Griquas have made just one change for Friday’s Currie Cup clash against Western Province in Kimberley.

Debutant flank Carel van der Merwe replaces Lourens Oosthuizen, who has been ruled out due to concussion.

Griquas are coming off a 48-39 win against Boland at the same venue last weekend and are now chasing an eighth consecutive victory over WP.

“Continuity is always a big thing for me. I thought the players who featured last week were really good for 70 minutes of that game,” coach Pieter Bergh told OFM Sport.

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“We’re not looking too far ahead. We’re not talking playoffs – this is our most important game of the season. We’re taking it one game at a time.

“Given we’re playing on the same field again, against a team likely to adopt a similar approach to Boland, we saw no reason to make too many changes this week.”

GRIQUAS – 15 Connor Mahoney, 14 Dylan Maart, 13 Zane Bester, 12 Mnombo Zwelendaba, 11 Gurswin Wehr, 10 George Whitehead, 9 Caleb Abrahams, 8 Gustav Erlank, 7 Carel van der Merwe, 6 Carl Els, 5 Albert Liebenberg, 4 Malembe Mpofu, 3 Cebo Dlamini (c), 2 Janco Uys, 1 Eddie Davids.
Bench: 16 Tiaan Lange, 17 Leon Lyons, 18 IG Prinsloo, 19 Derik Pretorius, 20 Marco de Witt, 21 Thomas Bursey, 22 Tom Nel, 23 Cameron Hufke.

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