Bulls suffer Rossouw injury blow
Danie Rossouw to the right captured on camera by Hilton Kotze
The Bulls have suffered a late blow ahead of Saturday’s Super 14 encounter against the Brumbies after Danie Rossouw was ruled out through injury. The South Africa lock, who was in line to partner captain Victor Matfield in the second row, took a blow to his neck today in training and will now miss the match.
His place will go to Flip van der Merwe, while Fudge Mabeta has been drafted in on the bench.
The rookie lock has only played for the Bulls in warm-up matches previously, but could make his debut for the defending champions at Loftus Versfeld.
Bulls (revised): 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Stephan Dippenaar, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Morne Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Pedrie Wannenburg, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Gary Botha, 1 Gurthro Steenkamp.
Replacements:16 Bandise Maku, 17 Bees Roux, 18 Fudge Mabeta, 19 Derick Kuün, 20 Heini Adams, 21 Jacques-Louis Potgieter, 22 John Mametsa.
[Info from Planet Rugby]
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