The Baby Boks play their last pool game against England tonight in an attempt to secure a semi final spot in the IRB Junior Championships in Italy. Kick off is at 20h10 South African time and will be shown on SuperSport.
Coach Dawie Theron has made a few changes to the line up, with the potent Jaco Taute, flown in for the injured Craig Barry, starting at fullback. The other big change is that of Pieter Rademan coming back into the line up at scrumhalf for Lohan Jacobs.
The starting line up still does not contain a single Sharks player, with both Schonert and Jordaan warming the bench and Kleynhans not even getting a look in.
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Baby Boks – Jaco Taute, Courtnall Skosan, Bradley Moolman, Francois Venter, Wandile Mjekevu, Johan Goosen, Pieter Rademan, Arno Botha (c), Siyamthanda Kolisi, Nizaam Carr, Eben Etzebeth, Ruan Venter, John Roy Jenkinson, Bongi Mbonambi, Juan Schoeman.
Reserves: Michael van Vuuren, Nic Schonert, Jean Cook, Cornell du Preez, Lohan Jacobs, John Welthagen, Paul Jordaan.
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8-0 England.
Crap Ruan Venter injured. I guess they’ll have to fly van der Sluys out. SA stuck in first gear. 8-0 still
@beet (Comment 1) : being showed later here. not live for some reason
Try by Nizaam Carr breaking thru the lineout 8-7 England
@beet (Comment 4) :
France beating Aus 14-3. Hahaha
My bad. Goosen missed sitter. Now 11-5. Commentator spot on- too many mistakes by both teams
11-8 England
common baby boks, beat those poms!
11 all at half time. Lousy start-stop affair so far.
Oh dear. England score off first play of second half.
SA 11 – 16 England
SA 14 – 16 England. Should have been an SA try but butchered somewhat
France lead Aus 24-18, making a win today crucial. England lead 16-12
Sorry 16-14
Boys not playing at all well – england aren’t converting their chances though
They need to lose the ordinary looking Piet Radaman. Good move to sub off Kolisi. He was well off his best today.
19-17 England
13 min to go
Shocking game. Both these teams would be pulverised by NZ.
Possibly the worst tackling Ive seen since the Sharks Crusaders game, hands the game to England.
Taute misses a regulation tackle. 26-17
I have never rated Skosan and he just reminded me why.
Wow, that was a great way to butcher another try… impressive.
@beet (Comment 23) : Twice
Pity Nizaam wasn’t on the right wing. He justed showed how to pick the right line, stay on the feet and hold onto and recycle the ball in contact.maybe he could teach Skosan a thing or 2.
And that is why Paul Jordaan was on the bench.
England win 26-20. Disappointing game.
They lost coz no sharks started
,but seriously disappointing from the boys
Thank God we won´t have to witness this lot get slaughtered by the Baby Blacks.