Lambie set for Bok start
5 Nov 2012
RYAN VREDE, writing from Dublin, says Pat Lambie ran at flyhalf for the bulk of Monday’s training session in a strong indicator that he will play ahead of Morne Steyn at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.
Lambie impressed throughout the Super Rugby campaign in the position and was exceptional in Currie Cup semi-final at Kings Park, where his tactical game management and goal-kicking lead the Sharks to the final.
It had been a straight choice between Lambie and Steyn for head coach Heyneke Meyer, who remained hopeful that Steyn would regain his confidence after dropping him for the home leg of the Rugby Championship. He believes Steyn’s tactical kicking game is the best of his available flyhalves, but has acknowledged Lambie’s growth in this facet of play, most recently at Monday’s press conference which preceded training.
‘You can’t compare the Currie Cup and Tests but he showed great tactical awareness in winning the Currie Cup with the Sharks in 2010 as 19 or 20 year old. Suddenly I’ve seen some of that in him again and he is really improving and knocking on the door hard at the moment.’
Steyn is now unlikely to feature in the match 22 as Meyer doesn’t see him as an impact player, with Elton Jantjies expected to provide cover on the wood.
Lambie has an opportunity to stake a serious claim for the shirt and will be acutely aware of the importance of a strong performance at the weekend. Johan Goosen remains Meyer’s preferred pivot of those at his disposal, but with Meyer set to commit to a deputy for Goosen for the 2013 season and onwards towards the World Cup, Lambie has an inside lane.
‘I know Morne will get back to his best soon,’ Meyer said. ‘Dan Carter said to me a couple of years ago that he went through a difficult time and went to France and came back a better player, which gives me confidence about Morne [Meyer was intimating that a break will have done Steyn good]. But you also want to see who is the next guy after Goosen.’
Meyer lamented that nearly a year into his reign he was still deciding between flyhalves.
‘Because the three are young [Goosen, Lambie and Jantjies] the only way you’ll see whether they have it or not is by playing them. The difficulty is that if your flyhalf isn’t on song then you lose because he runs the whole game plan. I would have loved to have the opportunity earlier in my tenure to look at the 10s. But I didn’t have that luxury. We’re probably the only elite nation without an established 10,’ he said.
He did, however, express delight at the new-found depth in a position that has historically been troublesome.
‘I’m happy at what we have at present and then future looks good with Handre Pollard and others coming through,’ he said. ‘If you look at the last 10 years this is probably the best group of flyhalves we’ve had available. But how they respond in these conditions is key. They’re all good at running and distributing the ball, but with the World Cup being in England you’ll need guys who are tactically astute. They all have to work on that aspect of their games.’
Meanwhile, JP Pietersen is set to be reinstated on the wing after missing the Rugby Championship through injury. Francois Hougaard is likely to retain his place on the opposite flank.
Jean de Villiers and Francois Louw didn’t participate in the contact session but the former ran freely and is expected to overcome a hamstring strain to start. Louw has a neck injury that is being monitored. If he fails to respond to treatment he will be replaced at openside flank by Marcell Coetzee, with Arno Botha coming onto the bench.
Adriaan Strauss will keep his place at hooker ahead of Schalk Brits, who will be used as an impact player. Elsewhere in the front row, Gurthro Steenkamp was a notable absentee at training, the prop picking up an injury in Toulouse’s match this weekend. In the event of Steenkamp’s injury precluding him from joining the squad, Leinster’s Heinke van der Merwe will be called up.
Probable Springbok XV to face Ireland – 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jaco Taute, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Francois Hougaard, 10 Pat Lambie, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermuelen, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Juandre Kruger, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Beast Mtawarira.
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6 Nov 2012, 20:26 pm
This morning I woke up in a curfew;
O God, I was a prisoner, too – yeah!
Could not recognize the faces standing over me;
They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality. Eh!
How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss? Eh!
All that we got, it seems we have lost;
We must have really paid the cost.
(That’s why we gonna be)
Burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight;
(Say we gonna burn and loot)
Burnin’ and a-lootin’ tonight;
(One more thing)
Burnin’ all pollution tonight;
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
Burnin’ all illusion tonight.
Oh, stop them!
6 Nov 2012, 20:26 pm
@skopdiekan-441: The alliterition
is not improving.
6 Nov 2012, 20:27 pm
Has Obama suddenly become Irish?
6 Nov 2012, 20:28 pm
@I am a stormer-447:
Citizens United opened a whole can of worms. The IRS are still trying to determine which of the Koch Bros and Roves Super Pacs are genuinely tax exempt entities.
6 Nov 2012, 20:29 pm
@katman-451: Brtflliant words.Song???
Singer????
6 Nov 2012, 20:30 pm
Bob Marley, Burnin and Lootin
6 Nov 2012, 20:31 pm
@ryecatcher-455: Bob Marley – Burnin’ and Lootin’. Great track.
6 Nov 2012, 20:32 pm
@Dawn-456: snaperoo.
6 Nov 2012, 20:34 pm
Don’t snaperoo me. I was listening to that when you were in primary school!
6 Nov 2012, 20:34 pm
Elvis, Bob, Jimi and Bob
that the holy quartet the 4 pillars of modern music
all the rest are nice to have appendages filling out the spaces,, but Elvis Bob, Jimi and Bob were the 4 cornerstones of the entire shindig, without them 4 nothing would have happened.
6 Nov 2012, 20:34 pm
@Dawn-456: Thanks not many songs
move me but these words do.
6 Nov 2012, 20:34 pm
@ryecatcher-455: Check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99nzyiS830
6 Nov 2012, 20:35 pm
@Dawn-459: Ja tannie. Jammer tannie.
6 Nov 2012, 20:36 pm
yeah auntie Angie was listening to Bob before you snapped or crackled or popped your rice crispies in the Sunday school morning.
6 Nov 2012, 20:36 pm
@skopdiekan-460: Stay out of this. The adults are talking.
6 Nov 2012, 20:37 pm
Ja know your place, lightie
6 Nov 2012, 20:39 pm
hear comes this little snot nose thinking he’s f’ng important again.. what a wet behind the ears piffle arsed baby face peewee poefta
6 Nov 2012, 20:39 pm
@Dawn-466: Can’t talk to Skoppie like that. You’ll set him off again.
6 Nov 2012, 20:40 pm
@skopdiekan-460:
Shut up skop… No one cares about your opinion.
You are the village idiot around here.
6 Nov 2012, 20:40 pm
@skopdiekan-467: Hey, tell us about Joe Cockers greatest covers again. Did he do any Cliff Richard numbers? Neil Diamond perhaps?
6 Nov 2012, 20:42 pm
@David-443:
So you read and write fluently in the Japanese language? Do you do so as often as you read the Huffington Post because you worry enough about your money which is affected by the politics and the economic policies of the West?
Or do you just see what you want to see?
Do you note that I do not blame any people?
My original premise is that looting is never a big problem in any disaster even in an African one.People will steal if they have to or insome cases to equal the score in the ‘games’ between the HAVES and the have-nots
Also people simply have a strong survival mechanism which kicks in and gets them to do whatever they have to do if they can do it.
How is your Norwich mid-field? Now that truly is deserving of your concern. Have you noted that as soon as they benched Snoddy you leaked less goals and picked up some points? Or are you spending too much time monitoring the Japanese media?
6 Nov 2012, 20:43 pm
peewee poefta needs a backhand to his piffle arsed pathetic pisswilly arrogance…
how the fck do you even associate with such utter fake arse garbage Dawn.. don’t you value decent sincere company in your life?
6 Nov 2012, 20:43 pm
A few weeks back, many of us witnessed skop getting completely owned and anihilated by katman.
Cant remember the details exactly. Something to do with previous posts about Hougaard and Duvenhage.
Course he was using a different log in name at the time, but still great valie for money.
6 Nov 2012, 20:44 pm
@poltergeist-469: another fakefuck that needs a backhand straight through his fakefuck face…
6 Nov 2012, 20:45 pm
ET how goes the doggie-paddle ouballas?
still swimming the lengths ekse, now what is mevrou ET going to say about you chasing all the tannies in the swembad?
6 Nov 2012, 20:45 pm
@ET.-471: Ja right. Many people also have a strong pilfering mechanism that conveniently kicks in. Check out the London riots. Without dem Puma trainers an Blackberry Bolds dose kids wud not have made it.
6 Nov 2012, 20:46 pm
@McAwesome-473:
Skop is 100% the property of katman.
He can be disobedient at times, as is the case with most pets, but he is still katman’s *****.
No doubt about it.
6 Nov 2012, 20:47 pm
yeah Mctheschmuckawesome ain’t you just the right honorary authority on who owns who in cyberspace tweedle de dumpling twatass idiot imbecilic doos.
6 Nov 2012, 20:48 pm
@skopdiekan-478: mcawesome’s right, you are katmans b.itch
Nuff said.
6 Nov 2012, 20:49 pm
@the authority-477: and here’s another fakefuck that thinks he’s the authority on all things rugby and all things non rugby also.. just like his little fakefuck pisswilly hero katmankunty the little fakefuck prick..
6 Nov 2012, 20:50 pm
I’m afraid it seems the tribe has spoken.
6 Nov 2012, 20:50 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-394:
All you have reminded us off is how blind and silly sometimes you are.
Always hiding behind the other team cheats. In the last 5 months you have accused NZ,OZ Argentina and England of cheating.
Only fact you really have is SA are average…..those are the facts. And you trying to cover up and make everyone feel better by saying this.
I am here to correct it. SA are average and will be found out against Ireland and England very soon…..thats if you are playing England. We know you dont play france as they seem to beat you alot.
6 Nov 2012, 20:50 pm
@cab-475:
ET checks out the creepy crawlies in the swembad. Said so himself. Bloody moffie.
Disgusting.
6 Nov 2012, 20:50 pm
@poltergeist-479: keep believing it fakefuck… keep believing whatever you will.. I know who owns who and it ain’t who you think it is you nonentity pisswilly little prick
6 Nov 2012, 20:52 pm
@ryecatcher-450:
You get to that “White Man” bit from white collar? Your admitted drinking problem is very bad then.
And are you saying Transie is white and is trying for ‘boer’ as in ‘boerdom’ or bore as in boredom.
I happen to agree with you, he is white(by the Fanon definition) and is also the blackest ‘boer’ by a country-farmer/’boer’ mile.
6 Nov 2012, 20:53 pm
@Hurricane-482:
Chill, chom.
It is only Tuesday.
6 Nov 2012, 20:53 pm
@I am a stormer-483:
what?! is he batting for the other side?
a pink speedo?
6 Nov 2012, 20:53 pm
@I am a stormerMOFFIE
Not interested in your cheap talk.
6 Nov 2012, 20:55 pm
@katman-481: let the tribe speak fakefuck.. you know as much as I know that I fck you up any and every time you ever try cross your fakefuck sword with me.. little pisswilly punk… your only hope is the moderators come bale you out of your fakefuck superior attitude.. that your only hope you come out smelling like the pansy you are.
6 Nov 2012, 20:59 pm
I know who owns who and the answer will surprise you all.
6 Nov 2012, 20:59 pm
@skopdiekan-489: Don’t flatter yourself, old man. I’ve never reported you to any moderator. Any banning you’ve got here is your own stupid doing altogether.
Now regale us with tales of that croaky kareoke okie that you think is the best thing to have happened to 20th century music. Let’s hear your critique of his duet, Love lift us up where we belong.
6 Nov 2012, 21:00 pm
so who owns who Dawn.. spit it
6 Nov 2012, 21:00 pm
476
That is well covered in my “even the score in the ‘games’ between the Haves and ….” bit.
6 Nov 2012, 21:00 pm
@Dawn-490: I don’t own much, but I own Skoppie. And that may be all I need to own.
6 Nov 2012, 21:01 pm
ET are u playing hard to get of iets.
u still splitting neurons and glials or just watching leeds play norwich?
6 Nov 2012, 21:01 pm
@ET.-493: When it comes to being totally mashed in the membrane, you’re snapping awfully closely on old Loonie Skop’s heels, Extraball.
6 Nov 2012, 21:02 pm
@ET.-485: Hey pal.I dont wake up at 2..am
craving for a drink.Enjoy it sometimes and have it under control.So has never been a problemDo not understand the rest of your post.Lighten up.Get rid of the rage but not on me please.
Understand that you have had a hurtful childhood.What can I say?Sorry will never cut it.Regards
6 Nov 2012, 21:04 pm
@katman-491: you simply too young to understand anything regarding quality in music.. you just too young.. that’s it..one day when you old enough I might condescend to enlighten you a little bit.. but till then keep thinking you know so much about so little and keep believing you know anything about music specifically…I seen how you bandy about your top of the charts fake intelligentsia type knowledge.. it don’t wash kiddie winkie.. it don’t wash any which way whatsoever at all.
6 Nov 2012, 21:06 pm
@ryecatcher-497: Don’t bother trying to understand his posts. Tonight is about as lucid as he’s been in half a decade. Rather just smile warmly at him and then praise the beautiful basket he’s about to weave us.
6 Nov 2012, 21:07 pm
@katman-494: Linda Ronstadt??
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