It took hooker Jan-Hendrik Wessels just 15 minutes to announce himself in the 2022/23 Vodacom United Rugby Championship in what was a powerful statement against the Emirates Lions.
Wessels is a big unit and, at 1.93m and 120kg, taller and heavier than Springbok incumbent Malcolm Marx. It’s no surprise then that he made his name at Grey College, steamrolling tacklers and demolishing scrums as a juggernaut loosehead prop.
Coach Jake White saw the same destination for a player likened to a young Os du Randt, but by a different route and, after test-driving the megalith on either side of the front row to mixed results, he reassigned Wessels as a project hooker. Wessels did what he does best and ran straight at the challenge to complement his heavyweight contributions in general play with the technical nous required to similarly dominate the scrum and lineout.
The dawn of a new season has coincided with a change to the pecking order in Pretoria as White continues to mine the rich deposit of young talent at the Bulls.
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