The following team was announced iro the game against Japan:-
15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Lwazi Mvovo, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Jean de Villiers (captain), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Pat Lambie, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Schalk Burger, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Lood de Jager, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira
Substitutes:
16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 20 Siya Kolisi, 21 Fourie du Preez, 22 Handre Pollard, 23 JP Pietersen
Elsewhere there is a thread dealing with the Springboks "aim to control pace of game" With that lot they will not control and "pace". They are lucky they are only playing Japan - any stronger team would ebat that team with ease.
So lets look at the team objectively:-
* Kirchner is at the best of times useless and clueless. No attacking moves from the back possible.
* De Villiers has one bench game and one full game since his return from injury. In both he was severely "under-cooked" and slower than eh used to be.
* Pienaar was really pathetic in the games he played in in June - clueless kicks and slow service with defense a joke
* Alberts has been utterly useless for years
* Matfield will destroy the Tight 5 - normal style
* Pieterse on the bench - slow and utterly useless
* Coenie has not had a game for months - so maybe a bench start is what happened here to see how he is going to go.
THis is really funny and tragic. The average age of WC winning teams are somewhere between 27 - 28 years of age. Meyer's team for Saturday is really a joke:-
* Starting line-up : 30,2 * Bench : 26,6* Total : 29,8
I hope they beat Japan - but a win by less than 12 points will be a disaster insofar as the WC campaign is concerned.
Coach57,555 posts
16 Sept 2015, 11:29
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16 Sept 2015, 11:29#1


