DESPITE enjoying a season full of burgeoning runs, well-timed tackles and crucial tries, Heyneke Meyer says his former young star Pierre Spies will have to join the back of the queue to earn a Rugby World Cup place.Pundits have hailed this as the Bulls eighthman’s finest season in five years, as many of his displays have led to the Bulls topping the South African Super Rugby conference.Now that his biceps injuries are a thing of the past, Spies is carrying the ball a lot straighter to the line and when he is in the clear nothing can stop him going over the tryline.He has recovered in the nick of time to be part of the 44-man Bok training camp that gathered in Sunninghill, Johannesburg on Monday, but to force his way into the final 31 that will go to the UK will be a much tougher task.Incumbent No 8 Duane Vermeulen is the man-mountain standing in his way."Spies has always been a great player and people were harsh on him," Meyer said on Monday. "He’s been injured for two years — it is...
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