Barbarian Squad to face the Springboks

Barbarians Squad

Forwards: Cian Healy, Will Collier, Hassane Kolingar, Paul Alo-Emile, Camille Chat, John "Ricky" Riccitelli, David Ribbans, Ruben van Heerden, Josh Beehre, Hoskins Sotutu, Peter O'Mahony, Sam Cane, Shannon Frizell, Lachlan Boshier.

Backs: Tawera Kerr Barlow, Santiago Arata Perrone, Melvyn Jaminet, Josh Jacomb, Peter Umaga-Jensen, Leicester Fainga'anuku, Mark Tele'a, Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens, Joe Marchant.

Not exactly a fearsome group….the Barbarians have a proud history, hard to see how this group upholds that tradition. We may be hungry for real Bok rugby, but that won’t start until Oz in August.

This year we play Italy 3 times…nuts.

But we do play Oz x 2, Argies x 2, NZ x 2, France and Ireland - that’s a tough year so the odd lesser opponent makes perfect sense

Fair comment, still sad to see the Barbarians scraping to put together a team.

Yes the days of great Baabaas sides are long gone

Clubs are selfish now, they don’t release their players

The Baabaas forwards will be handy with Healy, Riibbans, Ruben v Heerden, O’Mahony, Cane and Frizell on board

I've never heard of half those players.

Exactly Pakie - I’ve been looking them up :)