Baby Boks team vs Georgia

u20 World Cup starts tomorrow! 

Junior Boks – 15 Manie Libbok, 14 Yaw Penxe, 13 Stedman Gans, 12 David Brits, 11 Wandisile Simelane, 10 Curwin Bosch, 9 Rewan Kruger, 8 Juarno Augustus, 7 Ernst van Rhyn (c), 6 Zain Davids, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Salmaan Moerat, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Johan Grobbelaar, 1 Gerhard Steenekamp.
Subs: 16 Kwenzo Blose, 17 Daniel Jooste, 18 Lee-Marvin Mazibuko, 19 Hendre Stassen, 20 Nama Xaba, 21 Francois de Villiers, 22 Damian Willemse, 23 Gianni Lombard.

Do us proud boys!

 All games apparently to be live on World Rugby if anyone wants to keep an I on the next generation of talent.

 My bad, this is the team vs France..

 APD
I only know about Bosch - the rest is an unknown mix.  Good luck to the kids

Same here Mike, I hope they unearth some gems!

Good luck guys....bring home the Cup.
APD thanks for the info on coverage of the WC.
Appreciated.  

 Hi Ruckers

We don't often post on subjective rugby matters, but we'd love oyu to keep an eye out for Damian Willemse .

We have had our eye on him over the past few years.
He is an incredible runner with supreme offloading skills and a sidestep bar none.
We feel that he may be better suited to fullback, rather than 10.

Let us know your thoughts after you have watched him play.

 
Any relation to Ashwin?

If Willemse is a 10, where do they plan on playing Bosch? Willemse will probably play at 15. Because surely they will start with Bosch at 10.  

 Seen some youtube clips of him, pace and step look good but these clips always do. 

 He was discussed on here not so long ago and there's a link showing a slick sidestep. Without a doubt a real talent. Apparently he was going to play for the Stormers until the U20 came along and changed it all.

 Tier 2 & 3 Rugby Forum - View topic - World Rugby U20 Championship

It's all here

Good drive by SA babies with Curwin to kick a draw...he does it 23 all...Curwin is big match mentality

Good drive by SA babies with Curwin to kick a draw...he does it 23 all...Curwin is big match mentality

He's a phenomonal goal kicker, seb

 I've seen little of Willemse and would like to see him play 10 and 15...Bosch got an early break at the Sharks, but Willemse did well at 10 in junior rugby, so it would be short sighted to discard him there just because Bosch seems to have stepped up first.

 The Baby Boks look like a poorly coached side, they lacked shape and cohesion while the French side were exactly the opposite. The French side always looked good with ball in hand, showed some polish and were  unlucky not to come out of the game with an outright win. Should say the Baby Boks don't lack talent but it's the bits and pieces that require some glue and a compass so that there's cohesion and direction.

 There is a number of problems on Wednesday and since there were no team changes one has to remember the following:-
*    The spilling of balls in tackle situations*    The questionable performance of the backline pertaining to both attack and defense*    The seriously defective loosie combination -  in particular the 6 was poor.
One cannot help but wonder why our backline has descended to the minnows level. 

 The backline...what backline?? Who's the backline coach......it wouldn't be clueless Mandihli Sticke, would it?