Rassie Erasmus says that the three World Rugby U20 Championship-winning Junior Boks are \u2018no chance\u2019 of playing for the Springboks in 2025.<\/p>\n
Bathobele Hlekani, Cheswill Jooste, and Haashim Pead linked up with Bok senior squad in Johannesburg, training with the back-to-back World Cup winners as they prepare for the upcoming Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n
Erasmus<\/a> has invited the trio to see how they acclimatise to the Springbok<\/a> environment and look to the future.<\/p>\n Looking to the future<\/p>\n While the youngsters impressed en route to winning the tournament in Italy, the Bok coaches don\u2019t see any of them making the step up to the highest level this year.<\/p>\n \u201cRealistically, we know all of us [the coaches] will be involved until 2027 if we don\u2019t get fired before then,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we are just looking at all the possibilities of guys, we try to have three positions deep in experience, being calm and understanding the Springbok set-up and also get enough youth involved there. If you get three injuries in one position, and that can happen in one or two games, then you have three more players in one position.<\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely don\u2019t see those guys playing Test matches this year, but we\u2019re getting them used to the environment here and wherever they go for their franchises or their clubs\u2026 It\u2019s just for us to understand how quickly they can make the step up and settle into the environment with the energy they bring, like what we did with Ntokozo Makhaza.<\/p>\n