The Boks' failure to blood a young hooker over the last few years has now left the World Cup squad with a big decision to make.
Joseph Dweba is an official Springbok World Cup standby player. Picture: Juan Jose Gasparini/Gallo ImagesMalcolm Marx has been ruled out of the rest of the Rugby World CupNienaber had cut a worried figure at the Bok team announcement presser on Wednesday night when he dropped the news that
had pulled up injured during Wednesday’s training session and everyone’s worsts fears were confirmed on Thursday when it was confirmed that the experienced hooker had suffered a suspected ACL injury.’ squad, with Handre Pollard, Lukhanyo Am and Lood de Jager all not making the final 33-man group due to injury.
“We’ll assess our needs for the rest of the tournament and confirm who we are calling up as an additional player later this week.”was arguably the player first in line to be parachuted straight into the Bok squad if there was an injury during the tournament, but with Marx being in a specialist position and the team thin there, it is now uncertain what the team management will decide.Mbonambi is now the only specialist hooker in the squad.
The obvious choice would be calling up Joseph Dweba as the injury replacement, but the Bok management has not been sold on him as evidenced by Fourie being selected as the ‘third choice’ hooker option for the World Cup.It seems that the Boks will now have to pay the price for not blooding another hooker option over the past two years.
Bulls youngster Johan Grobbelaar was the obvious choice, but after being part of the Bok squad in 2021 and then suffering an injury later that year, he has not been picked since.It will thus be interesting to see what the Boks decide in the coming days and how they will look to fill the massive void left by Marx.
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