The Vodacom Bulls have been forced into a backline reshuffle ahead of tomorrow’s game against the Highlanders, with Akona Ndungane ruled out with a hamstring injury.
Bok scrumhalf Francois Hougaard shifts into the number 14 jersey, with Piet van Zyl moving up from the bench to earn his first start in the number 9 jersey for his new team.
Ulrich Beyers, who was not originally named this week, has been added as backline replacement.
Vodacom Bulls: 15 Jurgen Visser, 14 Francois Hougaard, 13 J J Engelbrecht, 12 Jan Serfontein, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 9 Piet van Zyl, 8 Grant Hattingh, 7 Jacques du Plessis, 6 Jono Ross, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Flip van der Merwe (captain), 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 Dean Greyling
Substitutes: 16 Bongi Mbonambi , 17 Marcel van der Merwe, 18 Paul Willemse, 19 Jacques Engelbrecht, 20 Handré Pollard, 21 William Small-Smith, 22 Ulrich Beyers, 23 Morné Mellett,
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I prefer Hougaard on the wing.