{"id":183081,"date":"2025-10-07T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183081\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:19:06","slug":"boan-venter-brings-springbok-experience-back-to-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183081\/","title":{"rendered":"Boan Venter brings Springbok experience back to Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venter had spoken previously about qualifying to play for Scotland through residency and was set to pass the five-year requirement ahead of the upcoming Six Nations, but understandably jumped at the opportunity to switch allegiance back to the country of his birth when he received a call-up from Rassie Erasmus to make his South Africa debut against Georgia in July.<\/p>\n

There is now a very good chance that he will disappear off on international duty again during the Autumn, although Everitt was non-committal about whether the player would be released for the Springbok\u2019 matches against Japan on 1st November and Wales on 29th November which have both been scheduled outside World Rugby\u2019s official Test window.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s excited with where he is because earlier in the year he would never have thought that this opportunity would have arrived,\u201d said Everitt. \u201cIt\u2019s surreal in the way that he went in and ended up winning the Rugby Championship, which South Africa under Rassie has only won three times, so it\u2019s not often that you get that opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great for him and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll come back a better player. And he can pass the knowledge that he\u2019s gained onto the rest of the squad and particularly the youngsters around him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s obviously the November Tests coming up and I see South Africa have two of their games outside of the Test window, so as long as we\u2019ve got league games \u2026 that\u2019ll be a discussion later!\u201d Everitt added. Edinburgh don\u2019t have a game on the first of those dates, but they are due to host Ospreys on the same day as the Wales game.<\/p>\n

The capital men were left kicking their heels at the weekend when their home match against Ulster on Friday night was postponed due to the impact of Storm Amy. It was extra frustrating because they were desperate for a chance to exorcise some of the demons of their opening match of this URC campaign which was a frustrating away loss to Zebre.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe prepared really well for the game on Friday night and I think it\u2019s disappointing for the guys that they weren\u2019t able to perform in front of their home fans, which was, I believe, a sellout,\u201d agreed Everitt.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think COVID has taught us how to deal with these disruptions. The guys are pretty resilient with regards to that. So, we\u2019ve got to pretend that that game\u2019s happened and that we played, and we move on to the next one. It\u2019s a different opposition, different venue, away from home \u2013 and Munster is a tough challenge in Cork. So, yeah, the guys are excited about that on Friday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the players will have enjoyed their weekend, although we did bring them in yesterday [Sunday] for a training session,\u201d he added. \u201cThat was planned way before because of the number of Friday games we have which does limit your training time during the week. So, we needed a full week of training. And this was the week, thankfully, for us [to come in on Sunday, so it\u2019s actually worked out quite well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, yes, our guys are motivated to do well. It was the same opposition last year which was the turnaround in that season. And there\u2019s a lot of belief within this group, even though we didn\u2019t get the result in round one. There\u2019s been a lot of growth and there\u2019s a lot of new faces and fresh faces and youngsters coming through, so there\u2019s an exciting energy within this group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everitt added that he will not simply pick the same match-day squad as he named for the Ulster game, with a number of previously unavailable players coming back into the mix this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve planned these five weeks quite meticulously with regards to selection because it\u2019s important that we do rotate our group within these five rounds to give everyone a decent opportunity to get some rhythm for selection,\u201d he said. \u201cGoing forward, there\u2019s the November Test series coming up as well as 10 weeks in a row in December and January including in the European Cup, so it\u2019s important for us to try and rotate our group and we have planned it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might be guys who were named in the starting line-up last week \u2013 not many \u2013\u00a0 who are not included this week and we\u2019ve also got guys that are returning from injury, which we\u2019ve also planned because we need to get them on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cCammy Scott is available for selection this week [after recovering from a hamstring issue]. With Ross Thompson [toe] it depends how he gets through this week but looking more like Cardiff [in three weeks\u2019 time] than Benetton [in two weeks\u2019 time]. We\u2019re hoping that Paul Hill [calf] will be available this week for selection \u2013 once again, it\u2019s just how he gets through his load today, so we need to be sensitive around that.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuke Crosbie [hamstring] is unavailable for selection this week, but Callum Hunter-Hill [back] has been training well with us,\u00a0Dylan Richardson has gone through two full weeks of training now, so hopefully he\u2019ll be available for selection and\u00a0Ben Muncaster was out on the field last week doing his return to play, so we do have some guys returning from injury.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venter had spoken previously about qualifying to play for Scotland through residency and was set to pass the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[54026,81015,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-183081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-divi","9":"tag-edinburgh-rugby","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}