TRC 2016: Matches not involving Australia

[PaarlBok]

Dismal Pollock

Jantjes looked fat and drunk from his midweek casino piss-up. Bleary-eyed, decision-making shot to shit, wouldve fucked up the touch your nose and walk in a straight line test let alone having to sweat out the toxins in a test match vs the All Blacks. Shoulve started his prematch warmups at the stadium in a full tracksuit to sweat out the grog by matchtime

Have to go with Phi Lambda Lambda Lambda. But Lambda is a white and Jantjes is a bleck and coach is a bleck and marmite is bleck so quid pro quota all greek to me

Looking at your avator its clear you spend way to much time getting pissed up , bleary eyes trying to walk the straight line.

 

[Lindommer]

Blue, PB, we loves yez both.

 

[PaarlBok]

@ Lind: I can write an essay of 1000 words on the wrongs of Blou argument, but I'll rather leave it. I was in born in South Africa and I will die in South Africa for better or for worst. I am pretty sure most of those points you'll find anywhere in the world. The secret is to keep on going and be positive and to do something about the things you can control. Running away is for the weak ones. Australia can be his land of milk and honey but Australia will never have Affies or Paul Roos or Paarl Gym or Grey College. Blou know a True Blue poster from TSF , he stay in England but send his kids to South African schools because nothing have change at those schools. That's our future and the machines who spit out our rugby and sport stock. I don't control the other kak he got lost in.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Bokke have added Lambie & Le Roux to their squad plus expect their injured guys de Jager & Redelinghuys to be fit for the last two matches.

Full squad: Willem Alberts, Damian de Allende, Lood de Jager, Juan de Jongh, , Faf de Klerk, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Eben Etzebeth, Johan Goosen, Bryan Habana, Francois Hougaard, Elton Jantjies, Steven Kitshoff, Vincent Koch, Jaco Kriel, Jesse Kriel, Patrick Lambie, Willie le Roux, Francois Louw, Lionel Mapoe, Malcolm Marx, Bongi Mbonambi, Oupa Mohoje, Franco Mostert, Tendai Mtawarira, Lwazi Mvovo, Trevor Nyakane, Rudy Paige, Julian Redelinghuys, Morne Steyn, Adriaan Strauss, Warren Whiteley

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...-roux-for-tests-with-wallabies-and-springboks

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Opta facts for Sunday's game:

* New Zealand have won their last 21 games against the Pumas, their only blemish in 27 previous encounters being a 21-21 draw in November 1985.
* Each of the Pumas' last six games on home soil have been won by the team leading at half-time, three of which have gone in favour of Argentina.
* The All Blacks have now won the Rugby Championship/Tri Nations 14 times in the 21 editions since the tournament began in 1996; it is their fourth title in the last five years.
* New Zealand have scored a joint record 24 tries in this tournament (also 24 in 2013), one more and they will hold the standalone record for most tries in a Rugby Championship/Tri Nations campaign.
* The All Blacks have won their last 15 Test matches, one more win would equal their third longest winning run, with the longest ever winning run by a tier one team standing at 17 games (NZ 1965-69 & 2013-14, SA 1997-1998).
* New Zealand have the best tackle success rate (90%), lineout success rate (93%) and scrum success rate (90%) in this year's edition of the competition.
* Nicolas Sanchez has scored 48 points so far this tournament; the most of any player who is yet cross for a try and second most overall.
* Top point scorer Beauden Barrett (54) has also provided more try assists (4) than any other player in this edition of the tournament.
* Just two players have made over 250 metres with the ball in hand in The Rugby Championship this year, Ben Smith (257) and Facundo Isa (251).
* Agustin Creevy has won more turnovers (7) than any other player in this tournament, in fact since the start of the 2015 Rugby World Cup only David Pocock (26) has won more than the Argentina captain in international rugby (20, same as Francois Louw).

http://www.sanzarrugby.com/therugbychampionship/match-centre/?season=2017&competition=214&match=2882

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Match officials confirmed:

Argentina vs New Zealand
@ Estádio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Assistant Referees: Angus Gardner (Australia), Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)
TMO: Johan Greeff (South Africa)

 

[PaarlBok]

Wish the Boks can get Peyper. He is the best by some distance.

 

[Hawko]

Wish the Boks can get Peyper. He is the best by some distance.

Surely you jest! IMO he's not even the best SA referee.

 

[Lindommer]

With you there, Hawko, I wouldn't appoint Peyper to umpire a game of backyard cricket. He'd have to be one of the most unpleasantly interfering refs I've ever seen. Jaco should have a gander at Amy Perrett's performance last Saturday to see how inconspicuously a ref can go about his/her job.

 

[PaarlBok]

Lind always thought you lot dislike Joubert. I have been watching him on the weekend. He had a great game.

 

[Dan54]

Lind always thought you lot dislike Joubert. I have been watching him on the weekend. He had a great game.

Hell Paarl, lets be honest most posters here don't like any refs!!

 

[PaarlBok]

Dan

Hell Paarl, lets be honest most posters here don't like any refs!!

Pretty sad. One of the basics in rugby is to play to the ref whistle. In my view Peyper communication to the players is very good.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

All Blacks: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Israel Dagg, 13 Anton Lienert-Brown, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 TJ Perenara, 8 Kieran Read (c) 7 Ardie Savea, 6 Liam Squire, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Patrick Tuipulotu, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Joe Moody. Replacements: 16 Codie Taylor, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Ofa Tu’ungafasi, 19 Samuel Whitelock, 20 Elliot Dixon, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Lima Sopoaga, 23 Damian McKenzie

Squire for Kaino the only injury change, others are rotational/ resting the guys e.g. Whitelock who've played the most minutes. Except ALB for Fekitoa, that looks like a form issue to me. Good to see DMac on the bench, assuming he'll get on for the final 20ish.

 

[Lindommer]

PB, I don't mind Joubert, in fact I think he's one of the better refs running around. I can't think of any time when I've dissed him.

"..... most posters here don't like any refs!" Pfitzy and I have fallen in love with Amy Perrett after her performance last Saturday.

 

[Dan54]

All Blacks: 15 Ben Smith, 14 Israel Dagg, 13 Anton Lienert-Brown, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 TJ Perenara, 8 Kieran Read (c) 7 Ardie Savea, 6 Liam Squire, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Patrick Tuipulotu, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Joe Moody. Replacements: 16 Codie Taylor, 17 Wyatt Crockett, 18 Ofa Tu’ungafasi, 19 Samuel Whitelock, 20 Elliot Dixon, 21 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22 Lima Sopoaga, 23 Damian McKenzie

Squire for Kaino the only injury change, others are rotational/ resting the guys e.g. Whitelock who've played the most minutes. Except ALB for Fekitoa, that looks like a form issue to me. Good to see DMac on the bench, assuming he'll get on for the final 20ish.

Really like what Shag has done, he giving a few lesser experienced boy a start, but has not left any 'on their own', ie Lienert-Brown between Crotty and Savea/Dagg, Perenara teamed with Barrett and Read feeding him ball, Tuipolutu with Brodie etc, in my opinion one of reasons he such a good coach, a few newer boys , but not really inexperienced sections of the team.

 

[zer0]

There's no specialist centre in the squad. I do not like that.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Really like what Shag has done, he giving a few lesser experienced boy a start, but has not left any 'on their own', ie Lienert-Brown between Crotty and Savea/Dagg, Perenara teamed with Barrett and Read feeding him ball, Tuipolutu with Brodie etc, in my opinion one of reasons he such a good coach, a few newer boys , but not really inexperienced sections of the team.

Yeah, several changes but only one actual/ potential debutant in DMac (AB #1154 if/ when he gets on & 21st from Christ's College). Also I think it confirms that Shag & co. see next week in Durban as the greater challenge, I doubt they'd have made some of these changes if the schedule was the other way round.

Milestone 80th cap coming up for Sam Whitelock, overtaking Ian Jones as our most-capped lock. Kieran Read (92) becomes the eighth-equal most capped AB of all time & Owen Franks must be getting up there, this is his 85th.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=11719772

Our man @Marcelo (formerly went by @MHCS) has gone down to BA for the match, really looking forward to his preview which should go up later today or maybe tomorrow morning. I'm actually a little surprised he hasn't been on here already to talk up his beloved Los Pumas

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Argentina: 15 Joaquín Tuculet, 14 Santiago Cordero, 13 Matías Moroni, 12 Santiago González Iglesias, 11 Ramiro Moyano, 10 Nicolás Sánchez, 9 Martín Landajo (c), 8 Facundo Isa, 7 Javier Ortega Desio, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Matías Alemanno, 4 Guido Petti, 3 Ramiro Herrera, 2 Agustín Creevy, 1 Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro. Replacements: 16 Julian Montoya, 17 Lucas Noguera, 18 Enrique Pieretto, 19 Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 20 Leonardo Senatore, 21 Tomás Cubelli, 22 Jerónimo De la Fuente, 23 Matías Orlando

@Marcelo's preview is up, give it a click!

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/preview-los-pumas-v-all-blacks/

 

[Quick Hands]

Lind always thought you lot dislike Joubert. I have been watching him on the weekend. He had a great game.

Joubert is one of the best going around and I'd rank Marius van der Westhiuzen ahead of Peyper. I've consistently said on these threads that by and large that South Africa produces better referees than either Australia or NZ.

 

[Brumby Runner]

QH, some are better and some are worse. Like you though, I rate Marius and think he's one of the best.