Juries reunited with Treu's men
Fri, 07 May 2010 11:23
Fabian Juries, South Africa's most experienced Sevens player, has rejoined the Springbok team and will be available for selection for their two remaining IRB Sevens World Series tournaments in England and Scotland.
In terms of the agreement between the Western Province and Paul Treu, the national Sevens coach, Juries will also be available to accompany the Springboks Sevens to the Commonwealth Games to be held in October in Delhi, India.
Juries joined the squad in Stellenbosch where they are busy with preparations for the last two Series tournaments later this month at Twickenham and Murrayfield.
He also played in a warm-up match on Thursday between the Springbok Sevens training squad and the SA Sevens Emerging team at the Danie Craven Stadium.
Paul was understandably pleased to welcome the mercurial Julies back to the Sevens fold.
"He's adding a lot of experience and I'm pleased that he's able to help out because there is still some doubt over the match fitness of Renfred Dazel and Paul Delport.
"Fabba will obviously return to Western Province if they need him, but I'm hoping that he would be able to stay with us," explain Treu.
Juries made the last of his 42 tournament appearances at Murrayfield in 2008, where after he joined former Sevens teammates Kabamba Floor and Danwell Demas at the Free State Cheetahs.
He joined the Newlands-based Western Province at the beginning of the 2010 season.
In keeping with his style of affording young talented players an opportunity to train with the national Sevens squad, young outside centre Siyanda Grey who played for Eastern Province Cup team this year, will spend the next few days sharpening his skills with the squad.
The IRB Sevens World series comes to a close later this month with the Twickenham tournament on May 22 and 23, and Murrayfield a week later.
South Africa won their first Series title last season.
The Springbok Sevens depart on Saturday May 17 to England.
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