Jean back for Tri-Nations
12 Jun 2006
Wayne Julies has joined the Springbok squad as cover for the injured Jean de Villiers.
The inside centre bruised several ribs in the clash against Scotland on Saturday
“It is more than just one rib that is bruised, and with ribs it is always hard to tell exactly how long it will be before a player can return,†Springbok coach Jake White told a media conference in Port Elizabeth on Monday.
The good news is that De Villiers should be fit for the all-important opening Tri-Nations encounter against the Wallabies.
“It could be two weeks, it could be three weeks or it could be four weeks,” said White. “But the medical staff have informed us that he will be ready for the Tri-Nations, and that is what we will be aiming at. The game in Brisbane (on July 15) is when we will expect him back.â€
De Villiers took a heavy knock in Saturday’s game, and left the field after 54 minutes clutching at his flank. Although he was obviously in terrible pain, the extent of his injury was not confirmed until this morning.
Although Julies has experience in the No 12 position at this level, White well may continue with the impressive Wynand Olivier at first centre. The calling up of Julies also indicates White’s reluctance to reinstigate the Tri-Nations-winning De Wet Barry any time soon.
De Villiers’s injury has now provided a great opportunity for the Bulls playmaker, who has shown that he has the skills needed to become a world-class midfield player.
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12 Jun 2006, 13:52 pm
JW should stick with Olivier, and bring Pienaar onto the bench. Snyman or Montgomery can always go and play 12 if needed. I would to see Pienaar given a chance @10.
12 Jun 2006, 13:54 pm
Train,
ok – will keep my eyes open for him, read one piece that was quite good, but then read another which was a bit hairy. for the record, i think Dan Retief’s ok, he comes accross as a bit doddery on TV, but he knows his stuff.
12 Jun 2006, 13:55 pm
the grubbers must stop, especially from our wingers, once or twice as a surpise is fine, but not every time.
12 Jun 2006, 13:58 pm
handbagfag strikes again
Move percy to centre? You were calling for him to be axed last week.
Now we must also drop Jaco (who is starting to improve) and put Pienaar in at 10, who has not played a game there all season?
You are an idiot.
12 Jun 2006, 14:00 pm
i see the black bashing white racists are in full swing again.select a black player and he is automatically kak. you guys are rerally the pits.bunch of wankers
12 Jun 2006, 14:08 pm
I reckon Jake should play me at 12.
12 Jun 2006, 14:08 pm
Dean, I just stated that Percy could move to centre if needed in a game, not start him there.
Give Pienaar some game time @10, we don’t have a backup for him @ the moment, because everybody feels Gaffie is not up to it.
12 Jun 2006, 14:09 pm
And asking to have Habana in his place is what?
Take the chip of your shoulder please. I can smell the vinigar from here
12 Jun 2006, 14:09 pm
Julies is technically not black, and we bash De Wet Barry more.
12 Jun 2006, 14:12 pm
mc
stirring again i see
lets leave the rasist bullshit comments for once champ
12 Jun 2006, 14:16 pm
Train, I’m suprised that anybody thinks JJ Harmse is a good writer. For me he is an exponent of some of the most turgid, one-eyed **** ever to pollute my eyeballs.
12 Jun 2006, 14:17 pm
mc spyker, you are the wanker, no-one is talking race, just ability. No-one is critising the fact thet B Habana will hopefully be back this weekend.
12 Jun 2006, 14:17 pm
I have no problem with Gaffie and would like to see him get more game time. Everybody else gets enough game time to improve their skills and confidence, except Gaffie, he just gets game time when we really don’t have anybody else to pick.
Hell but your’e on your high horse today!!
I just feel that we have JW has the chance to experiment this weekend.
I thought the Boks would struggle and they didn’t. I said my sorries and hung my head in shame that I underestimated them.
12 Jun 2006, 14:19 pm
What we need is a good round of Quinton Davids bashing. That always brings everyone together.
12 Jun 2006, 14:22 pm
bots_fan.
i can only comment on the **** you write. Inevitable it is a comment laced with racist drivel.
12 Jun 2006, 14:22 pm
mc 55,
Oh sorry. My bad for lambasting an obvious bok great in Julies.
When I lambasted Snyman, Jaco, etc I guess that was showing rugby genius.
I’m left to wonder who is wanking who their in your possie.
You a twit and more of a racist than Verwoerd in my opinion.
You think non SA whites are the ultimate rugby players, when nowhere ever in any form of history can that ever be justified.
Go spyker your boyfriend and spare is the misery of your presence.
12 Jun 2006, 14:25 pm
Jim, only ever read two of his articles and whilst I didn’t agree with everything he wrote, it was at least marginally entertaining stuff.
Let’s put a team together of players who have upset wound us more than anything. I figure you’ve got to have Quinton, Louis Koen and DeWet in there for starters!
12 Jun 2006, 14:29 pm
Sadly train, I would have to include Joost in that team, he became so annoying towards the end of his career, or otherwise norman Jordaan at 9.
12 Jun 2006, 14:37 pm
Train, I was pretty upset by the 2003 World Cup team, apart from Willemse. So i’ll pick them and chuck Gus Theron on the wing in place of Willemse. (unless he was there already?)
12 Jun 2006, 14:41 pm
Schalk and Matfield don’t deserve to be there!
12 Jun 2006, 14:43 pm
Also don’t have a problem with Julies…
He’s not necessarily spectacular, but he is solid, and is a good distributor.
I’ve said it time and again, if all of us were to be made aware of the times that Jaque Fourie, just outside of camera, was running the most perfect angle – all set up for a scything run that would wrongfoot everyone (a la Latham against Eng yesterday), only to have no-one pass to him, we would all be sitting here crying…
JdV has sent Jaque away a couple of times in simialr fashion, but not nearly as much as what he was capable of. I’m a fan of his – but sometimes think (and agree with what was said earlier), that he just tries too much at times, and for that – has almost become predictable. With WJ’s possibly playing (provided he plays his usual game – and does’nt go out trying to prove something), JF might just get the ball on one of his runs, and we will all finally see what he’s capable of…
As for one of the suggestions that we put JF on 12 – might be interesting, but I don’t agree. JdV is a maestro, but even he gets tied up at 12, simply because of the defensive patterns and traffic covering that area these days. I would leave things as they are, JF’s pace, strength and angle of attack is perfectly suited for 13.
Now, all he needs is the ball at the right time – which means we need a centre inside him not scared to distribute without wanting to try something himself all the time…
Have always had a soft-spot for De Wet. But based on the last season – I think JW has got this one right. I would start with Julies on Saturday. We should be able to dominate again in the first half. Then I would bring Olivier on for the whole of the second 40, when the pressure is off…
12 Jun 2006, 14:46 pm
Wolfman, I hope you just kidding, if not you don’t know a lot about Rugby. Schalk and Matfield would probably make most people’s World XV let alone the Springboks.
12 Jun 2006, 14:50 pm
wolfman2006,
true. I’ll replace them with QD and Jaques Cronje.
12 Jun 2006, 14:50 pm
Schalk had a blinder and Victor is king of the lineouts, why would you not want them in your team.
12 Jun 2006, 14:54 pm
I know that André Snyman had a poor game on Saturday, but lets not forget that he was a test centre not a winger. Why not give him a run at centre now that De Villiers is injured and see how he goes. If he fails again, then Jake can review his suitability for the World Cup. This option would also create a vacancy for Habana on the wing. Of course there is a more radical option…play Habana at centre.
12 Jun 2006, 14:55 pm
bots_fan, handbagslasher,
wolfman2006 and I were referring to my post at 69, i.e. the World Cup 03 team being the most upsetting.
12 Jun 2006, 14:57 pm
Greenbok, I do agree, he does run lovely angles, although I don’t think WJ is guy to get the ball to him, otherwise it would have worked out for both of them in the Cats.
I think the more Jean and him play together the more they will get to know what the other is doing and the more JdV will find him on those sniping runs. You need a 12 with a bit of flair or else the focus just goes straight onto the #13 in defense. I think WO has potential, as does Bradley Barrit for the future.
12 Jun 2006, 15:03 pm
Fair enough Bots_Fan,
Looks like Olivier is starting in any event.
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see..
As for Julies and JF at the Lions, the way things were going there, I think Mauger and Umaga would’ve battled to find each other
12 Jun 2006, 16:35 pm
handbagslasher, so julies is overrated. the same overrated player who made an arse of Olivier in last yrs CC semi final by scoring 2 tries thru his channel? I cant believe the comments about this oke. He played alongside Marius Joubert at Boland and they were the best centre pairing in the CC that yr. He did well in the last 2 S12/14 seasons and gave JFourie some good service… His matches for SA were also good, he is more consistent than Barry and Joubert…
12 Jun 2006, 18:59 pm
This is good, Jean needs a break or he will fall apart during the Tri Nations
13 Jun 2006, 06:54 am
Must agree on Julies, he does what a good 12 should do – remember Michael dP next to Danie Gerber? You never heard too much about Michael, but Danie was sublime – your #12 must do just enough to cause a little bit of doubt, and add rhythm to the line – and no-one can deny that he did in fact overshadowed WO last year – but then, what has Mike Baily ever known about backline play, let alone coaching.
And Mc, do people like you sit around quietly on blogs the whole damn day waiting for someone to write something that you can interpret as racist so that you can start sowing your poison again? Get a life, man…it’s because of you and your pals that we are just as far after 10 years as we were after 4…”we didn’t invent racism, we just perfected it…”
13 Jun 2006, 09:26 am
Oh no. Not Julies… no Julies, Barry or MJ.
We have Wynanad, Jean and Butch!
13 Jun 2006, 09:54 am
Train and Wolfman
You’ve gotta have the Tjips brothers in that team. Altho one had a more illustrious career than the other ,nobody wound me up more than these two’s fumbles and flumixes. I gaines 20 years in stress in the years they played at WP and Bok level.
Had I been on keo’s site then I would have moaned and cried 24 hrs a day about them. I got so bad that i got over Slappes and laughed alot and then screamed with joy when he’d do those out of the ordinary gplden moments.
Im surprised he never broke legs as he would virtually trip himself up the way to the tryline at times.But still score.Younger Tjips was just plain useless and i could nt beleive it thatmedia were talking him up as a bok candidate at one stage.
13 Jun 2006, 14:52 pm
MC,
I have said it before, I will say it again, you are the biggest racist on this site. Your comments seem predetermined and you will stick them in even if the don’t fit. What happened you didn’t get the job you wanted or the free house when the ANC came into power:-(
13 Jun 2006, 14:52 pm
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