{"id":299796,"date":"2025-12-05T03:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299796\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:59:12","slug":"cheslin-kolbe-clone-set-for-sale-sharks-debut-as-international-duo-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/299796\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheslin Kolbe clone set for Sale Sharks debut as international duo return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New signing Gurshwin Wehr is set to make his Sale Sharks<\/a> debut after being named on the bench for the Investec Champions Cup<\/a> tie at home to Glasgow<\/a> Warriors on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Wehr, who was likened to Springbok star Cheslin Kolbe<\/a> by Alex Sandeson earlier in the week, arrives on a short-term deal from South African Currie Cup<\/a> outfit, Griquas, as injury cover for Joe Carpenter.<\/p>\n

Sale\u2019s backline resources have been stretched in recent weeks, but they are boosted by the return from injury of England<\/a> scrum-half Raffi Quirke<\/a> and Scotland<\/a> wing Arron Reed.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s Tom Curry<\/a> starts his second game of the season, at No.8, having played openside in last weekend\u2019s heartbreaking loss to Exeter, while brother Ben is on the bench.<\/p>\n

With George Ford<\/a> rested, Rob du Preez partners Quirke at half-back.<\/p>\n

A couple of Glasgow players will reach milestones in Salford, with Stafford McDowall<\/a> making his 100th appearance and Ollie Smith<\/a> his 50th.<\/p>\n

Zander Fagerson is named at tight-head for what will be his first appearance for the club since April.<\/p>\n

Sale<\/a> Sharks:\u00a015. Arron Reed<\/a>, 14. Tom O\u2019Flaherty<\/a>, 13. Rekeiti Ma\u2019asi-White<\/a>, 12. Marius Louw<\/a>, 11. Alex Wills<\/a>, 10. Rob du Preez, 9. Raffi Quirke<\/a>, 1. Si McIntyre, 2. Nathan Jibulu<\/a>, 3. Willgriff John, 4. Tom Burrow<\/a>, 5. Ben Bamber<\/a>, 6. Jacques Vermeulen<\/a>, 7. Ernst van Rhyn<\/a> (c), 8. Tom Curry
Replacements: 16. Ethan Caine<\/a>, 17. Tumy Onasanya<\/a>, 18. James Harper<\/a>, 19. Hyron Andrews<\/a>, 20. Ben Curry<\/a>, 21. Gus Warr<\/a>, 22. Ollie Davies<\/a>, 23. Gurshwin Wehr<\/p>\n

Glasgow Warriors: 15. Josh McKay<\/a>, 14. Kyle Steyn<\/a> (c), 13. Stafford McDowall<\/a>, 12. Sione Tuipulotu<\/a>, 11. Ollie Smith<\/a>, 10. Adam Hastings<\/a>, 9. George Horne<\/a>, 1. Nathan McBeth<\/a>, 2. Gregor Hiddleston<\/a>, 3. Zander Fagerson<\/a>, 4. Max Williamson<\/a>, 5. Scott Cummings<\/a>, 6. Matt Fagerson<\/a>, 7. Rory Darge<\/a>, 8. Jack Dempsey
Replacements: 16. Seb Stephen<\/a>, 17. Rory Sutherland<\/a>, 18. Sam Talakai, 19. Alex Samuel<\/a>, 20. Gregor Brown<\/a>, 21. Ally Miller<\/a>, 22. Jamie Dobie<\/a>, 23. Dan Lancaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New signing Gurshwin Wehr is set to make his Sale Sharks debut after being named on the bench…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-299796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299796","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=299796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}