Looking ahead to RWC 2011 – 2 years and counting down (PART II)
So, after a very succesful Tri-nations campaign, what are the Boks future prospects looking like? Will PDV’s kick-and-chase game plan work next year or the year after or will teams have cottoned onto this idea and find a defensive pattern to counter act the effective kicking game recently employed. A fair number of the current...
New Zealand vs South Africa 3rd Test – Review
Well, well, well, well……..what can we say about this great Bok Side? Have they silenced their critics or have they silenced their critics? The display on Saturday was nothing short of sublime. The game started off with the ref calling 2 penalties against the Boks that are still baffling me. Never in my short rugby...
New Zealand vs South Africa 3rd Test – Preview
The teams have been announced and here they are :- Springboks – 15 Frans Steyn, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 John Smit (c), 2...
Australia 21 – South Africa 6
The Wallabies ended the Springboks’ winning run in the Tri-nations with a well deserved 21 – 6 victory in Brisbane over the World Champions. A try each by Ashley Cooper and O’Connor proved sufficient to separate the two sides. But what an entertaining game! Despite only two tries being scored in the match both teams...
Springboks of 1999 vs Springboks of 2009
I came across an interesting article on the internet today. A journalist was of the opinion that the current Bok team was the best Bok team ever (I assume he means post-apartheid). He then went on to compare it to the 1999 Bok team that won 17 Tests in a row (yes, the same team...
Springbok and Wallaby teams named for Brisbane Test
The Springboks and the Wallabies have named their teams for this weekends Tri-Nations match in Brisbane. We will start with the Boks: They have made one change to their starting XV which sees winger Odwa Ndungane coming in for the injured JP Pietersen. I would have thought that PdV would have drafted Frans Steyn onto...
Australia 25 – South Africa 32
This test started off on a very familiar note, the Boks firing with all cylinders and the opposition struggling to soak it up. From the start of the game, the Boks made their intentions very clear that they would not stray too much from their game plan. But, what they did not prepare us for...
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