Boks v Wobblies I
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@stodders said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@NTA Plenty of time for a midweek injury and a change of personnel and bench split (5:3 to 6:2) to throw the opposition plans
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Lots to little
Won't even be close
SA in 3rd gear
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@pakman said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Boks are beatable. Main strike weapon will be maul.
Imminently beatable. Main strike weapon is the maul and the scru…
Imminently beatable. Main strike weapons are the maul and the scrum and Arendse (5 tries in 2 tests against Oz), bugger
Imminently beatable. Amongst their arsenal are such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
Arendse (5 from 2) and
Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)Also shouldn’t forget the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks) aaargh …
I’ll come in again [exit and immediate reentry]
Imminently beatable. Their ever-expanding arsenal is easily underestimated but contains such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
The tryscoring threats of Arendse (5 from 2), Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)
Along with the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks)
To say nothing of two-time and current world player of the year PSDTBugger.
They are beatable if you can nullify their many and diverse threats.
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@Smuts said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@pakman said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Boks are beatable. Main strike weapon will be maul.
Imminently beatable. Main strike weapon is the maul and the scru…
Imminently beatable. Main strike weapons are the maul and the scrum and Arendse (5 tries in 2 tests against Oz), bugger
Imminently beatable. Amongst their arsenal are such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
Arendse (5 from 2) and
Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)Also shouldn’t forget the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks) aaargh …
I’ll come in again [exit and immediate reentry]
Imminently beatable. Their ever-expanding arsenal is easily underestimated but contains such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
The tryscoring threats of Arendse (5 from 2), Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)
Along with the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks)
To say nothing of two-time and current world player of the year PSDTBugger.
They are beatable if you can nullify their many and diverse threats.
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@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
SA are definitely beatable. This year will be very interesting, big names are fading.
Going to say Aus will win one of the testsHaven't seen signs of their big names fading tbh. Then again, it's hard to judge them when they have only played the Barbarians, Italy and Georgia so far.
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@NTA said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Pretty early to name a team compared to the standard Thursday. I guess they're comfortable with anything they pick
He'll innovate by changing the side during the week.
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@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
SA are definitely beatable. This year will be very interesting, big names are fading.
I think the Boks will be fine but the one position which should be interesting to see how the transition goes is tighthead prop. I've kept a pretty close eye on Wilco Louw during the July Tests and while he's an incredible scrummager, he looked at times to struggle with the pace of the game, being exposed a bit in the defensive line and putting in some rather lazy looking cleans.
Frans Malherbe was great in that sense: not only was he excellent in the set piece, he also brought a lot of value around the field. Louw will probably need to start showing more in that regard, otherwise I could see how he'd be overtaken by someone like Ntlabakanye sooner rather than later. Ntlabakanye might look out of shape but he's surprisingly mobile for his size, with a big engine on him.
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He can't do 40mins of South African paced rugby?
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@MN5 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
De Allende injured I assume ?
In any case Esterhuizen is a terrific replacement. Probably my two favourite 12s going round the traps at the moment.
Boks by about 30
DDA is carrying a niggle, but is expected to be available for Boks II.
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