Springboks v Wallabies
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Wallabies co-captain James Slipper is in doubt for their opening Rugby Championship Test against South Africa after suffering a knee injury at training.
Coach Eddie Jones sent an SOS to uncapped prop Blake Schoupp following Slipper's mishap, which is a massive blow to Australia's hopes of a first ever win in Pretoria.
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@Bovidae that will be a meteoric rise for the young fella if he does get a bench spot. He was the Brumbies regular loosehead bench option. Started a couple of games, could be into the cauldron against the Boks.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Springboks v Wallabies:
@Bovidae that will be a meteoric rise for the young fella if he does get a bench spot. He was the Brumbies regular loosehead bench option. Started a couple of games, could be into the cauldron against the Boks.
Not bad for a bloke that was a teacher in his day job last year.
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For all the talk of the Springboks resting blokes, we aren't winning this one.
In fact, I'm not sure I actually want us to win. I mean sure I'll be cheering for it and very happy if it happens, but thinking longer term I think the last thing this Wallaby team needs is any sort of hype or expectation.
We want to be sly, under the radar dogs. We scrape over Wales in the pools, inch past the Argies and well hello we're one win away from the World Cup final and nobody even knows we're there.
I'll tip Bokkies to win 28-13 with a late Springbok try to widen the margin a little.
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Wallabies team to play South Africa:
1 James Slipper (c) (127 Tests), 2 David Porecki (10 Tests), 3 Allan Alaalatoa (64 Tests), 4 Nick Frost (9 Tests), 5 Will Skelton (24 Tests), 6 Tom Hooper*, 7 Michael Hooper (c) (124 Tests), 8 Rob Valetini (30 Tests), 9 Nic White (59 Tests), 10 Quade Cooper (76 Tests), 11 Marika Koroibete (51 Tests), 12 Reece Hodge (62 Tests), 13 Len Ikitau (26 Tests), 14 Suliasi Vunivalu (1 Test), 15 Tom Wright (23 Tests)
Reserves: 16 Jordan Uelese (15 Tests), 17 Matt Gibbon (5 Tests), 18 Zane Nonggorr*, 19 Richie Arnold*, 20 Pete Samu (32 Tests), 21 Tate McDermott (21 Tests), 22 Samu Kerevi (41 Tests), 23 Carter Gordon*
*denotes uncapped
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@Machpants No, that was me haha. The media release says "finishers", but I hate that term, so wrote down "reserves.
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Fuck sake! Visual media guys then
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@Tim said in Springboks v Wallabies:
Big question mark over Michael Hooper. Will be interesting to see if he can still play at test level.
You mean the greatest openside since professionalism
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These Wallabies aren’t quite cherry ripe but they’ll be up and about.
That forward pack will be Bledisloe winning-good when they’re all fit. Eddie needs to find out quick on Vunivalu, so throw him in the deep end instead of RTSing him for months. Like it. Boks obviously have to give guys a rest or deal with injuries. Good chance for Oz here.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Springboks v Wallabies:
@Tim said in Springboks v Wallabies:
Big question mark over Michael Hooper. Will be interesting to see if he can still play at test level.
You mean the greatest openside since professionalism
What happened to the Hoopah! filter?
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@Stargazer said in Springboks v Wallabies:
@Machpants No, that was me haha. The media release says "finishers", but I hate that term, so wrote down "reserves.
Yep well another reason to consider this the best rugby forum, intelligent use of editing!!!!
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@SidBarret said in Springboks v Wallabies:
Based on the online comments, it seems both sets of fans are pretty confident about tomorrow.
Should make so an entertaining game and post game discussion
Sid, I'm pretty convinced your mob are favourites*. So that's fucked your chances.
- even though like @MN5 I'm not fully across all your players
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@booboo said in Springboks v Wallabies:
@SidBarret said in Springboks v Wallabies:
Based on the online comments, it seems both sets of fans are pretty confident about tomorrow.
Should make so an entertaining game and post game discussion
Sid, I'm pretty convinced your mob are favourites*. So that's fucked your chances.
- even though like @MN5 I'm not fully across all your players
I’m not sure what I do across players is relevant….
Wait…..What ?
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Four debutants named to play South Africa in TRC opener
