Tiaan Liebenberg: Injured his back
WP's Springbok duo Andries Bekker and Tiaan Liebenberg will miss Saturday's Currie Cup semi-final with the Lions in Johannesburg due to injury.
Bekker injured his right toe in the first half of their win over the Cheetahs at Newlands last Saturday and will see a specialist this week.
Liebenberg will also miss the match after picking up a knock to his back against the Bloemfontein outfit and will also see a specialist to determine the severity of the injury.
Western Province coach Allister Coetzee confirmed that Scarra Ntubeni will start in Liebenberg's place while De Kock Steenkamp will replace Bekker in the starting XV.
Meanwhile, Coetzee also revealed that veteran scrum-half Bolla Conradie had joined them at training as emergency back-up to incumbents Nic Groom and Louis Schreuder.
"Our U21 team is also in the semi-finals, so I don't won't to disrupt them at this stage of the season,' he told keo.co.za.
"If one of Louis or Nic goes down injured, I can bring in Bolla. He also has a lot of experience."
Comments
JayStarr says...
I seriously can't remember when last Western Province/Stormers played with a full-strength squad! And when they finally do they are probably not going to remember each other...
Last year it was the massacre of the 10's, this year it was the massacre of the loosies. Their best backrow combination is probably Kolisi, Burger and Vermeulen - but they have NEVER played together! That's crazy.
Hopefully everyone is healed up by February!
Posted 15:05 15th October 2012