RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2)
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Shame not just for wales, i enjoy watching him play
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@Catogrande said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
Fuck. Not fake news
Yep he's gone. There are not many times you can say we will sorely miss a bandy legged rugby player, but this is one of them. Things have just got tougher.
From a mate
"Everything happens for a reason.
Halfpenny in and his three penalties along with tries from North and Adams help us comfortably beat SA who are too one-dimensional without Kolbe.
Then, in the World Cup Final against England, Halfpenny has a 50m kick in the last minute to win it. He wants it. He’s a nice guy. He deserves it. So does Alun Wyn. So does Gatland. So does Warburton. It creeps over the bar and Wales are world champions. Circle complete."
Cheers Rob
@MiketheSnow
Typical arrogant Welsh
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@Catogrande said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
Fuck. Not fake news
Yep he's gone. There are not many times you can say we will sorely miss a bandy legged rugby player, but this is one of them. Things have just got tougher.
From a mate
"Everything happens for a reason.
Halfpenny in and his three penalties along with tries from North and Adams help us comfortably beat SA who are too one-dimensional without Kolbe.
Then, in the World Cup Final against England, Halfpenny has a 50m kick in the last minute to win it. He wants it. He’s a nice guy. He deserves it. So does Alun Wyn. So does Gatland. So does Warburton. It creeps over the bar and Wales are world champions. Circle complete."
Cheers Rob
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
@Catogrande said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
Fuck. Not fake news
Yep he's gone. There are not many times you can say we will sorely miss a bandy legged rugby player, but this is one of them. Things have just got tougher.
From a mate
"Everything happens for a reason.
Halfpenny in and his three penalties along with tries from North and Adams help us comfortably beat SA who are too one-dimensional without Kolbe.
Then, in the World Cup Final against England, Halfpenny has a 50m kick in the last minute to win it. He wants it. He’s a nice guy. He deserves it. So does Alun Wyn. So does Gatland. So does Warburton. It creeps over the bar and Wales are world champions. Circle complete."
Cheers Rob
Second lions test 2013. Halfpennyu has 50m kick to win it. Is about 20m short.
Ain't happening.
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Just showing my ignorance here but aren't Marx and Titsoff the best in their positions, why don't they start?
@chimoaus said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
Just showing my ignorance here but aren't Marx and Titsoff the best in their positions, why don't they start?
Read or heard somewhere Marx has a few lineout throwing inaccuracies too.
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The bench for me is the biggest difference between the sides, the Boks reserve front row is every bit as good as those starting.
Without Navidi we lack physicality in the backrow too, Moriarty hasn't hit form much recently - he needs a huge performance.
Both centres are crocked too which doesn't help, I can see a Bok win by 10+@pooler-fan said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
The bench for me is the biggest difference between the sides, the Boks reserve front row is every bit as good as those starting.
Without Navidi we lack physicality in the backrow too, Moriarty hasn't hit form much recently - he needs a huge performance.
Both centres are crocked too which doesn't help, I can see a Bok win by 10+Jeez World Cup semis bring out the ghosts of Farmers past ...
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It depends on the calibre of their opponents. I mean if most of them were countries like NZ, Japan, Italy, and other Rugby Championship teams that beat them regularly then it is not that surprising, even allowing for Garces' exentricities.
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Since there doesn't appear to be a separate thread for this game, I thought I'd start one. Even if @MiketheSnow and I will constitute a posting majority on here that would be the envy of most parliaments world-wide these days.
So let me kick it off with some of SA's challenges for this weekend:
GARCES - the man-with-no-love-for-the-Bokke who will control (or not) affairs on the day...
To date, Garces has only reffed one game involving Wales and SA. Wales won. No biggie on it's own.
But factor in that stretching back to 2013 the Boks have won only 4 of 14 games (29%) where the French Mr Bean had the whistle and you can understand that Bok fans are not thrilled. Add in the fact that Garces was the conductor at both the Miracle in Brighton and again when SA lost to Italy for the first time ever in their history and it is not hard to understand why us biltong lovers are reaching for our tin-foil hats.Could be that we were just shite on the day.... but let's not let that inconvenient fact get in the way of a good story.
If we lose on Sunday Garces is bound to be part of the
moaningconversation.It couldn't possibly be our game plan or skills that weren't up to scratch..
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wow, they were just saying on the Radio, SA have won just 1/10 matches under Garces...
@taniwharugby said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
wow, they were just saying on the Radio, SA have won just 1/10 matches under Garces...
Did they say how many Wales have won?
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It depends on the calibre of their opponents. I mean if most of them were countries like NZ, Japan, Italy, and other Rugby Championship teams that beat them regularly then it is not that surprising, even allowing for Garces' exentricities.
@Higgins said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
It depends on the calibre of their opponents. I mean if most of them were countries like NZ, Japan, Italy, and other Rugby Championship teams that beat them regularly then it is not that surprising, even allowing for Garces' exentricities.
It would be interesting to see Faeces stats with SH v NH teams overall.
I suspect his “French style” doesn’t gel with SH play. He tends to look flustered when the pace is fast -
@taniwharugby said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
wow, they were just saying on the Radio, SA have won just 1/10 matches under Garces...
Did they say how many Wales have won?
@Snowy nah I didnt hear the whole piece, assume they did.
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I've changed my opinion on this game. Wales are missing a couple of their better players. Not ideal at this time of the tournament.
Old bandy legs is a hell of a player, Halfpenny isn't a patch on him.
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Wales name team to face South Africa
Wales: 15. Leigh Halfpenny (Scarlets) (84 Caps), 14. George North (Ospreys) (90 Caps), 13. Jonathan Davies (Scarlets) (79 Caps), 12. Hadleigh Parkes (Scarlets) (23 Caps), 11. Josh Adams (Cardiff Blues) (19 Caps), 10. Dan Biggar (Northampton Saints) (77 Caps), 9. Gareth Davies (Scarlets) (49 Caps), 1. Wyn Jones (Scarlets) (20 Caps), 2. Ken Owens (Scarlets) (71 Caps), 3. Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs) (47 Caps), 4. Jake Ball (Scarlets) (40 Caps), 5. Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys) (132 Caps) (CAPT), 6. Aaron Wainwright (Dragons) (17 Caps), 7. Justin Tipuric (Ospreys) (70 Caps), 8. Ross Moriarty (Dragons) (39 Caps).Replacements: Elliot Dee (Dragons) (27 Caps), 17. Rhys Carre (Saracens) (4 Caps)18. Dillon Lewis (Cardiff Blues) (20 Caps)19. Adam Beard (Ospreys) (18 Caps)20. Aaron Shingler (Scarlets) (24 Caps)21. Tomos Williams (Cardiff Blues) (14 Caps)22. Rhys Patchell (Scarlets) (17 Caps)23. Owen Watkin (Ospreys) (20 Caps).
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Wales name team to face South Africa
Wales: 15. Leigh Halfpenny (Scarlets) (84 Caps), 14. George North (Ospreys) (90 Caps), 13. Jonathan Davies (Scarlets) (79 Caps), 12. Hadleigh Parkes (Scarlets) (23 Caps), 11. Josh Adams (Cardiff Blues) (19 Caps), 10. Dan Biggar (Northampton Saints) (77 Caps), 9. Gareth Davies (Scarlets) (49 Caps), 1. Wyn Jones (Scarlets) (20 Caps), 2. Ken Owens (Scarlets) (71 Caps), 3. Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs) (47 Caps), 4. Jake Ball (Scarlets) (40 Caps), 5. Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys) (132 Caps) (CAPT), 6. Aaron Wainwright (Dragons) (17 Caps), 7. Justin Tipuric (Ospreys) (70 Caps), 8. Ross Moriarty (Dragons) (39 Caps).Replacements: Elliot Dee (Dragons) (27 Caps), 17. Rhys Carre (Saracens) (4 Caps)18. Dillon Lewis (Cardiff Blues) (20 Caps)19. Adam Beard (Ospreys) (18 Caps)20. Aaron Shingler (Scarlets) (24 Caps)21. Tomos Williams (Cardiff Blues) (14 Caps)22. Rhys Patchell (Scarlets) (17 Caps)23. Owen Watkin (Ospreys) (20 Caps).
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Going this deep into the tournament and only being without Navidi and Liam Williams is pretty remarkable.
Their replacements - Moriarty and Halfpenny respectively - will do a job for us.
On a knife edge.
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@Billy-Webb but is he going in held together by tape!
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Still shake my head seeing Hadleigh Parkes running out. Good for him, but never set the world alight at the Blues.
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@Tim said in RWC: Wales v South Africa (SF2):
@nzzp He's on the same level as Crotty.
And as important for us as Crotty is/has been for you.
