Boks have Test attitude
2 Jun 2006
Springbok coach Jake White has a proud unbeaten record on home soil. And he is not about to let that slip against the World XV tomorrow.
“The law of averages will dictate that we will eventually lose at home,” White said at Friday’s press conference. “But we are working hard to maintain that record for as long as we can. A defeat against the World XV is not an option.”
Stand-in captain Jean de Villiers says everything has gone according to plan. “The preparation this week has been very good. Although it is not official, we are approaching this match as if it is a Test. The only thing that has changed is the captain,” grinned de Villiers.
The Boks are favourites to beat an experienced, but ageing World XV at Ellis Park tomorrow, which will provide a fantastic launching pad for the more important assignments later this month. Two Tests against Scotland should be easily negotiated, before the crunch June fixture against a full-strength France in Cape Town.
The altitude is also expected to be a major factor for the team that was thumped 46-19 by England last weekend.
The team that runs out at Ellis Park is likely to change dramatically by the time the Boks take on France, especially with several first-choice players due back from injury.
However, the team de Villiers leads out tomorrow has exactly 400 Test caps between them – and they are considered a second-string outfit. When White started his career as Bok coach against Ireland in Bloemfontein in 2004, the team that gave him an opening 31-17 win had just 179 caps.
It illustrates just how far the Boks have come under White’s guidance.
By Andrew Hollely
179 Comments
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2 Jun 2006, 16:26 pm
LOL !!!
2 Jun 2006, 16:28 pm
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!
Fooooooooooooooooookkkkkkkkk !!!!!!!!!!
2 Jun 2006, 16:28 pm
(78) – Drunkblinkers . . . HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA – shot for starting my weekend off on such a funny note!
2 Jun 2006, 16:29 pm
vinnie
call me stupid (LOL), but what was that about?
2 Jun 2006, 16:30 pm
actually Ben, yeah you’re right, bugger the money, we must win it all.
2 Jun 2006, 16:52 pm
Can someone please tell me why Jake doesn’t try Jean at flyhalf? Look at some of the great flyhalves today, Carter(was inside center), Larkham(was fullback), Matt Rogers(was fullback) and even the talented Giteau. We need a guy with vision at such a critical position and Jean de Vil has most vision in backline.
Move him to flyhalf and Habana to inside with Fourie outside.
2 Jun 2006, 16:59 pm
ASHA1 ok im up for some betting
cause i back the Boks and got a feeling with the ammount of negative plonkers on here ill make a fortune.
so hows about we start with Saturdays game
R150.00 says we win by 20
2 Jun 2006, 17:00 pm
What about Fourie at 10:
http://www.suparugby.co.za/Pages/Default.asp?More=Mossie%20could%20be%20the%20next%20Larkham&FeatureID=7129&SectionID=79
2 Jun 2006, 17:02 pm
ag come on. a provincial side could beat the worls xv.
2 Jun 2006, 17:03 pm
bloody interesting gecko, hard to believe.
2 Jun 2006, 17:11 pm
Whassuuuup?
2 Jun 2006, 17:12 pm
yeah gecko,I read that yesterday with alot of interest – he’d have to work on his kicking game though…..although having played fullback at provincial level,I’d imagine it can’t be too shoddy.
2 Jun 2006, 17:13 pm
No Gecko 10 is a specialist position. I sometime think the success of Larkham at 10 wa ssimply a divine plant to set rugby discussion in SA back 30 years.
What does a home test record matter when SA to win the RWC will need to win 3 big matches away from home on consecutive weekends?
2 Jun 2006, 17:16 pm
StM, come off it, Larkham is unconventional, but he is a great flyhalf, remove your bowler hat and free your victorian mind.
2 Jun 2006, 17:19 pm
He is incredibly elusive, despite the heavy traffic in this channel he continues to slip and create gaps, wonderful players, this is one instinctive player great vision.
The brumbies/austrlia are a different outfit when he is injured. Still, Giteau and Rogers in particular could make phenomenal flyhalves.
2 Jun 2006, 17:21 pm
yes ST MICH,remove your bowler hat,paisely smokers jacket,slippers and jump in that **** infested THAMES
2 Jun 2006, 17:25 pm
post 114,just love it,laughing like hell
2 Jun 2006, 17:26 pm
StM was the whale they saw in Thames recently.
2 Jun 2006, 17:27 pm
apparantly StM has played sport at the highest level.
2 Jun 2006, 17:28 pm
Darts?
2 Jun 2006, 17:29 pm
I mean, they call it a sport here. Snooker too.
2 Jun 2006, 17:30 pm
i would bank on checkers though…
2 Jun 2006, 17:30 pm
yes i know, they are’nt proper sports, but it is only fair we let StM tell his own story.
2 Jun 2006, 17:32 pm
perhaps not…if i was a betting man, tiddlywinks.
2 Jun 2006, 17:34 pm
He’s just grumpy cos England are 6th in the world and even though Australia lost 8 out of 9 tests last year,they are still ranked higher than england!
2 Jun 2006, 17:34 pm
STM bwhahahahaha why Should England always hark on about there Home victorys, LMFAO they hahve had fuckall in the way of any victorys away from home since 2003, Please dont tell me this world cup win in 2003 will be talked about like the Football, BECAUSE **** THATS GOTTEN OLD. England Soccer world champs according to 905 of the British population.
2 Jun 2006, 17:35 pm
dont mention the soccer world cup…
2 Jun 2006, 17:35 pm
test attitude, whatever, this thread stinks…
2 Jun 2006, 17:36 pm
**** wls, i said dont mention the soccer, he has probably gone and jumped in the thames now!
2 Jun 2006, 17:38 pm
Well then he’s got an average of 10 mins to live
2 Jun 2006, 17:38 pm
apparantly soccer and rugby are 2 different games..
2 Jun 2006, 17:41 pm
yes PA/wls, unfortunately StM’s passion appears to be the roundball game, this is why such opinion can never be taken seriously.
big g, totally different, the one’s a proper sport.
2 Jun 2006, 17:41 pm
tell that to beckham big, he kicks better than johnny w and his kicks go much higher over the cross-bar.
and he does not even use a tee
2 Jun 2006, 17:42 pm
in hungary, masturbation is a sport… sorry for the straight ladies, but quick coming is actually a winner there.. he he
2 Jun 2006, 17:43 pm
is beckham that silly little fella with the squeaky voice and the plastic wife? at least they have taste naming their kids after shakesperian characters.
2 Jun 2006, 17:44 pm
no no, that is jaco he he…
2 Jun 2006, 17:44 pm
lol
2 Jun 2006, 17:47 pm
yeah it is a good thing their child was not conceived in the bathroom of the local KFC
2 Jun 2006, 17:47 pm
Pissant LMFAO God help the World if the Limesy win this world cup, Thankfully they wont because they dont have ROONEY LMFAO.. any nation that pins there hopes on a 19 year old Scouser desearve to live on a mudpit.
2 Jun 2006, 17:47 pm
col. sanders has a nice ring to it though…
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
yes the ashed was bad enough thank you.
they are now the best cricketing nation in the world too.
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
Knowing the bekhams it would more than lickly be Mcdonals, Ronald Mc Donald Beckham LMFAO BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2 Jun 2006, 17:50 pm
**ashes
2 Jun 2006, 17:51 pm
PA, dont tempt fate, still the missus is unlikely to be in the KFC, a drumstick is likely to double her weight overnight. on the plus side, protein’s meant to be good brainfood.
2 Jun 2006, 17:52 pm
i reckon she loves KFC pops cab…
2 Jun 2006, 17:52 pm
Does Ollie still appear on Spur ads in SA?
2 Jun 2006, 17:54 pm
britney spears = pringles
2 Jun 2006, 17:54 pm
Oh man the ASHES, funnily enough won by a South Africa HA HA.
2 Jun 2006, 17:55 pm
lol, dont know who’s worse, that end of the spectrum or those spectacularly useless floppy toffs at the other end.
yesterday saw a picture in the paper of Prince Willy sharing a joke with Rooney, good god could not even begin to imagine what common wit they share?
2 Jun 2006, 17:56 pm
I bumped into Posh at Bluewater shopping mall, shes flipping small. Had 2 bodyguards, about 6 store guards and some guide bloke.
when they sat in the resturant near us they took up an entire corner.
Felt sorry for her lol.
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