Boks v Wobblies I

[Frank]

Go Wallabies!!

[Daffy Jaffy]

South Africa: 15 Aphelele Fassi, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Andre Esterhuizen, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Siya Kolisi (captain), 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit , 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Lood de Jager, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Ox Nche.
Replacements: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19 Franco Mostert, 20 Kwagga Smith, 21 Cobus Reinach, 22 Canan Moodie, 23 Damian Willemse.

Date: Saturday, August 16
Venue: Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 17.10 (15.10 GMT; 01:10, AEST, Sunday, August 17)
Referee: Ben O’Keeffe (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: James Doleman (New Zealand), Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy)
TMO: Tual Trainini (France)

[booboo]

@Frank said in Boks Wobblies I:

Go Wallabies!!

I hate myself too.

[booboo]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in Boks Wobblies I:

South Africa: 15 Aphelele Fassi, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Andre Esterhuizen, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Siya Kolisi (captain), 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit , 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Lood de Jager, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Ox Nche.
Replacements: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19 Franco Mostert, 20 Kwagga Smith, 21 Cobus Reinach, 22 Canan Moodie, 23 Damian Willemse.

Date: Saturday, August 16
Venue: Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Kick-off: 17.10 (15.10 GMT; 01:10, AEST, Sunday, August 17)
Referee: Ben O’Keeffe (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: James Doleman (New Zealand), Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy)
TMO: Tual Trainini (France)

5-3 bench?

Innovative from the master innovator.

[pakman]

Boks are beatable. Main strike weapon will be maul.

[NTA]

Pretty early to name a team compared to the standard Thursday. I guess they're comfortable with anything they pick

[stodders]

@NTA Plenty of time for a midweek injury and a change of personnel and bench split (5:3 to 6:2) to throw the opposition plans

[OomPB]

Only worry is Libbok. Expect the Boks to dominate 1st phase and run them off their feet.

[stodders]

@OomPB Is that between injury breaks and pulling socks up?

[pakman]

@OomPB said in Boks v Wobblies I:

Only worry is Libbok. Expect the Boks to dominate 1st phase and run them off their feet.

Neither side will contain great 10s. That 'bomb squad' is hardly going to make anyone quake in their boots.

[pakman]

@stodders said in Boks v Wobblies I:

@NTA Plenty of time for a midweek injury and a change of personnel and bench split (5:3 to 6:2) to throw the opposition plans

https://www.planetrugby.com/news/rassie-erasmus-changed-mind-over-siya-kolisi-while-springboks-boss-makes-bomb-squad-tease-ahead-of-wallabies-announcement

[MiketheSnow]

Lots to little

Won't even be close

SA in 3rd gear

[pakman]

Etzebeth Skelton could be quite tasty.

[Smuts]

@pakman said in Boks v Wobblies I:

Boks are beatable. Main strike weapon will be maul.

Imminently beatable. Main strike weapon is the maul and the scru…

Imminently beatable. Main strike weapons are the maul and the scrum and Arendse (5 tries in 2 tests against Oz), bugger

Imminently beatable. Amongst their arsenal are such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
Arendse (5 from 2) and
Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)

Also shouldn’t forget the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks) aaargh …

I’ll come in again [exit and immediate reentry]

Imminently beatable. Their ever-expanding arsenal is easily underestimated but contains such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
The tryscoring threats of Arendse (5 from 2), Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)
Along with the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks)
To say nothing of two-time and current world player of the year PSDT

Bugger.

They are beatable if you can nullify their many and diverse threats.

[sparky]

Ellis Park is a brutal place to play Rugby. I don't think the Wallabies have a good enough defence to cope with what's coming at them.

Springboks by 15-20.

[pakman]

@Smuts said in Boks v Wobblies I:

@pakman said in Boks v Wobblies I:

Boks are beatable. Main strike weapon will be maul.

Imminently beatable. Main strike weapon is the maul and the scru…

Imminently beatable. Main strike weapons are the maul and the scrum and Arendse (5 tries in 2 tests against Oz), bugger

Imminently beatable. Amongst their arsenal are such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
Arendse (5 from 2) and
Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)

Also shouldn’t forget the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks) aaargh …

I’ll come in again [exit and immediate reentry]

Imminently beatable. Their ever-expanding arsenal is easily underestimated but contains such diverse weapons as:
the maul and scrum
The tryscoring threats of Arendse (5 from 2), Fassi and Moodie (each 1 from 1)
Along with the hot hand of Edwill van der Merwe (5 tries in 3 tests for the Boks)
To say nothing of two-time and current world player of the year PSDT

Bugger.

They are beatable if you can nullify their many and diverse threats.

[W32]

SA are definitely beatable. This year will be very interesting, big names are fading.
Going to say Aus will win one of the tests

[akan004]

@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:

SA are definitely beatable. This year will be very interesting, big names are fading.
Going to say Aus will win one of the tests

Haven't seen signs of their big names fading tbh. Then again, it's hard to judge them when they have only played the Barbarians, Italy and Georgia so far.

[booboo]

Seffricans desperately trying to grab the underdog status.

Bokke by 10-15

[pakman]

https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/08/12/the-wallaby-pack-to-match-fire-with-fire-in-south-africa/