Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein

NTA

RETURN OF THE 24TH PLAYER!!! Cheika pulling out all the stops for this one

50th cap for Foley (who has 499 Test points)
1st Starting cap for Rodda, Dempsey, and Koroibete
Possible debut for Lukhan Tui - depending on 6-2 bench I'd say as Hanigan has the experience of 7 Tests now.

Scott Sio (36 Tests)
Tatafu Polota-Nau (75 Tests)
Sekope Kepu (84 Tests)
Izack Rodda (2 Tests)
Adam Coleman (15 Tests)
Jack Dempsey (3 Tests)
Michael Hooper (C) (72 Tests)
Sean McMahon (19 Tests)
Will Genia (vc) (82 Tests)
Bernard Foley (vc) (49 Tests)
Reece Hodge (17 Tests)
Kurtley Beale (64 Tests)
Tevita Kuridrani (51 Tests)
Marika Koroibete (1 Test)
Israel Folau (59 Tests)
Stephen Moore (122 Tests)
Tom Robertson (13 Tests)
Allan Alaalatoa (16 Tests)
Rob Simmons (75 Tests)
Ned Hanigan (7 Tests)
Lukhan Tui*
Nick Phipps (55 Tests)
Samu Kerevi (11 Tests)
Henry Speight (16 Tests)

One player to be omitted

MajorRage

Hooper is looking good to be the first player to 150, if not 200 caps

NTA

@majorrage turns 26 in a month. He should crack 100 before he's thirty.

NTA

Henry Speight drops out of the match day squad - meaning Lukhan Tui is likely to debut at the ripe old age of 21.

That's a complete tight five + Hanigan on the bench, and a fairly meaty one with Tui weighing in at 123kg (198cm).

Crucial

51 tests for Kuridrani surprises me. It isn't as if he has set the world on fire to hold down his spot.

NTA

@crucial had a couple of good seasons where his ball running was very incisive for us, running off Giteau

reprobate

@crucial awesome first year, dud for a good couple of years afterwards, glimpses again recently. weird.

Crucial

@nta said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

@crucial had a couple of good seasons where his ball running was very incisive for us, running off Giteau

The season they thrashed the old Brumbies lineout set play where they gave him an angled run at speed? Yeah, he was quite good at that.

NTA

@crucial Think so - was a while back and I don't watch Super Rugby much.

In any case, I've always found him and Speight to be defensive liabilities. When they get a shoulder on its usually pretty good. But their positioning is shit, and you know it is by how vehemently any Brumbies fan will defend them over it.

Crucial

@nta said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

@crucial Think so - was a while back and I don't watch Super Rugby much.

In any case, I've always found him and Speight to be defensive liabilities. When they get a shoulder on its usually pretty good. But their positioning is shit, and you know it is by how vehemently any Brumbies fan will defend them over it.

At his best he is kind of a half-Mortlock.

reprobate

@crucial said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

@nta said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

@crucial had a couple of good seasons where his ball running was very incisive for us, running off Giteau

The season they thrashed the old Brumbies lineout set play where they gave him an angled run at speed? Yeah, he was quite good at that.

he at the very least held his own against conrad that year. at the least.

JustAnotherFan

That hair pull / tackle on Leyds should have been a yellow card. Disgusting.

Bones

@justanotherfan said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

That hair pull / tackle on Leyds should have been a yellow card. Disgusting.

Yep, swiftly followed by the yellow for the idiot bokke captain.

JustAnotherFan

@bones said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

@justanotherfan said in Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein:

That hair pull / tackle on Leyds should have been a yellow card. Disgusting.

Yep, swiftly followed by the yellow for the idiot bokke captain.

Captain is doing his role.

Bones

@justanotherfan which is to try and go after Folau then realise he's the same size so change tack and pin Genia on the ground and rub his forearm in his face? Man he's tough.

Bones

Skosan makes up for that pathetic non attempt on Koroibete.

Bones

Man Coetzee really lacks any kind of oomph on attack.

Bones

Moore arguing with the ref because he wasn't allowed to advance to ten metres from where Jantjies was taking the shot. Surely he knows that.

JustAnotherFan

Nothing worse than a Kiwi ref.

Bones

@justanotherfan haaaaaahahahahaha. Good on ya wallabies. Saffas can't even win at home. At least your guys scored some points. Certificates for everyone!

The Silver Fern

Springboks v Wallabies - Bloemfontein