RWC: USA v RSA (Olympic Stadium): POOL B

[PaarlBok]

USA:
1 Oli Kilifi 2 Phil Thiel 3 Chris Baumann
4 Louis Stanfill 5 Matthew Trouville
6 Danny Barrett 7 John Quill 8 Samu Manoa
9 Niku Kruger 10 Shalom Suniula
11 Zach Test 12 Andrew Suniula 13 Folau Niua 14 Brett Thompson
15 Blaine Scully
Replacements
16 Joe Taufetee 17 Zach Fenoglio 18 Mate Moeakiola 19 Titi Lamositele 20 Cam Dolan 21 Al McFarland 22 Mike Petri 23 Chris Wyles

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Ref: Gauzere
AR': Owens & Fraser
TMO: Ayoub

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Lwazi Mvovo, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Handrè Pollard, 9 Fourie du Preez (c), 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Lood de Jager, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira
Replacements: 16 Schalk Brits, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Coenie Oosthuizen, 19 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 20 Willem Alberts, 21 Rudy Paige, 22 Morné Steyn, 23 Jan Serfontein

 

[PaarlBok]

Springbokke put out their strongest team. Great from Meyer.

 

[Dewald Nel]

Springbokke put out their strongest team. Great from Meyer.

Sarcasm?

Pretty sure IF we lead by 30 at halftime(IF, because Japan), he'll unload pretty much the whole bench.

The quarter-final is 9/10 days after tomorrow's game, so these players will need to play a bit now. If we were playing on the weekend, I'm sure the team would look a bit different.

 

[PaarlBok]

Sarcasm?

Pretty sure IF we lead by 30 at halftime(IF, because Japan), he'll unload pretty much the whole bench.

The quarter-final is 9/10 days after tomorrow's game, so these players will need to play a bit now. If we were playing on the weekend, I'm sure the team would look a bit different.

Nah no sarcasm. Our players need matches. Glad he play his best team.

 

[PaarlBok]

and hoping for more running and less kicking.

 

[Dewald Nel]

and hoping for more running and less kicking.

Yes, vs. USA definitely. After that, a more balanced approach is needed.

And I can bet you if we make the semi vs. NZ, it will be nothing like as open as the last 3 matches at Ellis Park.

 

[PaarlBok]

Yes, vs. USA definitely. After that, a more balanced approach is needed.

And I can bet you if we make the semi vs. NZ, it will be nothing like as open as the last 3 matches at Ellis Park.

Lets beat USA first. This tournament its one game at a time.

Flo is the most important player in our squad. Hopefull he will improve as we go along.

 

[Omar Comin']

The USA are playing a mostly B team (saving players for Japan), so I expect South Africa will crush them. Pretty sure all but 2 or 3 of the starting 15 are amateurs or sevens players.

 

[Blue]

The plan I would imagine would be to be 20 to 30 up by the break and empty the bench.

 

[Dewald Nel]

The plan I would imagine would be to be 20 to 30 up by the break and empty the bench.

Like vs. Japan.

 

[Dewald Nel]

Less than 3 hours to go - slightly nervous. If we can find a way to lose this one as well, we could be out of the world cup...

 

[Dewald Nel]

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[mxyzptlk]

Why must every game begin with a 35-year-old song from some geriatric rockers?

 

[mxyzptlk]

Only took Schalk Burger 1:30 to try to unscrew someone's head. Didn't he do something similar to a lion once to save a baboon it was attacking?

 

[mxyzptlk]

Looks like the Springboks had their biltong this morning.

 

[mxyzptlk]

That was a scary collision between Habana and Scully. JdV's reaction seemed about right.

 

[Chunderstruck]

Habana did that before to Folau- stay on the ground and the guy in the air gets annihilated when his legs are knocked out

 

[USARugger]

How is it a contest for the ball when one player doesn't jump at all?