RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B)
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Springbok team to play Italy:
15 Willie le Roux (Toyota Verblitz, Japan), 57 caps - 60 points (12 tries)
14 Cheslin Kolbe (Toulouse, France), 11 - 25 (5t)
13 Lukhanyo Am (Cell C Sharks), 11 - 10 (2t)
12 Damian de Allende (DHL Stormers), 42 - 20 (4t)
11 Makazole Mapimpi (Cell C Sharks), 10 - 50 (8t)
10 Handré Pollard (Vodacom Bulls), 43 – 396 (6t, 66c, 74p, 4d)
9 Faf de Klerk (Sale Sharks, England), 26 - 15 (3t)
8 Duane Vermeulen (Vodacom Bulls), 50 - 15 (3t)
7 Pieter-Steph du Toit (DHL Stormers), 51 - 25 (5t)
6 Siya Kolisi (captain, DHL Stormers), 45 - 30 (6t)
5 Lood de Jager (Vodacom Bulls) 41 - 25 (5t)
4 Eben Etzebeth (DHL Stormers), 81 - 15 (3t)
3 Frans Malherbe (DHL Stormers), 33 - 0
2 Bongi Mbonambi (DHL Stormers), 31 - 30 (6t)
1 Tendai Mtawarira (Cell C Sharks), 113 - 10 (2t)Replacements:
16 Malcolm Marx (Emirates Lions), 28 - 20 (4t)
17 Steven Kitshoff (DHL Stormers), 42 - 5 (1t)
18 Vincent Koch (Saracens, England) 16 - 0
19 RG Snyman (Vodacom Bulls), 18 – 0
20 Franco Mostert (Gloucester, England), 34 - 5 (1t)
21 Francois Louw (Bath, England), 71 - 50 (10t)
22 Herschel Jantjies (DHL Stormers), 6 - 20 (4t)
23 Frans Steyn (Montpellier, France), 62 - 136 (10t, 7c, 21p, 3d)Front rowers Tendai Mtawarira and Bongi Mbonambi, as well as Lood de Jager (lock) have been promoted to the Springboks’ ‘senior’ starting pack for Friday’s must-win Rugby World Cup clash with Italy in Shizuoka. The inclusion of the three tight forwards are the only changes to the starting XV that did duty in the opening Pool B meeting with New Zealand, which will provide the Boks with a massive forward challenge. Mtawarira, Mbonambi and De Jager leapfrog Steven Kitshoff, Malcolm Marx and Franco Mostert respectively, who are all expected to make an impact from the bench after the interval. Two players drop out from the New Zealand match 23 completely with Trevor Nyakane (who has returned home with a calf injury) and Jesse Kriel (hamstring) not considered because of injury. Nyakane is replaced by Vincent Koch, while there is not a direct replacement for Kriel. Rassie Erasmus, director of rugby, has opted for only two back replacements on the bench and six forwards. De Jager, who carried the water against New Zealand, is the other new name to the line-up along with Koch.
Pack trio wins starting call-up for Boks’ must-win clash
Front rowers Tendai Mtawarira and Bongi Mbonambi, as well as Lood de Jager (lock) have been promoted to the Springboks’ ‘senior’ starting pack for Friday’s must-win Rugby World Cup clash with Italy in Shizuoka.
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@Machpants said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B ):
They're taking Italy seriously then
This is the game Italy have targeted so the Boks would be crazy not to take it extremely seriously.
A potential banana skin for the Boks if they don't pitch up 100%. We have lost to Italy before when we just arrived and thought it would be an easy game.The 6-2 split is interesting.
Frans Steyn can in theory cover 10 to 15 although these days he's a bit slow to be out on the wing...But SA will have the luxury of bringing on an entire new tight 5 at some point so my guess is they are looking to try and dominate heavily up-front. The Bok wingers may well catch a cold..
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@Billy-Webb I would hope they're getting it out to the wing a lot, because Italy have nothing to stop Kolbe
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@Machpants said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B ):
@Billy-Webb I would hope they're getting it out to the wing a lot, because Italy have nothing to stop Kolbe
Maybe late in the game or from loose play / turnover ball.
But my guess is the Boks are going to make this trench warfare - at least for a large part up front. -
Italy: 15 Matteo Minozzi, 14 Tommaso Benvenuti, 13 Luca Morisi, 12 Jayden Hayward, 11 Michele Campagnaro, 10 Tommaso Allan, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Sergio Parisse (c), 7 Jake Polledri, 6 Braam Steyn, 5 Dean Budd, 4 David Sisi, 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Luca Bigi, 1 Andrea Lovotti
Replacements: 16 Federico Zani, 17 Nicola Quaglio, 18 Marco Riccioni, 19 Alessandro Zanni, 20 Federico Ruzza, 21 Sebastian Negri, 22 Callum Braley, 23 Carlo CannaDate: Friday, October 4
Venue: Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa
Kick-off: 18:45 local (10:45 BST, 09:45 GMT)
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant Referees: Romain Poite (France), Alexandre Ruiz (France)
TMO: Rowan Kitt (England)Parisse's 142nd cap, #2 on the all time list behind GOAT 148
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Latest weather prediction is that it will rain. So a real forwards slug-fest I suspect.
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@MajorRage said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B ):
Boks to lose, don't make the quarters.
A pox on you sir.
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
I am bloody nervous about this game - and you're not helping!
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Why? It's Italy. Not like you're playing Japan...
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@antipodean said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B ):
Why? It's Italy. Not like you're playing Japan...
And the hits just keep on coming
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@Billy-Webb said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B ):
@MajorRage said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool B ):
Boks to lose, don't make the quarters.
A pox on you sir.
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.I am bloody nervous about this game - and you're not helping!
Mate, there is no chance of that happening. Literally no chance.
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Game is at midday SA time on Friday.
I have arranged for a braai and beers for all my staff so they can watch the game in true Saffer style.
You'd better bloomin well be right. Otherwise I am pouring water on the braai and making them all work overtime on the weekend. -
@Billy-Webb said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool
:Game is at midday SA time on Friday.
I have arranged for a braai and beers for all my staff so they can watch the game in true Saffer style.
You'd better bloomin well be right. Otherwise I am pouring water on the braai and making them all work overtime on the weekend.That's quality leadership right there
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@Billy-Webb said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool
:Game is at midday SA time on Friday.
I have arranged for a braai and beers for all my staff so they can watch the game in true Saffer style.
You'd better bloomin well be right. Otherwise I am pouring water on the braai and making them all work overtime on the weekend.This made me log back in after years of lurking because....
Well just because 🤓 -
@Xpat61 said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool
:This made me log back in after years of lurking because....
Well just because 🤓Welcome back to posting Xpat.
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@Bones said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool
:Something about Camels? I know a guy...
We are going to side-tracked here, but many, many years ago my wife and I were tourists in Egypt.
I was offered 1,000 camels for my wife.
She was not in the least bit pleased that I hesitated before declining the offer. -
@Billy-Webb said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool
:@Bones said in RWC: South Africa v Italy (Pool
:Something about Camels? I know a guy...
We are going to side-tracked here, but many, many years ago my wife and I were tourists in Egypt.
I was offered 1,000 camels for my wife.
She was not in the least bit pleased that I hesitated before declining the offer.To be fair, that's a lot of camels.
Studying with some PNG cadets a few decades ago and one of our classmates was an attractive, big titted Asian; Hāfu. One of the PNG boys said "I would buy her for 80,000 kina".
Thinking back, it would've been a bargain.
