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Sevens Boks on Singapore mission

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South Africa continues with its preparations for the upcoming international season when it defends it title at the Singapore Cricket Club Sevens tournament this coming weekend.

The Springbok Sevens pre-season preparations so far included warm-up tournaments in Middelburg and at Brookside (Villager Rugby Club), while the SCC Sevens will afford the IRB Sevens World Series-winning coach a last opportunity to test some combinations before the start of the international season.

The South Africans will defend their tournament titles in Dubai and George on consecutive weekends in December.

“We still have a lot of work to do before we can travel to Dubai with confidence,” said Treu. “Singapore gives us the opportunity to try some new things and also to have a closer look at how some of the newcomers will perform in a very competitive environment.”

According to the Singapore organisers, the other South African teams playing in the tournament are the Blue Bull Barbarians, Durban Harlequins, the SA Universities and the Sharks Academy.

 For the trip to the Far East, Treu have included four new players to his crop of contracted regulars – they are JW Jonker (Cheetahs), Chris Dry (Cheetahs U21), Steven Hunt (WP U21) and Bernado Botha (Lions U21).

The rest of the squad is Frankie Horne, the newly crowned 2009 SA Rugby Sevens Player of the Year, Kyle Brown, Marius Schoeman, Paul Delport, Cecil Afrika, Mzwandile Stick, Mpho Mbiyozo and Shaun Venter (Pumas).

The SA Vipers’ Singapore opponents will be revealed tomorrow after the draw of the assembled teams.

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By BokkeFan1 - Castle Braai recommendations: 0

I live in singapore, gonna be a great weekend. Rugby has been a pretty big thing here for quite a while, just a little place haha

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By USARugbyfan - Castle Braai recommendations: 0

Now the sevens Bokke are called SA Vipers?????????They sneak in and undermine the proud name of the Springbokke by quitely changing the name!!!!What rubbish!!!

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