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Pumas head coach retained only five players in his starting line-up after the 28-32 loss against the Lions at Emirates Airline Park last weekend.
The Pumas will host the Vodacom Bulls in Nelspruit on Tuesday at 19h00. The Pumas won 44-14 the last time the Pumas and Vodacom Bulls faced each other.
Only Devon Williams at the back and forwards Brandon Valentyn, Pieter Jansen van Vuren, IG Prinsloo and Morgan Naude survived the cut.
The Pumas' assistant coach MJ Mentz said to netwerk24 that the changes are mostly due to an effort to give game time to those players that did not play much during the recent Super Rugby Unlocked and Currie Cup competitions.
NNC Pumas: 15. Devon Williams. 14. Morne Joubert, 13. Sebastion de Klerk, 12. Ali Mgijima, 11. Tapiwa Mafura, 10. Niel Marais, 9. Chrisweill September, 8. Kwanda Dimaza, 7. Phumzile Maqondwana, 6. Francouis Kleinhans, 5 Brandon Valentyn, 4. Pieter Jansen van Vuren (c), 3. Ig Prinsloo, 2. AJ le Roux, 1, Morgan Naude. Replacements: 16. HP van Schoor, 17. Dewald Maritz, 18. Ruan Cramer, 19.Michael Beadie, 20. Dian Badenhorst, 21. Darrien Landsberg, 22.Eddie Fouche, 23. Erich Cronje.