{"id":50430,"date":"2026-11-09T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50430"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:30:07","slug":"springboks-make-front-row-change-for-french-test","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-make-front-row-change-for-french-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks make front-row change for French test\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Springboks have made one change to their starting XV for the Nations Championship test against France in Paris \u200bon Friday, with prop Wilco Louw moving from the \u200cbench to start in place of Thomas du Toit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Springboks\u2019 front row is hooker Malcolm Marx and props Louw and Ox Nche.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The \u200breplacement front row will see hooker Jan-Hendrik Wessels come \u200bon with Gerhard Steenekamp and Du Toit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Lood de \u2060Jager and Ruan Nortje remain the lock pairing, with \u200bcaptain Siya Kolisi, Pieter-Steph du Toit and number eight Jasper Wiese \u200bin the back row.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu starts again at flyhalf with Morne van den Berg at scrumhalf, and experienced centres Jesse Kriel and Damian \u200bde Allende.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Scrumhalf Cobus Reinach has been brought onto the \u200bbench to replace Grant Williams.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Springboks defeated Italy 66-7 in Turin on \u200cSaturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe \u2060said from the outset that we would not rotate too much on this tour, so it was always our intention to select a settled squad for this game to build momentum \u200bin the competition,\u201d \u200bcoach Rassie \u2060Erasmus said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Springboks have won the last five matches between the teams in Paris, dating \u200bback to 2013.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16099,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-50430","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Springboks\u2019 front row is hooker Malcolm Marx and props Louw and Ox Nche.","published_date":"","news_description":"The Springboks\u2019 front row is hooker Malcolm Marx and props Louw and Ox Nche.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50432,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50430\/revisions\/50432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}