{"id":99971,"date":"2015-09-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99971\/meyer-makes-expected-changes-in-bok-team\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:54:33","slug":"meyer-makes-expected-changes-in-bok-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/09\/17\/meyer-makes-expected-changes-in-bok-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer makes expected changes in Bok team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kick-off is scheduled for 5.45pm South African time.<\/p>\n<p>The starting team includes a combined total of 880 Test caps, beating the previous mark of 836 caps, which the Bok team who got knocked out in the quarter-final stage in the 2011 World Cup, against Australia, boasted.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The captain\u2019s inclusion at number 12 sees Damien de Allende sit out of the match-day squad, with Jesse Kriel preferred to partner De Villiers in the outside centre position.<\/p>\n<p>In the forwards, Willem Alberts returns to add weight and muscle in the loose trio, along with Schalk Burger (number 8) and Francois Louw.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The tight five sees Lood de Jager and Jannie du Plessis return from injury, with Eben Etzebeth rested.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent eighthman Duane Vermeulen has been given further time to fully recover from injury and will also miss out altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The bench includes Adrian Strauss, Trevor Nyakane and Siya Kolisi, while a welcome return sees scrumhalf maestro Fourie du Preez, Coenie Oosthuizen and JP Pietersen complete the substitutes.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa<\/p>\n<p>15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Lwazi Mvovo, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Jean de Villiers (captain), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Pat Lambie, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Schalk Burger, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Lood de Jager, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Fourie du Preez, 22 Handre Pollard, 23 JP Pietersen &#8211; @SabeloBoksburg<\/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='44321534f26471f890720b25016c2b41'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean de Villiers has returned to lead the most experienced Springbok side in history in the Boks\u2019 opening World Cup match, against Japan, on Saturday, September 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":99972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sabelo Mashego","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[8509,8503,7565,8510,1767],"class_list":["post-99971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-heyneke-meyer","tag-japan","tag-jean-de-villiers","tag-rwc","tag-springboks"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["heyneke meyer","japan","Jean de Villiers","RWC","springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}