Toyota Cheetah tour group announced

Jan 31 • General News, Guinness Pro14 • 2096 Views • Comments Off on Toyota Cheetah tour group announced

The Toyota Cheetahs will be leaving for a three week Guinness PRO14 tour to Wales and Scotland on Monday, 5 February.

The team will be playing against Cardiff Blues on the 10^th of February at 21:35 (SA time) in Wales before travelling to Scotland where they will be facing log leaders, Glasgow Warriors in Glasgow on Friday, 16 February at 21:35 (SA time). On Saturday, 24 February the Toyota Cheetahs will be back in Wales where they will be taking on Ospreys in Swansea at 19:30 (SA time).

Together with Francois Venter, Torsten van Jaarsveld, Tier Schoeman, Malcolm Jaer and Luther Obi will be going on tour after being cleared from injury.

The players who have been selected to go on tour are:

Craig Barry, Justin Basson, Rynier Barnardo, Clayton Blommetjies, Tom Botha, Uzair Cassiem, AJ Coertzen, Johan Coetzee, Luan de Bruin, Jacques du Toit, Joseph Dweba, Reniel Hugo, Malcolm Jaer, Nico Lee, Charles Marais, Niel Marais, Rabs Maxwane, Zee Mkhabela, Oupa Mohoje, Ox Nche, Luther Obi, Paul Schoeman, Torsten van Jaarsveld, Henco Venter, Francois Venter, Shaun Venter, Carl Wegner, Fred Zeilinga.

Players who are still on the injury list are:

William Small-Smith, centre (knee, twee months), Dennis Visser, lock (knee, three to four months), Tian Meyer, scrumhalf (groin, five weeks), Niell Jordaan, loose forward (ankle, three to five weeks), Elandré Huggett, hooker (knee, four months) Ruan van Rensburg, backline player (knee, two to three months), Lloyd Greeff, wing (shoulder, six weeks).