France vs. South Africa (13/11/2009) - 8.45pm (7.45pm GMT) - Toulouse

tolosenc

Dunno when they were announced, but I just saw the teams now:

France:
15. Damien Traille
14. Vincent Clerc
13. Yann David
12. Maxime Mermoz
11. Cédric Heymans
10. François Trinh-Duc
9. Julien Dupuy
8. Louis Picamoles
7. Imanol Harinordoquy
6. Thierry Dusautoir (c)
5. Romain Millo-Chluski
4. Lionel Nallet
3. Nicolas Mas
2. William Servat
1. Fabien Barcella

Subs:
Szarzewski, Marconnet, Chabal, Bonnaire, Parra, Marty, Médard

South Africa:
15. Zane Kirchner
14. JP Pietersen
13. Jaque Fourie
12. Adi Jacob
11. Bryan Habana
10. Morné Steyn
9. Fourie du Preez
8. Ryan Kankowski
7. Schalk Burger
6. Heinrich Brüssow
5. Victor Matfield
4. Bakkies Botha
3. John Smit (c)
2. Bismarck du Plessis
1. Tendai Mtawarira

Subs:
Strauss, Du Preez, v. d. Linde, Becker, Russouw, Pienaar, Olivier

What think ye?

I'll go for the Boks by 8. Stadium's a 10 minute walk from my front door. Gonna be awesome.

Otacon

Head: SA by 10

Heart: Draw :pac:

thomond2006

This is gonna be a cracker, both sides have really good half-backs and back divisions.

France by 6.

Stick_man

Medard on the bench? Is he not playing well? Would love to see the french win but this South Africa team look unstoppable until they come to croker:D

Boks by seven.

CJhaughey

The SA Flankers look superior to the French ones, I think the French will struggle at the Breakdown and this could be what kills them off, The SA play a strong rucking game.
SA by 2 scores.

BarryM

Do you happen to know if it is on tv and if so which chaine?

Also, is Freddy M injured or just not in the squad?

Finally, having seen SA v Leicester the other night I'd say they'll cream it, even though they lost; after all they haven't played together for two months, but still they looked strong against the Tigers who are a club side playing every week for the last two months.

Bye, Barry

SomeFool

It's on ESPN

2040

France by 2 points.

france by 14

chupacabra

SomeFool wrote: »

It's on ESPN

And RTE and BBC.

Cuchulain

I should know the answer but where is JDV?
I presume its because he plies his trade overseas now.

Obviously Spies is a huge loss but SA should win handy enough I think.

toomevara

Going to stick my neck out on this one. I'm predicting one of those gloriously quixotic French performances, where they put the world champions to the sword against all the odds.

chupacabra

I should know the answer but where is JDV?
I presume its because he plies his trade overseas now.

Yup south africa have that rule where they dont cap overseas players. Broken recently with CJ brought into the squad but that was a necessity.

Also a little interesting tidbit, Frankie Sheehan will be making his debut for this match tomorrow night commentating along side Ryle Nugent for RTE, fair play Frankie

chupacabra

chupacabra wrote: »

And RTE and BBC.

You sure about BBC? I checked the listings (hastily) and didnt see anything. Would make my day.

Crash

chupacabra wrote: »

Yup south africa have that rule where they dont cap overseas players. Broken recently with CJ brought into the squad but that was a necessity.

Also a little interesting tidbit, Frankie Sheehan will be making his debut for this match tomorrow night commentating along side Ryle Nugent for RTE, fair play Frankie

Oh god no - did you hear Frankie commenting for Munster vs. someone on Setanta recently? It was awful :S

Cuchulain

Deleted User wrote: »

You sure about BBC? I checked the listings (hastily) and didnt see anything. Would make my day.

Doesnt look like it

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Free to Air:


Autumn Internationals -
[Friday 13th] - France v. South Africa (RTE TWO) 7:45pm
[Saturday 14th] - Scotland v. Fiji (RTE TWO) 2:30pm
[Sunday 15th] - Ireland v. Australia (RTE TWO) 3:00pm

[Friday 13th] - Wales v. Samoa (BBC TWO Wales) 7:30pm
[Saturday 14th] - Scotland v. Fiji (BBC ONE) 2:30pm
[Sunday 15th] - Ireland v. Australia (BBC TWO) 3:00pm


Anglo Welsh Cup -
[Saturday 14th] - Bath v. Ospreys (S4C) 12:30pm


_______________________________________________________________


Subscription:

Autumn Internationals -
[Friday 13th] - France v. South Africa (ESPN) 7:45pm
[Saturday 14th] - Italy v. New Zealand (ESPN) 2:00pm

[Saturday 14th] - England v. Argentina (Sky Sports 2 2:30pm

[Saturday 14th] - Italy v. New Zealand (Setanta Ireland) 2:00pm

[Tuesday 17th] - Saracens v. South Africa (Sky Sports 2) 7:45pm


Anglo Welsh Cup -
[Sunday 15th] - Cardiff Blues v. London Irish (Sky Sports 2) 1:30pm

_______________________________________________________________

If I have missed any matches, plase feel free to PM me so they can be added to the list.
(Note: Match streams from other countries do not count, this list is for matches that can be viewed on television in Ireland/UK)

2040

Crash wrote: »

Oh god no - did you hear Frankie commenting for Munster vs. someone on Setanta recently? It was awful :S

Yes, he was terrible actually. You could stick a microphone in my front room during a match and you'd get better commentary.

Spore

France have a superior back line, Trinh-Duc is on fire at the mo. France by 10

Digifriendly

Deleted User wrote: »

You sure about BBC? I checked the listings (hastily) and didnt see anything. Would make my day.

Can't be live on BBC as ESPN seem to hold UK live rights. Only possibility is that BBC have secondary highlights rights and will show highlights in their Sunday afternoon programme. BBC 2W's 'Scrum V' showed highlights recently of New Zealand vs Australia in Tokyo, a match to which Sky had live UK rights.

conno16

Cuchulain wrote: »

Obviously Spies is a huge loss but SA should win handy enough I think.

spies is just a battering ram
devoid of any real talent
he has trouble catching and passing the ball at the best of times

anonymous_joe

Crash wrote: »

Oh god no - did you hear Frankie commenting for Munster vs. someone on Setanta recently? It was awful :S

More of one for the written media. ><

Could be a fantastic team. Great Saffer side Zane Kirchner aside. He's shíte.

Boks have the edge at the breakdown and at 10 I'd reckon. I'd love to see France pull a France and just wipe the floor with them, but my money'd be on South Africa. Either way, I just hope both teams play well enough, because with that level of talent on the field it'd be tragic if it was another borefest.

Mr.Applepie

anonymous_joe wrote: »

I'd love to see France pull a France and just wipe the floor with them.

Yeah France always have one great game in them in every tournament. After that though they seem not to care:

*Spoken in a cheesy French accent"Why have you shown up. We have shown you that we are superior, we refuse to play you properly unless you acknowledge we are the better side!"

Cool_CM

Could be worse, they could have given him his own column in a newspaper like the Mirror did to Stan Collymore....

CJhaughey

Cool_CM wrote: »

Could be worse, they could have given him his own column in a newspaper like the Mirror did to Stan Collymore....

Hey leave Stan alone , he is the Dogs....:D

Johnny Utah

Really looking forward to this. I predict a French win, with some some sublime classic French play- throwing from the hips in their own half. When they're on form, the frogs are great to watch.

jayteecork

50 back from 20 on a France/Wales double with Boyle Sports.

Migth be worth a punt.

Ian_K

I fancy France 2 beat dem at home... any1 know why beauxis aint in the squad?

2040

Ian_K wrote: »

I fancy France 2 beat dem at home... any1 know why beauxis aint in the squad?

beaUx1s injrd whch is a pity cos hes l33t rugg0r plr ftw. lol.

handsomecake

toomevara wrote: »

Going to stick my neck out on this one. I'm predicting one of those gloriously quixotic French performances, where they put the world champions to the sword against all the odds.

i agree.
ive said all along that they will lose twice on the end of year tour and hopefully tonight the french prove me right.
i dont think they have a plan b.
expect them to kick the leather off it(although with traille picked at full back ) expect the same from france.

it could be epic......................or it could be a tennis match with out rackets.we will see

yeraulone

2040 wrote: »

beaUx1s injrd whch is a pity cos hes l33t rugg0r plr ftw. lol.

pisslips

CJhaughey wrote: »

The SA Flankers look superior to the French ones, I think the French will struggle at the Breakdown and this could be what kills them off, The SA play a strong rucking game.
SA by 2 scores.

Dusatoir is about to give a lesson.

France by 10.

They will expose SA.

jayteecork

This is being streamed on rte.ie if anyone's watching at a computer like me.

(so you won't have to put up with justin.tv)

jayteecork

"They won the World Cup, they beat the Lions, I'm not yet convinced" (They're also Tri-Nations Champ)

What else does Popey want?

Carroller16

holy god whats going on with the anthems

jayteecork

Carroller16 wrote: »

holy god whats going on with the anthems

Was just about to say, don't remember the South African anthem being that bad.

Think Habana was laughing about it there.

laugh

Wtf was going on with the SA anthem.

yeraulone

The Saffers are looking a bit cold!

P_1

sounds like the mics are out of sync with each other.

[Jackass]

I think France will do it...and by more than a score! Very exciting team. Will be interesting to see how Harinordoquy gets on at 7.

Can't wait to see what excuse Livremont comes up with for picking Trinh-Duc at 10!! A young inexperienced out half brimming with confidence, bags of talent and playing out of his skin??? To START no less...against THE WORLD CHAMPIONS no less. Absolute disgrace!! He should be shot. Do they not have the same laws as we do? Is there not some sort of European law restricing this? There should be. I wonder if criminal proceedings will be persued.

CHD

Anthem fails.

Carroller16

whoops!!!

chupacabra

A clever ploy by France to throw sa off. Send out a tone deaf man to sing their anthem oops yer man ending up on his arse. Very strange pre match I have to say

jayteecork

Frankie Sheahan lol.

jayteecork

chupacabra wrote: »

oops yer man ending up on his arse. V

Who was the guy taking the kick?

I didn't know whether to laugh or not, he looked like he was special needs maybe. I dunno.

P_1

bloody commentry is ahead of the picture:mad:

chupacabra

Oh ffs the rye commentary is ahead of the pictures

jayteecork

Great start - come on France!

corny

The French ball carriers laying down a marker

jayteecork

chupacabra wrote: »

Oh ffs the rye commentary is ahead of the pictures

Thought it was the stream? same on TV?

ch2008

Why are SA playing the Scottish Football team?

chupacabra

Yeah it was on tv too seems to have fixed now