habana will probably get the nod 1st up, because with only one week to prepare the team meyer will go with experience. he’ll then give players like mvovo time to play themselves into contention, either off the bench, or in the 3rd test if boks have the series wrapped up by then. thats my opinion anyway. and what i’d do if i was coach.

from what i’ve seen in the super15 all teams are playing that kick chase territorial game. teams have gotten past the tackler having to release the player befre playing the ball and game has swung back in favour of the defending team.

until the rules change again no teams will be willing to run the ball from inside their own half. kicking is a feature of the game – dont kid yourself the boks will be the only ones playing the territory game in the 4nations (or whatever it is called). aussies and kiwis have a tactical game.

in my opinion it is the teams with the best tactical kicking game that get to do the most running. thats because they win the kicking contest and spend more time with quality ball in their opponents half. in last years Super15 carter and cooper kicked the most. and reds and crusaders contested the final…

I reckon fourie still has plenty to offer boks. in 2010 he was played into ground by ludeke and carried injuries into international season. in 2011 he was just starting to get back to his best when boks were knocked out of world cup.

pity fourie wont have a few games of super rugby to get up to speed though.

with hougie on bench we got a super duper sub to come on either 9 or wing depending on what the game needs. if fourie does not come back, then ruan should get a shot – have not seen him play but sounds like he’s in good form too.

Its no suprise to me that he wants Wynand Olivier, Fourie Du Preez, Danie Russouw etc in the team, and of course there are decisions he has done which I wouldn’t have but everyone has their own opinion on the bok team and not many would be identical

Personally I find it odd that he’s decided to pick CJ Stander over Siya Kolisi and Pat Cilliers over Steven Kitshoff… however under Meyer they should get their time if they perfrom.

The one issue I have with this whole situation is that the bok team should always field the best available side in the coaches opinion… and even Meyer will know that if he picks Du Preez over Hougaard, M Steyn over Grant or Ndungane over Pietersen or Mvovo that he will not be picking the best players.. but for this series I think he deserves a shot at proving people wrong and beginning to build a side.

Personally the 42 I would have taken would have been:

15 Jaco Taute, Gio Aplon, Joe Pietersen
14 JP Pietersen, Bjorn Basson, JP Pietersen
13 Juan De Jongh, Robert Ebersohn, Tim Whitehead
12 Jean De Villiers, Francois Steyn, Patirck Lambie
11 Bryan Habana, Lwazi Mvovo,
10 Peter Grant, Morne Steyn, Elton Jantjes
9 Francois Hougaard, Jano Vermaak, Fourie Du Preez
8 Joshua Strauss, Willem Alberts, (Pierre Spies / Keegan Daniel / Ryan Kankowski)
7 Marcell Coetzee, Derick Minnie, Jean Deysel
6 Heinrich Brussouw, Siya Kolisi,
5 Andries Bekker, Juandre Kruger
4 Eben Etzebeth, Rynhardt Elstadt, Steven Sykes
3 Jannie Du Plessis, CJ Van Der Linde, Werner Kruger
2 Bismark Du Plessis, Adriaan Strauss, Chillyboy Ralepelle
1 Tendai Mtawarira, Coenie Oosthuzyen, Steven Kitsoff

Fantastico!

What a legend, right until he **** hisself in the gdam foot too with the only bad move he made.

ek’s uit vir n rukkie .. sien julle later laaitjies.

off to watch the ding dong battle in bloemfontein..

cheerio chaps and chapattis .. life in the wonderful world of wakey wakey land ain’t such a bad daydream..

see ya anon .. if not in this disguise.. perhaps in another.

I’m sure you’ll resurface in some form, no matter what steps the ”Gestapo” may take to try and extinguish your flame. Master of disguise and subterfuge that you are.

So he pre-emptively changed his logon name, just in case?

the gestapo got their wish they bamboozled the heinous heresy into believing their apartheid propaganda so just like before I had to go underground to fight the good fight for unrelenting freedom to the free thinkers of the world..

In spite of their inane urge to always crucify the poor jewboy the Nazi’s still haven’t learnt yet quite how. They thought they got rid of all of them in the gas chambers.