South African Quadrangular Tournament

[kusta]

SA Team for Saturday:

1. Beast
2. Adriaan Strauss (vc)
3. Jannie Du Plessis
4. Eben Etzebeth
5. Juandre Kruger
6. Francois Louw
7. Willem Alberts
8. Pierre Spies

9. Jano Vermaak
10. Morne Steyn
11. Bjorn Basson
12. Jean De Villiers (c)
13. JJ Engelbrecht
14. Bryan Habana
15. Willie Le Roux

16. Chilliboy Ralepelle
17. Trevor Nyakane
18. Coenie Oosthuizen
19. Flip van der merwe
20. Arno Botha
21. Ruan Pienaar
22. Pat Lambie
23. Jan Serfontein

Italy is gonna KAK!!!

Dont really think so, im saying we will just win by about 10points!!

Overall though not a bad team, wouldve loved to see Labuschagne there in place of Arno Botha.

 

[Big Ewis]

Good luck to Italy, maybe a huge upset ??

Not to imply there is no team without him, but you guys sure are glad to see Habana back after such a bad showing the past Tour in Europe...he'll bring a lot of dynamics to a flat game from last November...

 

[Galbraith]

Why is Hougaard not in? He has been playing ahead of Vermaak for the bulls since he has returned from injury hasnt he? Even if he was played on the bench he would be an awesome utility sub

 

[TRF_heineken]

Why is Hougaard not in? He has been playing ahead of Vermaak for the bulls since he has returned from injury hasnt he? Even if he was played on the bench he would be an awesome utility sub

Hougaard has just played 2 games since returing from injury. And he still has a ****le. He also has a problem of giving a step before he passes from the scrums, which is a lack of confidence in his passing. It has been corrected a jit in the Cheetahs game, bit its still there.

I think he has been left out of the squad this week because he was supposed to testify on Tuesday in the Oscar Pistorius murder case, but it was postponed again. He missed some training time, and I think HM wanted to give him some time off to get his head back in the game, as getting ready to testify in a case can be very draining.

That being said, Jano has been overalll better than Hougaard and Ruan will be a bit fresher, since he has had some time off.

 

[LittleGuy]

Looks like Samoa vs. MTN Lions was a bit of an aberattion they are playing much better vs. the scots today....which I just realized we didn't even have a thread for(and we wonder why Scottish rugby is declining LOL).

 

[SelimNiai]

Not really surprising considering you can fit our active Samoan and Scottish members into a Smart Car and still have room for a St Bernard dog.

As it is, Scotland are playing well, frustrating the Samoans into ramping the physicality beyond the line, been some questionable late hits. And they score as I type.

 

[Sker]

I remember a whole bunch of Samoans joining the forums in 2011. Where did they all go?

 

[Big Ewis]

alright, we've got ourselves a GAME. 17 all.

I remember a whole bunch of Samoans joining the forums in 2011. Where did they all go?

all left after the Safa Lions test-match probably. They all follow ice hockey now.

 

[LittleGuy]

I remember a whole bunch of Samoans joining the forums in 2011. Where did they all go?

Yeah I haven't seen Sam Owen on in a while and Uliamosa I think it was. Scots we occasionally get one by during the 6N thats about it.

 

[Big Ewis]

we're practically doing commentary for them here !!!

EDIT: boy Tuilagi is a monster....can you imagine a team with all 3 main Tuilagi bros ?!!....

 

[LittleGuy]

Long way back for Scotland now.

 

[Big Ewis]

oh shyt, didn't realize this will be the first time ever Samoa beats Scotland...well, congrats Samoa.

 

[sifplay]

Blue Bulls vs Italy coming soon

 

[sifplay]

Unless Boks go to sleep badly here, they will hit 50 easily within 60min mark

Bulls 13 Italy 0 Italy a man down

 

[Tony Manx]

Habana is going to make such a difference to Toulon next season.....bring it on!!! Teams are back iin training in lss than a fortnight!!!!

 

[sifplay]

Italy's handling reminds me of Zuma's grip on this country.

 

[sifplay]

Boks haven't scored in ten minutes. Sack Heyneke.