Boks vs Saracens @ 19:30

Amabokke · 17-11-2009 6:45pm #1

Teams below. It's almost like a SH boks B teams vs NH boks b team. I expect it to be a tough physical encounter with two strong packs. Breakdown will be good challenge.

I actually played against Horak in school, lightning fast at the time.

Saracens – 15 Michael Horak, 14 Noah Cato, 13 Kameli Ratuvou, 12 Brad Barritt, 11 Michael Tagicakibau, 10 Derick Hougaard, 9 Neil de Kock, 8 Ernst Joubert, 7 Justin Melck, 6 Wikus van Heerden (c), 5 Hugh Vyvyan, 4 Mouritz Botha, 3 Richard Skuse, 2 Ethienne Reynecke, 1 Rhys Gill.
Subs: 16 Schalk Brits, 17 Carlos Nieto, 18 George Kruis, 19 Andy Saull, 20 Kevin Barrett, 21 Alex Goode, 22 Rodd Penney.

South Africa – 15 Earl Rose, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Ruan Pienaar, 9 Heini Adams, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Dewald Potgieter (c), 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Wian du Preez.
Subs: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Heinke van der Merwe, 18 Alistair Hargreaves, 19 Davon Raubenheimer, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Riaan Viljoen

17-11-2009 6:47pm

ah but who will win? The Boks?

Stev_o · 17-11-2009 7:06pm

That's pretty scary how many Scarries are Saffers

liam12989 · 17-11-2009 7:22pm

is this on tv? any links?

SomeFool · 17-11-2009 7:24pm

Sky sports are showing it

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 7:38pm

Stev_o wrote: »

That's pretty scary how many London South Africans are Saffers.

Fixed.

g5fd6ow0hseima · 17-11-2009 7:39pm

Stev_o wrote: »

That's pretty scary how many Scarries are Saffers

yeah, it makes you wonder what percentage of Guinness Premiership players are actually from England.

Hippo · 17-11-2009 7:45pm

I suppose it gives the Boks a chance to get the tour back on track after a disastrous start.

thebossanova · 17-11-2009 7:52pm

Should be a good game alright! But how can the RFU expect to have a decent English team when clubs consist of more SH money mongers than home grown talent? If I was a Sarries supporter, or even English for that matter, I'd be letting the RFU know about it!

Thank fcuk the IRFU had the sense to centrally contract our players from the beginning and not let this happen to us... We are very lucky!

Podge_irl · 17-11-2009 7:57pm

I wonder if the Boks can get their first win of this NH tour.

Hyperbullet · 17-11-2009 8:30pm

Score update??

damselnat · 17-11-2009 8:31pm

18-6 SA
Try allowed that shouldn't have been, but that's the score...

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 8:35pm

Score/time update?

I went for Saracens on Sportguru.

damselnat · 17-11-2009 8:41pm

Half time, same score

mixed up · 17-11-2009 8:46pm

Lol at the man hitting the crossbar at half time, fair play to him.

KevIRL · 17-11-2009 8:47pm

mixed up wrote: »

Lol at the man hitting the crossbar at half time, fair play to him.

£250,000 to him. Classic stuff

17-11-2009 8:50pm

fantastic stuff!

mixed up · 17-11-2009 8:52pm

TRY for saracens hopefully this will make a real game of it now.

17-11-2009 9:00pm

This is a savage match

mixed up · 17-11-2009 9:01pm

Fantastic play by the saracen almost in for another try.

ongarite · 17-11-2009 9:03pm

Try Saracens and the score is 18-18.

damselnat · 17-11-2009 9:03pm

Level now...go Sarries

mixed up · 17-11-2009 9:06pm

ongarite wrote: »

Try Saracens and the score is 18-18.

What a brilliant start to the second half for saracens.
Brilliant game

Hyperbullet · 17-11-2009 9:08pm

Sounds like a cracker!!!!

mixed up · 17-11-2009 9:12pm

Boks with a fantastic try unbelieveable stuff

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 9:22pm

Score/Time update???

Podge_irl · 17-11-2009 9:24pm

6 mins to go, 24-23 to Sarries.

Excellent game.

mixed up · 17-11-2009 9:24pm

Saracens 24-23 boks 74 minutes gone.

toomevara · 17-11-2009 9:28pm

Bloody Hougaard! At last he lands one....lucky man, terrible display from him so far. If Sarries don't shade this he's not going to be Mr. popularity around the sheds....

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 9:30pm

What's the attendance?

Edit: Has Hougaard missed a few kicks?

mixed up · 17-11-2009 9:30pm

toomevara wrote: »

Bloody Hougaard! At last he lands one....lucky man, terrible display from him so far. If Sarries don't shade this he's not going to be Mr. popularity around the sheds....

Lol, he was determined to get one drop goal.

17-11-2009 9:30pm

Thought that was a harsh penalty.

Podge_irl · 17-11-2009 9:33pm

Hougaard gets away with that dodgyily timed kick at the end!

Win for the Sarries, graet game.

Boks now 0 for 3.

B0X · 17-11-2009 9:33pm

Haha, that was some odd reffing there. 10 seconds left "Ah sure, feck it! Game over"

toomevara · 17-11-2009 9:34pm

thomond2006 wrote: »

What's the attendance?

Edit: Has Hougaard missed a few kicks?

Drop goal attempt, after tedious improbable drop goal attempt, kicking away possession, some appalling field kicking out of hand, an absolute shocker. To be honest if he'd played in anyway well Sarries would have been clear out of sight 15 mins ago.

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 9:34pm

I called it right.

mixed up · 17-11-2009 9:35pm

Hougaard was very lucky there kicking it out a few seconds to early.
Great win for the sarries brilliant second half performance

toomevara · 17-11-2009 9:37pm

Wheels coming off the tour bus for the Bokke. We've got to fancy ourselves against 'em.

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 9:38pm

Just got stream going now.

What a win for Venter.

Any positives for 'Boks?

B0X · 17-11-2009 9:59pm

toomevara wrote: »

Wheels coming off the tour bus for the Bokke. We've got to fancy ourselves against 'em.

In fairness though, that was a fairly woeful SA team that was put out.

17-11-2009 10:14pm

Most entertaining game of the Autumn series

thomond2006 · 17-11-2009 10:23pm

It looks like the midweek games have the most entertaining in the Autumn.

Think it comes down to the fact that the club sides have nothing to lose.

Hopefully they'll come to Ireland next year.

Munster vs All Blacks 2010 ftw!

handsomecake · 17-11-2009 11:04pm

my goodness my prophecy was even exceeded

P_1 · 18-11-2009 12:25am

Entertaining enough match, think the crowd was 44k or thereabouts.

The good:
Some random lad from the crowd winning £250k for hitting the bar from 40m.

The bad:
The Boks managed to break CJ VDL.

The ugly:
Sarries flyhalf, my jaysus he was awful.

18-11-2009 12:46am

Gutted i didn't watch this. Sounds like it was a real cracker. Who funded the 250k? And how did they break CJ? Is he injured? Great interview with Venter on the skysports website by the way.