All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch

[Billy Tell]

This is all very easily answered by common sense.

Why would Parsons be on the bench if Taylor is available?

Ergo Taylor is on the bench.

[Stargazer]

The mistake is obviously on the All Blacks website. This All Blacks instagram post - a GIF - also has Taylor, not Parsons.

[Stargazer]

SOUTH AFRICA:

1. Tendai Mtawarira
2. Adriaan Strauss
3. Vincent Koch
4. Eben Etzebeth
5. Pieter-Steph du Toit
6. Francois Louw
7. Oupa Mohoje
8. Warren Whiteley
9. Faf de Klerk
10. Elton Jantjies
11. Francois Hougaard
12. Juan de Jongh
13. Jesse Kriel
14. Bryan Habana
15. Johan Goosen

Reserves:
16. Malcolm Marx
17. Steven Kitshoff
18. Lourens Adriaanse
19. Franco Mostert
20. Willem Alberts
21. Jaco Kriel
22. Morné Steyn
23. Damian de Allende

http://www.sarugby.co.za/article.aspx?category=sarugby/springboks&id=3703464

[pakman]

AB.com now corrected.

[No Quarter]

Sopoaga on the bench instead of Cruden!! Outrageous selection!!!

Yeah, once again boring as fuck team. Comon Hansen mix it up a bit.

[Nepia]

Good to see ALB in their again, he's really seized his chance this year - Ngatai must be sitting at home gutted.

I would like Patrick T to get a run in this one - or any of the remaining ones!

But, yet again an AB team with nothing really to debate.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

SOUTH AFRICA:

1. Tendai Mtawarira
2. Adriaan Strauss
3. Vincent Koch
4. Eben Etzebeth
5. Pieter-Steph du Toit
6. Francois Louw
7. Oupa Mohoje
8. Warren Whiteley
9. Faf de Klerk
10. Elton Jantjies
11. Francois Hougaard
12. Juan de Jongh
13. Jesse Kriel
14. Bryan Habana
15. Johan Goosen

Reserves:
16. Malcolm Marx
17. Steven Kitshoff
18. Lourens Adriaanse
19. Franco Mostert
20. Willem Alberts
21. Jaco Kriel
22. Morné Steyn
23. Damian de Allende

http://www.sarugby.co.za/article.aspx?category=sarugby/springboks&id=3703464

Morne Steyn on the bench?? Why?

[MN5]

@taniwharugby said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

@Stargazer said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

SOUTH AFRICA:

1. Tendai Mtawarira
2. Adriaan Strauss
3. Vincent Koch
4. Eben Etzebeth
5. Pieter-Steph du Toit
6. Francois Louw
7. Oupa Mohoje
8. Warren Whiteley
9. Faf de Klerk
10. Elton Jantjies
11. Francois Hougaard
12. Juan de Jongh
13. Jesse Kriel
14. Bryan Habana
15. Johan Goosen

Reserves:
16. Malcolm Marx
17. Steven Kitshoff
18. Lourens Adriaanse
19. Franco Mostert
20. Willem Alberts
21. Jaco Kriel
22. Morné Steyn
23. Damian de Allende

http://www.sarugby.co.za/article.aspx?category=sarugby/springboks&id=3703464

Morne Steyn on the bench?? Why?

Impact

......beats me.......

[Nepia]

@No-Quarter said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

Sopoaga on the bench instead of Cruden!! Outrageous selection!!!

Yeah, once again boring as fuck team. Comon Hansen mix it up a bit.

Hahaha - I didn't even notice that!

[No Quarter]

FAB for sure...

[ACT Crusader]

@No-Quarter said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

Sopoaga on the bench instead of Cruden!! Outrageous selection!!!

And unfortunately it's not even for a controversial reason like he was "dropped". Cruden has a groin strain....

It's a very strong line up. The calls to Switch Moody and Crockett, it seems they like Crockett's Impact off the bench better in the final 30.

Good to see Taylor get another run off the bench as he was effective last week.

Let's hope we see that Romero fella again as he wasn't half bad when he came on last weekend.

Well done to Ardie on his first start. Looking forward to see how he goes when the game is at its most physical. It will be interesting to see how long he plays given the earlier comments about him.

I wonder if TKB will feature? Sort of seems to be in the Patty T category.

The Barrett starting at 10 experiment seems to be going okay so let's keep it going

Glad to see the same midfield selected. Improved performance as a combination last week I thought, but plenty to work on. Like ALB on the bench, but I suspect they will be looking at Moala once he's fully fit and ready.

Dagg a winger??? Nah never work....

[taniwharugby]

@ACT-Crusader that Romero fella looks a bit bigger than Romano too!

[MN5]

@No-Quarter said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

FAB for sure...

Due to moving to another suburb my boys haven't managed to get into rugby this year but both are really keen next year.....I just hope some big fucker like that doesn't put them off the game for life. Those fends were massive.....

[taniwharugby]

yeah I saw that clip doing the rounds on FB...to their credit, most of the kids at least tried to tackle him, however half-heartedly or with poor technique...but jeez, he looked far too big for that grade.

Was bad enough in TR Jnr's U11 grade this year seeing the odd kid nearly as tall as me running about, luckily those bigger kids were usually powder puffs so wasn't an issue.

[ACT Crusader]

@taniwharugby bigger and a little more dynamic. Let's hope it can continue.

[MN5]

Well two of the All Blacks best attacking backs are skinny white guys ( Savea the obvious exception ) so that's very encouraging for our children. Read is big but he's hardly a monster compared to some and get's through the tackles and knocks people on their asses.

Island kids do grow up much faster though, that's a fact. I remember a future Manu Samoan international in my year get measured up in third form for PE, 6 foot and 96kgs ! fucken hell, I had to lean as far to the right on the scales as I could and it still didn't hit 50kg.

[Stargazer]

Everyone predicted that the Tongan Thor would be a star. Now, obviously, chosing to play for the Reds doesn't help his cause and he's still young, but he hasn't been that impressive yet, has he?

[mariner4life]

seriously this is so fucking boring. This year was supposed to be fun, with new players, new combinations, we would come back to the field a bit, and test matches would be entered with trepidation by AB fans drunk on success. The Fern would be full of acrimony and in-fighting as any stumble was blamed on someone new who should never have been there over insert better player from my team

And it turns out everyone who has needed to step up has; the opposition have got worse, not us; we're picking the same fucking team every week, and it's full of players too good for whoever we are playing.

And the worst we got was 50 decent minutes from the Argies, and Winger trying to make out the coaches hated the Hurricanes because Marshall, Woodward, and Shields didn't make the team.

Fucking weak.

[NTA]

@MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

Due to moving to another suburb my boys haven't managed to get into rugby this year but both are really keen next year.....I just hope some big fucker like that doesn't put them off the game for life. Those fends were massive.....

Let's see if the kid goes anywhere once the others catch up to him. Having a head over everyone else, and a 15kg advantage (maybe 20kg) makes it easy for him.

[MN5]

@NTA said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

@MN5 said in All Pinks vs Boks - Christchurch:

Due to moving to another suburb my boys haven't managed to get into rugby this year but both are really keen next year.....I just hope some big fucker like that doesn't put them off the game for life. Those fends were massive.....

Let's see if the kid goes anywhere once the others catch up to him. Having a head over everyone else, and a 15kg advantage (maybe 20kg) makes it easy for him.

Well yeah, Nonu used to do that at will as he was coming up the ranks but the reason he is regarded as a great ( rightly so ) is cos of all the skills he added along the way.