Boks to score 50
2 Jun 2006
The bones, after an extended spell in rehab, are back and predicting carnage for those yesterday’s heroes, who on Saturday will parade as a World XV.
Bob Dwyer’s all-star European club XV, at least that’s the media spin, is really a combination of some great players who are long past their sell by date and some players who never quite cracked the great descriptive.
You only had to look at the World XV’s schedule to know that they’re here for the golf, the golf and the golf. They’ve been living it up at Sun City all week and their liver has taken more of a pounding than their calves. They’ve partied more than they’ve tried and rightly so when you consider the tradition of these World XV teams.
The aim in putting together such a team is simple. Pick name players, who inspire thoughts of greatness because of their past exploits. But make sure these players are exactly that — past players. No local team invites a World XV with the capacity to embarrass the home team.
The Boks will get just what they need prior to the two-test series against Scotland, which is a decent workout. They’ll be forced to make a few tackles, they’ll get to play expansive footie and they’ll score big on the field. The World XV will score bigger off the field, which means both teams leave Johannesburg victorious.
The five Kiwis will have to be monitored afterwards and it would be wise to ensure no handbags are left within the reach of this quintet. But the Carlos Spencer and Justin Marshall-inspired Kiwis will probably prove more of a nuisance in the pub afterwards than they will do on the field.
Individually, there are some in the World XV who will give it horns, but collectively they will be unable to find the structure needed to be successful against an established international team.
The Boks will play with the greater structure and purpose because they are the ones with everything to lose. The World XV have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to gain from the match.
The greatest beneficiary is the South African Rugby Players Association. Had they had half a commercial brain cell they would have dropped all the ticket prices to R150 and ensured they got 60 000 to the game. Instead they will be lucky to get 40 000 at what they’re asking. The former would have given them more dollars in the kitty.
It is ironic, though, how they now have no problem with ticket prices (as they are the ones who’ll see the cash), just like they have no problem with an additional match (as they are the ones to benefit). Cash … it’s a killer to the morality of SARPA.
But I digress.
The Boks, despite fielding a second-string pack, have put out their first choice back division (with the exception of Bryan Habana) and they will win comfortably enough. Of more interest than the scoreline will be Ruan Pienaar’s first introduction to the international arena, although he would have played tougher matches in this year’s Super 14.
For the record, the bones have picked a high scoring match, with the Boks to triumph 55-30.
528 Comments
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2 Jun 2006, 17:27 pm
I’ts not my day today.
2 Jun 2006, 17:28 pm
ben/bok,
No ***** fighting without mud please.
2 Jun 2006, 17:28 pm
and the skim eventually got one, well done!!!
2 Jun 2006, 17:28 pm
not!! he he
2 Jun 2006, 17:29 pm
Thanx for the support Big g but actually I missed.
2 Jun 2006, 17:29 pm
Vinnie you sly bugger you
2 Jun 2006, 17:29 pm
Oh! You were being sarcastic.
2 Jun 2006, 17:29 pm
Ben
Thanks mate – still didnt think it was funny maybe it wasnt a joke.
2 Jun 2006, 17:30 pm
can’t help you
2 Jun 2006, 17:31 pm
So Dawn, how dof did you originally think I was until now.
2 Jun 2006, 17:31 pm
Vinnie
How do you do it – I think you pretty much have the record in getting the hundreds.
2 Jun 2006, 17:32 pm
Bok In Ozzie.
Actually 350 is not a multiple of hundred.
2 Jun 2006, 17:33 pm
but do they have a 1000 or a 1500 big g asks…
2 Jun 2006, 17:33 pm
yes skim and that makes me and you feel beter…
2 Jun 2006, 17:33 pm
Calculator skim
2 Jun 2006, 17:33 pm
Excellent point.
2 Jun 2006, 17:35 pm
Skim
I dont think I was referring to the 350 at all.
I have seen some of his posts and he pretty much has got the hundreds, if me remembers correctly.
2 Jun 2006, 17:35 pm
Your post coital knowledge also leaves a lot to be desired
2 Jun 2006, 17:35 pm
No big girl, that’s all yours.
How you doing by the way.
With the Falke beating the Beeste met the Wild and all.
2 Jun 2006, 17:36 pm
the dawn, she is still here…
2 Jun 2006, 17:36 pm
It’s too late to make excuses now.
2 Jun 2006, 17:36 pm
Have to agree, do you answer to a SOS Dawn.
2 Jun 2006, 17:36 pm
that was so sad, but lets not talk about that game hmmmmm please…
2 Jun 2006, 17:37 pm
well thanx hhmmmmmmmmm how u doing today…
2 Jun 2006, 17:37 pm
I want some pajamas that looks like the falke’s rugby kit.
2 Jun 2006, 17:39 pm
Ahahaha. Im just good BokinOz….
Loads of practice and patience…!
2 Jun 2006, 17:40 pm
More like loads of luck……
2 Jun 2006, 17:40 pm
skim, ur ooking for trouble now mr… firstly the poofters let the bull annaaaaii-alate them and then the beeste looses against the falke… sheit it was some hard pills to swallow…
now where is that kitty girl if you need some help with pills and swallowing etc.?!
2 Jun 2006, 17:41 pm
“The more I practice the better I get…”
2 Jun 2006, 17:41 pm
Good,
besides that my boss is in Cape Town for a few months and phoning me like crazy every few minutes until I started ignoring her.
After a call discussing this in another call, she put the phone down in my ear, guess I will not be getting any increases/accolades this year.
2 Jun 2006, 17:41 pm
Ja but at least you still ahve keo Hmmm….
2 Jun 2006, 17:42 pm
Where have I heard that before?
2 Jun 2006, 17:43 pm
At least?
2 Jun 2006, 17:44 pm
boks should get a hiding.
really by this day and after 12 years of a DEMOCRACY
the sprinboks should be known and painted as the ALL BLACKS, we dont want or need a single white player on team absolutely not represantive , in any case an ALL BLACK team would be far superior to any team that currently consists of “QUOTA WHITES”
reach for a dream
to eliminate the whiteness from team…
35-10 to the world xv
2 Jun 2006, 17:44 pm
I only flirt with ONE person around here.
2 Jun 2006, 17:44 pm
Jondood?
2 Jun 2006, 17:45 pm
aaagh lets make that 2 please Dawn… ig wont kno…
2 Jun 2006, 17:45 pm
That is both absolutely untrue and outrageous.
2 Jun 2006, 17:45 pm
I dono skim, let’s hear/read.
2 Jun 2006, 17:45 pm
It is interesting to note that if Jondood is not blogging Grootblou..is nowhere to be seen.
So if they are not the same person then they are bum chums.
2 Jun 2006, 17:46 pm
I was talking about comment 384.
2 Jun 2006, 17:46 pm
big g,
No that’s the talk a site of mail posters want to read.
2 Jun 2006, 17:46 pm
i demand 2 player of non-colour (WHITES) to be included in the bafana bafana team at all times and another 2 on the bench… and they are not allowed to be goalies, case then they are not really playing…
2 Jun 2006, 17:47 pm
So then that rules out that Jondood has feelings for Dawn
2 Jun 2006, 17:48 pm
Does it
2 Jun 2006, 17:48 pm
Die leeuloop is baie verleidelik.
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
399 for skim he he
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
398
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
Skim what is untrue and outrageous?
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
Oooohh me again… 400!!
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