The 'other' June tests
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<p>England Saxons play SA A tonight (sat morning NZ), if its on it'll be a cracker. The Saxons team is fucking great & very "runny" - Cipriani, Rokoduguni, Devoto etc. And I guess the SA team will be a quota fest.</p>
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<p>On Sky Sports 3 UK at 18.30 tonight...</p>
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<p>I imagine Sky NZ will be showing golf or highlights of last years Tour de France... </p>
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<p><strong>South Africa A:</strong> 15 Leolin Zas, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Howard Mnisi, 11 Courtnall Skosan, 10 Garth April, 9 Nic Groom, 1 Thomas du Toit, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 3 Vincent Koch, 4 JD Schickerling, 5 Stephan Lewies, 6 Sikhumbuzo Notshe, 7 Oupa Mohoje (c), 8 Nizaam Carr.</p>
<p><strong>Replacements:</strong> 16 Malcolm Marx, 17 Lizo Gqoboka, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 RG Snyman, 20 Jean-Luc du Preez, 21 Piet van Zyl, 22 Francois Brummer, 23 Lukhanyo Am.</p>
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<p><strong>England Saxons:</strong> 15 Mike Haley, 14 Semesa Rokoduguni, 13 Nick Tompkins, 12 Ollie Devoto, 11 Alex Lewington, 10 Danny Cipriani, 9 Dan Robson, 1 Alec Hepburn, 2 Tommy Taylor, 3 Kieran Brookes, 4 Dave Attwood (c), 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Don Armand, 7 Matt Kvesic, 8 Sam Jones.</p>
<p><strong>Replacements:</strong> 16 George McGuigan, 17 Ross Harrison, 18 Jake Cooper-Woolley, 19 Mitch Lees, 20 Dave Ewers, 21 Micky Young, 22 Sam James, 23 Christian Wade.</p> -
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<p>England Saxons play SA A tonight (sat morning NZ), if its on it'll be a cracker. The Saxons team is fucking great & very "runny" - Cipriani, Rokoduguni, Devoto etc. And I guess the SA team will be a quota fest.</p>
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<p>On Sky Sports 3 UK at 18.30 tonight...</p>
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<p><strong>I imagine Sky NZ will be showing golf or highlights of last years Tour de France... </strong></p>
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<p><strong>South Africa A:</strong> 15 Leolin Zas, 14 Travis Ismaiel, 13 Francois Venter, 12 Howard Mnisi, 11 Courtnall Skosan, 10 Garth April, 9 Nic Groom, 1 Thomas du Toit, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 3 Vincent Koch, 4 JD Schickerling, 5 Stephan Lewies, 6 Sikhumbuzo Notshe, 7 Oupa Mohoje (c), 8 Nizaam Carr.</p>
<p><strong>Replacements:</strong> 16 Malcolm Marx, 17 Lizo Gqoboka, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 RG Snyman, 20 Jean-Luc du Preez, 21 Piet van Zyl, 22 Francois Brummer, 23 Lukhanyo Am.</p>
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<p><strong>England Saxons:</strong> 15 Mike Haley, 14 Semesa Rokoduguni, 13 Nick Tompkins, 12 Ollie Devoto, 11 Alex Lewington, 10 Danny Cipriani, 9 Dan Robson, 1 Alec Hepburn, 2 Tommy Taylor, 3 Kieran Brookes, 4 Dave Attwood (c), 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Don Armand, 7 Matt Kvesic, 8 Sam Jones.</p>
<p><strong>Replacements:</strong> 16 George McGuigan, 17 Ross Harrison, 18 Jake Cooper-Woolley, 19 Mitch Lees, 20 Dave Ewers, 21 Micky Young, 22 Sam James, 23 Christian Wade.</p>
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<p>Close! A replay of the Criterium Du Dauphine .................... and UK Super League, France v Romania (Euro2016) and a replay of NZU20 v Georgia U20 (among other things). But not this game.</p> -
Tompkins had a great game at 13 as well. SA were pretty poor in first half, but came back stronger in second half. England's counterattacking was the difference, some great tries.
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<p>Pretty enjoyable game in the end. Tompkins, Haley, Hepburn and Robson very good. SA subs definitely made a difference in the second half. No reason why Haley and Robson can't knock on the door of the senior setup fairly quickly. Robson especially is unlucky not to be in Oz as he's outplayed Care and Youngs all season.</p>
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<p>Looking forward to the game next week as it was a better watch than some of these A games tend to be.</p> -
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<p>I've looked online at the Sky TV guide and can't see tonight's Aust-Eng game listed. Don't tell me they're not showing these games live on SS1 or the Rugby Channel.</p>
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<p>Look in my first post, it's on Sky Sport <strong>2</strong>!</p> -
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<p>Saxons win 32-24. Really enjoyed that game, good watch. That Haley looks very handy, reminds me of a young Dagg. <strong>Kvesic is quite the douche huh</strong>.</p>
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<p>Why so? I didn't see him do anything douchey?</p>
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<p>I'm a big Kvesic fan but he was a mixed bag today. Won some great turnovers like no-one else in England can, but also slipped off a couple of tackles and failed to own the space between his pack and flyhalf in defence.</p>
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<p>Cracking match, Haley & Hepburn pick of the bunch for me. Tompkins good too, although still a little raw. How Dan Robson isn't with the main team in Australia I'll never know, and it was as gutting to see him go off with that ankle injury as it was great to see him score that ridiculous try on it.</p>
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<p>For the Saffers, I thought their big blonde lock looked good, and they weirdly seemed to have all their bulk on the bench. Next week should be fun assuming both teams rotate a bit.</p> -
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<p>Look in my first post, it's on Sky Sport <strong>2</strong>!</p>
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<p>I don't see the Australia-England test listed above. SS2 has live NRL all evening according to the Sky TV guide.</p>
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<p>Edit: Live on SS4.</p> -
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<p>I don't see the Australia-England test listed above. SS2 has live NRL all evening according to the Sky TV guide.</p>
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<p>Edit: Live on SS4.</p>
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<p>Ahhhhh, yes, sorry. I wasn't quite awake yet and read your post wrong. For some weird reason I thought you were talking about SA v Ire, which you clearly weren't. </p> -
<p>Georgia leading 9-6 vs Samoa at Halftime...</p>
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Will be interesting to see how this team grows over the next few years, and if they can be good enough to qualify for the next RWC.. There are a few injuries and "family absences"</p>
<p> </p>The Samoa team to play Georgia:<ul><li>Albert Nikoro*</li>
<li>Faatoina Autagavaia (18)</li>
<li>Reynold Lee Lo (6)</li>
<li>Faialaga Afamasaga (3)</li>
<li>David Lemi (capt) (42)</li>
<li>Patrick Fa'apale (7)</li>
<li>Dwayne Polataivao*</li>
<li>Jeff Lepa*</li>
<li>TJ Ioane (8)</li>
<li>Alafoti Faosiliva (15)</li>
<li>Teofilo Paulo (22)</li>
<li>Faatiga Lemalu (15)</li>
<li>James Johnston (14)</li>
<li>Motu Matuu (31)</li>
<li>Sam Aiono (1)</li>
</ul><p style="font-family:'PT Serif', Georgia, serif;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-size:16px;">Reserves: Seilala Lam*, Nuuuli Lene*, Jake Grey (4), Talaga Alofipo*, Oneone Faafou (2), Danny Tusitala*, D'Angelo Leuila*, Malu Falaniko*.</p> -
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">About ten minutes into the second half, Samoa took a 16-9 lead, after a converted try from Lemi. Georgia's number 7 (<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">Giorgi Tkhilaishvili</span>) just scored from a driving maul and after the conversion it's 16 all.</span></span></p>
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<p>some huge units in the Fijian team</p>
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<p>anyone else watching this...seems sky have 2 audio streams and one of them is about a second or so ahead of the play, so you hear a whistle, a second or so later you see the ref blow a penalty and hear the whistle again.</p>
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<p>Awful game of rugby I thought. Samoa had no scrum at all. Good to see them blooding younger players however.</p>
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Yeah 7 debutantes plus another 8 guys with under 10 tests. Will be a steep learning curve for many of them over the next few years as they try to build for 2019.
