TEAM
15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 George North, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Scott Williams, 11 Eli Walker, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Mike Phillips, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Sam Warburton (c), 6 Dan Lydiate, 5 Alun Wyn Jones, 4 Bradley Davies, 3 Adam Jones, 2 Richard Hibbard, 1 Gethin Jenkins
Replacements :
16 Ken Owen, 17 Paul James, 18 Scott Andrews, 19 Luke Charteris, 20 Justin Tipuric, 21 Lloyd Williams, 22 James Hook, 23 Liam Williams
COMMENTS
I though there were some talk about injuries to George North and Jonathan Davies doing the rounds. Must have been false.
The Lions team that beat the Wllabies wholesale was largely compiled of 8 Welsh players and there would have been 10 if Priesland and Warburton were not injured.
The team will be a hard nut for the Springboks to crack, but it can be done provided -
* Meyer tells Morne that aimless kicking (his standard game) would be the end of his day as a Springbok, and those must be avoided since Halfpenny and North will definitely counter-attacked;
* the loose forwards - especially Alberts - up his game and not miss tackles like he is apt to do and let them run at the defence-deficient Morne ;
* we can solve our line-out problems; and
* the Japanese Club players do not run out of steam.
