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Venue: Estadio Malvinas
Time: 21:10 CAT (SA, GMT+2)
Bok Team
South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Makazole Mapimpi, 13 Lukhanyo Am, 12 André Esterhuizen, 11 Aphiwe Dyantyi, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Francois de Klerk, 8 Warren Whiteley, 7 Siya Kolisi (captain), 6 Francois Louw, 5 Franco Mostert, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Mbongeni Mbonambi, 17 Steven Kitshoff, 18 Wilco Louw, 19 Rudolph Snyman, 20 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 21 Embrose Papier, 22 Lionel Mapoe, 23 Damian Willemse.
Very similar to last week, Mostert and Snyman come in for Orie and van Staaden, Louw comes in for Thomas du Toit.
Reading between the lines, it feels like Rassie REALLY wants to win this one, all the changes made have increased our strength for the sake of our other goals of squad depth and transformation.
Good team though.
I think our locks are in a very healthy place at the moment, as are our props, if we have issues it's not really tight five. Only concern is a Marx injury but one or two guys have put their hands up.Can't complain too much about the changes. I understand why Mostert gets a start, in helping Marx at the lineouts and getting that right.
I think our locks are in a very healthy place at the moment, as are our props, if we have issues it's not really tight five. Only concern is a Marx injury but one or two guys have put their hands up.
LHs: Beast/Kitsoff/Trevor/ few others
THs: Malherbe/Louw/Thomas dT/ few others
Locks: Eben/PsdT/Mostert/RG Snyman/Orie if we have to
Then Lood and Coenie still need to come back from injury.
In most cases we have a good 2 reserve options are fairly strong quality in each of those positions.
Pity we can't say the same for 9... or 2... or 8... or 11... or 14...
looked like ledesma hold the replacements a little bit to muchGreat win for Los Pumas. They looked tired as the Boks looked to come flying home with a wet sail, but managed to hold them out, and came close to pinching another try at the end.