NAGOYA, Japan: Experienced hooker Schalk Brits will move from the front to the back of the scrum as South Africa made 13 changes to their side for the Rugby World Cup Pool B clash with minnows Namibia in Toyota City on Saturday.
"To have 31 years guys here for what is hopefully eight weeks in total, you have to rotate your hookers and when you have a third hooker, he maybe doesn’t get game-time," Erasmus said. There is a new half-back pairing with the two ‘Jantjies’, Elton and Herschel, while Francois Louw and Kwagga Smith join Brits in the back-row of the scrum.
"They’ve got an important job to do: you always lose momentum in a defeat and we need to regain that with a victory and a strong performance.
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