{"id":169883,"date":"2025-09-26T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169883\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:31:11","slug":"venter-to-start-as-nche-withdraws-due-to-niggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169883\/","title":{"rendered":"Venter to start as Nche withdraws due to niggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nche\u2019s withdrawal necessitated the move of Venter, who was initially named among the replacements, to the starting front row alongside Malcolm Marx and Thomas du Toit, while Jan-Hendrik Wessels will serve as the back-up prop, with Van Staden providing hooker cover off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly to Wessels, who can switch equally efficiently between prop and hooker, Van Staden can shift comfortably between flanker and hooker, which he proved at the 2023 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Updated Springbok team to face Argentina in Durban:<\/p>\n<p>15 Damian Willemse (DHL Stormers) \u2013 43 caps, 66 points (6t, 9c, 4p, 2 dg)<br \/>14 Cheslin Kolbe (Tokyo Sungoliath) \u2013 44 caps, 121 points (20t, 3c, 5p)<br \/>13 Canan Moodie (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013 18 caps, 40 pts (8t)<br \/>12 Damian de Allende (Wild Knights) \u2013 91 caps, 55 points (11t)<br \/>11 Ethan Hooker (Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013 3 caps, 0 points<br \/>10 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu (DHL Stormers) \u2013 13 caps, 58 points (17c, 8p)<br \/>9 Cobus Reinach (DHL Stormers) \u2013 44 caps, 75 pts (15t)<\/p>\n<p>8 Jasper Wiese (Urayasu D-Rocks) \u2013 37 caps, 10 points (2t)<br \/>7 Pieter-Steph du Toit (Toyota Verblitz) \u2013 91 caps, 60 pts (12t)<br \/>6 Siya Kolisi (captain, Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013 96 caps, 65 points (13t)<br \/>5 Ruan Nortje (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013 11 caps, 0 pts<br \/>4 Eben Etzebeth (Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013 136 caps, 35 points (7t)<br \/>3 Thomas du Toit (Bath) \u2013 28 caps, 5 pts (1t)<br \/>2 Malcolm Marx (Kubota Spears) \u2013 82 caps, 120 pts (24t)<br \/>1 Boan Venter (Edinburgh) \u2013 4 caps, 5 pts (1t)<\/p>\n<p>Replacements:<\/p>\n<p>16 Marco van Staden (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013 30 caps, 15 pts (3t)<br \/>17 Jan-Hendrik Wessels (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013 7 caps, 10 pts (2t)<br \/>18 Wilco Louw (Vodacom Bulls) \u2013 22 caps, 0 pts<br \/>19 RG Snyman (Leinster) \u2013 44 caps, 15 points (3t)<br \/>20 Kwagga Smith (Shizuoka Blue Revs) \u2013 57 caps, 55 points (11t)<br \/>21 Morne van den Berg (Lions) \u2013 3 caps, 10 points (2t)<br \/>22 Manie Libbok (Kintetsu Liners) \u2013 22 caps, 128 pts (1t, 42c, 13p)<br \/>23 Andre Esterhuizen (Hollywoodbets Sharks) \u2013 23 caps, 10 pts (2t)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.za\/event\/south-africa-vs-argentina-tickets\/239476571\" target=\"_blank\">&lt;&lt; TICKETS FOR THE DURBAN TEST ARE AVAILABLE HERE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nche\u2019s withdrawal necessitated the move of Venter, who was initially named among the replacements, to the starting front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-169883","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\/169883","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=169883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}