{"id":101322,"date":"2015-09-30T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101322\/du-preez-takes-over-springbok-captaincy\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:53:34","slug":"du-preez-takes-over-springbok-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/09\/30\/du-preez-takes-over-springbok-captaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Preez takes over Springbok captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Malcolm Maifala, Alberton Record<\/h6>\n<p>Fourie du Preez will become the Springboks\u2019 56<sup>th<\/sup> Test captain when he leads South Africa out in a must-win encounter in Pool B of the Rugby World Cup against Scotland at St James\u2019 Park in Newcastle on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Du Preez made a massive impact upon his return against the match against Samoa last weekend and has been entrusted with the captaincy in the absence of the injured Jean de Villiers and Victor Matfield, who have both been ruled out due to injury. Schalk Burger is the vice-captain.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer made only three changes to the starting line-up for Saturday\u2019s match \u2013 two of them injury-enforced.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Kriel will link up again with Damian De Allende in the midfield, in the place of De Villiers, while Lood de Jager takes over from Matfield at lock.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The third change is a rotational switch at hooker, where Bismarck du Plessis returns in the place of Adriaan Strauss, who will move to the bench. New replacements are Pieter-Steph du Toit, Willem Alberts and Jan Serfontein, who provides cover as both centres picked up injuries last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fourie du Preez will captain the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Springboks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Springboks<\/a> for the first time when <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RSA<\/a> face <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SCO<\/a> on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RSAvSCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RSAvSCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RWC2015?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RWC2015<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Ivswd10dvY\">pic.twitter.com\/Ivswd10dvY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rugbyworldcup\/status\/649253736255258624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said that losing two experienced captains in one week had been a severe blow but that the squad included a number of highly capable deputies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFourie has been one of the best scrumhalves in world rugby for a long time, but he also understands the game better than most players and is a tactical genius,\u201d said Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will know exactly what is needed on Saturday when we continue our fight to keep our World Cup dream alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchalk stood in on the last occasion that Jean and Victor were both absent earlier this season before Fourie had returned to fitness. They are both great leaders who go about their work in contrasting ways and I think they will work extremely well in tandem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are hugely experienced and they know what it will take to win this very important match against a great Scottish side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meyer said his team would have to build on their victory over Samoa on Saturday in order to stay in the hunt for a play-off spot at the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performance against Samoa was much better, but Scotland have been impressive in their victories over Japan and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know in which areas we have to improve and we will have to fire at 100% on Saturday against a motivated Scotland side. The injuries have not been ideal, but we can\u2019t do anything about that and the players selected will have to perform once again this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matfield was the only player not considered this week due to injury.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Springbok team to face Scotland in a Group B match on Saturday October 3.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>15 Willie le Roux<\/p>\n<p>14 JP Pietersen<\/p>\n<p>13 Jesse Kriel<\/p>\n<p>12 Damian De Allende<\/p>\n<p>11 Bryan Habana<\/p>\n<p>10 Handr\u00e9 Pollard<\/p>\n<p>9 Fourie du Preez (captain)<\/p>\n<p>8 Duane Vermeulen<\/p>\n<p>7 Schalk Burger (vice-captain)<\/p>\n<p>6 Francois Louw<\/p>\n<p>5 Lood de Jager<\/p>\n<p>4 Eben Etzebeth<\/p>\n<p>3 Jannie du Plessis<\/p>\n<p>2 Bismarck du Plessis<\/p>\n<p>1 Tendai Mtawarira<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Replacements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>16 Adriaan Strauss<\/p>\n<p>17 Trevor Nyakane<\/p>\n<p>18 Frans Malherbe<\/p>\n<p>19 Pieter-Steph du Toit<\/p>\n<p>20 Willem Alberts<\/p>\n<p>21 Ruan Pienaar<\/p>\n<p>22 Pat Lambie<\/p>\n<p>23 Jan Serfontein<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='38a05157b309e18c4fc4350271cf1efa'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Fourie du Preez will take over the captaincy from former skipper Jean de Villiers who has since retired from Test Rugby after sustaining an injury against Scotland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":101323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[8399,1773,1003,8628,1648,3213,8597,2362],"class_list":["post-101322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-2015-rugby-world-cup","tag-alberton","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-fourie-du-preez","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-schalk-burger","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["2015 Rugby World Cup","alberton","Ekurhuleni","fourie du preez","Gauteng","Johannesburg","Schalk Burger","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}