Brüssow Boks’ ‘true poison’
11 Nov 2009
Marc Lievremont says Heinrich Brüssow will have to be nullified as he has added an extra dimension to the Bok side.
Brüssow has had a dream run in his first full year of Test rugby, but in Toulouse on Friday night he will continue his learning curve. It will be the first time he comes up against a physical French pack and opensider Thierry Dusautoir in a hostile atmosphere in the 37 000-capacity Stade Municipal.
The Free State opensider was set to be dropped for this Test before Pierre Spies’s tour-ending injury, but France coach Lievremont singled out the Bok No 6 ahead of any of his other team-mates as one to keep quiet if they are to claim their third successive win over the Boks.
‘They have in their armour a fatal weapon in Brüssow,’ he said. ‘He is true poison. It is the first time that the Boks have relied on such a player, a great performer on the ground.
‘Because of that, they are even more complete than ever before. And having seen their provincial games, it is a sector in which they excel. I have learned that at training they do a lot of fighting and judo. It is perhaps the key to their success in this factor.’
Brüssow was one player singled out, but the Tricolores seem obsessed with the Boks’ physicality, and Lievremont said ‘they play to hurt’.
‘With them, it’s a cultural thing. They play to do bad things. It is not provocation. Of course they have players like [Bakkies] Botha who are sometimes at the limit of the rules, but I find them more and more disciplined.
‘They don’t make any of those stupid mistakes they made in the past and which have perhaps cost them some victories.’
It is clear from their comments that the French will be looking to niggle in order to disrupt the Boks’ focus, and here Botha, Brüssow and co will have to maintain discipline.
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11 Nov 2009, 15:20 pm
#138 cab: LOL
11 Nov 2009, 15:21 pm
#145 Dawn: They were born white. Although I suppose that’s more their parents doing.
11 Nov 2009, 15:21 pm
#148 Dawn:
11 Nov 2009, 15:22 pm
#149 cab:
Can’t believe our rugby players go around donnering women.
I mean Percy, for crying in a bucket.
11 Nov 2009, 15:23 pm
#148 Dawn: shame
11 Nov 2009, 15:24 pm
#150 Dawn: I am all for a tough game of rugby….but the Frogs been upping the ante all week long….
Bloody okes eat frog legs….Barbarians i tell you!!
11 Nov 2009, 15:24 pm
#132 grant10:
lol he “bullied” him by not picking him…. thats like $$saying my bank manager bullies me because he won’t give e a bond for a 20 million rand house…
11 Nov 2009, 15:25 pm
#154 Dawn:
yeah thats pisspoor, too much ego, not used to mental sparring from an antagonist.
11 Nov 2009, 15:25 pm
#147 grant10: I think it’s just the translation, they said the similar things before Twickenham and prepared for a huge forward battle, but we moved it wide and took them by surprise. Perhaps the Boks ought to try that.
11 Nov 2009, 15:25 pm
#154 Dawn: Gotta teach them somehow…
11 Nov 2009, 15:26 pm
#159 Big Hit:
thats actually what i was thinking, i reckon the boks can take them in the skill stakes too, esp with kanko, but seems like the french are hellbent on some sort of barney.
11 Nov 2009, 15:28 pm
#156 grant10:
actually frogs legs are delicious…next time you ae in durban go to ile maurice the are delicious there…the french actually hardly eat them any more….
11 Nov 2009, 15:28 pm
#126 nama1: LOL!!!!, I bet Tighthead wont though, miss his contributions
11 Nov 2009, 15:28 pm
#161 cab: If you get it wide early it could surprise them like you did against Australia, that would take the sting out of them. Secretly though I’m hoping for a barney, an all war for the ages
11 Nov 2009, 15:30 pm
#73 nama1: You can include me on that list. I had an entire blog argument explaining why I would start with Brussouw in such an important test series with so little experience. Brussouw just proved every point I made.
With regards to Schalk he is too good a test player(although had a few shockers lately) to be left out, that is why I would have left out Spies. Schalk or Juan at 8 and 7, with Brussouw at 6. Its still our best combination if everyone was fit.
11 Nov 2009, 15:30 pm
#164 Big Hit:
exactly right, like the game in perth.
lol, there’s no ways the ref will allow a free-for-all as in days of old, esp Barnesey
11 Nov 2009, 15:30 pm
#157 gunther: want a hand?
Thats what my company does….
11 Nov 2009, 15:30 pm
#152 Mutant:
Hooliha!
11 Nov 2009, 15:31 pm
#156 grant10: great sporting weekend for the french,first up the boks and on saturday the irish in the wc at croke park and my oh my if they win both games those poor frogs might,by monday,appear on the endangered species list!hehehe
11 Nov 2009, 15:31 pm
#158 cab:
percy and tasmin …
mental sparring….
the mind is boggled…
11 Nov 2009, 15:32 pm
#90 stew:
That was after almost 4 years and I think, like most people, that Eddie made the difference to our attacking play, even amongst the forwards.
#89 cab:
Frances’ dirty play goes back decades. I reckon it’s something to do with their Plantagenet heritage.
11 Nov 2009, 15:32 pm
#159 Big Hit: Ja…sounds like a plan…with Adi at 12 its on i reckon…his natural instinct to create…WO more a basher.
11 Nov 2009, 15:33 pm
#162 gunther: cool…will do that..
11 Nov 2009, 15:33 pm
#167 grant10:
Excellent.
I need a 20million ZAR bond please?
Need to now move to Camps Bay.
11 Nov 2009, 15:35 pm
Aren’t my bonny Scotsmen playing this year?
11 Nov 2009, 15:35 pm
#137 Sharksgirl: well kanko thought he was tough but the italian lock proved he as as soft as baby doo doo…
11 Nov 2009, 15:36 pm
#169 Valkyrie: Ja…my Irish will do the business…not so sure about the Boks….but will be screaming my head off in La Med at Clifton…in front of the big screen!Heehaa
11 Nov 2009, 15:36 pm
Actually the way to do it is to try play positive rugby, and take as mush as what is dished out as possible on the chin, but if its time to snap, do so and finish them totally.
A bit like the 99 call, except we will have to call it ‘Boer Concentration Camp’ or something to really get the blood flowing.
That the french had nothing to do with the Boer war is a minor detail.
11 Nov 2009, 15:36 pm
#168 Dawn: Don’t excite me
11 Nov 2009, 15:36 pm
#172 grant10: the adi could be the making of the backline creatively, alternatively it could be a disaster, will be interesting finding out
11 Nov 2009, 15:36 pm
#81 grant10: Agreed, as good as Bismark is, he should wait his turn. I never would have moved Smit to prop. Best possible SA team.
15. J Fourie
14. JP
13. Adi
12. F Steyn
11. Habana
10. M Steyn
9. Fourie
8. Juan/Schalk
7. Juan/Schalk
6. Brussouw
5. Bakkies
4. Victor
3. Daan Human/ WP Nel
2. Smit
1. Beast
11 Nov 2009, 15:37 pm
#174 Dawn: For you …zero $ interest….100 year term…as long as you invite me across for cocktails once a month!!
11 Nov 2009, 15:37 pm
#176 Transformation: Hey some Italians have hard heads
11 Nov 2009, 15:38 pm
#178 cab: LMAO!!
11 Nov 2009, 15:38 pm
#156 grant10: snails too
11 Nov 2009, 15:38 pm
#185 Big Hit: Chabal eats them shell and all
11 Nov 2009, 15:40 pm
#179 Mutant:
Why not !!!
11 Nov 2009, 15:41 pm
#183 Sharksgirl: what you reckon about the azzuri’s chances against the ABs in the San Siro?
11 Nov 2009, 15:41 pm
#143 cab: how Keith was a tighthead who was very mobile.
11 Nov 2009, 15:42 pm
#182 grant10:
No worries!
11 Nov 2009, 15:43 pm
#180 Big Hit: Yes….have a good feeling about the move to 12….i always felt he was a more natural playmaking 12 than 13….debated hard with Soda Joe and some others months back on the issue.
He was very good with the late Ettion Botha of the falcons playing 12….will be a great match…all the war drums certainly got my interest piqued….
Of course having CJ back the cherry on top for me as well….
I think PDV has done well with the match 22…perhaps i would have played Dewalt or Deysel in place of Bekker or Rossow…but all in all i am happy.
11 Nov 2009, 15:43 pm
#186 Big Hit:
IMO Chabal is overrated.
Any rugby player who has a clothing line and a range of shampoos and conditioners …………………..
11 Nov 2009, 15:44 pm
#175 Dawn: they’re playing Fiji this weekend
11 Nov 2009, 15:45 pm
#192 Dawn: let me finish your sentence,
Any rugby player who has a clothing line and a range of shampoos and conditioners …………………..earns a helluva lot of Euros
11 Nov 2009, 15:45 pm
#181 Bok fan: Interesting…would not do the J Fourie at 15 thing…and a big call to leave out spies!!
11 Nov 2009, 15:45 pm
#188 Big Hit:
Ai caramba.
11 Nov 2009, 15:46 pm
#187 Dawn: Your sinus is already paining, would hate to damage some other internal body parts
11 Nov 2009, 15:46 pm
#193 Big Hit:
FIJI????
Begorrah.
11 Nov 2009, 15:47 pm
#188 Big Hit: My heart wants the Azzurri to win but the ABs will take it. Easily I think.
11 Nov 2009, 15:47 pm
#91 Valkyrie: Thank you!
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