'Boks v 'Bies

Swiwi.

South Africa: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Willie le Roux, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Jean de Villiers (captain), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Flip van der Merwe, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Gurthrö Steenkamp, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Juandré Kruger, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Ruan Pienaar 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Jan Serfontein.

Australia: 15 Israel Folau, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Christian Lealiifano, 11 Joe Tomane, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Nic White, 8 Ben Mowen, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Scott Fardy, 5 James Horwill (c), 4 Rob Simmons, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 James Slipper.
Replacements: 16 Saia Fainga'a, 17 Benn Robinson, 18 Sekope Kepu, 19 Sitaleki Timani, 20 Ben McCalman, 21 Will Genia, 22 Matt Toomua, 23 Chris Feauai-Sautia.

Date: September 28
Venue: Newlands, Cape Town
Kick-off: 17:00 (16:00 GMT)
Referee: Jérôme Garcès (France)
Assistant referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), Pascal Gauzère (France)
Television match official: Graham Hughes (England)

Garcès reffing. Nice! Hopefully Aussie can make a game of it. I'll keep an eye on Kuridrani I guess.

Emperor1989

Welcome

Emperor1989

Hard to believe he doesn't have Genia involved in this match.

Swiwi.

Emperor1989 wrote: »

Hard to believe he doesn't have Genia involved in this match.

White got big wraps for his last match. Personally, I thought he just aimlessly kicked the ball away all day, but he made several RC team of the week selections.

nc6000

Emperor1989 wrote: »

Hard to believe he doesn't have Genia involved in this match.

He is involved, he is on the bench.

stefan idiot jones

Boks to win by at least ten.

Pack domination ahead.

Kiwi_knock

Hard to see anything but a repeat of the last match.

Emperor1989

nc6000 wrote: »

He is involved, he is on the bench.

He should be starting. White can't lace his boots

Swiwi.

Right, now for the haka! Oh wait...

Kiwi_knock

Going for touch this early, brave decision

Swiwi.

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Going for touch this early, brave decision

In my dictionary brave in this context equals foolish.

Emperor1989

Du Preez is just that damn good.

Looks a different team with him at 9

awec

Terrible defence.

thomond2006

The second time a kickable penalty is turned down pays off. 1st try for SA. Very porous defence, Strauss didn't need to do much.

stefan idiot jones

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Boks to win by at least ten.

Pack domination ahead.

Yep.

Kiwi_knock

Very quick ball there, hard to defend against. Going to be another big score today if SA keep up the pace.

awec

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Very quick ball there, hard to defend against. Going to be another big score today if SA keep up the pace.

Looked like one of the aussies tried to rush out and went to the wrong man?

stefan idiot jones

Wow.

Swiwi.

Sideshow gets on the board!

Emperor1989

and again...different team

awec

That is amazing.

Kiwi_knock

Great try, SA very enjoyable to watch so far.

Swiwi.

Could turn into a rout at this rate. Australian defence woeful.

thomond2006

Aussies need to regroup here and build some possession or they're going to be hockeyed.

Emperor1989

Flip Van Der Merve having a mighty game so far....

stefan idiot jones

18 minutes gone, 82% possession.

Swiwi.

So when it's 0-0 De Villiers chooses touch, and when it's 17-3 he chooses shot at goal :eek:

thomond2006

Swiwi. wrote: »

So when it's 0-0 De Villiers chooses touch, and when it's 17-3 he chooses shot at goal :eek:

They've plenty of time to get two more tries.

Swiwi.

thomond2006 wrote: »

They've plenty of time to get two more tries.

I dunno, that Australian defence is pretty watertight :P

stefan idiot jones

Looking at some of the highlights in the Boks hair, it must be 1984 in South Africa.

Swiwi.

Awec, shield your eyes - but Du Preez is SO much better than Pienaar, it's not funny. Steyn has those Garyowens on a string too.