrian Jacobs
Ryan Kankowski
Patrick Lambie
Louis Ludik
Charl McLeod
Tendai Mtawarira
Lwazi Mvovo
Odwa Ndungane
JP Pietersen
Jacques-Louis Potgieter
John Smit
Riaan Swanepoel
Steven Sykes
Stefan Terblanche
Eugene van Staden
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Happy for Bresler but why is Mostert still out?
@Danman110 (Comment 1) : cos the coach thinks Bresler is better 🙂
@Danman110 (Comment 1) : Indicates that Bresler has passed him in the pecking order for now IMO.
Mostert was out for a long time and will in all likelyhood have to work very hard to get back in the Match 22.
interesting that there’s no third scrummie…
it seems common sense prevailed and Deysel can play some Vodacom Cup rugby..
@robdylan (Comment 2) :
@Danman110 (Comment 6) : Hope Mostert and Deysel get some gametime in VC Deysel should be managed well.
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 5) : ummm – hate to burst your bubble, but they’ve only named 25 players 🙂
I think Mostert should be there.
I will be very happy with 3 wins from our overseas tour.
Mostert needs more quality game time,looked bit out of sorts at times yesterday,but watch out when he gets back tohis best-he is a bok contender at his best.
Rather give mostert as much game time as possible in the vc.needs to regain his form.then he will challenge for place in match 22
Good squad. No complaints.
Van staden in squad??
@bergshark (Comment 14) : Squad was released before the Sharks vs Blues game.
JPP looked like he got a lil more pacey!!!
Good side…think they will do well on tour…
Poor Ross Cronje. Seems like not having a 3rd scrumhalf was considered a better option than taking him.
@beet (Comment 18) :
Poor Cronje? He may be the 3rd ranked scrumhalf, but I don’t think he is at CC level of play let alone S15 level.
I see no reason take take the guy along on tour at all. I wouldn’t consider him unlucky either, he just isn’t good enough.