Overview
- Coach Rassie Erasmus is due to name a smaller travelling squad in the coming days and current club medical reports are shaping who can be selected.
- Cheslin Kolbe is confirmed unavailable for the tour after suffering a broken jaw in September, Stormers director John Dobson said.
- Sharks captain André Esterhuizen has a right ankle injury that the club says will rule him out of the November Tests.
- Bulls reports say Handré Pollard has had a hamstring scan with availability pending, while Embrose Papier and Cheswill Jooste are recovering from recent operations and face multiweek absences.
- Several players are on HIA return-to-play protocols or awaiting specialist assessments, forcing Erasmus to consider experimental combinations and call up fringe or younger players as cover ahead of World Cup preparations.