Rugby
WP named unchanged starting XV─── 08:00 Fri, 14 Aug 2015
Western Province have announced an unchanged starting XV to face the Toyota Free State Cheetahs tomorrow afternoon in the Currie Cup second round.
Coach John Dobson has rewarded his side for their solid display in Kimberley last week when the beat the Griquas 43-19.
The only changes to the side sees lock Jan de Klerk and winger Kobus van Wyk come in on the bench against for the match.
De Klerk replaces Chris van Zyl in a rotational switch, while Van Wyk comes in for Johnny Kotze who took a knock to his head at training on Monday.
The Cheetahs in their turn made five changes to their starting XV alone, one of which sees Armandt Koster come in to the second-row alongside captain Francois Uys.
Uys told OFM Sport that he believes they have sorted out their lineouts.
Tomorrow afternoons match at Newlands in Cape Town kicks off at 15:00, while this evening at 19:10 the Blue Bulls host the Griquas at Loftus Versfeld.
Western Province - 15 Cheslin Kolbe, 14 Dillyn Leyds, 13 Juan de Jongh (captain), 12 Jaco Taute, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Demetri Catrakilis, 9 Nic Groom, 8 Nizaam Carr, 7 Sikhumbuzo Notshe, 6 Rynhardt Elstadt, 5 Ruan Botha, 4 Jean Kleyn, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 1 Oli Kebble
Replacements - 16 Marius Fourie, 17 Alistair Vermaak, 18 Jan de Klerk, 19 Chris Cloete, 20 Jano Vermaak, 21 Kurt Coleman, 22 Kobus van Wyk
Free State Cheetahs - 15 AJ Coertzen, 14 Clayton Blommetjies, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Rayno Benjamin, 11 Raymond Rhule, 10 Fred Zeilinga, 9 Shaun Venter, 8 Niell Jordaan, 7 Henco Venter, 6 Boom Prinsloo, 5 Francois Uys (captain), 4 Armandt Koster, 3 Luan de Bruin, 2 Jacques du Toit, 1 Caylib Oosthuizen.
Replacements - 16 Elandre Huggett, 17 Maks van Dyk, 18 Reniel Hugo, 19 Gerhard Olivier, 20 Zee Mkabela, 21 Tertius Kruger, 22 Sias Ebersohn.
Morgan Piek / OFM News