{"id":15361,"date":"2023-05-12T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:56:13","slug":"pumas-announce-their-preliminary-squad-for-craven-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=15361","title":{"rendered":"Pumas announce their preliminary squad for Craven Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Pumas-300x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Pumas-300x300-1.png 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Pumas-300x300-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Pumas has named their preliminary squad for the annual <strong>Craven Week<\/strong> that will be hosted in George later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The squad comprises of 27 players at this stage with only 23 that will make the trip down to the Garden Route.<\/p>\n<p>They will face the <strong>Limpopo Blue Bulls<\/strong> in a match next week Tuesday which will also be used as trials.<\/p>\n<p>Even players in the other squads that were named could still make it into the Craven Week squad.<\/p>\n<p>Five players who represented the Pumas during the 2022-edition of the tournament in Cape Town have once again made the squad. They are <strong>Rowan Mitchelson<\/strong> (prop, Piet Retief), <strong>Tebogo Nkosi<\/strong> (prop, Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg),<strong> Ryan Venter<\/strong> (prop, Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit), <strong>Tyron Moolman<\/strong> (centre, Secunda) and<strong> Tjaart Joubert<\/strong> (eighthman, Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg).<\/p>\n<p>Joubert could form a very formidable loose trio combination with <strong>Hanr\u00e9 Hattingh<\/strong> (Secunda) and <strong>Loyiso Ngcobese<\/strong> (Piet Retief).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The teams:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Craven Week:<\/strong> 15 Luan Lottering (Secunda), 14 Jodie Berlington (Curro Nelspruit), 13 Tyron Moolman (Secunda), 12 Kyle Alves (Ligbron), 11 Kuloane Seabela (HTS Middelburg), 10 Tiaan Steyn (Secunda), 9 Adeon Pringle (Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit), 8 Tjaart Joubert (Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg), 7 Hanr\u00e9 Hattingh (Secunda), 6 Loyiso Ngcobese (Piet Retief), 5 Matthew McDonald (Volksrust), 4 Sifiso Nhleko (Piet Retief), 3 Tebogo Nkosi (Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg), 2 Jayden Schnuir (Secunda), 1 Rowan Mitchelson (Piet Retief). <strong>Replacements:<\/strong> 16 Regard Vermaak (Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit), 17 Thumelo Mtshali (Secunda), 18 Ryan Venter (Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit), 19 Kaylin Mtphutu (Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg), 20 Braam Basson (Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit), 21 Simtha Maseko (Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg), 22 Nkosi Philansande (Ligbron), 23 Chris Skosana (HTS Middelburg), 24 Johnny de Santos (HTS Middelburg), 25 Zander Erasmus (HTS Middelburg), 26 Juan Bezant (Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit), 27 Fumani Chauke (Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pumas has named their preliminary squad for the annual Craven Week that will be hosted in George later this year. The squad comprises of 27 players at this stage with only 23 that will make the trip down to the Garden Route. They will face the Limpopo Blue Bulls in a match next week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}