SPRINGBOKS LOOK TO FUTURE
Coach Coetzee banks on rookie quartet
The Springboks coach names one of the most inexperienced Bok teams in history to take on Wales
Cardiff — Springbok coach Allister Coetzee has jettisoned experience and looked to the future by naming one of the most inexperienced Bok teams in history to take on Wales at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Seven changes from the team that lost 20-18 to Italy is a predictable and necessary response after such a huge setback, but of those changes four players are uncapped. The squad, which shows 12 changes from Italy, has a total of 365 caps. Wing Jamba Ulengo, flank Uzair Cassiem and centre Rohan Janse van Rensburg will start, with Jean-Luc du Preez set for a debut off the bench. The starting Bok backline has a total of 40 Test caps among the seven players, with Johan Goosen at fullback the most experienced with 12 caps. Wales’ backline has a combined 335 caps with wing Liam Williams, who has 37 caps, and scrumhalf Gareth Davies (21) the only players with fewer caps than the entire Bok backline. The Bok coach has also reinstated Lions halfbacks Faf de Klerk and Elton Jantjies, w...
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