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Ireland have won 14 and lost 6 of our last 20 games against NZ, Oz, SA and Argentina. 4-1 in our last 5 games against both Australia and Argentina and 3-2 in our last 5 games against both NZ and South Africa, stretching back to 2014. There's a fairly even split between games at home, games down und...

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The majority of posters wanted SA out of SupeRugby. All Black management and players for years have said they need them. It's a different style they need young guys to be used to, and the travel/pressure of playing in the republic means by the time they make it to the top level they know their shit...

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Willie is hopeless atm.

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Rocketz wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 1:26 pm To be fair. Regardless the reason the bokke played sh=t against Scotland

We absolutely dominated them boet.

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The majority of posters wanted SA out of SupeRugby.

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Need to start Frans Steyn, Elton Jantjies and Cobus Reinach.

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What's worse, Max whinging or Lewis cheating?

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Wilson's Toffee wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 4:53 am Willie is probably a better cover for 10 -15 than Frans. Frans is the bigger, better center, though. WlR the faster.

Not a bad point.

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The match that we should have been least worried about, just got very interesting with Scotland beating Australia. Bring it on! I think this game is going to be unlike any Bok game in recent years with Elton seemingly being given the freedom, at least in part, to play his natural game and him start...

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The match that we should have been least worried about, just got very interesting with Scotland beating Australia.

Bring it on!

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Nickdemus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 12:22 pm Boks have struggled in recent times in Wales....close one me thinks.

Would prefer we started with Cobus Reinach.

They do seem to have our number when they are playing at home in a test of no real importance. Let's hope we can start to change the tide.

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Rugby2023 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:43 am
handyman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:16 pm
Willie Falloon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:13 pm Surprised the big stormers number 8 hasn’t got a chance. Tough man.
Most of us are. I'll have him in Wiese's place.
I was impressed with the Sharks No.8 Phepsi Buthelezi, certain future Bok imo.

Healthy competition can only be good.

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Willie Falloon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:13 pm Surprised the big stormers number 8 hasn’t got a chance. Tough man.

Most of us are. I'll have him in Wiese's place.

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There will be wholesale changes in 2024 because Rassie and his puppet will have moved on and the new coach will sit with the mess of SA rugby they left behind This is extremely harsh on a coaching team that has totally transformed the Springboks on terms of results, transformation, team environment...

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There will be wholesale changes in 2024 because Rassie and his puppet will have moved on and the new coach will sit with the mess of SA rugby they left behind This is extremely harsh on a coaching team that has totally transformed the Springboks on terms of results, transformation, team environment...

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As long as he takes Nienaber with him as England's new head coach, if he goes Jens here displaying a well known South African trait where we are never happy, even if we win. 1 from 4 in Oz makes you happy then? The RWC and the win over the BIL's makes you unhappy then? Of course I'm happy for those...

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Niebaber's rationale is suspect, surely a player deserves more credit for playing well when his team is up against it? Sounds like he didn't want to pick them and is just making excuses. I think due to the loss of a year he will keep with the same core squad from 2019 and then have wholesale change...

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Morras skop hom oor, want Morras mis nie.

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Niebaber's rationale is suspect, surely a player deserves more credit for playing well when his team is up against it? Sounds like he didn't want to pick them and is just making excuses. I think due to the loss of a year he will keep with the same core squad from 2019 and then have wholesale change...

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Niebaber's rationale is suspect, surely a player deserves more credit for playing well when his team is up against it? Sounds like he didn't want to pick them and is just making excuses. I think due to the loss of a year he will keep with the same core squad from 2019 and then have wholesale change...

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He'll be over here anyway to answer for his disgusting behaviour won't he? New England DOR. :( As long as he takes Nienaber with him as England's new head coach, if he goes Jens here displaying a well known South African trait where we are never happy, even if we win. 1 from 4 in Oz makes you happy...

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Waterboy is going with. Nienaber can't afford another debacle like in Oz where he lost 3 from 4 Springbok head coach Jacques Nienaber has confirmed director of rugby Rassie Erasmus will be joining the team on the November tour of the United Kingdom. https://www.sarugbymag.co.za/erasmus-tour-springb...

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Jensrsa wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:21 pm Since Rassie & Co don't want to experiment with new players maybe they will experiment with a more open game plan, a game plan that beat the ABs twice and England in the RWC final

Depends on the weather, but yeah that would be awesome.

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SA Rugby “A number of players have put up their hands in the Carling Currie Cup and the first four rounds of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship, which is great for our local game, and while they remain on our radar, we’ve decided to stick with the core of our 2021 squad for this tour.” Message t...

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SA Rugby “A number of players have put up their hands in the Carling Currie Cup and the first four rounds of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship, which is great for our local game, and while they remain on our radar, we’ve decided to stick with the core of our 2021 squad for this tour.” Message t...

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mdaclarke wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:32 pm Disappointed not to see the following

Evan Roos
Elrigh Louw
Tyrone Green

Is Nico Janse Van Rensburg dropped or injured?

I wonder if they are holding off the rebuilding until after 2023 World Cup and stick with the players they already have until then.

Agree with that ia801310.

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Sharks: 15 Curwin Bosch, 14 Marnus Potgieter, 13 Jeremy Ward, 12 Murray Koster, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Boeta Chamberlain, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Phepsi Buthelezi (captain), 7 Henco Venter, 6 Dylan Richardson, 5 Hyron Andrews, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Kerron van Vuuren, 1 Ntuthuko Mchunu....

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Sharks: 15 Curwin Bosch, 14 Marnus Potgieter, 13 Jeremy Ward, 12 Murray Koster, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Boeta Chamberlain, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Phepsi Buthelezi (captain), 7 Henco Venter, 6 Dylan Richardson, 5 Hyron Andrews, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Kerron van Vuuren, 1 Ntuthuko Mchunu....

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Sharks: 15 Curwin Bosch, 14 Marnus Potgieter, 13 Jeremy Ward, 12 Murray Koster, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Boeta Chamberlain, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Phepsi Buthelezi (captain), 7 Henco Venter, 6 Dylan Richardson, 5 Hyron Andrews, 4 Ruben van Heerden, 3 Thomas du Toit, 2 Kerron van Vuuren, 1 Ntuthuko Mchunu....

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Washington, D.C., July 26, 2021 - The U.S. Men's National Rugby Team, The Eagles, will host the most successful rugby team on the planet, the New Zealand All Blacks, for the first time ever in Washington, DC when they square off on Saturday, October 23, 2021 in the inaugural 1874 Cup, at FedExField...

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Jensrsa wrote: ↑Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:21 am Bookies:
Dragons by 3
Ulster by 21
Glasgow by 10
Benetton by 3
Edinburgh by 2
Leinster by 20
Cardiff by 4
Munster by 15

No love for the saffers

Guess we can't complain, our record is woeful.

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:53 pm I fully expect the saffa sides to be challenging for the top within a few seasons

How much money are there to be made for Saffer teams qualifying for the European Champions Cup?

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Would he be a loss the the Boks? Nah. He's not even close to the Bok fringes Fair enough. The only player poached by the NH that I felt was a loss was C J Stander. All the others have in my opinion not been Bok material. Would be interesting to know what others think. I won't argue with that. Paul ...

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I think Tyrone Green would be a loss too if he is poached. EDIT and JJ Van Der Mescht. If you look at the list of locks I posted earlier JJ isn't even in the top 12 But he's a lot younger, the Boks are quite an old team. JJ is overrated. He's big, slow and lazy, he never had to work and develop ski...

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When was the last time you saw a straight put in at a scrum :lol: Why the Saffa lineouts been so poor I thought they would dominate here. True. But there's skew, SKEW and REALLY SKEW :nod: As to the lineouts, very few current SA based locks not in the Bok squad are even close to getting into a Bok ...

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TheSmurf wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 1:48 pm Agree he has bmt but he also has some extra bubble too. He's never going to be as quick as he was in his youth but hell, he can be quicker than he is right now hahaha

Sure, but the difference in quality when he replaced Willie was night and day. The tactical kicking was top notch.

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Springboks the better team. That is a much better blueprint for how they can play the game. Frans Steyn, like a fading porn star heavy around the middle, coming up with some big plays. After this test, I would like to see Frans Steyn at fullback and Willie Le Roux gone. The impact from Steyn was a ...

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On the Stan Sport Aussie coverage, Andrew Mehrtens was steamed with the Boks' approach to the tackle. They would make the tackle on the All Black player, bring him to ground, continue to hold man and ball, and win the penalty. He mentioned it a few times. Mehrtens hates everything about South Africa.

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If you took your 3 points penalty in kicking range and not kick for the lineout only to throw the ball to Kitshof would you still have complained? That was a real low point… That we were close while still showing such ineptness was probably more down to pollards kicking boots than anything else Agr...

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The All Blacks need some Mealamu/Kaino/Thorn types, guys who can gain hard metres around the ruck without being turned over. Except for maybe Taukei’aho we don’t really have guys that get get go forward and get rush defences back-pedalling or breaking through and getting in behind the rush defence....

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