Aplon in, Bismarck out

Aplon in, Bismarck out

20 Sep 2011

The Springboks have made five changes to their starting line-up to face Namibia at the North Habour Stadium in Auckland on Thursday.

In the back division Bryan Habana and Gio Aplon replace JP Pietersen and Odwa Ndungane on the wings. The latter duo are dropped from the squad completely. Francois Hougaard gets a start at his preferred position of scrumhalf, with Fourie du Preez playing off the wood.

Among the heavies, Willem Alberts starts at openside flank in place of Heinrich Brussow, whose is named among the reserves alongside another specialist fetcher, Francois Louw. CJ van der Linde earns his first start at the tournament at tighthead prop in place of Jannie du Plessis, who’ll watch from the stands.

Chiliboy Ralepelle, omitted from the 22 for the first two Tests, will get game time off the bench, while Ruan Pienaar and Juan de Jongh’s versatility means the back division are well covered.

After the victory over Fiji in Wellington coach Peter de Villiers said that he valued continuity in selection, but on Tuesday explained that he needed to rotate with a view of having a full fit squad.

‘The biggest challenge for us it to manage the players. We’ve had two bruising encounters and we have to be sensible if we want to have 30 players fit throughout the tournament. We’re getting thin in some areas, injuries are our biggest concern at this point,’ he said.

Captain John Smit acknowledged the difficulty of preparing for a match just five days after their victory in Wellington, but stressed complacency wouldn’t be a factor.

‘There are challenges every weekend, but motivation isn’t one of those. It is important for us to be ruthless. There are still a lot of areas we want to improve and if we don’t have the proper focus we won’t get what we want out of this match,’ he said. ‘This is an opportunity to carry on the journey to where we want to be and improve our standards. Having played two games here and a couple before some guys have had enough game to move towards their best form. That needs to continue.

‘In a week like this with as short a turnaround you don’t get that much field time to prepare. So the challenge is achieving perfection in the base areas of our game, the set piece and so on.’

The Springboks are expected to beat Namibia comfortably and should negotiate Samoa’s challenge without too much problems, setting up a quarter-final against Australia. Asked whether he had cast his mind ahead to that epic tussle Smit said: ‘One thing about the World Cup is that at this stage there are so many permutations floating about. If you get wrapped up in what lies ahead you may lose sight of what you want to achieve at present. We have to think a week at a time and not worry about what lies ahead.’

De Villiers was bullish when probed on the issue of Habana’s form, arguing that the former IRB Player of the Year wouldn’t have breaking the South African try-scoring record (he is the joint-highest scorer) as a central focus.

‘I don’t think people understand the ethos of this team. If you can point out one player that puts his personal interests above those of the team’s I’ll send them home immediately. There are personal goals we achieve in life and if Bryan breaks the record it will be a wonderful achievement. But what if he scores and we lose? That ultimately is no good.’

Springboks – 15 Pat Lambie, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Willem Alberts, 5 Danie Rossouw, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 John Smit (c), Gurthro Steenkamp.
Subs: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 Tendai Mtawarira, 18 Francois Louw, 19 Heinrich Brüssow, 20 Fourie du Preez, 21 Ruan Pienaar, 22 Juan de Jongh.


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  • 351.Helen: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 14:57 pm

    @Kitchener(Kitchener)-319:

    You sad?

  • 352.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 14:58 pm

    @fantasticbarnsmell(fantasticbarnsmell)-342: you don’t know Black Panty…he owns the proverbial moral high ground :D

  • 353.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 14:59 pm

    @mpundulu(mpundulu)-343: @Transformation(Transformation)-347:

    Yep,kodwa nina niyabasaba abafazi benu.Abantu besifazane emaXhoseni,banenkani nyani!!! Ngoba niyabadedela!!! LMAO

  • 354.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:02 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-350: I’m crying with laughter!!!!!

  • 355.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:03 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-350:

    hahaha correction chap 118 manje…1.88 hahahaha,thatha iBMI yakho anginendaba!!
    Mina ngiWeak? LOL,ngangithanda to carry the ball is all.At Tighthead its only donkey work,no chance of me staying there.LOL,mina ngangidlalisa kwaGuthro Steenkamp ntwana,Loosehead is the more “athletic of the 2″…LMAO

  • 356.WP Till I Die: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:04 pm

    @Black Panther(Black Panther)-339:

    Kia tupato – kaua e takahia te mana o te tangata.

    Katahi ano te kapa ta taka!

  • 357.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:04 pm

    LMFAO – Lonesome Maori Finds Another Ovis aries

  • 358.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:05 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-353: hayi maaan usukhuluma umbhedo ke manje! labantu banenkani ngoba bakhuliswa ukuthi bazimele futhi bakhethe amadoda aqotho – YITHI ke labo…

    uma ungena-backbone ngeke uze umelane nabo!

  • 359.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:06 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-353: Bayaluma abafazi bethu, owam lipondo badla inyama engavutwanga, bathanda ukubona igazi! Baya luma…lol

  • 360.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:10 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-355: :D

  • 361.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:11 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-358: Kodwa bayahlupha ngamanye amaxhesha maaaaaan.

  • 362.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:17 pm

    @mpundulu(mpundulu)-361: if bebengahluphi mna bendingazikubafuna, ayikho into endidika njengentombi engekho ntweni on some coming to america sshit…

    eddie: “what kind of food do you like”
    chick: “whatever kind of food YOU like”
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    nah man…

  • 363.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:18 pm

    @mpundulu(mpundulu)-359:

    LMAO!!!!

    @Transformation(Transformation)-358:

    hhayi nishonjalo ngoba bayanihlula sbali!! LMAO…Thina asipheli mandla,bazonqhubuzana emakhanda nathi bazoze bafe yikho bengasifuni hehehe…

    Uchze ukuthini uma uthini bakhuliswa ukuthi bazimele? Ngisho amaZulu akhuliswa kanjalo.Bonke abafazi baBaba bafundile,babenemisebenzi yabo etc..Mfondini babengasibona amaFarm-Girl.ukuthi bayawazi uthetho.nina abanu abazi!! lol yikho beniluma nje!

    Ask a Xhosa lady about umZulu bafasane bashaqe ngoba bayazi! hahaha

  • 364.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:20 pm

    LMFAO = Late Model Fords Are Overrated

  • 365.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:21 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-362:

    Hahahaha its nothing like that.At least what i mean in this context.

    Baneknani nje ngisho ukulalela. Seke ngaba nentombi yomXhosa.Yathi iyangithanda kodwa ngeke ikwazi ngoba nginrnkani ngaphezu kwayo!

  • 366.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:21 pm

    lezi ziphukuphuku nikhuluma isiTsotsitaal kulo indawo. amamenazi amabi.

  • 367.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:21 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-363: uyabheda wena :D

  • 368.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:24 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-365: tl tl tl hayi ke leyo into angeke ngize ngiyiphike amadoda akwaZulu anenkani ukudlula awakwaXhosa.

  • 369.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:26 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-362: hehehehe, wade wazisa uKunta Kinte, u-rongo, R-O-N-G-O!

  • 370.President_of_the_Sharks_rugby_experts: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:28 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-366: :lol: :lol:

  • 371.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:28 pm

    bayakhuluma izibi ezipheleleyo

  • 372.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:29 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-363: Kodwa Zulu unyansile umThembu, uYem Yem, bayaluma abafazi bethu kwek madoda!

  • 373.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:29 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-366:

    heyi wena awusho lutho uma abanye bekhuluma isibhunu. Futhi amalimu aseningizimu Afrika lawa.Tsek

    yeka ukutshela ukukhishini wakho ukuthi akubhalele lana,hamba uyozifundela khona uzokwazi ukuzikhulumela.

  • 374.President_of_the_Sharks_rugby_experts: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:29 pm

    eish maningi nyaga nyaga

  • 375.President_of_the_Sharks_rugby_experts: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:30 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-373: nawe :lol:

  • 376.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:31 pm

    izithutha eziningi lapha nje.

  • 377.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:32 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-353: Nawe Transie, kanindixelele uHeavens Games ngowethu okanye uzodlala apha?

  • 378.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:34 pm

    @mpundulu(mpundulu)-372: nam khange ndale Radebe, qha ndithi ukuba umntu akanawo umqolo soze amelane nawo. yena uthi ufuna babe-submissive ngeNKANI?

    uyawubona umahluko ke ngoku in the approach to tame the same beast? :D

  • 379.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:35 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-373: Yintoni eno-Heavens Game, yi-pimpi? Kwek madoda sakufa sifundisa!

  • 380.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:36 pm

    @mpundulu(mpundulu)-377: hayi suka ligxagxa elasifunda ekhitshini isintu, ulele emqokozweni lowo. ungamthatheli ngqalelo.

  • 381.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:36 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-378: Hayi uya hlekisa shitdammit!

  • 382.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:37 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-373: “abanye bekhuluma isibhunu” :lol:

    “hamba uyozifundela”…umame wenu? ngicela.

  • 383.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:38 pm

    If it were left to the ‘experienced’ heads against Wales we would have OUTRIGHT LOST.. It is ONLY by pulling all that overrated ‘EXPERIENCE’ OFF that the ‘INEXPERIENCED heads of Hougaard, Bismark and Alberts could save the bloody day…

    Some these cow horn blowers are seriously lost up some kind of infallible delusion disorder.. Had Smit and his experienced crew stayed on vs Wales ANY LONGER Boks would be staring an early exit in the face right now..

    Seeing Bismark, Hougaard and Alberts Saved the OLD heads arses now ALL these cockahoop Bok supporters reckon we ready to rumble like we were primed from the word go…

    Smit was given an absolute LIFELINE and it had sweet fanny fokkol to do with HIM..

  • 384.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:39 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-378:

    hahaha,yin’daba funeke kube imina ekufuneke nginyonyobe to tame the “beast” as you say?

    Lana yimina isiLWANE!!! hahahaha

  • 385.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:39 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-380: O hayi No, ndiya bazi nam abantu bafana no Heavens Game woaaaa, bakumosha hooooray!

  • 386.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:39 pm

    OK I’m on the wrong site I don’t have babylon translator for Zulu or Xhosa on this format

  • 387.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:42 pm

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-382:

    Walala,WEAK. Doesnt have the same impact ngesintu. Ngempela ngempela awazi ukuthi ukhulumani lenkwenkwe lena.

    What more appropriate to say & I will relay it to you ntwana: UNYONKO LOYO!!! Hahaha

  • 388.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:45 pm

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-386:

    lol,get one of the blokes that works for you on the site Skop,he will do the job.Even if he is Zimbabwean,Ndebele is a Nguni language

  • 389.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:49 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-384: ngubani okhulume ngokuNYONYOBA? hehehe ngelinye ilanga i’ll invite you uze emsebenzini wasekhaya uzibonele ukuthi le perception onayo is slightly misguided. ngiyazi ukuthi bane nkani kodwa bayalalela uma ushaya umthetho!

  • 390.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:54 pm

    @mpundulu(mpundulu)-385: ungaba isintu basifunde kwabamama bebebakhulisa bebafunza ibele :D tl tl tl

  • 391.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:56 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-389: yi-must ufakhe umthetho, madoda, uba umfazi akhevi usengxakini finish and klaar. Ndike ndayibona lento ibuhlungu!

  • 392.mpundulu: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:57 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-390: hehehehehe

  • 393.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 15:57 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-388: Only got one Malawian with me today and by the time I translate Zulu to Chichewa and come back and respond on here via Nokia it will be another debate altogether.. no go Mshini you guys carry on regardless.

    I’m gone for now anyhow.. so long

  • 394.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 16:07 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-389:

    Hhayi sizobona,ukuthi nje sengabona okuningi lana nabo labo abanenkani.Abangizwa mina,kuthi abafe uma ngithi isthembu asiyona into embi.Mangaki amaXhosa aqhamuka kwis’thembu?? I havent metone,nisho amadoda amaXhosa angitshela ngeke ngoba inkani ibame ngaphezulu ngisho kuyimanje bangenzani uma ufuna isithembu?

    Ngeke ngigijime ngize ngibe mfishane ngilibele ngithethisana nomuntu wesifazane.Angiyazi lenyonto mina HONESTLY

  • 395.rossoneri: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 16:12 pm

    Referees to 25 September

    Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:08

    The big match this weekend is New Zealand against France. In 1999 and 2007 it was France who knocked New Zealand out of the World Cup.
    Alain Rolland of Ireland is the referee for this match.

    International

    Tuesday, 20 September

    Italy vs Russia in Nelson
    Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
    Assistant referees: Steve Walsh (Australia), Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
    Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)

    Wednesday, 21 September

    Tonga vs Japan in Whangarei
    Referee: Dave Pearson (England)
    Assistant referees: Alain Rolland (Ireland), Stuart Terheege (England)
    Television match official: Giulio De Santis (Italy)

    Thursday, 22 September

    South Africa vs Namibia in North Shore
    Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
    Assistant referees: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand), Tim Hayes (Wales)
    Television match official: Graham Hughes (England)

    Friday, 23 September

    Australia vs USA in Wellington
    Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
    Assistant referees: Wayne Barnes (England), Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
    Television match official: Tim Hayes (Wales)

    Saturday, 24 September

    England vs Romania in Dunedin
    Referee: Romain Poite (France)
    Assistant referees: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa), Simon McDowell (Ireland)
    Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)

    New Zealand vs France in Auckland
    Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
    Assistant referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Carlo Damasco (Italy)
    Television match official: Graham Hughes (England)

    Sunday, 25 September

    Fiji vs Samoa in Auckland
    Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)
    Assistant referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Stuart Terheege (England)
    Television match official: Graham Hughes (England)

    Ireland vs Russia in Rotorua
    Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
    Assistant referees: Dave Pearson (England), Jérôme Garces (France)
    Television match official: Giulio De Santis (Italy)

    Argentina vs Scotland in Wellington
    Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
    Assistant referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
    Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)

  • 396.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 16:25 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-394: umane wenzeni ke mayengalaleli?

  • 397.Tartan: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 16:26 pm

    watch england give away less penalties under a NH ref and think they’ve solved their disciplinary problems only to end up back in de kak next time they get a SH man in the middle.

  • 398.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 17:20 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-394: kwame uqonde sbali ukuthi isizwe samaXhosa ikakhulu bathathe izimfundiso ze-missionaries, bahamba kakhulu ke nemfundo egameni lokuba “civilicised”. izithembu zinqabile in the formal sense kodwa ama-timer ayenza ngokuthanda kwawo.

  • 399.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 18:04 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-387: Okay umfazi… Unyonko loyo?

    ngiyabonga kakhulu “ngemfundiso”…. ngiyaphinda amamenazi amabi. nobabili.

  • 400.cab: Reply to this comment
    20 Sep 2011, 18:50 pm

    ukitchener isamangina idankie.

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