{"id":18936,"date":"2023-08-18T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/?p=18936"},"modified":"2023-08-18T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:37:27","slug":"wholesale-changes-as-sa-u18s-gear-up-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=18936","title":{"rendered":"Wholesale changes as SA u18’s gear up for England"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"South Africa Under-18 coach Katleho Lynch has made wholesale changes to his team for their second and final match in the u18 International Series when they face England in Paarl on Saturday, including handing the captaincy to JJ Theron, while JC Mars has been named vice-captain.<\/p>\n

Catch all the action from the u18 International Series live on SuperSport Schools<\/strong> <\/a>– (www.supersportschools.com<\/a>). Broadcast brought to you by Investec<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Only four of the players who started against France on Tuesday, have been included in the starting team this weekend \u2013 wings Scott Nel and Cheswill Jooste, loose forward Batho Hlekani<\/strong> \u2013 who moves from No 8 to flanker \u2013 and lock Jacobus Grobbelaar.<\/p>\n

Lynch was also forced to call up Kyle Smith, who takes over from the flyhalf duties from his injured SA Scools team-mate Ian van der Merwe. Ranon Fouche (prop), who was injured against France, was not replaced in the squad.<\/p>\n

The two players who were part of the SA U18 Sevens squad at the Commonwealth Youth Games earlier this month, Gino Cupido (centre) and Marno Stopforth (flanker), have both been named in the starting team.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur plan from the outset was to give all the players in the squad enough game time as we need to see who can make the step up, hence all the rotational changes to thesquad,\u201d said Lynch.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the players who were on the bench against France and who helped the team lift the intensity in the second half of that game, will now start and it\u2019s a greatopportunity for everyone to test themselves for a second time against a quality international side. I have no doubt we will be better on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynch is under no illusions about the enormity of the task that awaits his charges at Paarl Boys\u2019 High on Saturday \u2013 England beat France by 41-0 last week and on Tuesday,they won 78-15 against the Western Province XV.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we have to start much better this time around as we are facing a very well-coached side who play with speed and momentum,\u201d said the coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to try and control that and stop their momentum, but we will also be looking for better synergy between our forwards and backs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kick-off time of the match against England has been moved to 15h30 and the game will be broadcast on the SuperSport Schools app, as well as on channel 216 on DSTV. The match between France and the Western Province XV is scheduled for 13h00.<\/p>\n

SA u18 team to face England in Paarl:<\/strong><\/p>\n

15 JC Mars (vice-captain),\u00a014 Scott Nel,\u00a013 Gino Cupido,\u00a012 Janco Purchase,\u00a011 Cheswill Jooste,\u00a010 Kyle Smith,\u00a09 Haashim Pead,\u00a08 JJ Theron (captain),\u00a07 Batho Hlekani,\u00a06 Marno Stopforth,\u00a05 Riley Norton,\u00a04 Jaco Grobbelaar,\u00a03 Jean Erasmus,\u00a02 Siphosethu Mnebelele, 1 Lithemba Mfupi.\u00a0Replacements: <\/strong>16 Imaani Pemba,\u00a017 Phiwayinkosi Kubeka,\u00a018 Simphiwe Ngobese,\u00a019 Ulrich van der Westhuizen,\u00a020 Xola Nyali,\u00a021 Christiaan van der Westhuizen,\u00a022 Dominic Malgas,\u00a023 Jameel de Jongh,\u00a024 Luyanda Kunene,\u00a025 Thando Biyela.<\/p>\n

Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa Under-18 coach Katleho Lynch has made wholesale changes to his team for their second and final match in the u18 International Series when they face England in Paarl on Saturday, including handing the captaincy to JJ Theron, while JC Mars has been named vice-captain. Catch all the action from the u18 International Series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18936","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\/18936","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}