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Johannesburg - The Springbok Sevens rugby team has departed for Australia where the new HSBC Sevens World Series season will kick-off on 25-26 November at the Gold Coast.
A tough opening stanza awaits the international Sevens teams as all of them will be in action in three tournaments before the end of the year, each to be staged on a different continent and on three consecutive weeks.
Despite this daunting task, Springbok Sevens coach, Paul Treu said his team was looking forward to get the season underway.
“Although we only managed to get the full squad together recently, most of the guys have been in training for a while now while the rest played Absa Currie Cup rugby. The players trained hard at Stellenbosch once we all got together and the guys are just looking forward to get onto the field and get the season underway at the Gold Coast,” explained the coach before he boarded the flight to Australia via Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Treu has selected a very good, balanced squad of fourteen players for the first three rounds and he also included the current SARU and IRB Sevens Player of the Year, Cecil Afrika. The playmaker was the leading points and try scorer last season and he will most likely make his return to action in Dubai only, depending on how his facial injury responds to treatment.
Treu also confirmed that negotiations with Cornal Hendricks of the Regent Boland Cavaliers were successful and now concluded and that the player will join his Springbok Sevens team on a two year contract, further bolstering his contracted group of players. Hendricks is not part of the current travelling party.
Team sponsor, Absa, held a brief function for the squad at the OR Tambo International Airport where they conveyed their best wishes to Kyle Brown (captain) and his team for the upcoming international Sevens season.
The Springbok Sevens travelling squad for the first three rounds of the new HSBC Sevens World Series:
1. Chris Dry
2. Kyle Brown (captain)
3. Frankie Horne
4. Boom Prinsloo
5. Chase Minnaar
6. Paul Delport
7. Renfred Dazel
8. Mark Richards
9. Steven Hunt
10. Bernado Botha
11. Robert Ebersohn
12. William Small-Smith
13. Cecil Afrika
14. Branco du Preez
HSBC Sevens World Series dates
25-26 November 2011 – Gold Coast, Australia
2-3 December 2011 – Dubai
9-10 December 2011 – Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
3-4 February 2012 – Wellington, New Zealand
10-12 February 2012 – Las Vegas, USA
23-25 March 2012 – Hong Kong
31 March-1 April – Japan
5-6 May 2011 – Edinburgh, Scotland
12-13 May 2011 – London, England
Issued by SARU Corporate Affairs
A tough opening stanza awaits the international Sevens teams as all of them will be in action in three tournaments before the end of the year, each to be staged on a different continent and on three consecutive weeks.
Despite this daunting task, Springbok Sevens coach, Paul Treu said his team was looking forward to get the season underway.
“Although we only managed to get the full squad together recently, most of the guys have been in training for a while now while the rest played Absa Currie Cup rugby. The players trained hard at Stellenbosch once we all got together and the guys are just looking forward to get onto the field and get the season underway at the Gold Coast,” explained the coach before he boarded the flight to Australia via Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Treu has selected a very good, balanced squad of fourteen players for the first three rounds and he also included the current SARU and IRB Sevens Player of the Year, Cecil Afrika. The playmaker was the leading points and try scorer last season and he will most likely make his return to action in Dubai only, depending on how his facial injury responds to treatment.
Treu also confirmed that negotiations with Cornal Hendricks of the Regent Boland Cavaliers were successful and now concluded and that the player will join his Springbok Sevens team on a two year contract, further bolstering his contracted group of players. Hendricks is not part of the current travelling party.
Team sponsor, Absa, held a brief function for the squad at the OR Tambo International Airport where they conveyed their best wishes to Kyle Brown (captain) and his team for the upcoming international Sevens season.
The Springbok Sevens travelling squad for the first three rounds of the new HSBC Sevens World Series:
1. Chris Dry
2. Kyle Brown (captain)
3. Frankie Horne
4. Boom Prinsloo
5. Chase Minnaar
6. Paul Delport
7. Renfred Dazel
8. Mark Richards
9. Steven Hunt
10. Bernado Botha
11. Robert Ebersohn
12. William Small-Smith
13. Cecil Afrika
14. Branco du Preez
HSBC Sevens World Series dates
25-26 November 2011 – Gold Coast, Australia
2-3 December 2011 – Dubai
9-10 December 2011 – Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
3-4 February 2012 – Wellington, New Zealand
10-12 February 2012 – Las Vegas, USA
23-25 March 2012 – Hong Kong
31 March-1 April – Japan
5-6 May 2011 – Edinburgh, Scotland
12-13 May 2011 – London, England
Issued by SARU Corporate Affairs
