2013 Absa Currie Cup training squad announced

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2013 Absa Currie Cup training squad announced

PUBLISHED: July 26, 2013

DHL Western Province coach Allister Coetzee has announced an extended training squad for the upcoming 2013 Absa Currie Cup tournament.

At present, nine Western Province club players are part of the 42-man group, as well as UWC lock Tazz Fuzani who played for DHL Western Province in the Vodacom Cup earlier this year.

Bellville veteran Bolla Conradie (who also played in the 2013 Vodacom Cup) is also training at the HPC, along with Hamilton’s No.6 Stef Botha, Helderberg No.8 Patrick O’Brien, Hamilton’s halfback Conrad Hoffmann, UCT and former SA Sevens star Pieter Engelbrecht, Maties’ Mark Hodgskiss (centre) and Ryan Nell (wing/fullback), and wingers Sinethemba Mapaqa (Bellville) and Craig Pheiffer (SK Walmers).

Botha, O’Brien, Mapaqa and Pheiffer all stood out in the WP Amateur trials on Monday of this week and were then invited to Absa Currie Cup squad training by coach Coetzee.

DHL Western Province – who will, again, be captained by forward Deon Fourie in 2013 – are the defending Currie Cup champions. They will start their 2013 campaign against the Blue Bulls – at DHL Newlands – on Saturday, August 10 (kick-off 17h05).

The DHL Western Province Absa Currie Cup training squad (42):

Gio Aplon
Edries Arendse
Stef Botha*
Marcel Brache
Schalk Burger
Nizaam Carr
Pat Cilliers
Kurt Coleman
Bolla Conradie*
Damian de Allende
Juan de Jongh
Jean de Villiers
Rynhardt Elstadt
Pieter Engelbrecht*
Eben Etzebeth
Deon Fourie (captain)
Tazz Fuzani
Gerbrandt Grobler
Nic Groom
Brok Harris
Mark Hodgskiss*
Conrad Hoffmann*
Rohan Kitshoff
Steven Kitshoff
Cheslin Kolbe
Siya Kolisi
Berton Klaasen
Tiaan Liebenberg
Sinethemba Mapaqa*
Frans Malherbe
Ryan Nell*
Scarra Ntubeni
Patrick O’Brien*
Craig Pheiffer*
Michael Rhodes
Louis Schreuder
De Kock Steenkamp
Gary van Aswegen
Gerhard van den Heever