South Africa:
15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 JP
Pietersen, 12 Jan Serfontein, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Handré Pollard, 9
Fourie du Preez, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5
Victor Matfield (c), 4 Lood de Jager, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck
du Plessis, 1 Coenie Oosthuizen.
Replacements:
16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Marcel van der Merwe, 19 Stephan Lewies, 20 Teboho Mohoje, 21 Francois Hougaard, 22 Marnitz Boshoff, 23 Zane Kirchner.
Agreed, Bissie and Jannie rest long overdue...Beast is rested, why not them?
Not a bad side however with a few old men but could be worse...why not give Reinach a go with Pollard...Pietersen still @13??? What's Wooly Booly doing on replacements....crazy. Glad to see Lood and Coenie (and Marcel on bench)...yes he must be given a run.
The Scotland game should have been used to blood MORE youngsters...not going to have the chance to do this against the bigger 'uns...cannot understand what goes on in HM's mindset??
Clued up Meyer is clearly doing a horrible job
What barometer are you using to measure him SafeSex?
This side is a bit of an insult to the Brawny Scots. There is no way HM would have played this team against Wales. Pollard should have played off the bench. How long do we persist with Stepfontein. Coetzee is not test material. Botha comfortably outplayed Lewies a few weeks back. Hougaard is really a shadow of the player at the RWC. Kirchner is the worst tackler I have ever seen in Bok colours and that includes the mummy Pierre Spies. Now Coenie is a loose head again! And we chose the wrong van der Merwe....the Golden Lions chappie worked Marcel's case.
Oh Flower Scotland when will we see your likes again
who came and died for you wee bit hill and glen
and stood against them, proud Meyers army
And sent them homeward tae Think Again.
We should still win on Saturday but things could get testy. One can't help but feel all the negative press has finally got to HM and he has chosen a team to appease the stupidissimo set.
Mozzie cannot see being tested by a side that just managed to clip minnow Canada (the Cannucks have improved vastly and can be spoilers) by 2 points at the eleventh hour...as much admiration I have for the tough Scots...rugby being relatively minor there and I'm proud of my Scots blood on my mothers side.
Indeed the Flower of Scotland...they have managed to clip us more than twice as well as the Wallabies but never the AB's.
Moz you sure are turning into the perfect Meyer clone, lets just hope you don't start reacting like him when we start getting our arses kicked against Oz and NZ in Aug?
Pollard off the bench - why, he is twice the player useless Morne is......Pollard starting is a VAST improvement. Goosen is injured as is Lambie........Boshoff is not going to set the test arena alight.
You persist with Serfontein because he is good, had a great first test against Wales, your hero Meyer intimated as much. Geez if you see no good in this lad why don't you just chuck in the towel on SA rugby in general.
As for Botha outplaying Lewies, you seem to keep hanging onto this complete load of rubbish. Given how passive Botha generally is and how active Lewies is, how on earth do you conclude that Botha outplayed Lewies and comfortably at that? What did Botha do to outplay Lewies? Lewies has been one of the finds of the season - is far, far better than useless Matfield for a start. The Boks will improve when he hopefully replaces Matfield on the day.
Coetzee, not test material - that is the joke of the year, I wonder if your other hero Jake would agree with you on this given how much Jake raves about this guy. Last year he was solid at test level playing out of position at 6, this year he has learnt the art of the position under Jake and has been one of our standout loosies in the S15.
What on earth does Louw offer that Coetzee does not. Coetzee has now mastered the art of the turnover and at least provides some input with ball in hand, something Louw hardly ever does. Coetzee is a far better player than Louw, but you and Meyer will tell us otherwise until you eventually wake up to the cries of we told you so.
I'd rather have Hougaard as a shadow of himself than the useless Pienaar who for some time now has not belonged at test level. As for Hougaard, he has got better and better all S15 and will upstage average du Preez when he comes on as he is a better player.
Geez how ignorant are you, you want the Lions v/d Merwe ahead of the impressive Marcel......what a bloody joke. I'm still waiting for your reference to the Lions loosie getting the better of Marcel but as per usual this has never materialised for it never happened - it was not even close. The only thing that happened in those scrums was that when Mellett replaced Greyling at loosehead, the Bulls marched the Lions scrum back with interest. Up to that point there was nothing in it.
Moz when will you stop lying to yourself - my guess is that you will be forced to come clean come end of the RC when the Boks compete with the Argies for the wooden spoon
Dave the reason I suggest Pollard off the bench is I remember what happened to Goosen and Gaffie du Toit. I also remember what happened to the Boks when we put your man Jantjies into a test we were leading, before he was ready....not that he'll ever be ready!
I also recall your theory that Coenie was going to be a test tighthead.
That Coetzee was going to be a great two years ago....Louw is so much better.
That Hougaard was the best scrumhalf in the world.
That JJ is better than Conrad Smith
That Greyling was the next Bok loosehead etc.
And by the way I'm not suggesting Marcel get replaced by his namesake. For heaven sake, why would you put a loosehead at tighthead, unless you are Dave and the player is Coenie Ooosthuizen! I' m just telling you the lad from the Lions dominated Marcel.
We have been here before....best read my piece again and try to grasp what I'm telling you.
Well last I checked Goosen had a blinder against Oz on debut but got injured. Reality is these guys only have to have average games in order to add more value than Morne.
I am yet to see an issue with Coenie at tighthead. Looks to have converted pretty well to me, one only needs to look at last Saturdays game.
Nope Coetzee was thrown in the deep end as a 6 at test level having never played there before, he is twice the player now and Louw is not even close. Louw is a very average loosie.
Hougaard had a poor patch, that was a year ago
JJ outplayed Conrad both at test and S15 level - FACT
Greyling was the next Bok loosehead - bullshit, who said that - for it sure as hell was not me
I am telling you you are speaking shit about the Lions loosehead dominating Marcel, its complete bullshit - not even close. No loosehead has dominated Marcel and that's the very reason Meyer has rewarded him - Meyer gets a few selections right, but they are far and few between.
We have never been here before, your takes are wrong, not even close......the investment in old players is imploding on Meyer, evidenced by 1 point win over Wales thanks to a suspect penalty try and will be confirmed after losses all round to Oz and NZ
A question, do you think Meyer's side against Wales, add your hero Jean ahead of Jan for good measure, will beat Oz and NZ this year? My call is that we will lose all 4 comfortably
Sure Dave....that why the commentator said they were bringing on your former man Werner Kruger to shore up the Bools scrum. Marcel was being worked!
As for the Boks losing to NZ and OZ in both games. Hell you predicted we were going to do that last year....then we were going to lose against Wales and France on the YE tour....then you were predicting we were going to lose against the Worlds and Wales.
Are you such an atomic peanut that you can't support the team when your pathetic favourites aren't chosen? Man up Dave and act like a Bok supporter.
The Troof, you really are one stupid prick......so Goosen did not effect a great break and did not have all and sundry raving about his performance against Oz.......including the coach who was so taken by the performance that he played him injured against the AB's the following week.
You dumb fuck
