CATS coach Laurie Mains has named a shadow side for the team’s final warm-up match against Free State in Bloemfontein on Friday. The team to face Free State will in all likelihood be much the same as the side that opens the Cats’ Super 12 campaign at Loftus on February 26. Mains has left out a handful of players to face Northern Free State in the Lions’ final Vodacom Cup warm-up match, but they will return to the reserve bench for the Super 12 opener.
Cats squad:
Kobus Engelbrecht, Chester Williams, Wickus Venter, Japie Mulder, Thinus Delport, Hennie le Roux, Werner Swanepoel, Andre Vos, Andre Venter, Piet Krause, Johan Ackerman, Jannes Labuschagne, Victor Matfield, Willie Meyer, Leon Boshoff, Marius Mostert.
Bench: Louis Koen, Jannie van der Walt, Joe Esterhuizen, Jimmy Powell, Torros Pretorius, Pierre Ribbens, Delarey du Preez.