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Article: Spies gets ready to explode.(Sports)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2009
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BYLINE: VATA NGOBENI
BLUE Bulls eighthman Pierre Spies may have generated much hype within South Africa during the Super 14 but his almost non-existence in the first Test against the British and Irish Lions last Saturday left him a forgotten figure this week.
When it was time to interview players at the Springboks base at Montecasino in Johannesburg not too many of the journalists seemed interested in speaking to Spies.
That did not offend Spies at all, instead it all played into his hands and being low key in the build-up to the second Test at his home ground at Loftus Versfeld is the ideal scenario for the bulky and speedy number eight.
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