Rugby
De Beer to lead Pumas against Emerging Ireland─── MORGAN PIEK 07:53 Tue, 04 Oct 2022
The Currie Cup champions, the Pumas, will be targeting an attractive game of rugby when they tackle Emerging Ireland on Wednesday afternoon in Bloemfontein.
The two teams will battle it out in a friendly match that forms part of the Toyota Challenge.
The flyhalf, Tinus de Beer, has been named as the captain of the team following the departure of Willie Engelbrecht to the Stormers.
The Pumas lost seven Currie Cup winners, while the reinforcements will only arrive at the end of the month.
De Beer told OFM Sport that they want to play good, entertaining rugby against the Irish.
“We have been training well and the boys are just amped to get back out on the park to see where we are as a team. We want to see how well we play together and turn everything that we've worked on in the preseason into magic moments.
“The aim is to attempt to score some nice tries and just play attractive and nice rugby. We are really looking forward to the opportunity.”
Wednesday’s match at the Toyota Stadium kicks off at 17:00.
Pumas - 15 Devon Williams, 14 Jade Stiglingh, 13 Sebastiaan de Klerk, 12 Wiaan van Niekerk, 11 Etienne Taljaard, 10 Tinus de Beer (captain), 9 Chriswill September, 8 André Fouché, 7 Kwanda Dimaza, 6 Jaco Labuschagné, 5 Shane Kirkwood, 4 Malembe Mpofu, 3 Ig Prinsloo, 2 Eduan Swart, 1 Corné Fourie.
Replacements – 16 Llewellyn Classen, 17 Etienne Janeke, 18 Simon Raw, 19 PJ Jacobs, 20 Anele Lungisa, 21 Khwezi Mafu, 22 Franna Kleinhans, 23 Givan Snyman, 24 Lucky Dlepu, 25 Gene Willemse, 26 Ali Mgijima, 27 Diego Apollis, 28 Lundi Msenge.
