Bulls, Stormers big men trying to lock in names
Who will stand tallest between the four starting locks from the Bulls and Stormers at Cape Town Stadium on Saturday night?
That is not only a pun on the second-rowers, but a very real question as Springbok places are up for grabs for the British and Irish Lions Test series.
That is because yet another of the World Cup-winning locks have gone down injured – or in this case, has a different issue to deal with.
RG Snyman has been making good progress from a serious knee injury, and was expected to return soon for Irish club Munster to prove his fitness to Bok coach Jacques Nienaber for the Lions tour.
But yesterday, Munster announced that Snyman has picked up a new, unrelated knee injury, and will undergo a minor procedure that will sideline him for a “number of weeks”.
Well, there are 12 weeks from now until the first Lions Test scheduled for July 24. And with no exact time-frame for Snyman’s return – and the league fixtures of the Rainbow Cup in Europe set to end on June 12 – it leaves him with little time to get match-fit for the Boks.
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