Although it is extremely sad for Marx, his injury is set to open a door for another player to step in and have a shot at World Cup glory.
Deon Fourie, as the team’s ‘third choice’ hooker, is set to be the immediate beneficiary of the injury as he should now find a spot on the bench in the big games as back-up to Bongi Mbonambi., with one of either flyhalf Handre Pollard or hooker Joseph Dweba expected to come in.
“When players get injured you can look at it as if the cup is half empty or the cup is half full, and we look at it as if the cup is half full, because if there weren’t injuries previously Malcolm wouldn’t have been in the mix,” said Nienaber. “So sometimes injury or loss of form gives players the opportunity and then they become world stars. It creates opportunities for different players to step up.” With the Boks in action against Romania on Sunday the Marx injury didn’t impact the team too much as he was never in line to play in the game, but it will affect the team going forward.
“When the injury happened it didn’t affect our team going into this match, at all. So we will discuss it after the game, we’re fully focused on Romania, because we should show them that respect. It’s only the second time we’ve played them in a World Cup so it’s a special game for us,” said Nienaber. “We should also show that respect to the players that we selected to play in the match, so we’re not talking about anything other than Romania.”
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