SA Rugby

[Machpants]

Mmm no Duane

[akan004]

@OomPB Looks incredibly strong. You guys have a lot more depth than we do atm. Where's RG?

[OomPB]

@Machpants

He is going for an op.

[OomPB]

@akan004 still injured at Munster.

[OomPB]

@booboo He started his career at WP as a nr 2 and switched to 6 later.

He is in very good form with Roos for the Stormers.

Pretty sure he played under Nienaber and Rassie at the Stormers

[OomPB]

@akan004 Doc Craven use to say when WP and N Tvl are strong, then Bok rugby is also strong. They play in the URC Final on Saturday.

[Frye]

@akan004 said in Springboks moving forward:

@OomPB Looks incredibly strong. You guys have a lot more depth than we do atm. Where's RG?

Would be great to have their prop depth for sure.

[OomPB]

@Machpants look like we'll see some SA A matches this year.

[Machpants]

@OomPB said in Springboks moving forward:

@Machpants look like we'll see some SA A matches this year.

Good depth, around the world. And some of the schoolboy stuff I've seen on youtube - ouch!

[OomPB]

@Machpants our schoolboy rugby has been hectic after 2 years of no rugby.

[OomPB]

Pumas winning the Currie Cup for the first time in history. This is what it means to their supporters

[OomPB]

Springbok team to face Wales in Pretoria:
15 – Damian Willemse (DHL Stormers) – 15 caps, 5pts (1t)
14 – Cheslin Kolbe (Toulon) – 18 caps, 45pts (9t)
13 – Lukhanyo Am (Cell C Sharks) – 26 caps, 25 pts (5t)
12 – Damian de Allende (Munster) – 58 caps, 35 pts (7t)
11 – Makazole Mapimpi (Cell C Sharks) – 25 caps, 100 pts (20t)
10 – Elton Jantjies (NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes) – 44 caps, 326 pts (2t, 65c, 61p, 1d)
9 – Faf de Klerk (Yokohama Canon Eagles) – 36 caps, 25pts (5t)
8 – Jasper Wiese (Leicester Tigers) – 11 caps, 0 pts
7 – Franco Mostert (Honda Heat) – 51 caps, 5pts (1t)
6 – Siya Kolisi (captain, Cell C Sharks) – 63 caps, 30 pts (6t)
5 – Lood de Jager (Panasonic Wild Knights) – 56 caps, 25 pts (5t)
4 – Eben Etzebeth (Cell C Sharks) – 97 caps, 15 pts (3t)
3 – Frans Malherbe (DHL Stormers) – 46 caps, 5pts (1t)
2 – Bongi Mbonambi (Cell C Sharks) – 48 caps, 45 pts (9t)
1 – Ox Nché (Cell C Sharks) – 9 caps, 0 pts

Replacements:
16 – Malcolm Marx (Kubota Spears) – 46 caps, 50 pts (10t)
17 – Steven Kitshoff (DHL Stormers) – 59 caps, 5pts (1t)
18 – Vincent Koch (Wasps) – 31 caps, 0 pts
19 – Salmaan Moerat (DHL Stormers) – uncapped
20 – Elrigh Louw (Vodacom Bulls) – uncapped
21 – Kwagga Smith (Yamaha Júbilo) – 19 caps, 5 pts (1t)
22 – Herschel Jantjies (DHL Stormers) – 21 caps, 25pts (5t)
23 – Willie le Roux (Toyota Verblitz) – 72 caps, 60 pts (12t)

[Daffy Jaffy]

@OomPB If you would like to add your thoughts on the teams to the match thread that is up and running- What will Moerat and Louw bring to the game? two players I don't know.
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/5387/springboks-v-wales/7

[OomPB]

@Daffy-Jaffy will do. Still learning tsf

[OomPB]

Good to see NZ sending their u19s to South Africa for 4 matches and the A teams playing in Dec in France.

[OomPB]

@Machpants yesterday's Paarl Interschools was great after 3 years. Remember Louis Koen? His son played 10 for Paarl Gim.

[booboo]

@OomPB said in Springboks moving forward:

@Machpants yesterday's Paarl Interschools was great after 3 years. Remember Louis Koen?

His son played 10 for Paarl Gim.

I'm getting old

[Higgins]

@OomPB Looks like the blue, black and white team had a few too many over the regulation fifteen allowed on the field before the referee blew his whistle for full time. Surely the red, yellow and black team would win any protest over that.

[OomPB]

@Higgins ja it is quite controversial. The Boys High (blue) nr 8 knocked the ball on when he scored that try , the ref should have allowed a penalty try earlier for Gim (green/maroon/yellow) Team plus a card for a deliberate knock on by Boys High There was 26,000 attending and the old boys ran on before the end whistle which was sad. Western Province and Saru will hopefully learn from this and appoint a top ref and TMO for such a big match. Faure Stadium will sadly get wired to prevent running on the pitch.

However today everything has forgotten and Monday Paarl will be normal again.

Players from the two school in the current Bok squad are Handre Pollard and Williams Gim and Salman Moerat and Evan Roos Boys High

[OomPB]

2022 done and dusted. Springboks ended on a high beating England convincing. The losses against Ireland and France was close enough. So there are a lot to take forward to 2023 (except Rassie's videos)

Myself think the All Blacks and Springboks are favorites with Ireland and France.

We saw in 2019 that it don't mean much, until the business end starts. Then it's the form teams.

Most of the Boks will be back in URC action in two weeks time.