Meyer defiant on Morné
12 Sep 2012
Morne Steyn will start at flyhalf against the All Blacks in Dunedin.
Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer has selected Steyn and made just two changes to the side beaten by Australia in Perth.
Francois Louw starts in the specialist openside role, with Marcell Coetzee among the substitutes.
‘The New Zealanders are good on the ground which is why we decided to go for a specialist openside flank in Francois,’ said Meyer. ‘Marcell has been very good this season and has played a lot of rugby, but in this match we feel he will be more useful as an impact option.’
Meanwhile, Flip van der Merwe starts at lock, Andries Bekker is recalled to the match 22 and tighthead prop Jannie du Plessis has been declared fit. Toulon-based lock Bakkies Botha won’t be involved and the issue with Botha is believed to be medical insurance – a similar situation which hampered Fourie du Preez’s return to Test rugby this season.
Johan Goosen is again among the substitutes and there’s a match squad call-up for Juan de Jongh and Dean Greyling.
Steyn kicked all 18 points in the Boks’ 18-5 win against the All Blacks in Port Elizabeth a year ago and holds the record of most points against the All Blacks when he scored all 31 points in the Boks’ win in Bloemfontein in 2009.
However, the Boks, with Steyn at flyhalf, have not enjoyed the kind of success that warrants continued selection. Steyn has played flyhalf in the Boks’ last 30 Tests and have won just 16.
South Africa’s rivalry with New Zealand is considered the fiercest in the game, but the All Blacks have been dominant in the professional era. Pre-isolation the Boks held a 21-16 winning advantage, but since international readmission in 1992 the All Blacks have won 30 and the Boks just 13. One Test has been drawn, 18-18 in Auckland in 1994.
Springboks – 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jean de Villiers (c), 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Juandre Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Beast Mtawarira.
Subs: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Dean Greyling, 18 Andries Bekker, 19 Marcell Coetzee, 20 Johan Goosen, 21 Juan de Jongh, 22 Pat Lambie.
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12 Sep 2012, 23:00 pm
@carol-749:
I know angel.
That’s why you are putty in my cultured hands.
12 Sep 2012, 23:03 pm
Ah what the fck. Let Albie have some fun now.
12 Sep 2012, 23:06 pm
Severe tactical miscalculations here.
Shouldn’t have bowled Osceola at the end and shouldn’t have waited so long to send jallis and Morkel in.
12 Sep 2012, 23:06 pm
@katman-752:
Would like to have seen more of Albie this tour. Pity about his injury. But if he and Levi come off we could be the biz.
12 Sep 2012, 23:07 pm
@gunther-751:
Behave, or Sheriff will start another rumour!!
You know how painful that can be!
12 Sep 2012, 23:08 pm
@carol-755:
Don’t worry my lovely.
The DA have promised to stay out of it.
12 Sep 2012, 23:08 pm
@I am a stormer-754: Other than that one innings of 117, has Levi done anything for the Proteas?
12 Sep 2012, 23:10 pm
That “catch” is like a freshie in golf. Surely a round of drinks for the team.
12 Sep 2012, 23:15 pm
@katman-758:
Shirley Temples all round.
Bollocks.
Still we won where it mattered.
12 Sep 2012, 23:15 pm
@gunther-759: Yeah. On paper. They were rubbish there.
12 Sep 2012, 23:15 pm
@katman-757:
Other than the other ton against the Lions, not really.
But one always expects a repeat at some stage. THe guy has talent. But I think the expectation is getting to him. That he has to prove himself.
12 Sep 2012, 23:17 pm
@katman-758:
Why do you want me to bash Broad anyway?
I like a lefthander, they make the wicket look more interesting!
12 Sep 2012, 23:19 pm
@katman-760:
And the tests.
Fuckadilly predicted this.
12 Sep 2012, 23:20 pm
@carol-762: You like lefthanders. Gunther likes the ladies with small hands. Each to his/her own.
12 Sep 2012, 23:21 pm
@carol-762: But to answer your question – because he’s go “bash me” written all over his smug little face. You’ll be doing society a favour.
12 Sep 2012, 23:21 pm
ooo daar is iets net hierso, net wag a klein bit longer. Lekker breinbraai rooostytoooosties. You will not be jammar. When you see this, everyting will make cents.
12 Sep 2012, 23:22 pm
Night Chaps..Not having Mr Murdock’s Sky TV I see no cricket.
Shame, having a short attentions span, I like Twenty 20 Cricket!
12 Sep 2012, 23:23 pm
@gunther-763: Fuckadily has predicted just about everything, including steam powered cars, the rapture and the reunion of Jefferson Airplane. So he’s bound to be right from time to time.
12 Sep 2012, 23:25 pm
@katman-765:
He went to Oakham School, quite a modest Public School in what was Rutland now Leicestershire!
Nothing to write home about!
12 Sep 2012, 23:25 pm
96.?capetown said: ?
12 Sep 2012, 08:56 am
Rene Naylor, Bok Physio, Coaching The Boks
What? I’m calling bullsh*t on your suggestion. Rene said in the Sunda Times that she has an additional task of relaying messages from the coach to the players on the field. She said the coach sometimes tells her to inform a player that he’s off if he repeats a certain action. BUT (here’s my legal background kicking in) she’s been physio with the boks since 2008 & much longer with WP. Therefore It is open to interpretation whether its HM that’s said that to her or whether its any of the other coaches that have been her colleagues. Admittedly what she said was too revealing but at best she’d be able to spot signs of premature fatigue and inform the coach accordingly. That’s not coaching
12 Sep 2012, 23:26 pm
@PielNeus-766:
Nothing makes cents. Your brain is fried.
12 Sep 2012, 23:27 pm
@gunther-763:
Whats the small hands ‘thingie’?
Is it something to do with Pilates?
12 Sep 2012, 23:29 pm
@katman-768: ja maar elke kont kan seen katterslet ou maat, manneer het seun by die korrelkop balless sooooooo diesel-vas.. einaaaaai is die word. moenie wrinkals he, gebruik mit vreiheid, nie copyrightered
12 Sep 2012, 23:29 pm
@carol-769:
Indeed.
Minor public school.
12 Sep 2012, 23:34 pm
@carol-772:
I think Katters is saying that your dainty digits will make my membrum virile seem bigger.
It will be like like parking a pantechnicon in an Easter Egg.
12 Sep 2012, 23:35 pm
@carol-772: A bird in the hand is worth two if the hand is tiny…
12 Sep 2012, 23:37 pm
@gunther-775:
@katman-776:
Yikes, I’m off…… Getting scary here lol
12 Sep 2012, 23:38 pm
Cheers all.
12 Sep 2012, 23:39 pm
Be good Pielneus.
And if you can’t, try not to leave any fingerprints.
12 Sep 2012, 23:41 pm
@carol-772: De door was oped by a tea-stained wreck, wearing de flayed remains of a bread-loaf vest, a small handed white tie and both feet in one sock
12 Sep 2012, 23:43 pm
@Jeraldjay-502: That’s a kak story bud,and you know it.
12 Sep 2012, 23:43 pm
Cheers folks. Been fun.
12 Sep 2012, 23:44 pm
@carol-772: good night
12 Sep 2012, 23:44 pm
Liverpool supporters still crying i see.People in England can sometimes be so precious at times.
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