{"id":159155,"date":"2025-09-21T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159155\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:23:10","slug":"springboks-issue-update-on-33-man-squad-and-wille-le-roux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159155\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks issue update on 33-man squad and Wille Le Roux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Springbok fullback Willie le Roux has been called into the national squad ahead of Saturday\u2019s Castle Lager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/argentina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a> at Hollywoodbets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/kings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kings<\/a> Park in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>Le Roux will join the group on Sunday and train with the Boks until Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old veteran will then return to the Bulls, making him available for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/united-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Rugby Championship<\/a> opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/ospreys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ospreys<\/a> at Loftus Versfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/rassie-erasmus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rassie Erasmus<\/a> named a 33-man squad for South Africa\u2019s final two fixtures of the competition against the Pumas.<\/p>\n<p>The second match takes place at Twickenham on 4 October.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus said Le Roux\u2019s short-term involvement was designed to sharpen preparations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWillie is a member of our wider squad, and we feel it will benefit us to have him train with us early in the week,\u201d said Erasmus. \u201cWe try to train the way we play, and by having him in camp it will allow us to improve the quality of our training sessions ahead of this vital match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery point will count in the next two games if we want to win the competition, so it\u2019s essential that we get the most out of our training time to be as sharp as possible when we take the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boks assembled in Durban last Thursday following their return from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> after shellacking<br \/>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a>. They have already held two training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The men in green and gold currently sit second on the Rugby Championship standings with ten points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are level with the All Blacks and one behind leaders Australia, while Felipe Contepomi\u2019s Argentina are fourth on nine points. All four sides in contention for the title heading into the final two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/johan-ackermann\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johan Ackermann<\/a> and the Vodacom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bulls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bulls<\/a> for releasing him to train with us, and we wish them and the other South African teams the best of luck for the opening round of the Vodacom URC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springbok fullback Willie le Roux has been called into the national squad ahead of Saturday\u2019s Castle Lager Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-159155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}