South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus will be without the services of World Cup winning trio, Cheslin Kolbe, Eben Etzebeth and Handre Pollard for the Nations Championship, while Argentina have also been hit by injuries ahead of their opener against Ireland.<\/p>\n
The Springboks – who come to Dublin on 21 November – will assemble next week ahead of a three-game window against Italy, France and Ireland, before the Nations Championship finals weekend in Twickenham at the end of November.<\/p>\n
If the reigning World Cup, Rugby Championship and Greatest Rivalry winners are to claim the inaugural Nations Championship crown, they will do so without marquee stars Kolbe, Etzebeth and Pollard.<\/p>\n
Their 33-year-old outside back Kolbe has not featured since the third test against New Zealand in September, while lock Etzebeth played for the Sharks against Leinster and the Stormers in the URC, but is unavailable.<\/p>\n
Out-half Pollard started in the Bulls’ 34-26 win over Ulster at the weekend but is nursing an injury, while centre Andre Esterhuizen, who also misses out, was helped off the field in the Sharks’ win in Edinburgh last Friday.<\/p>\n
Erasmus has included six new call-ups in his 37-man group: Yaqeen Ahmed, Sebastian de Klerk, Luan Giliomee, Markus Muller, Riley Norton, and Emmanuel Tshituka all get the nod.<\/p>\n
They have all been around the camp previously with Ahmed, Giliomee, Muller, and Tshituka having represented the South Africa ‘A’ team against Zimbabwe earlier this year. Norton played for the Boks in an uncapped test against the Barbarians, while De Klerk was in Erasmus’ alignment camps last season.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Argentina have called up three replacements for their campaign after key players were ruled \u2060out by injury.<\/p>\n
Rodrigo Mart\u00ednez Manzano, Mat\u00edas Moroni and Mateo Soler have all joined up with the squad who have had a three-day training camp in London that ends on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Soler, fresh from his test debut off the \u200cbench against \u2060Australia last month, replaces Santiago Carreras, who suffered a serious knee injury playing for Bath in England last weekend and will miss the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
Moroni has a chance to \u200creach the milestone of 100 caps after being called up as Toulouse centre \u2060Santiago Chocobares is in doubt after suffering \u200ca head knock at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Prop Manzano, who \u2060plays at \u200cDragons in Wales, comes in for Thomas Gallo, who has had surgery on his left wrist hurt while playing club rugby in France.<\/p>\n
The squad will get together again at the start of \u2060next week ahead of facing Ireland on 6 November, Italy on 14 November and France on 21 November. They will then play at Twickenham on the Nations Championship finals weekend on 27-29 November.<\/p>\n
South Africa squad for Nations Championship:<\/p>\n
Forwards: Thomas du Toit, Ox Nche, Wilco Louw, Ntuthuko Mchunu, Zachary Porthen, Gerhard Steenekamp, Malcolm Marx, Jan-Hendrik Wessels, Lood de Jager, Salmaan Moerat, Ruan Nortje, Riley Norton, Franco Mostert, Paul de Villiers, Siya Kolisi, Cameron Hanekom, Emmanuel Tshituka, Jasper Wiese, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Marco van Staden.<\/p>\n
Backs: Cobus Reinach, Morne van den Berg, Grant Williams, Yaqeen Ahmed, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Luan Giliomee, Manie Libbok, Damian de Allende, Jesse Kriel, Markus Muller, Canan Moodie, Sebastian de Klerk, Aphelele Fassi, Ethan Hooker, Edwill van der Merwe, Kurt-Lee Arendse, Damian Willemse.<\/p>\n
IRELAND’S NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES<\/p>\n
Friday 6 November: Ireland v Argentina, Aviva Stadium, 8.10pm
Saturday 14 November: Ireland v Fiji, Aviva Stadium, 8.10pm
Saturday 21 November: Ireland v South Africa, Aviva Stadium, 4.40pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus will be without the services of World Cup winning trio, Cheslin Kolbe,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-667771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}