Boks to shatter Scots
9 Jun 2006
The Scottish dream of a first test win against the Springboks in South Africa will be shattered on Saturday afternoon.
Scotland, winners on four occasions in 16 starts against the Boks, have never won in South Africa and won’t change that on this tour. They are an improved team at Murrayfield, but their form away from home has been desperate. Forget the talk of them having beaten England and France in Edinburgh, they lost in Dublin and in Cardiff and were headed for an embarrassing away defeat to Italy before triumphing 13-10.
Imagine the outcry in this country if the Boks needed a 78th minute three pointer to beat Italy!
The Scottish team has been spoken up, more in the hope of a contest than any serious conviction they actually have the firepower to shock the Boks.
This is a quality Bok team. The pack has that awesome look about it, unlike the mix and match who started against the World XV and Breyton Paulse’s return will give the back three unit more balance.
The Boks will probably battle a bit in the first 30 minutes and it will be down to a combination of nerves, tension and a passionate Scottish beginning. But as the nerves settle, so too will the flow of the game and the Boks will win by 15 to 20 points. Fourie du Preez will give the backs more structure and Schalk Burger, Victor Matfield and Juan Smith give the pack a dimension that wasn’t there at Ellis Park in the shabby performance against the World XV.
John Smit’s leadership is also worth a good few points.
In other international matches, the All Blacks (despite not fielding many of their first choice players) will still be too strong for Ireland, but it won’t be the 61-8 average score the All Blacks have managed over the last 25 first-up internationals at home. The AB’s will win by a similar margin to the Boks in the region of a 15 to 20 pointer.
And the bones’s final throw favours Knuckles Connolly and his new look Wallabies.
England will go down because the side Andy Robinson has assembled is not good enough. The fact that Mike Catt, at 34 years of age, is seen as the solution to the back play wobbles, says it all.
The Wobblies of 2005 to pitch up as the Wallabies of 2006 and to take it by 10 points.
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9 Jun 2006, 16:43 pm
he’s that fast coz the best looking sheep are really quick…
I have been trying to find stats on the speeds of the rugby players, its hard to get.
I did manage to get this from a source, but the authenticity is not guaranteed.
Super14. Stats
1.Tonderai Chavangha-10.2
2.Brett Stapleton-10.3
3.Bryan Habana-10.4
4.Brent Russell-10.5
5.Joe Rokocoko-10.6
6.Doug Howlett-10.7
7.Jonah Lomu 10.8
8.Rupeni Caucau-10.9
9.Solly Tyibilika 10.91
10.Ashwin Willemse 10.96
And for anyone interested here are the times for 40m’s
Fastest Time for the 40m
1.Jongi Nokwe-4.4s
2.Sosene Anesi-4.5s
3.Tonderai Chavangha-4.63s
4.Brent Russell- 4.65s
5.Bryan Habana-4.66s
5.Joe Rokocoko-4.66s
Anyone got anything else…. i just wanna know whos the fastest and who is the fastest in SA
9 Jun 2006, 16:43 pm
Vinnie where you been all day.
9 Jun 2006, 16:46 pm
Working.
Have to earn a living somehow…
9 Jun 2006, 16:48 pm
hey jake, where did you get the stats?
9 Jun 2006, 16:52 pm
i searched my *** off…
check this article on Habana from a welsh site.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0500rugbyunion/0200news
/tm_objectid=16388465&method=full&siteid=50082&
headline=the-fastest-man-on-a-rugby-pitch-name_page.html
9 Jun 2006, 16:53 pm
The stats came from some sarugby.com archives where it was a big debate sometime ago.
9 Jun 2006, 16:59 pm
So where’s my guess.
9 Jun 2006, 17:01 pm
Not a chance I’ll chance my arm there.
9 Jun 2006, 17:06 pm
And hoekom nie?
9 Jun 2006, 17:33 pm
Vinnie, still alive I see…
9 Jun 2006, 17:34 pm
You were expecting me to be dead?
9 Jun 2006, 17:35 pm
Hoping…
9 Jun 2006, 17:53 pm
KEO
After the performance of the BOKS against the world XV, I wouldn`t rely on your bones to predit this match against Scotland, also Italy could well have beaten that BOKS team last week, in fact, my sons team could have done so, just as well they only played a bunch of beer drinking has-beens or the score would have blown out the back door.
9 Jun 2006, 17:54 pm
k1w1,
perhaps, but i reckon we can take your lot this year home and away.
9 Jun 2006, 17:57 pm
I recon Jake_White @ 13 has got it pretty much spot on.
9 Jun 2006, 17:59 pm
k1w1in0z, Last weeks team and this weeks team are not the same, as you will see tomorrow.
9 Jun 2006, 18:04 pm
Bluecap,
You had better hope for your and yours, that they are NOT the same BOKS, it would be a bigger joke than handbags…..
9 Jun 2006, 18:10 pm
Well kiwiinoz,
Is Os Carstens
Is Victor Albert vd Berg
Is John Smit Shimange
Is Juan Smith AJ
Is Du Preez January
Is, is, is…
Quite obviously not the same team.
No hoping required, a different team was selected…
9 Jun 2006, 18:12 pm
they are’nt the same boks, half the team’s replaced. Schalk Burger and Os du Randt for starters.
9 Jun 2006, 18:13 pm
Thanks for confirming my post cab, had doubts they believe me until your post…
9 Jun 2006, 18:15 pm
Is
9 Jun 2006, 18:15 pm
Is there anyone out there…..
9 Jun 2006, 18:15 pm
hmmm, yes the games against the kiwis this year should be great.
9 Jun 2006, 18:21 pm
Agree with you agreeing with me
9 Jun 2006, 18:32 pm
Ig, Jc, Simon, Keo Andrew…..
Where the thread on tonights game…
9 Jun 2006, 18:43 pm
I just hope we aren’t underestimating the Scots.
I was stunned by their play in the 6 Nations. They destroyed England and a strong French team.
They are the strongest they’ve been in years and they are very confident. This is certainly not the Scottish team that we’ve come accustomed to.
Having said that, I just want to add “C’MON BOKKKKKKKKE“!
9 Jun 2006, 19:38 pm
not enough quality in the boks lineup to smash opposition. they just don’t score enough tries
9 Jun 2006, 20:07 pm
#228
9 Jun 2006, 20:16 pm
ffs plz play good rugger bokke
9 Jun 2006, 21:24 pm
hey … i’ve been away for a few days, but i’m supposed to be studying so i’ll do anything and even reading the drivel excuses on last week’s game beats studying at this stage.
To all of you that want that say we didn’t have the best team last week, blah blah blah is all i can say. Jake White has more than enough disposal and at least 30 players go to the World Cup. The boks were shown up by a bunch of hungover “has beens” who had been playing golf all week. get over it, they were ******* pathetic and let’s hope that they’ll improve ………. DRASTICALLY!
And then I saw a post about the fastest players over 40 metres. Geez, no wonder we’re happy to be second best – Saffas analyse the game to death only to avoid the ******* blatantly obvious. It’s like the six Sygma of world rugby. Who cares if you are the fastest over a 40 m dead straight sprint. That only happens in rugby on an intercept and then a player won’t even need to be going at full pace because the defence is already beaten. The defence is beaten by speed in the first 5 – 15 metres eith speed and you also need to be able to catch the stuffing ball. So your cross defenders need to have the pace over a straight distance and our wings are not known for their defence!
9 Jun 2006, 21:27 pm
That’s a mouthfull … basically what i’m saying is, how often do you run a dead straight 40m’s in rugby!!!! And yet we consider it so important???
10 Jun 2006, 05:55 am
15 – 20 point margin means that we have to keep scotland to less than 10points. and we have to hope they commit many penalties so that we can get enough points.
the pressure will be on for this game. if we struggled in a no pressure situation against bunch of oldies, then we will struggle against a close knit team that is possibly on the up.
like a lot of ppl have said this game will be oh so very close. i think we will only come right in the second test agaisnt these okes.
10 Jun 2006, 06:01 am
Na scots will get thumped.Last season it was dem Irish lads now da scotch.It is how da boks play.
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