100 days to Rugby World Cup kick-off: 5 key questions about the Boks | The Citizen

📆100 days to the RugbyWorldCup203🏉🙌🏼Here are 5 thinks we need to know about the Boks. springboks Rugby SportsNews TheCitizenSport Read more⬇️

An untimely knee injury and subsequent operation have put Kolisi’s participation in doubt which, should he miss the tournament, would be a massive blow to the Boks.

Kolisi is sure to miss the earlier Rugby Championship, so the Bok bosses could show their thinking in terms of captaincy as early as next month.Newcomers But, the retirements of Beast Mtawarira, Schalk Brits and Francois Louw mean three “new” players will join the World Cup group. Ox Nche, Joseph Dweba and Jasper Wiese could be the newcomers to the squad to take over these places.But who else will squeeze their way in? Grant Williams and Jaden Hendrikse are new options at scrumhalf, and Manie Libbok at 10, while out wide, Kurt-Lee Arendse and Canan Moodie are also possible World Cup debutants.

Nienaber and Co will have many tough decisions to make, and who they pick in the outside back positions could be their toughest choice of all.will be leaving the Bok coaching position after the World Cup probably slipped out earlier than he or anyone at SA Rugby would have liked, but the cat is now out the bag.

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