Luke Watson to lead Kings against the Bulls

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

Luke Watson returns from a long injury layoff to captain the Southern Kings in Saturday's Super rugby clash with the Bulls in Port Elizabeth.
Watson returned from injury last week and played a full 80-minutes in the EP Kings Vodacom Cup win over the Eagles.

Watson will play at 8th man and Cornell du Preez moves to blindside flank. Devin Oosthuizen moves back to the Vodacom Cup team which will play the Sharks 15 in Saturday's main curtain raiser.

The back-line is unchanged from the one that beat the Rebels in Melbourne.
Centre Andries Strauss, who captained the team in Australasia, was named vice captain.

Southern Kings team to play the Bulls on Sat - kick off 19h10

15 George Whitehead
11 Ronnie Cooke
13 Waylon Murray
12 Andries Strauss (vice captain)
14 Sergeal Petersen
10 Demetri Catrakilis
9 Shaun Venter

1 Schalk Ferreira
2 Bandise Maku
3 Kevin Buys
6 Cornell du Preez
4 Steven Sykes
5 David Bulbring
7 Wimpie van der Walt
8 Luke Watson

Replacements

16 Hannes Franklin
17 Grant Kemp
18 Rynier Bernardo
19 Jacques Engelbrecht
20 Nicolas Vergallo
21 Marcello Sampson
22 Siviwe 'Shakes' Soyizwapi

pic at team announcement at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium: Bandise Maku, Luke Watson, Andries Strauss