Boks confirm Baa-Baas clash
7 Apr 2010
The Springboks will play the Barbarians on 4 December after completing a Grand Slam tour.
The Boks have already added a fixture against Wales this June, a fixture that takes their Test-tally for the Incoming Tour period up to four since two Tests against Italy and one against France are already scheduled.
The Boks then embark on a six-game Tri-Nations campaign in July. The majority of the squad is expected to rest after this tournament and will miss the Currie Cup, but now have a five-match European tour booked just a year out from the 2011 World Cup.
Bok coach Peter de Villiers will need to manage his players carefully if they are to survive a difficult 2010 season that now includes 14 Tests and an exhibition international. The bad news is the 2011 schedule is even worse, with the expanded Super 15 and Tri-Nations sure to test De Villiers’ management ability.
25 Comments
7 Apr 2010, 12:46 pm
Burnout Dragons!
7 Apr 2010, 13:06 pm
The Dragons will be burned out and injured indeed…
I guess they calculated the GSlam was more important and Defending the WC in land of the Kiwi was too unlikely…
7 Apr 2010, 14:06 pm
Eish, what are these mamparras doing? These guys need to rest up, and the core players are those that need the rest the most!
7 Apr 2010, 14:14 pm
The Bok B-team is gonna be very busy 2010 imo…
7 Apr 2010, 14:34 pm
dont see the big deal , just play all the overseas boks plus a few other contenders in the super 14 + jaque fourie bakkies and schalla
7 Apr 2010, 14:40 pm
Think it’s a good time to bleed all the youngsters and the young future Boks that got injured like Mapoe, Brussow, Joe Pietersen, De Jongh (tink thats how you spell it) Van der Heever….
7 Apr 2010, 14:45 pm
@mbaxman93: Makes perfect sense…results don’t carry the same kinda weight in a WC year…as long as the best players remain the best…a player can be out of form simply ’cause of a lack of gametime…
7 Apr 2010, 14:58 pm
They can play these guys,
J. Pietersen
G. van der Heever
R. Ebersohn
J. de Jongh
L. Mapoe
J. L. Potgieter
F. Hougaard
D. Vermeulen
D. Potgieter
D. Stegmann
S. Sykes
F. van der Merwe
W. Kruger
T. Liebenberg
W. du Preez
B. Francis
G. Aplon
D. Duvenage
F. Louw
B. Maku
B. Harris
A. Hargreaves
7 Apr 2010, 15:00 pm
hope the boks can win all these games
7 Apr 2010, 15:28 pm
Surely PDV and co will play his first choice team against France in June?
And they need little motivation after France klapped them at the end of last year.
He’s already stated he wants to take a look at some overseas-based Boks for the game/s against Wales.
And I’m sure the Boks can get by with a B team against Italy.
As for the Grand Slam, when it was first announced I stated I believe the IRB planners are deliberately trying to prevent the Boks from winning back-to-back World Cups.
It’s an enticing prospect for these Boks to win the 2011 WC.
But they’ve already won a World Cup as well as everything else.
Except for a grand slam.
If I was PDV, I’d insist that the top Boks rest while others compete for the grand slam.
But I wonder whether the likes of Smit, Matfield, Smith, Du Preez, Habana etc. will be tempted to try and twist his arm?
7 Apr 2010, 16:05 pm
we better embrace a big squad…..
7 Apr 2010, 17:06 pm
Grant10. Correct. Big squads should become the norm.
Ja-Ja. Some of those names are certainly not Springbok material. Ebersohn? JL Porgieter? W Kruger? I wonder.
7 Apr 2010, 17:19 pm
PUFF – The easiest option is for the top flight Boks to be left out of the Currie Cup this year, infact it is imperative for them to be left out of this years CC.
That would be the best time for a good rest plus leaving most of them out of the Welsh and Italian tests.
7 Apr 2010, 17:23 pm
@race of tan: haha then the bulls to loose shars to win cc lol! make shift frontrow and we good
this is good gives us an oppurtunity to get things sorted out and much like the 3n in 07 will let some players put thier hands up
7 Apr 2010, 17:30 pm
@Amerifikaner: Just going off the top of my head, know there are better players didn’t have time to think of them.
7 Apr 2010, 18:15 pm
@race of tan:
and if the boks don’t pull off the grand slam?
will others think they are vulnerable come wc time?
this grand slam couldn’t have come at a worse time for the springboks imo.
7 Apr 2010, 19:16 pm
if the majority of 1st choice players are included I don’t want to hear any fu$king excuses (like over played, tired etc) come world cup
7 Apr 2010, 20:59 pm
Considering how the Boks were clobbered by two minor club teams on last year’s comical EOYT, this year’s “Grand Slam” is surely headed to be a “grand slammed” tour?
7 Apr 2010, 21:35 pm
Boks to play Wales:
1. Steenkamp
2. Smit
3. Botha
4. Botha
5. Bekker
6. Van Heerden
7. Potgieter
8. Van Niekerk
9. Pienaar
10. James
11. Nokwe
12. De Villiers
13. De Jongh
14. Mapoe
15. Steyn
16. Van Der Linde
17. Ralepelle
18. Matfield
19. Burger
20. Du Preez
21. Olivier
22. Kirchner
7 Apr 2010, 21:37 pm
That’s a formidable looking run on 15!
7 Apr 2010, 21:41 pm
@puff: you can take all bulls out of that squad….PDV wont choose any players that make a super 14 semi
7 Apr 2010, 22:16 pm
Good to see THETACKLER is back. I wondered how long it would take.
Seems that you were quiet last year, mind you, the KIWI trophy cabinet was about as empty as a Julius Malema promise of equality on government decisions.
7 Apr 2010, 22:17 pm
@puff: Joubert at 13?
8 Apr 2010, 19:21 pm
i wonder if 2010 season is gonna be the same as the 2006 season – in that case we should rather be watching the soccer, but wait I forgot, with Bafana Bafana as our side we won’t be wanting to watch the soccer either…
9 Apr 2010, 00:48 am
@BULLET: The ABs enjoyed an unbeaten EOYT in 2009.
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