Everyone seems to be aspiring coaches and selectors and week after week we watch matches and air our views where we either slate the coach or sing his praises.
So, I would like to invite every Blogger to post his or her 23 players for the First upcoming Springbok Test against Ireland. Also I will put this up for each Test so we can eventually see who gets it right overall as well as each individual Test.
In the team you must choose from the players available and not players you are aggrieved about not being there, this is about trying to see if you can understand your Bok coach, it is not about whether you like or do not like him.
The team can be either about what the team should be as per your point of view, or if you are not sure select the 23 players as you think the coach will select, also remember with the new laws up north you need to have a full front row on the bench and thus the selection is now 23 players and not 22.
Take into account that we have no knowledge as to the 32nd player which has not been named yet, when this player is named and does play in the 1st Test you will get acknowledgement for that player.
Springbok squad
FORWARDS: Willem Alberts, Arno Botha, Schalk Brits, Pat Cilliers, Marcell Coetzee, Jannie du Plessis, Eben Etzebeth, Juandré Kruger, Francois Louw, Tendai Mtawarira, Chiliboy Ralepelle, Gurthrö Steenkamp, Adriaan Strauss, CJ van der Linde, Flip van der Merwe, Franco van der Merwe, Duane Vermeulen.
BACKS: Juan de Jongh, Jean de Villiers (capt), Francois Hougaard, Elton Jantjies, Zane Kirchner, Pat Lambie, Lionel Mapoe, Lwazi Mvovo, Ruan Pienaar, JP Pietersen, Raymond Rhule, Morné Steyn, Jaco Taute, Jano Vermaak.
89 @ Sharks_forever:
As long as he does not get to teaching “Stiff Arm Tackling” or “Brainfarting”
@ grootblousmile:
Agree Rudi, this is why it is confusing as to HM’s thinking??? Why not play him at 15 and play a natural center who infact would then be playing with his regular provincial center partner???
Seriously does not make sense
I am talking about Meyer wanting Jaco to play fullback once Fransie is back. He sees Jaco as his future starting fullback, then he should start him there now. We have Juan for outside centre on this tour.
@ grootblousmile:
😆 true
92 @ Sharks_forever:
Agree 100%. The mind boggles with Meyer. Why not play Jaco at fullback if he has said Jaco is the player he wants at fullback. Why now play him at outside centre and keep Juan out? Juan is on tour and he is a outside centre and a better one than Jaco.
Could all boil down to size again, jeez I just don’t understand it.
@ grootblousmile:
I know Butch will also be working very closely with Robert Du Preez and Carel Du Plessis sons who are both 10’s with the Sharks academy
95 @ Puma:
I understand Heyneke Meyer fully….
Hehehehe
Must be a freegin cultural thing with you bloody Soutie Sharkies… flok!
@ Puma:
I still believe Fransie and Jacques would be our best center combo,
In jordaan i think we have the other partner for Fransie as a cpmbo, I reckon they gonna be brilliant, but for now i think 13 must go to JDJ
89 @ Sharks_forever:
Pleased he is back. Good player whether he is 33 or not.
I hope the Bokke do not pick up injuries against Ireland, Scotland and England!
Would be great if the SA sides can start Super Rugby 2013 with full squads… or ALMOST full squads!
98 @ Sharks_forever:
Juan is on this tour, it is truly unfair that he has to sit on the bench, while the player playing there is a part time 13???????? That is where JdJ plays for Stormers/Province next to JdV. He should be starting this tour there.
Look I rate Jordaan highly and I think he will be a Bok probably not while Meyer is coach, but he is young and will get his time. J. Fourie, out of mind out of sight. Have no idea how he is playing and he is playing in Japan. So right now can’t rate him. He was our best though, right now until I see him play at this level the others are in front of him.
101 @ grootblousmile:
Boeta, that is my biggest worry. These players are tired and injury could happen. Now I really hope none of our players pick up any injury as that would set us back big time for next year, because there are all our top players from each of the franchises playing for the Boks. So hope they all come back home injury free.
@ Puma:
there are = they are
Folks, time for me to turn in.
Goooooooooooooooi Mieliesssssssss…. but do so carefully, specially if you have rickety knees or younger wives!
105 @ grootblousmile:
hehehehe…. 😛
Okay I am out of here too. Good night everyone.
Catch up tomorrow.
@ Sharks_forever:
The one i think he will play. Flo is doubtful.
It isn’t the one I would play by a long shot.
I basically thought to myself: “what combination of players would spoil my weekend?” and then wrote them down 🙂
@ Stormersboy::lol: thats because you would want the team full of mountain goats 😆
@ Sharks_forever:I’d have De Jongh in for Taute who moves to 15, I’d pick a different 11, maybe Mvovo, moving Hougaard to the bench and that’s probably about it. I’d be tempted to pick Britz at 2 to counter the lack of a fetcher but in the end I probably would go for the settled combination of Strauss in the front row with Britz available off the bench if we are getting cleaned up in the rucks.
First choice obviously would be Flo at 6 but in his absence, in the squad, Coetzee must then play 6, even if it isn’t his best position he deserves the start and won’t let us down against these guys.
Just reading SuperSport and see GR has a possible starting XV as this:
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Possible Bok team: Jaco Taute, JP Pietersen, Juan de Jongh, Jean de Villiers (capt), Francois Hougaard, Patrick Lambie, Ruan Pienaar, Duane Vermeulen, Willem Alberts, Francois Louw, Juandre Kruger, Eben Etzebeth,
Jannie du Plessis, Adriaan Strauss, Beast Mtawarira
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Now that is the team I read would probably start in the overseas papers as I said here yesterday. So we just could see Jaco at fullback with Juan starting at outside centre. Hope so, then again we could see Taute on the bench with Zane starting and Taute coming in a bit later. Anyhow I would be pleased to see Juan starting. Jeez this leaving Juan on the bench is gonna drive me nuts, like it did with leaving Lambie on the bench.
So hoping that Flouw is able to start. Otherwise that team will change to Coetzee starting.
@ Stormersboy:
😆 i know bro , was teasin ya, but those are changes i myself have said i would have, so agree 100%
@ Puma:
Agree Pooms. Taute should be at 15 with JDJ at 13, this also means HM does not lose the quota he has to have, not that i am saying JDJ is a quota, not at all, thaat is just the silliness of damn politics in this country, JDJ should be there without a question
@ Puma:
You done you Bru picks yet?
@ Sharks_forever:
Ja I know.
Starting to look forward to the game, I must say.
Really hoping that Flo is fit, but that’s out of our hands really….
@ Puma:
😆 i just checked the picks for all of those that have picked from RT, ours is very simular, we have chosen exactly the same sides to win, it’s in points diffs where we differ, our Bok win pick is exactly the same 😆
113 @ Sharks_forever:
I think Juan will start. Read that in the overseas papers, then again on SS they think it could happen too. After the disaster against the ABs with Jaco at 13 you would think Meyer has come to his sense and will start with a proper class outside centre as Juan. Taute’s best position is fullback. Well that is where I saw him play his best rugby. Then again Lions stopped playing him there and kept Coetzee there. That could have been due to Taute being injured so have no idea.
Yip have done my picks yesterday, hardly gave it a thought really, just done them quick. So could be sitting on the bottom like normal on the bru pool….. 🙂
@ Puma:
Taute is a good player, my doubts in him however is his defense is very poor, always has been
116 @ Sharks_forever:
Okay hope we are right then with the picks. I am normally out with the margins, sometimes hit the jackpot and get it spot on, but that is so rare…..lol. I was hopeless in Super Rugby, the reason I never played bru in Currie Cup, just felt it was too long and just never know. This is a few weeks and should be fun.
Get Sharksgirl to join us. Think she normally plays in the sw group, not too sure. Also what happened to Treehugger? Used to enjoy her here, gbs should get her to join our pool as well. Need all the sharkies 🙂
All Blacks taking the fight to jet lag
James Mortimer – (6/11/2012)
The All Blacks have taken sport’s science to a new level, with the team’s doctor Deb Robinon giving an insight as to the preparation that goes behind getting the World Champions ready to play.
In recent years there has been focus of the strength of the mind, whereas this year the All Blacks have upped the ante with player fitness.
But behind the scenes even getting on the plane is no longer a case of getting a comfortable seat and a handy pair of earplugs.
The All Blacks now enter a plane with three vials, a hydration mask, and of course the tried and true sleeping pill – the backbone of any long haul flyer.
The vials are a new element of the All Blacks training, essentially increasing their hydration and recuperation levels, aspects which are drastically effected when flying.
The masks are a practice used for many years by many elite sporting teams, specifically designed to combat the dryer and thinner air that features at high altitude.
Dr Robinson explained the careful approach to Fairfax NZ News.
“The best way of describing it is we are using a hydration drink to mitigate known stresses of long haul travel,” she said.
“They drink one when they take off, one mid-flight and one when they land, which has a little bit of caffeine to give them a bit of a kick when they arrive.
“They still need to drink plenty of water. The air in the plane is very dry and you do dehydrate and that’s why they wear the masks. We’ve used those for quite a long time. They have a little coil that absorbs the moisture you breathe out and remoisturises the air as you breathe it back in again.”
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