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, 17:49 pm
400
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
400
2 Jun 2006, 17:49 pm
How farking good was that!
2 Jun 2006, 17:50 pm
403!
2 Jun 2006, 17:50 pm
Vinnie
On the money.
2 Jun 2006, 17:50 pm
wheres skim he he
2 Jun 2006, 17:50 pm
What the hell?!
2 Jun 2006, 17:50 pm
skim is still on dial-up it appears…
2 Jun 2006, 17:51 pm
Only cause ig said “you can only post once every 15 seconds cowboy” Vinnie.
2 Jun 2006, 17:51 pm
suff that vinnie djou poepol, now skim never wanna play with us again!!
2 Jun 2006, 17:51 pm
Dawn , I was refering to comment 384. The boks won’t lose.
2 Jun 2006, 17:51 pm
Skim verduidelik asseblief jy maak nie sin nie.
2 Jun 2006, 17:52 pm
Dawn
Are you pretty?
2 Jun 2006, 17:52 pm
Or slow down cowboy or something like that.
2 Jun 2006, 17:53 pm
Hear ye. Rugby guru has a flashback to the ’80s!!!!!!
2 Jun 2006, 17:54 pm
Bok, sure your wife’s sleeping.
The last thing you need is for her to be reading over your shoulder.
2 Jun 2006, 17:55 pm
Yea she is I can hear her snoring.
2 Jun 2006, 17:55 pm
Dawn – I will explain slowly.
1)The_rugby_Guru said the boks will lose.
That is untrue.
2)He also said that the boks will get a hiding.
I call that outrageous.
2 Jun 2006, 17:57 pm
Hmmm… we all play to the same rules bud…
even the cowboy rule…
2 Jun 2006, 17:58 pm
porn in the other window bokinoz?
you married to an ozzie bird? Perth?
2 Jun 2006, 17:58 pm
Just watch me. 450 will be mine.
2 Jun 2006, 17:58 pm
Bokinozzie,your wife sounds charming
2 Jun 2006, 17:59 pm
Vinnie
Dont watch that stuff.
I actually married a zimbo and live in sydney.
2 Jun 2006, 17:59 pm
That is true Vinnie, but I did not know of that rule and thought I would gooi from 398-400.
Well we all know my “koel het die kerk gemis”
2 Jun 2006, 18:00 pm
En jou lepel is in die dak.
2 Jun 2006, 18:01 pm
Vinnie, don’t read bokin’s stuff.
2 Jun 2006, 18:01 pm
What does that mean skim?
2 Jun 2006, 18:02 pm
Jy het die emmer geskop.
2 Jun 2006, 18:02 pm
I married quite a looker.
Mates say I have scored well but when they comment about me they just shake their heads.
2 Jun 2006, 18:03 pm
My toon is nou nog seer.
2 Jun 2006, 18:04 pm
Where in SA you from?
2 Jun 2006, 18:04 pm
You not allowed to use that word on a SA site bok: 1st word 2nd sentence
2 Jun 2006, 18:04 pm
Natal
2 Jun 2006, 18:05 pm
A farm close to swartruggens you know it.
2 Jun 2006, 18:06 pm
Hmmm
Why is that?
2 Jun 2006, 18:06 pm
What word? Mate? You are probably refrring to ‘meit’. Not a very nice word!
2 Jun 2006, 18:06 pm
Sies!
2 Jun 2006, 18:07 pm
Don’t bother.
Just stirring this Friday afternoon away.
2 Jun 2006, 18:07 pm
Then Family moved to Zim and then when old enough moved to Sydney
2 Jun 2006, 18:08 pm
Why? Zim is such a charming country.
2 Jun 2006, 18:09 pm
Always been a bok supporter.
I have nearly been clobbered a few times in Oz for supporting SA.
2 Jun 2006, 18:09 pm
Bok, when you said that I remembered the Leon Shuster movie where they all were planning on immigrating to Aus. This one coloured girl gave this Aus one massive klap when he greeted her: Hello mate
2 Jun 2006, 18:10 pm
Skim
I sense a hint of sarcasm
2 Jun 2006, 18:10 pm
I find leon Schuster movies to be in extremely bad taste.
2 Jun 2006, 18:10 pm
Vinnie quite so that he can jump on the 450
2 Jun 2006, 18:11 pm
nah im still here!
goign to watch the sevens tomorrow with a bunch of ozzie mates – glorious!
2 Jun 2006, 18:11 pm
That’l be the day.
2 Jun 2006, 18:12 pm
cummon!
2 Jun 2006, 18:12 pm
450 Whooooo!
2 Jun 2006, 18:12 pm
450… you guys are soooo slow!
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