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Junior Springbok coach Chean Roux opted for consistency in selection for their second World Rugby U20 Championship match against Georgia on Saturday, with the two personnel changes to his side seeing Celimpilo Gumede and Dylan Richardson earn starts.<\/p>\n
Roux reshuffled his loose trio for the clash at the Racecourse Stadium in Rosario, with SA U20 captain Phendulani Buthelezi switching from flanker to No 8 in place of Francke Horn \u2013 who returned home due to a shoulder injury \u2013 while Gumede and Dylan Richardson (both flankers) were handed starts.<\/p>\n
With Horn\u2019s replacement, Janko Swanepoel (lock) only arriving in Argentina on Friday, Roux named only 12 replacements on the bench \u2013 of which eight will be allowed to take the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked at Georgia and I thought the boys had a good start against Scotland earlier in the week, so I wanted to keep the momentum,\u201d said Roux.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously one change was a forced due to Francke\u2019s unfortunate injury, so there are only two changes for this game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roux said his charges were ready for a physical onslaught against Georgia, who they last met in the U20 International Series in Paarl in April, as part of their preparation for the World Rugby U20 Championship. The Junior Springboks won the match 58-10.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have played against Georgia two years in a row now and they are definitely physical,\u201d said the coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have probably the best scrum at U20 level, and we need to be ready that. But we know what to expect from them, and we are looking forward to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roux emphasised the importance of starting strongly as one of the key areas going into the match, with only one pool game remaining after this encounter to stake a place for a semi-final berth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t get off to a good start in the clash again Scotland after the long trip to Argentina, the fact that it was the first time we played on a synthetic pitch, and it was wet,\u201d said Roux.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we would like to start the way we finished against Scotland and try to maintain that momentum going into the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Junior Springboks will meet New Zealand in their final pool game on Wednesday, 12 June. The top team in each of the three pools and the next best-placed team on the log table in the competition will advance to the semi-finals on Monday, 17 June, with them winners meeting in the final on Saturday, 22 June.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, South African referee Rasta Rasivhenge will also take to the field in the showpiece on Saturday as he takes charge of the match between France and Wales, also at the Racecourse Stadium.<\/p>\n
Junior Springbok team to face Georgia:<\/strong><\/p>\n 15 \u2013 Vaughen Isaacs (Vodacom Blue Bulls),\u00a014 \u2013 Angelo Davids (SA Rugby contracted),\u00a013 \u2013 Marnus Potgieter <\/span>(Vodacom Blue Bulls),\u00a012 \u2013 Rikus Pretorius (vice-captain \u2013 DHL Western Province),\u00a011 \u2013 Caleb Dingaan (Cell C Sharks),\u00a010 \u2013 James Mollentze (Toyota Free State),\u00a09 \u2013 Jaden Hendrikse (Cell C Sharks),\u00a08 \u2013 Phendulani Buthelezi (captain \u2013 Cell C Sharks),\u00a07 \u2013 Celimpilo Gumede (Cell C Sharks),\u00a06 \u2013 Dylan Richardson (Cell C Sharks),\u00a05 \u2013 Emile van Heerden (Cell C Sharks),\u00a04 \u2013 JJ van der Mescht (Cell C Sharks), 3 \u2013 Asenathi Ntlabakanye <\/span>(Xerox Golden Lions),\u00a02 \u2013 Fezokuhle Mbatha (Cell C Sharks),\u00a01 \u2013 Dian Bleuler (DHL Western Province).\u00a0Replacements:\u00a0<\/strong>16 \u2013 Dameon Venter (Xerox Golden Lions),\u00a017 \u2013 Kudzwai Dube (Vodacom Blue Bulls),\u00a018 \u2013 Keagan Glade (Xerox Golden Lions),\u00a019 \u2013 Thabiso Mdletshe (Cell C Sharks),\u00a020 \u2013 Elrigh Louw (Toyota Free State),\u00a021 \u2013 Jaco Labuschagne <\/span>(Vodacom Blue Bulls),\u00a022 \u2013 Thaakir Abrahams (Cell C Sharks),\u00a023 \u2013 Sanele Nohamba (Cell C Sharks),\u00a024 \u2013 Sibusiso Sangweni (Xerox Golden Lions),\u00a025 \u2013 Zwelendaba Mnombo (DHL Western Province),\u00a026 \u2013 David Coetzer (DHL Western Province),\u00a027 \u2013 David Kriel (DHL Western Province).<\/p>\n Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Junior Springbok coach Chean Roux opted for consistency in selection for their second World Rugby U20 Championship match against Georgia on Saturday, with the two personnel changes to his side seeing Celimpilo Gumede and Dylan Richardson earn starts. Roux reshuffled his loose trio for the clash at the Racecourse Stadium in Rosario, with SA U20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8855","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\/8855","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=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}