Official 2015 Rugby Championship Thread

[Fulcrum29]

Ouch...some salt in HM's wound.

The Aussies may also have climbed, don't know by how much, but they should be biting on our tail since they won the board leader. I'm waiting on IRB to update their rankings.

03 August, 2015:

http://www.worldrugby.org/rankings

1. NEW ZEALAND 94.33
2. SOUTH AFRICA 86.37
3. IRELAND 85.76*
4. ENGLAND 85.40
5. AUSTRALIA 85.23*

 

[APoc184]

 

[ponder]

I'm gonna sound like a broken reckord but for fscks sakes HM has to go, it's the same HM game with his favourite players. He will not budge & we will have the same crap in the WC.

Pollard does not have the depth required right now, give him some time but not now.

HM will not willingly field Lambie, not from my church mentality.

Habana should just go play elsewhere.

Koch is fscking useless.

JdV should go sip margaritas somewhere.

We have so many good players but HM will not field them, he is stuck in a rut with his blue eyed boys & bulls style game play.

So I echo HiToKiRis views.

 

[Sneeky]

Eskom has saved me from watching the last 2 games due to blackouts, a blessing in a poor disguise maybe.

 

[Creag]

Congrats Pumas B. Next game against the Pumas A will be interesting...

You mean we lost to their B side?! Man alive! It's worse than I thought

 

[faniebraai]

Koch - schit, please go

Our two locks play well, but I'm afraid that Matfield will be forced back in to the starting 15.

Heinrich is invisible, Kriel had yet another good game in the Lions jersey yesterday.

Burger - wtf is up with him and his knee slides after receiving the ball?

Pienaar was ok, and Reinach is so slow behind the ruck...

Pollard - dear god all mighty this boy is pathetic. Two/three kick offs botched, can kick a penalty out. Don't go, fukk off. Can't even tackle.

Jean was kark, old, and moved kriel to a position where he never gets ball. De Allende was okish.

Willie was good most of the time.

Everyone had a "don't give a schit" attitude. Lazy everything. No passion or the will to try look like they want to be there.

The Ref, ai, when I saw his name... I just knew.

 

[skimread]

HM is giving excuses today. Had a laugh at this one: "We are a proud team, but you will lose sometimes."
We have lost every game in 2015. Someone needs to explain to him the difference between sometimes and all the time. We also never lost to Argentina at home until yesterday. He is such an a-hole.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

I read both of these on another site, please let neither be true ......

“Mark Keohane
?@mark_keohane
My information is that Saru’s executive have already confirmed Meyer’s reappointment for a 2nd 4 year term”

We’re no. 5 on the rankings – congratulations Mr. HM

 

[Fulcrum29]

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/Triple-injury-blow-for-Springboks-20150809

Cape Town - Springbok captain Jean de Villiers, Marcell Coetzee and Willie le Roux have all been ruled out of the return match against Argentina in Buenos Aires next weekend because of injuries.

De Villiers fractured his jaw in the Rugby Championship defeat against the Pumas at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday, which will rule him out for up to four to six weeks. The Bok captain will be able to continue with the bulk of the training sessions during this time.

Huh... I can't remember De Villiers get hurt like that... Good luck to the team in Buenos Aires...

 

[Fulcrum29]

You mean we lost to their B side?! Man alive! It's worse than I thought

http://www.supersport.com/rugby/springboks/news/150806/Pumas_make_11_changes_for_Bok_test

The selection of the Argentina team for Saturday’s clash with the Springboks at Growthpoint Kings Park in Durban shows that when it comes to World Cup preparation, there are different ways to go about it.

By making 11 changes from the side that lost to Australia on home soil last time out, Pumas coach Daniel Hourcade is effectively doing what his Bok counterpart Heyneke Meyer says he’d love to be able to do but feels he shouldn’t do because of the psychological price that would be paid if his team suffered a third successive defeat.

In other words, he is covering his bases by spreading his net wide and offering all his fringe players match opportunities, while at the same time giving players returning from injury a proper chance to work on game sharpness ahead of the departure for England next month.

They used this game to do a depth building exercise, and won.

 

[Fulcrum29]

The post made by MH made me go do some web browsing.

2014 article,

http://www.bdlive.co.za/sport/rugby...-unprecedented-second-term-as-springbok-coach

The reappointment rumour...

The official confirmation can’t be made soon enough.

Meyer, as I understand, will be reappointed before next year’s Rugby World Cup and it will be reward for what he has built in the past three seasons. His second term will not be subject to the Springboks winning the World Cup.

It’s about time the game’s administration showed such maturity in decision-making.

and then it gets interesting,

On his appointment, Meyer said his style of rugby would be "winning rugby". He said the best team, where possible, would play and that he did not believe in gifting the Bok jersey in the name of experimentation and a four-year World Cup cycle.

Meyer spoke of a winning culture and a winning habit. He spoke of the privilege of playing for SA and said he wanted every South African player to be eligible, regardless of where the player was based.

Meyer felt that the best should play and that Test rugby was a representation of selecting the best player in that position.

He said if the team started winning consistently it would mean that they went to a World Cup with belief and conviction and not just hope.

Uhm... ... ... What can I say.

 

[ponder]

Uhm... ... ... What can I say.

Hy praat k@k?

 

[Fulcrum29]

Hy praat k@k?

Presies.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

Saru will be forced to re-evalute as stadium attendances start to plummet.

At this point something has got to give.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Saru will be forced to re-evalute as stadium attendances start to plummet.

At this point something has got to give.

I’m under correction, but I believe that SA is still leading Union Rugby attendance in the Southern Hemisphere. Our ‘rugby’ stadiums however are underutilised, other countries use their adaptable ‘rugby’ stadiums interchangeably to host League and Union, the same with Aussie rules.

I think it is only the Blue Bulls Rugby Union which took a total attendance punch. People will attend pending on the conditions, Newlands nearly always have an acceptable capacity crowd when the Springboks are playing... until it storms.

 

[Fulcrum29]

...

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyChampionship/Boks-to-seek-clarity-from-Poite-20150810

Durban - The Springboks are confused with some of the scrummaging calls that were made in their 37-25 loss to Argentina on Saturday and they will be seeking clarity from referee Romain Poite.

The Frenchman was clearly unhappy with the Bok scrum, penalising them throughout the match with Vincent Koch in particular feeling Poite's wrath.

Anyway, this part,

De Villiers also paid tribute to Koch's opposite number, Marcos Ayerza, but questioned the legality of the tighthead's binding.

"He (Koch) played against a very good prop in Ayerza who is very experienced and plays in the northern hemisphere where scrum manipulation is a fine and dark art and he’s very good with that," said De Villiers.

De Villiers should shut up. Koch couldn't scrum, that's it. Excuses everywhere. Pumas played good rugby, they won us.

 

[Fulcrum29]

http://www.worldrugby.org/rankings

1. NEW ZEALAND 92.72
2. IRELAND 86.89
3. AUSTRALIA 86.84
4. ENGLAND 85.40
5. SOUTH AFRICA 84.37

...

7. FRANCE 79.74
8. ARGENTINA 79.17

This gem,

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Springboks/Boks-move-up-in-rankings-20120305

Heyneke Meyer, who was appointed as the new Bok coach in January, made it clear that the main aim for his side is to be the world's No 1 ranked team.

Past Springbok coaches were often guilty of not always picking the best available XV's for some matches. Often the term "looking at the bigger picture" (i.e. a World Cup) was given, which led to a slide in the rankings.

But Meyer clearly has other ideas.

“The World Cup is very important, but you cannot build at Springbok level. The building has to be done at Super Rugby, Currie Cup and the lower levels. Every single game the Springboks play is extremely important, and the mission is to win every game we play. I believe we have to choose the best available team to win every game. I want to see the Springboks back at No 1 in the world, which is where we belong," Meyer was quoted as saying after being appointed Bok coach.

I don't like HM as Springbok coach.

 

[cr@zydude]

In his interview with SABC radio, he said that the game was all part of his plan. What the hell is the plan?

 

[sand_man]

In his interview with SABC radio, he said that the game was all part of his plan. What the hell is the plan?

To lull the rest of the rugby playing nations into a false sense of security...

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

So we are now 5th ...... thanks you directionless, talentless muppet