The Boks will look to record their 9th consecutive and series win today at altitude in Johannesburg against the Poms.
Recent Results:
2012: South Africa won 22-17 in Durban
2010: South Africa won 21-11 in London
2008: South Africa won 42-6 in London
2007: South Africa won 15-6 in Paris
2007: South Africa won 36-0 in Paris
2007: South Africa won 55-22 in Pretoria
2007: South Africa won 58-10 in Bloemfontein
2006: South Africa won 25-14 in London
2006: England won 23-21 in London
2004: England won 32-16 in London
2003: England won 25-6 in Perth
The teams:
South Africa: 15 Pat Lambie, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jean de Villiers (captain), 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 François Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Juandré Kruger, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Werner Kruger, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Keegan Daniel, 20 Ruan Pienaar, 21 Wynand Olivier, 22 Bjorn Basson.
England: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 11 David Strettle, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Ben Morgan, 7 Chris Robshaw (captain), 6 Tom Johnson, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Mouritz Botha, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Joe Marler.
Replacements: 16 Lee Mears, 17 Alex Corbisiero, 18 Tom Palmer, 19 Thomas Waldrom, 20 Lee Dickson, 21 Owen Farrell, 22 Alex Goode.
Date: Saturday, June 16
Kick-off: 17.05 (15.05 GMT)
Venue: Coca Cola Park (Ellis Park), Johannesburg
Expected weather conditions: Sunny with a high of 12°C, dropping to 2°C – a crisp Highveld winter’s day.
Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Steve Walsh (Australia), Simon McDowell (Ireland)
TMO: Iain Ramage (Scotland)
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June 16th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Go Bokke!!!!!!!vat hulle eenkant toe,en
Fok hulle op.
June 16th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Hoezit Duiwel!
Crunch game.
Boks by 16.
June 16th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Hoop so ,Oudste!!
June 16th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Even by one.yust win.
June 16th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Lyk maar rof in europa,het n klein plekkie in die Bosveld gekoop.Vir die Oudag.
June 16th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Go Alberts!!!!
June 16th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Go Bismarck !!!
June 16th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
This is good shit
June 16th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Future Bok team in action.
Never seen so many little punts\from a Bok team,\
and it’s working.
June 16th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Reply to Duiwel @ 5:03 pm:
Back to your roots.
June 16th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
I wonder what Brendon will be bitching about this week. Even Spies has lifted his game, nevermind the centre pairing being on fire
June 16th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Sky commentator: “Only Mouritz Botha putting his body on the line for England!”
Saffas on the pitch are doing well!!
June 16th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Reply to Kevin_rack @ 5:27 pm:
June 16th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
de Velliers having his kakkest game in green EVER!
June 16th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
de Velliers = de Villiers
June 16th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
June 16th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
even Spies looking good and getting in the way of a pom runner now and again
June 16th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
HM better learn relax
June 16th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
kak defence!
June 16th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
bokke came out 2nd half thinking the game is in the bag – can they lift themselves again?
June 16th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
morne steyn must f-off!!!
June 16th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
why the ^&%^£% does captain not give kicking to pienaar?????
June 16th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
bokke were poor – some instances of good play wih some extremely poor periods. Sorry, Spies was kak again (English try right in fornt of him, and his effort of a tackle seems to suggest he was not really interested in rugby!). And Steyn usual uselessness. Nearly vomitted when Olivier on the field agan…
June 16th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Just not good enough pis poor
June 16th, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Reply to Welshbok die Brandwag @ 5:56 pm:
Can’t disagree more.
Very disappointing second half.
Got fooked in ALL the tight phases.
Too many silly mistakes.
Morne missing 4/9 did not help.
Injury forced subs turned the tide for the Poms.
June 16th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Like last week, the pommies got away with murder at the breakdowns (never releasing, just lying over their players to protect the ball), but they were still by FAR stronger in the rucks and mails – at times seemed like our u/20 team was playing in the rucks against english??
June 16th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
HM must rock some players now maybe they will wake up or piss off
June 16th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
No need to overreact.We won.
.100%.
Let’s have faith that HM saw what we saw.
All I ask is simple.
Win.
June 16th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
You know Bekke
Get some f***king perspective will you?
The Boks lost three key players due to injury and had to adapt their play to provide for that in the second half.
Added to which two England tries were simple addressable errors by the Boks not English brilliance. One was the result of a yet another piss poor throw (like last week’s try by Foden), and one came as a result of the Boks not retreating quickly enough. The thrid occurred when the Boks were playing 15-14 and the twat ref should have stopped play seeing as the fucking stretcher lorry was on the field to get JK off.
The Bok flyhalf’s kicking was poor yer but like how many times in his career has he had a poor kicking ame for the Boks? He took one poor option when he should have passed but you were not there to see his vision. Like the chip kicks… both of those were preceded by instructions from JDV so he was doing what his skipper told him.
Maybe then you should demand both hookers and JDV should be kicked out of the Bok team.
The Boks scored four tries. JP Pietersen had an outstanding game. Junadre Kruger and Bismarck Du Plessis were huge and so was Alberts. Hougaard was brilliant and had clearly received a talking to. Frans Steyn was superb.
And when the Bokke were just four point ahead on 72 minutes with the momentum with England it was the Boks who CLOSED THE GAME OUT and came back and scored a BRILLIANT counter attacking try started and finished by JPP.
HM and JDV after the game in the post match were very very complimentary of the way England played. HM made it clear that this is an English team on the build who showed character and guts to not let go and it was them who fought their way back into the game not the Bokke who allowed them. BUT he was at pains to say and underline that when it was crucial and mattered the Boks closed the game out… in contrast to a few years back and even last year where we allowed teams to score come from behind wins. This is NOT a weak England team. This is a team who spent the whole 6N together and ended it coming damned close to winning it after beating the Frogs in Paris and the champions Wales in London!
There were THREE SH v NH games this weekend.
England was the only won that was comprehensively beaten.
Aus needed dubious refereeing to come from behind and score “wins”. NZ needed desperate Dan Carter brilliance that Henry despises to win… a drop goal…
We? At 72 min were were just four ahead and how did we react under this pressure having spent 30 minutes losing momentum and having lost key players to injury… we went and played three minutes of superb rugby and scored a try to make the game safe.
Do me a favour please
Take the drama queen to Keo… I saw him this evening… he looks kak and everyone ignored him.
Jacques
Same thing dude
Get some f***king perspective…
June 16th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
David, I think you try too hard to impress HM – he already has a media liaision officer! I never said England was good, just that we were poor. They also miss a few players, yet they managed to pushed us all the way on our main homeground. If you believe this was good enough, you need too Google “specsavers”…
June 16th, 2012 at 11:10 pm
David
Dude you know what I mean was a brilliant firts 30 min but the way we gave away on defense and mistsakes is not on I see some senior players that ride on their names and they need to be rocked abit. We know they have the qaulity but some are not showing it not now and not in the superkak. I like that hougie showed everyone that last week was last week and his service and play was brilliant in my eyes, all I and I say I want is that players must either be brilliant or piss off for in RSA we have a shit load of qaulity players. HM must keep all players on their edge, one bad game ok but if you keep playing kak rock him a bit so that he can get to the qaulity we know all these players have, our defense was shocking but was happy as you say to keep the poms out that last 10 min but they should have never been in that position in the first place just my personal thoughts
June 17th, 2012 at 3:50 am
I just love Meyer’s passion and emotion in the box. The players will draw on that.
There is something in the Bok team that just creates the anticipation that something good can happen at any time.
The one thing that does bother me is that Meyer wants his bench players to make an impact and Olivier does not fit into that category. The attack was blunted when he took to the field and the backs could build momentum.
For all other money well done Boks and Heyneke.
I will say again: Heyneke keep the passion going. The players will draw inspiration from it. It is great to try and act like in a businessman like way, but in the end the coach and the team is about rugby whne on the training field and playing a game. It is much easier and less time consuming to guide passionate players, than to constantly trying to light a fire under someone’s arse.
Just to play it safe though HM, drink that whisky and eat the garlic. Keep the blood pressure down.
June 17th, 2012 at 3:52 am
On the ref, I was pretty impressed with Rolland. He allowed the game to flow and only when the players started to let themselves down, did he get involved.
That had a lot to do with the freedom the Boks had to play in the 1st half IMO.
June 17th, 2012 at 3:54 am
Reply to Bekke @ 6:50 pm:
Hougaardt’s try was exactly the same. You cannot blame that defender anymore than you can blame Spies. The damage was already done.
Not a Spies fan, but be fair.
June 17th, 2012 at 3:55 am
Reply to Welshbok die Brandwag @ 5:56 pm:
That must be the largest piece of bait I have ever seen thrown out there.
Any bites?
June 17th, 2012 at 10:55 am
Beast was struggling with Daniels flanking. Too small?
HM better watch out is he going to be Ferguson of rugby?
June 17th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Reply to Deon @ 3:50 am:
There is something in the Bok team that just creates the anticipation that something good can happen at any time.
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And not necessarily an intercept.
Those little rolling kicks were
really exciting and well executed.
One can’t blame HMs substitutions -
he was forced to make most them through
injury.
Only real mistake IMO was to split the
centre pairing.
That fist 20 minutes was the best I
saw since the days of Mallett in ’97
’98.
June 17th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
That’s some compliment .
June 17th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
Reply to Duiwel @ 9:42 pm:
Well, you should know my shorter time
memory is not all that reliable.