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Hooker in for loose forward
From correspondents in Cape Town, South Africa
July 31, 2007
HOOKER Bismarck du Plessis has been called into South Africa's World Cup squad to replace injured loose forward Pierre Spies, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) announced on Tuesday. (Oh, I thought this was another Eddie Jones story...)
Spies was withdrawn from the squad on Monday and ruled out of rugby for six-to-eight months because of blood clots on his lungs.
No explanation was given as to why Spies had been replaced by a hooker, although only two hookers had been included in the original squad.
Du Plessis, 23, made his Test debut earlier this month against Australia and will understudy Springbok captain John Smit and reserve hooker Gary Botha.
Reuters
Interesting there is no Chiliboy in the Squad, is he injured Goldie?
With the quotas etc I would have thought he was a shoe in if fit.