Just read Marx may be back in a few of weeks time which is incredible. Must be a minor fracture (is there such a thing?). Will believe it when I see it. Mostert whom also has a broken leg will apparently will be back in six weeks. Modern sports science is something else.
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I don’t watch a lot of rugby tbf & I was just watching the Aussies & Georgia tonight. One of our guys got a yellow card about 5 mins before 1/2 time & when they return to restart the 2nd half the ref tells our captain it’s been upgraded to a 20 min red card ( which they explained is a new rule change ) but I’ve never heard of a decision being upgraded like that once the player has started the first punishment.Me, I’m either planning a holiday or I’m on one.Comment
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They take the time to look at the severity and see if it needs upgrading - unless very blatant they go yellow and “use” the bunker to review for themOriginally posted by SB View PostComment
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Well in this instance they had the advantage of the 15 min 1/2 time break to ponder it.Originally posted by Irishnev View Post
Me, I’m either planning a holiday or I’m on one.Comment
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DuPont - just ridiculous! Is there anything he cannot do?
Is there a more knackering sport than 7’s?Modifying post.Comment
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Good tactics as well, bring him on at half time and he carries them home. He’s an absolute freakOriginally posted by Buzzo View PostComment
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Argentina here to play. Just over 10 to goComment
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Some win for ArgentinaComment
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Yeah amazing. They are an ever developing force!
South Africa crushing the Aussies is a bit of a worry in terms of the Lions tour next year. You want it to be competitive.Modifying post.Comment
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Worst Australian team I've ever seen. Their scrum was horrendous. They were so soft, it had the intensity of a game against Japan. Early days but on the basis of today we should win the RC quite handsomely. I know it won't be simple and we'll lose matches (possibly next week) but we should have too much this year. This competition has been almost impossible to win and the All Blacks will come back so need to make hay.Originally posted by Buzzo View Post
Great game by Argentina. Will be hard to play them away I think they should do well against Australia too but the stylistic match up will tell the story.Comment
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Sorry for the late reply, been swamped this week.Originally posted by Irishnev View Post
I thought he was good, although he wasn't put under a hell of a lot of pressure and will have much harder tests down the line. The backline coach, Stick said he's an emulation of Damian Willemse which I can kind of see although it took Willemse quite a while to find his feet at this level. It seems like Sacha is settling in right from the get go, he's got some arrogance/swagger about him. Thought he was really good at fullback in the second test against Ireland but probably cost us the game at the end because he didn't need to take the ball out which gave Ireland the lineout which they used to set up the drop. At the end of the day, just one of those things, I guess. The first kick on the weekend was a shocker, he must've slipped but he seems to be pretty solid from the tee too which is good as Willemse definitely isn't.
I think of other hyped young players from South Africa like Duhan van der Merwe and JJ Engelbrecht too. It took them a while too, well in JJ's case it never quite happened on the international scene. So we'll see but early signs are promising.Comment
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I saw that innovative double pod line out drive switcheroo try. Wonder if we will see that copied or rules come in to stop it. There’s a such fine line in forward play between innovation/deception and what gives unfair advantage as the game advances the game - but at least the rules are constantly tweaked. The 50/22 is one of the best rule changes in years. I thought it was great impossible to defend against if executed.
Just from the highlights the Aussies looked absolutely ****.Modifying post.Comment
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I'm expecting this to happen.Originally posted by Buzzo View Post
SA are really good at something or find a way to do something differently. It gets banned a few months later. Think Rassie was giving Robertson something to think about with Kolbe feeding the scrum among other things. It's hilarious that he took the lineout with van Staden still on the pitch. Argentina executed a bit of a trick lineout too (far more conventional).
FWIW I'm not a huge fan of the 50/22.Comment
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Will be interesting to see how we get on this weekend with this lot. First 5:3 split for a while:
15 – Aphelele Fassi (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 5 caps, 10 points (2t)
14 – Cheslin Kolbe (Suntory Sungoliath) – 34 caps, 96 points (15t, 3c, 5p)
13 – Jesse Kriel (Canon Eagles) – 72 caps, 80 points (16t)
12 – Lukhanyo Am (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 36 caps, 35 pts (7t)
11 – Makazole Mapimpi (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 43 caps, 150 points (30t)
10 – Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu (DHL Stormers) – 5 caps, 25 points (11c, 1p)
9 – Morne van den Berg (Emirates Lions) – 1 cap, O points
8 – Elrigh Louw (Vodacom Bulls) – 5 caps, 0 points
7 – Pieter-Steph du Toit (Toyota Verblitz) – 80 caps, 45 points (9t)
6 – Marco van Staden (Vodacom Bulls) – 21 caps, 0 pts
5 – Ruan Nortje (Vodacom Bulls) – 1 cap, 0 points
4 – Salmaan Moerat (captain, DHL Stormers) – 8 caps, 0 points
3 – Thomas du Toit (Bath) – 19 caps, 0 pts
2 – Johan Grobbelaar (Vodacom Bulls) – 1 cap, 0 points
1 – Jan-Hendrik Wessels (Vodacom Bulls) – 1 cap, 5 points (1t)
Replacements:
16 – Malcolm Marx (Kubota Spears) – 68 caps, 85 points (17t)
17 – Ox Nche (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 32 caps, 0 pts
18 – Vincent Koch (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 53 caps, 0 points
19 – Eben Etzebeth (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 123 caps, 30 points (6t)
20 – Kwagga Smith (Shizuoka Blue Revs) – 44 caps, 40 pts (8t)
21 – Grant Williams (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 12 caps, 10 points (2t)
22 – Manie Libbok (DHL Stormers) – 15 caps, 91 pts (1t, 28c, 10p)
23 – Handré Pollard (Leicester Tigers) – 72 caps, 732 points (7t, 98c, 162p, 5dg)Comment
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