Coach Straeuli stays loyal to the SA side
Coach Rudi Straeuli has stayed loyal to the South Africa side that started in the narrow 30-23 loss to New Zealand last Saturday for the visit of Australia this Saturday.
Defeat for the Springboks, already condemned to the wooden spoon for the fourth straight year, would inflict on it the ignominy of going winless through the tournament for the first time.
South Africa will meet an Australian side which features winger Ben Tune, who arrived late in the country after escaping a ban at an Australian Rugby Union disciplinary hearing over a doping offence in Sydney on Monday.
South Africa: Werner Greeff; Breyton Paulse, Marius Joubert, De Wet Barry, Dean Hall; Andre Pretorius, Neil de Kock; Lawrence Sephaka, James Dalton, Willie Meyer, Jannes Labuschagne, AJ Venter, Corne Krige, Joe van Niekerk, Bobby Skinstad.
