With the 2010 IRB Junior World Championship just under 2 months away, the IRB have put together ths short teaser clip (below) to get the vibe going.

I managed to catch a few of the Baby Boks’ early training games this year, and they show a lot of promise. With the likes of Patrick Lambie and Sampie Mastriet joining the South African u20 squad, this year’s competition should promise a lot of excitement and I for one can’t wait to catch this year’s IRB Junior World Championship, to be held in Argentina from 5 – 21 June 2010.

The Final Stages:

The South African camp are in their final stages of preperation. This is what head coach, Eric Sauls had to say:

“We are now entering the final stages of our preparations for the forthcoming World Championship. We’ll be selecting the 26 players that will make up the final squad from the group of players that have been invited to this camp.

While our Vodacom Super 14 players will be allowed to continue to represent their franchises, we have quite a few players who have excelled in the Vodacom Cup who have also been also selected to this squad.

We are where we want to be in terms of exposing our players to international opposition as many of the guys that will join us next week have either played in the international friendlies against Argentina or were part of our tour to France in February.

These players will not participate in any matches during this camp, but the coaches will use this opportunity to fine tune our game structures to ensure that all players that could possibly make the Argentinean trip in June are on the same page.”

IRB Junior World Championship 2010: [irb]

South Africa Under 20 training squad: Tythan Adams, Garth April, Mlungisi Bali, Brummer Badenhorst, Clayton Blommetjies, Ruan Combrinck, Sebastian De Chaves, Ruan Dreyer, Branco du Preez, Christiaan du Rand, Francois du Toit, Divan Ferguson, Monde Hadebe, Adri Jacobs, Elton Jantjies, Patrick Lambie, Helmut Lehmann, Peet Marais, Sampie Mastriet, Sam Mabombo, Wandile Mjekevu, Lubabalo Mtembu, Frederick Muller, Sinovuyo Nyoko, Kenechukwu Okafor, Jono Ross, Nico Scheepers, Louis Schreuder, Lean Schwartz, Sibusiso Sithole, Christiaan Stander, Jaco Taute, Shaun Malton, Gary van Aswegen, Marcell van der Merwe, Hendrik van der Waldt, Francois Venter, Anthony Volmink.