<div class='quotemain'>I honestly think that Wales are capable of sneaking a result, and I;m not going just on starting line-ups. We've got some very decent players settled in teh team, and others (like Cooper, Daffydd Jones and Jamie Roberts) who are certain to be deperate to get a long term place in teh team. Not gonna predict anything, because I've had crap predictions this season (apart from the Six Natiosn anyway).
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If Wales win there's no way you could describe that as sneaking - a big result that must be down to Gatland bringing in underperformers or newbies who instantly fit with a team that knows how to take a tight game.
Coming out of SA with even one win after losing a handful of big game players will put Wales on a new level.
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If anything, the Bok team are the newbies. Got this off keo.co.za.
SPRINGBOKS
1. Gurthro Steenkamp (13 Tests)
2. John Smit (75 Tests)
3. Brian Mujati (0 Tests)
4. Bakkies Botha (45 Tests)
5. Andries Bekker (0 Tests)
6. Luke Watson (1 Test)
7. Juan Smith (42 Tests)
8. Pierre Spies (7 Tests)
9. Bolla Conradie (15 Tests)
10. Butch James (26 Tests)
11. Bryan Habana (36 Tests)
12. Jean de Villiers (33 Tests)
13. Adi Jacobs (10 Tests)
14. Tonderai Chavhanga (2 Tests)
15. Conrad Jantjes (11 Tests)
Total of 316 caps, average of just over
21 caps per player
WALES:
1. Adam Jones (48 Tests)
2. Matthew Rees (21 Tests)
3. Gethin Jenkins (58 Tests)
4. Ian Gough (50 Tests)
5. Alun-Wyn Jones (21 Tests)
6. Jonathan Thomas (44 Tests)
7. Dafydd Jones (29 Tests)
8. Ryan Jones (21 Tests)
9. Gareth Cooper (35 Tests)
10. Stephen Jones (70 Tests)
11. Shane Williams (56 Tests)
12. Sonny Parker (30 Tests)
13. Tom Shanklin (52 Tests)
14. Mark Jones (39 Tests)
15. Jamie Roberts (1 Test)
TOTAL: 575 caps, average
38 caps per player
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Even if all those experienced players on the bench came on, it doesn't represent our strongest team. Will the world ever see our best 15 players wear the green and gold in the game? I hope so. You'll probably have to watch the Tri-Nations, assuming that PdV is using the 3 June Test matches to experiment. Hopefully in the 2nd Test we'll bring out the big guns, give them a good a proper thrashing just to show the Boks mean business in thier own backyard. Not this water down version of a Bok starting 15. Wales are champions of Europe! Come on PdV, have a go!
That **** bag Sport minister of ours Mike Stofile, said that if we lose every game we play, but "represent our country racially" then so be it. I hope he dies miserably. Even our national hockey team was threatened that if half (50%) of the men and woman teams are not black, they are not going to the Olympics.
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I thank Bob Marley everyday that Stofile lost in the running to become the SARU president this year. Racial discrimination is against iRB policy, we learnt about that when the Boks got banned during the apartheid years, but now they turn a blind eye to this circus? The international rugby community must stand up against this BS.