Heyneke keeps faith in Boks
3 Oct 2012
Heyneke Meyer has made no changes to the Springboks’ starting line-up for the Rugby Championship Test against the All Blacks.
The Boks had several injury concerns following last Saturday’s clash against the Wallabies, but Meyer has confirmed that Zane Kirchner (hip), Johan Goosen (heel), Willem Alberts (hip), and Jannie du Plessis (stiffness) all trained with the team on Wednesday, and are all expected to start.
News that Coenie Oosthuizen has been cleared of a serious neck injury has prompted Meyer to include the Cheetahs prop on the Bok bench. Oosthuizen replaces Pat Cilliers, who featured against Australia last week.
‘Coenie is a superb athlete, a player whom I believe has the potential to be one of the all-time greats,’ said Meyer. ‘I will never gamble on a player’s health. We know that there is no risk to playing Coenie this weekend.
‘He has been out of action [due to a neck injury] for some time, but he understands our systems and what’s required of him having been with us since the beginning of the year.
‘In these types of games you need an impact player who can produce something special when he comes off the bench, and Coenie fits the bill.’
Springboks – 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jaco Taute, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermuelen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Beast Mtawarira.
Subs: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Coenie Oosthuizen, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Marcel Coetzee, 20 Elton Jantjies, 21 Juan de Jongh, 22 Pat Lambie.
By Jon Cardinelli, in Johannesburg
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4 Oct 2012, 00:06 am
Seriously need a bigger phone so I can stop these typing errors. Also isit co-incidence that Habana is performing having played some time at 13 and now at 14
Personally I would rather have Mvovo, Aplon or Taute at wing instead of Hougi
This proves he is a scrum half but on form he is behind Pienaar and would be great once the game opens up off the subs bench.
This week I would like to see Elton and Lambie on earlier aswell as De Jongh in the centre.
Wonder if Flip will have a good game, I used to rate him then he became a penalty machine and tried to be Bakkies but now hes playing intelligent rugby and still smashing rucks and dominating tackles.
4 Oct 2012, 01:26 am
@nama1-124: Hey my man..the AB’s are the greatest TEAM of all time, dont you see the stats and the records….the winningest team on the planet….everyone else has to beat us to get their rankings up, AB’s just keep on winning to stay 7points ahead of the pack chocking on their dust….that’s how it is mate…
4 Oct 2012, 01:28 am
@The Beast-140: I think you are JEALOUS
4 Oct 2012, 01:33 am
@BokkeYouBeauties-174: hey my man…what is it with Jappies who always harp on about the AB’s thinking they are invincible…? I have never heard that come out of the AB camp ever. Yes they are a good Team, better than anyone else and to suggest they will be good for 15mins until the Boks muscle up blah blah blah….give me a break mate…they muscled up in Dunedin and still got BEAT you know BEAT as in LOSE….it’s not how you start the game, it is how you finish…we have finished 5-0 in our last 5 RC games…6 come saturday.Sure the Boks will front, all vim and fire and brimstone, but then the intelligence will run out and hey presto – guess what? kick and chase, kick and chase, AB’s run back – it’s a TRY…go the AB’s
4 Oct 2012, 03:06 am
@jp 304: agree that was a stupid post by BYB. The usual pattern is the AB’s have to weather the storm from the opposition thatbisncrazy mad to beat us for the first 15, then we start to play our way into the match after the first 15.
The AB’s won’t make the mistake they made in the first half in Dunedin, trying to play too much rugby in our own half. Once we changed tactics in the second half we gave away less kickball penalties and were under less pressure, and it was quite a comfortable second half for us.
Plus Dan carter is a much better reader of the game than cruden, and can be expected to make better calls in the first half rather than wait for to be told what to do by the coach atbhalf time.
Having said all that, I still think the boks are more likely to win the game than us. We often don’t play well when the silverware is already in the cupboard, and I think the bok resolve to win will be stronger than ours. There are very small margins between the boks and us (when we both put out our strongest available teams), and I think the home advantage and stronger resolve will see the boks home.
No shame for the AB’s, it’s been a great season.
4 Oct 2012, 06:26 am
@nama1-200: Apologies, #57.
4 Oct 2012, 07:48 am
Sounds like Greentea had a big night on the rice wine.
And then came here to vent his frustrations.
Nice.
4 Oct 2012, 09:04 am
@gunther-307: personally I think he was just fullofshit from all the rice and noodles and no veg, good reason for him to go vegetarian
5 Oct 2012, 01:44 am
“Who’s a quota? The gloves are off
YOUR coach unleashed onto the stage Dean Greyling, a lobotomised coal miner’s son. The most abominable selection ever. Look in your own loftus backyard. You’ll find quotas like potgieter, werner kruger & Morne menstrual period Stain” (p.52)
I responded to this comment by Viewer with the following:
@viewer-52:
“It’s so fukking irritating to read that a player is a quota just because he is Colored/Black.
Vokkit man, some these players from Pretoria are the epitome of what a quota actually is, yet they are not called that because of their skin color.”
So, if you read his comment and then my response on it, how did YOU come to the conclusion that we were discussing “QUOTAS IN GENERAL”
Hou op laat jy kan end kry. Jy’t nog net kak gepraat.
Se maar vir ons dat jy elke donker speler as ‘n “KWOTA” speler beskou, ongeage of hy die beste in sy posisie is of nie.
5 Oct 2012, 01:53 am
@Rhys7-301:
“Personally I would rather have Mvovo, Aplon or Taute at wing instead of Hougi”
Personally, I wonder why the best wing in the history of Bok rugby has to move to right wing to accommodate a scrum half at left wing.
5 Oct 2012, 01:55 am
why the best LEFT wing
5 Oct 2012, 02:10 am
@JohnPierre-302:
It does not mean that they are UNBEATABLE, does it?
We all know that they are the best at the moment, and have been for the past few years but they are NOT UNBEATABLE, my friend.
I’m sure even you can admit that.
5 Oct 2012, 03:13 am
@nama1-312: Of course, they aren’t unbeatable, nobody is and I am yet to see any Blacks supporter here claiming the opposite.
Meanwhile McCaw’s led Blacks have done reasonably well with >90% win ratio during the last six-and-a-half years – and that’s playing mostly the very best from both hemispheres. So keeping in mind high class of their opposition and such a huge success rate, IMHO, they have earned the right to be named as one of the finests ever. I am voicing that opinion without any kind of arrogance.
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