Springbok defence coach John McFarland says they have taken note of the dangerous back three of Scotland ahead of their Test in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
Scotland head into the Test on the back of three consecutive away wins – against Argentina (21-19), Canada (19-17) and America (24-6).
They also have a new coach in Vern Cotter, but it was in particular the performances of Stuart Hogg (fullback), Sean Maitland (wing) and Tommy Seymour (wing) that caught the eye of the Springbok management.
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“We looked at their game against Argentina and they’re on a good run with three consecutive victories. Their back three are very strong. Hogg, Maitland and Seymour are currently playing good rugby and definitely pose a threat,” McFarland said.
Kick-off for Saturday’s clash at the Nelson Mandela bay Stadium is scheduled for 17:00 SA Time.
Scotland squad:
Forwards: Kevin Bryce, Geoff Cross, David Denton, Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford, Chris Fusaro, Grant Gilchrist, Jonny Gray, Rob Harley, Moray Low, Pat MacArthur, Gordon Reid, Tim Swinson, Jon Welsh, Euan Murray, Tyrone Holmes and Adam Ashe
Backs: Alex Dunbar, Dougie Fife, Grayson Hart, Stuart Hogg, Peter Horne, Ruaridh Jackson, Sean Maitland, Peter Murchie, Henry Pyrgos, Tommy Seymour and Duncan Weir.
Tyrone Holmes speaking about his inclusion in the Scotland squad for the tour of South Africa. Really glad for him he made it, hope he gets a chance, wonder if he will sing both anthems:
1 Apparently Tyrone’s father is a Scott… not his mother Debra.
GBS it has been hard to keep up with the Scotland squad with all the changes through the tour but the source doesn’t have the squad right – David Denton is not there (injured) and Gordon Reid went home for a rest.
2 @ grootblousmile:
That’s correct GBS, dad Steven born in Peebles, mentioned it in the article did here on Sunday : http://www.rugby-talk.com/2014/06/june-internationals-holmes-heading-home-with-scotland/
3 @ Bullscot:
Also Alex Dunbar not in (injured) – Nick de Luca in at outside centre, and Tom Heathcote is in SA instead of Ruaridh Jackson as Heatcote signed to come to Edinburgh from Bath while Jackson signed to play in England from Glasgow so Jackson was released with this being outside the window. The only thing that confused me is they brought in Euan Murray a tight head for Gordon Read a loose head and given personal circumstances would have thought a tight head in the squad Geoff Cross would have been released but have not seen anything in this regard so assume Geoff is still with the squad.
Getting to the subject of this article, Scotland have really good options at the moment in back 3, to think that Tim Visser isn’t in the squad now, done his bit earlier in the tour, and while on his best day Hogg has no peer fullback in Scotland thought that Peter Murchie generally played really well in his place at Glasgow Warriors, plus Dougie Fife is a good strong fast winger and I rate Greig Tonks who is not on this tour think still with a long term injury, although Alan Solomons started to use Tonks at flyhalf for Edinburgh. Then there is Sean Lamont who is a good bulky option and Max Evans small but elusive runner who wouldn’t have been playing in France for the last few years if he wasn’t top notch. Apparently there is a young guy coming through from the U20s (one of very few) who is meant to be a good winger – Jamie Farndale, so will be interesting to see how he gets on next season at Edinburgh.
Well done to Tyrone H on joining the list of people from sleepy Fish Hoek who has hit the bright lights
Tyrone Holmes- Rugby and Ice Hockey
Mathew Booth- Soccer
Paul Harris- Cricet
Skopskiet- Blogging.
🙂
7 @ robzim:
Hi robzim yes it’s good news for Tyrone – you can add life saving to his list, done this for WP. Don’t know if have been to Fish Hoek but if it is like some of the other parts of the seaside Western Cape it must be lovely, really liked Hout Bay, Simonstown, and Langebaan and Mykonos (I know they further up though) especially.
8 @ Bullscot:
Fish Hoek is a “dry” town if memory serves me correctly, so I would imagine the Sweaty Socks avoid the place like a town infested with ebola.
@ Bullscot:
Clovelly Golf Club is near Fish Hoek. Nice track, if somewhat infested with Boomslang. (According to a few locals I encountered there)
@ Bullscot:
@ 8
Yip, I saw the lifesaving bit… they have a very big and active life saving club in the town ( probably the biggest in the country) and the club has produced quite a number of SA champs through the years.
Fish Hoek has unfortunately becoming a bit notorious for shark attacks lately.. one fatal and a few serious injured… they are at moment experimenting with a shark net ( different to the Durban nets in the sense that it does not appear to have a detrimental affect on marine life) in order to make at least a portion of the beach 100% safe for swimming.
Nice clean beach otherwise.. more family orientated than Clifton etc who is more famous for posing 🙂
@ Scrumdown:
@ robzim:
Thanks for the info guys, sounds like its ok there but probably not the end of the world I didn’t get to it last year. There are so many lovely places to see in that part of the world just not enough time to do get to them, real thing am sorry about though is not getting to Bloubergstrand would just have loved to have taken one of those pictures you see in the postcards of the beach then ocean then table mountain in the background, oh well maybe another day
10 @ Scrumdown:
Golf not my game so am safe from the boomslang, at least if you on the golf course and you encounter one you have quite a few kieries to choose from to defend yourself
@ Bullscot:
Cheers….. Blouberg is a cool place but just do not go into the water unless dressed in at least a 7mm wetsuit otherwise you might never be the same again.
I attended a Bruce Springsteen concert in Bellville a few months ago and he told the audience he went into the cape waters and when he came out he discovered he has lost his “balls” and that it was still gone 3 days later. He was quite confident it would eventually return though 🙂
Hehe GBS – I dig the headline of this article – not sure if it says what you meant it to say though:
Weary: adj: feeling or showing extreme tiredness, especially as a result of excessive exertion
Weary: verb: grow tired of or bored with
On second thoughts….. maybe it does work….
Now before you think I am trying to take The Tacklers job as the Spelling Sersant, I just pointed it out cos I found it quite amusing ;-|)
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