Cape Town - The Cell C Sharks team to take on Free State at Kings Park
in their Round 3 Absa Currie Cup clash on Saturday shows some
changes to the pack that featured against the Pumas last week.
Kick-off is at 19:10.
According to Sharks website Editor, Michael Marnewick, the backline remains completely unchanged, but among the forwards,
there have been some changes, both enforced and rotational.
JC Astle has
not been passed fit which means Etienne Oosthuizen reverts back to
lock, opening the door for Francois Kleinhans who starts on the flank.
Upfront, Matt Steven starts ahead of Lourens Adriaanse and Dale Chadwick plays at loosehead in place of Thomas du Toit.
Two wins from two starts is just reward for the team’s efforts both on and off the field and they will be looking to continue their winning form.
“We’re very happy with where we are right now and the guys have been
working really hard,” says coach Brad Macleod-Henderson.
“This a tough
competition and fortunately we’ve got through the first two games, but
we have another tough one on Saturday.
“There were quite a few positives: I thought we defended well for large periods of the game. We also attacked with quite a bit of width, our handling was good and the breakdown was pretty good. Perhaps we gave away a few too many penalties and that first try they scored, a mauling try in the first 10 minutes, wasn’t great, so we’ve worked on those areas this week and looking forward to putting them right on Saturday.”
Teams:
Sharks
Substitutes: 16. Franco Marais, 17. Thomas du Toit, 18. Lourens Adriaanse, 19. Stephan Lewies / Johan Meyer, 20. Conrad Hoffmann, 21. Heimar Williams, 22. Lionel Cronje
Free State Cheetahs
15 Clayton Blommetjies, 14 Rayno
Benjamin, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Joubert Engelbrecht, 11 Raymond Rhule,
10 Willie du Plessis, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Jean Cook, 7 Neil Claassen, 6
Tienie Burger, 5 Francois Uys, 4 Carl Wegner, 3 Dolph Botha, 2 Torsten
van Jaarsveld (captain), 1 Kevin Stevens
Substitutes: 16 AJ le
Roux, 17 George Marich, 18 Henco Venter, 19 Vincent Jobo, 20 Shaun
Venter, 21 Pieter-Steyn de Wet, 22 JP du Plessis