Springboks (22) 29 / Azuri (3) 13 (Final Score)
The Springboks hosted the Italian Azuri team at Witbank, Mpumalanga, South Africa at 15:00 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The game was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 on DSTV in SA.
The Springboks won convincingly but rhytm lacked in the 2nd half, specially when too many subs came on.
The most pleasing part of the game was that the Springboks dominated the scrums where Gurthro Steenkamp clearly mastered Martin Castrogiovanni and his replaceent after he went off injured.
Players who enhanced their Springbok futures were Gurthro Steenkamp, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Francois Louw, Dewald Potgieter, Morné Steyn and Zane Kirchner.
Players who did not enhance their Springbok futures were Butch James (who was also awarded a yellow card), Ricky Januarie & Alistair Hargreaves.
The Springboks ran in 4 tries to 1 and the final score was Springboks 29 / 13.
Scores:
Springboks: 1 Penalty & 3 Conversions & 1 Try Morné Steyn, 1 Try Bryan Habana, 1 Try Francois Louw, 1 Try Zane Kirchner
Azuri: 2 Penalties & 1 Conversion Mirco Bergamasco, 1 Try Sergio Parisse
Teams:
South Africa: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jean de Villiers, 12 Butch James, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ricky Januarie, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Dewald Potgieter, 6 François Louw, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Alistair Hargreaves, 19 Ryan Kankowski, 20 Ruan Pienaar, 21 Juan de Jongh, 22 Bjorn Basson.
Italy: 15 Luke McLean, 14 Kaine Robertson, 13 Andrea Masi, 12 Matteo Pratichetti, 11 Mirco Bergamasco, 10 Craig Gower, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Sergio Parisse (Captain), 7 Alessandro Zanni, 6 Simone Favaro, 5 Quintin Geldenhuys, 4 Valerio Bernabò, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini 1 Salvatore Perugini.
Replacements: 16 Fabio Ongaro, 17 Lorenzo Cittadini, 18 Marco Bortolami, 19 Paul Derbyshire, 20 Simon Picone, 21 Riccardo Bocchino, 22 Gonzalo Canale.
Date: Saturday, June 19
Venue: Puma Stadium, Witbank
Kick-off: 15.00 (13.00 GMT)
Expected weather conditions: Clear with a high of 13°C, dropping to 0°C and enough wind to take the windchill temperature down to -2°C.
Referee: Andrew Small (England)
Assistant referees: Keith Brown (New Zealand), David Changleng (Scotland)
TMO: Graham Hughes (England)
Try Parisse
Hargreaves is a lightweight… totally.
Bokke 29 / 10
Damn, what happend there? One dummy and the Dead Sea parted!
Butch back on and moves to flyhalf, Pienaar on for Ricky, Juan also on
@ grootblousmile:
Not so sure mate…they are beating us in territory and possession…they are nowhere the level as the boks, but what I’m trying to get at, is that they can certainly give some of the northern hemisphere teams a good run for their money if they sort out their discipline
Bokke now have a 5m scrum after nearly scoring
Spies loses the ball behind the scrum…. his big weakness.. hands.
Spies moet vir hom gloves kry , velcro verkieslik
Penalty Italy, kickable
Looks like Nick Mallet might have to shave his head 🙂
Bokke 29 / 13
Bokke better score now to save my Superbru, a have them with 28
Scrum Bokke
Penalty Bokke from the scrum…
Bokke did bloody well in the scrums.
Bjorn Basson on for Kirchner, Kanko on for Dewald Potgieter
@ grootblousmile:
Dont you think a bit more of Chillyboy now?
Very sloppy play from the Boks man…
107@ superBul:
He certainly did well, but is he the best we have?
prima donna play by Habana ,,, soooo WP like 😆
108@ bos_otter:
Too many subs now on, all rhytm disturbed.
They can safely put Butch to pasture now.
1 Minute to play
Agree Butch ahead of Peter Grant is pure madness
Bandise Maku on… for a single minute… why?
Game over.
Bokke win by 29 / 13
Only 16 points difference… Mallet die kaalkop…. hehehe
@ grootblousmile:
Political pressure? Stupid xmas father give aways? No point.
Ah well…a win is a win, but that was an average display by the boks. Have a nice day all.
@ grootblousmile:
wat is die storie oor Mallet
Certainly not the best show to ever hit Witbank. Now what are the Ghanaians doing against Oz at Bafokeng…..
@ bos_otter:
Mooi loop otter
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