Meyer worried about long injury list
With less than six weeks away Du Preez has been added to an alarmingly long list of injured Springbok players ahead of the Rugby Championship against Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer admits he is extremely worried about the injury to scrumhalf Fourie du Preez after limping off the field only 30 minutes into their 55-6 win over Scotland on Saturday.
With less than six weeks away Du Preez has been added to an alarmingly long list of injured Springbok players ahead of the Rugby Championship against Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
Meyer has since raised his concern regarding Du Preez’s ankle injury and he long list of unavailable players.
“I am very worried about Fourie,” said Meyer.
“I think he [Du Preez] is still the best scrumhalf in the world and you could just see that Handré looked brilliant next to him.
“The way he gives input on attack, he controls the game, his kicking game as well, so I am really worried.
“There is a big concern there and just really hope he will be ready for the Rugby Championship, but we still have two other No.9s.”
The list of injured players include frontline players like Tendai Mtawarira (neck), Flip van der Merwe (knee), Willem Alberts (concussion), Bakkies Botha (Achilles), Juan de Jongh (chest infection), Jean de Villiers (knee), Damian de Allende (knee), Eben Etzebeth (foot), Jaque Fourie (ankle), Pat Lambie (bicep), Frans Malherbe (concussion), Siyabonga Ntubeni (foot), Frik Kirsten (neck), Pieter-Steph du Toit (knee), Franco van der Merwe (ankle), Arno Botha (knee), Pierre Spies (bicep), Louis Schreuder (hand) and Gio Aplon (elbow).
