Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer on Wednesday named the same starting line-up that beat New Zealand a month ago to face Ireland in the opening Test of the Castle Lager Outgoing Tour on Dublin on Saturday.
The only change to the match-day squad is at replacement prop, where the injured Marcel van der Merwe is replaced by Coenie Oosthuizen.
“Although Julian Redelinghuys was also considered, he’s still new in the team and not familiar with our patterns of play and especially the line-out calls, while Coenie knows the way we play well,” said Meyer.
“Coenie is also in great shape and we know what he can do, especially if he has to make an impact off the bench. It’s good to have him back.”
Meyer was very happy with the continuity in selection from the last Test.
“It’s only the fifth time in what will be the 34th Test since I was appointed as Springbok coach that we’ve been able to select an unchanged starting line-up,” said Meyer.
“In this day and age, not making changes to teams is pretty much unheard of, but this is a great position we’re in. However, we need to make it count against a very tough Irish side on Saturday.
“Although we won our last Test, the challenge this week is to make another step up. It’s imperative that we improve in all facets of our play.”
Springbok team:
15 Willie le Roux (21 caps, 35 points)
14 Cornal Hendricks (9 caps, 25 points)
13 Jan Serfontein (16 caps, 5 points)
12 Jean de Villiers (Captain – 102 caps, 135 points)
11 Bryan Habana (103 caps, 280 points)
10 Handré Pollard (6 caps, 56 points)
9 Francois Hougaard (32 caps, 25 points)
8 Duane Vermeulen (25 caps, 10 points)
7 Teboho “Oupa” Mohoje (3 caps, 0 points)
6 Marcell Coetzee (22 caps, 25 points)
5 Victor Matfield (Vice-captain – 117 caps, 35 points)
4 Eben Etzebeth (29 caps, 0 points)
3 Jannie du Plessis (60 caps, 5 points)
2 Bismarck du Plessis (66 caps, 45 points)
1 Tendai Mtawarira (61 caps, 10 points)
Replacements:
16 Adriaan Strauss ( 40 caps, 25 points)
17 Trevor Nyakane (9 caps, 5 points)
18 Coenie Oosthuizen (17 caps, 10 points)
19 Bakkies Botha (83 caps, 35 points)
20 Schalk Burger (73 caps, 65 points)
21 Cobus Reinach (2 caps, 0 points)
22 Pat Lambie (36 caps, 81 points)
23 JP Pietersen (56 caps, 85 points)
Stats and facts:
- The Springbok starting team boasts a total of 672 Test caps (289 in the backline and 383 in the forwards), while there are a further 316 caps worth of experience on the bench.
- South Africa and Ireland have played each other 21 times since 1906, with the Springboks winning 16 Tests, losing four and one was drawn. The Springboks have scored 417 points and 60 tries and conceded 248 points and 24 tries for an average score of 20-12.
- South Africa and Ireland last met on 10 November 2012 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. The Springboks won 16-12.
- Jean de Villiers will extend his record as the most-capped Springbok centre, with 87 Tests in this position and will captain South Africa for the 31st time, placing him third behind John Smit (83) and Gary Teichmann (36).
- Victor Matfield will extend his own record as the most capped Springbok in history (117 Tests). He will also extend his record of 117 Tests as a lock and will also extend his record as the oldest Springbok ever at 37 years & 146 days.
- Bryan Habana will extend his record as the most-capped Springbok wing, with 102 Tests in this position. If he scores a try, he will extend his record of 56 Test tries for South Africa.
- If he scores a try Bismarck du Plessis will extend his record of nine Test tries for South Africa as a hooker. Bismarck and his older brother Jannie will extend their record of playing together in 40 Tests for the Springboks. Bismarck, Jannie and Tendai Mtawarira will also extend their record of 15 tests in the starting line-up as a front-row trio for South Africa.
- If he goes on as a flank, Schalk Burger will extend his own record as the most-capped Springbok flanker in history (71 caps). If he goes on as a flank and scores a try, he will become the sole record-holder for most Test tries as a flanker (11), a record he currently shares with Juan Smith.
- Willie le Roux, Cornal Hendricks, Duane Vermeulen, Jannie du Plessis and Bismarck du Plessis have played in all nine Tests for the Springboks in 2014. Bryan Habana and Tendai Mtawarira have both missed only one Test in 2014.
- Schalk Burger (Jnr) and Cobus Reinach (both on the bench) are sons of former Springboks. Schalk Burger (Snr) played six Tests for South Africa (1984-1986) and the late Jaco Reinach four Tests for South Africa in 1986. They played together in all four Tests against the New Zealand Cavaliers in 1986.
- For Pat Lambie this is a return to the city where he made his Test debut off the bench against Ireland in 2010.
- It will be the third time in history that a Springbok team will have three centurions in the starting line-up. The two previous occasions were against Australia and New Zealand in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship earlier this year.
- Adriaan Strauss played against his cousin Richardt Strauss when the Springboks and Ireland last met in Dublin on 10 November, 2012. They are likely to meet each other again as Richardt is in the Ireland squad for this Test match.
- It will be Heyneke Meyer’s 34th Test in charge of the Springboks since he took over in 2012. Of the previous 33 Tests South Africa have won 24, lost seven and drawn twice. His winning percentage of 73% is second only to Kitch Christie’s 100% (14 Tests 1994-1995) since 1992.
- The referee is Romain Poite of France. It will be his fifth Test involving South Africa. In previous Tests the Springboks have won three and lost one. His last Test involving South Africa was in June this year against Wales in Durban – a game that the Springboks won 38-16.
Springbok Test match records in Dublin:
- Most points – 12 by Percy Montgomery (3c, 2p) against Ireland on 28 November, 1998 and Percy Montgomery again on 13 November, 2004 (4p).
- Most tries – three by Jan Stegmann and “Boetie” McHardy against Ireland on 30 November, 1912.
- Most conversions – three Gerhard Morkel against Ireland on 30 November, 1912 and by Percy Montgomery against Ireland on 28 November, 1998.
- Most penalty goals – four by Percy Montgomery against Ireland on 13 November, 2004.
- Most drop goals – one by Hannes Brewis against Ireland on 8 December, 1951 and by Morne Steyn against Ireland on 28 November, 2009.
Date: Saturday 8 November
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Kick-Off: 19:30 SA Time (17:30 BST & GMT)
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant Referees: Mathieu Raynal (France), Alexandre Ruiz (France)
TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
grootblousmile wrote:
Ons was nie te kak nie, het ‘n paar keer by Pilditch die Intherhoër gewen
Rugby was maar middelmatig, hulle het beter geword later
Dis nou ‘n nes, ek was daar in die middle 2000’s toe hulle die 75 jaar (?) herdenking gehad het, fokkit daars graffiti partyplekke
Hulle sou ons gatvelle afgetrek het as ons so iets gedoen het
grootblousmile wrote:
179 @ Victoriabok:
Lyk nat en koellerig daar by jou!
Ja dit is, ons het baie reën gehad
Dit reën nie in die somer nie, dan is dit droog en warm
Kyk gou hierdie clip
181 @ Victoriabok:
Wanneer is jy oor die waters na Kanada toe? Hoe lank is jy nou daar?
182 @ Victoriabok:
Is mooi daar… en netjies.. en skoon!
grootblousmile wrote:
In Januarie 2009
grootblousmile wrote:
Dit is, hulle moet dit so hou, ons kry 3 miljoen toeriste per jaar
185 @ Victoriabok:
O, OK, ek het gedog dis heelwat langer as dit.
Ek het ‘n goeie, baie stout vriend… my dam se gans… André Wilkins, wat ook oor is Kanada toe so 3 jaar gelede… mis die bogger baie.
Hy is in die regte en het homself daar kwalifiseer en praktiseer nou daar… ek ken nie die grote Kanada nie man… hy is damn vêr van jou af in Drumheller, Alberta, nadat hy ook vir ‘n ruk in Weyburn, Saskatchewan was.
Hulle is baie, baie gelukkig daar… en sy vrou het ook ‘n goeie beroep in die bankwese gekry… bestuurder daar in Drumheller.
grootblousmile wrote:
Alberta is die provinsie langs ons
Hulle het baie olie daar en is skatryk
Dis cowboy country, hulle boer met beeste
Prokureurs moet weer kwalifiseer maar dis die moeite werd want hulle maak baie geld
Hoekom doen jy die nie meer nie?
Rekenaars kan seker nie so goed betaal as jou eie praktyk nie?
grootblousmile wrote:
Drumheller is in die Badlands, die Dinosaur Capital of the World
Dis ‘n droeë woestynagtige gebied
188 @ Victoriabok:
Ek het ‘n rekenaarsagtewareproduk vir Prokureurs geskrywe in 1995 al… vir my eie praktyk destyds… en toe wou al die vriende en kollegas dit hê… ek het begin uitdeel en later besef ek kan geld maak met die ding, toe ‘n BK gestig in 1995 en die ding begin bemark… en binne 6 maande het ek toe die aktiewe regspraktyk gelos.
Ek maak baie, baie meer geld so… en hoef nie ‘n batman suit te dra nie.. hoef ook nie ander mense se kak uit te sorteer vir ‘n lewe nie.
Die prokurowers betaal my ‘n maandelikse subskripsie per rekenaar wat die software gebruik en ek het bitter baie prokurowers op my boeke. My passiewe inkomste per maand is vêr meer as wat meeste baie senior prokurowers per maand verdien… dis nou voor ek in ‘n maand eers BEGIN werk.
Dan doen ek nog klomp goed jong… rekenaars, netwerke, software, web ontwikkeling en ontwerp…
… en dan het ek so klompie ander besigheidsvingers ook in verskillende dinge… soos ‘n begrafnisonderneming en eiendomme wat ek uitverhuur… ensovoorts.
So ek kan nie kla nie… die tille rol darem.
166 @ Victoriabok:
Hi Victoriabok, interesting info there thanks. Carel du Plessis was some player and yeah Gavin Hastings along with Naas Botha was one of the best, in the video you can see that his kleinboet Scott also had a super game at centre next to Sean Lineen. Have mentioned before on the site that met them both last year at a function that was done for charity in aid of MND research that Joost was at. Gavin and Scott both great guys.
@ grootblousmile:
Ek kan dink jy word gatvol om met mense se probleme opgesaal te word
‘n Begrafnisonderneming is ‘n goeie call, dis ‘n groeiende mark 😈
As Ebola sy opwagting maak gaan jy eers pond maak
Jy moet nou net ‘n Gentlemans club begin, iets soos Sin Bin
Jy kan dit hier bemark, al die ouens hier hou van meisies, jy’t so te sê ‘n “captive” mark 😛
179 @ Victoriabok:
Nice pic there, looks like Autumn has not really got to you yet or are all those trees in the pic evergreens?
@ Bullscot:
I wonder why so many players of that generation are getting MND?
Maybe there were more tackles and contact when the game turned professional in the mid 90’s?
Maybe steroid and creatine use?
Who knows
192 @ Victoriabok:
Was gaaf om te gesels Vicky Victoria!
So van een Gentleman na ‘n ander… goeie nag, slaap sag.
Ek gaan nou in my Mazda se backseat… ek bedoel my bed gaan klim en AUTOPILOT aanskakel…
Bullscot wrote:
No all the leaves haven’t dropped yet
It’s an evergreen, I can’t see it’s a bit far, either a Douglas Fir or a Western Hemlock
@ grootblousmile:
Geniet dit, droom van Dominees se katoolse dogters
grootblousmile wrote:
Dit was
Slaap?
Dis nou eers etenstyd hier
194 @ Victoriabok:
Don’t know, it is really sad. They had a man who does research into it giving a brief speech early in the night and what I took away from it is that there is still a lot of research to go on to find out more about MND. It is scary and sad to see how it reduces once big strong players and that night had a bigger effect on me than I thought before getting there, just seeing the footage of Joost in his prime and then seeing footage of him since he got MND with his children and also standing talking to him just makes you realize what a powerful disease it is.
196 @ Victoriabok:
Wasn’t one particular one that caught my eye but just the general vista with the colours and looking like the trees had lots of leaves. Autumn is in full swing here with nice colours we have had but many trees have dropped their leaves you can see why you guys in North America call this season Fall.
Bullscot wrote:
We don’t have as many Maple trees around so you only see splashes of yellow, we have lots of Red Cedar, Hemlock and Firs.
It was called “Fall” by the first British Settlers in the US. Later on you guys started calling it Autumn but it stayed Fall over here
Bullscot wrote:
They had a spate of NHL and NFL player committing suicides here, most of the NHL guys were fighters taking lots of blows to the head
The NFL guys tackle head first with their helmets
One NHL player donated his brain after he died and they analyzed it and found damage due repeated blows to the head
201 @ Victoriabok:
Ahh thanks, learn something new every day, always took the word Fall to be a very American thing
“The referee is Romain Poite of France.”
Pronounced like “Twat” with good reason
Maybe he’ll like us more now with 3 Sud-Africains playing for Les Tricolores?
@ Victoriabok:
It does not matter if he likes us or not, its all about his “masters voice” 😆
Seems like Percy did well against the Irish !! 🙂
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