Eric Sauls has had to reshuffle his personnel somewhat ahead of today’s must-win IRB Junior WC semi-final against England.
Regular fullback Sias Ebersohn has been suspended for a dangerous tackle, meaning the Bulls’ Francois Brümmer has to take over in the number 15 jersey. Captain Rob Ebersohn, himself fortunate to escape a ban along with his brother, will take over from Brümmer at inside centre. Province’s Nicolaas Hanekom comes into the vacant outside centre position.
Among the forwards, former Pretoria Boys flanker Tendayi Chikukwa has cried off injured, meaning an elevation to the starting fifteen for Marnus Schoeman. Anticipating a bruising clash against the big English pack, Sauls has picked five forwards on the bench.
Baby Boks team:
15 Francois Brümmer; 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Nicolaas Hanekom, 12 Robert Ebersohn (captain), 11 Sampie Mastriet; 10 Lionel Cronjé, 9 Ross Cronjé; 8 Christiaan Stander, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Marnus Schoeman, 5 David Bulbring, 4 Jan-André Marais, 3 Coenie Oosthuizen, 2 Kyle Cooper, 1 Morné Mellet.
Reserves: 16 Zane Botha, 17 Julian Redelinghuys, 18 Caylib Oosthuizen, 19 Kenechukwu Ofakor, 20 Yaasir Hartzenberg, 21 Rudy Paige, 22 Johan Sadie.
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How cool… live stream of the game is here
http://www.irb.com/jwc/video/index.html
our match kicks off at 11h00 UK time (or 12h00 for you blokes)
Baby Blacks look to have too much for the Wallabies
@robdylan (Comment 1) : Thanks Rob this is awesome All Blacks had some great bounces go there way
3-0 to England 🙁
ref is blowing this to death. Another Eng penalty… 6-0.
and now a third is being lined up. Ref has had a chat with Magic Rob to explain the problem. Forwards coming in and killing the ball
Penalty is re-taken after the Baby Boks charge it the first time. Don’t they know the laws?
9-0
typical – I missed a try and a penalty to us! 9-8
GO BOYKIES
@robdylan (Comment 9) : It was the number 8. Charge down and great regather, only just managed to stay in.
@molly (Comment 11) : CJ Stander. Thanks
this Brummer is a talented kid
the ginger english fullback lines up another…
missed
Stander and Cooper are the pick of the forwards so far
@robdylan (Comment 15) : Sweet
this Lionel Cronje kicks a little too much for my liking
@robdylan (Comment 18) : and poorly at that.
yes! 9-11 at half time
well, so much for that. Work interrupts again. Sigh
Who has the 11?
@Claytie (Comment 22) :
SA has
England scores
16-11 Eng
worst skew line-out call EVER. That was damn straight. Poo ref
Balls
@Claytie (Comment 27) : The scoreline is actually quite flattering, England are dominating us in almost every facet of the game.
Baby Bok TRY!!!! 16-16 with conversion to come.
Try time
conversion good. 18-16
@molly (Comment 28) : But if we win i wont really care about that
penalty kick for SA to come
score???
time left?? 😕
21-16 kick is good.
justin.tv. is screwed, cant give updates
trime on the clock is: 20 minutes into 2nd half
WHOO WHOO!!!
england try
conversion over: 23-21 to the Brits
#7 red carded, I’m afraid thats the boks’ game over now.
@molly (Comment 40) : DAMMIT
Pentalty is good as well, 26-21 to England now. This fullback doesn’t seem to miss much. 15 minutes left in the game.
@molly (Comment 41) : Why was he carded?
Go Baby Boks, make us proud….it’s not over till the rose wilts
@Rahul (Comment 44) : I think it was for a spear tackle. Call came from the assistant ref and I didn’t see replays. Also watching without sound so there’s a bit of guessing.
Another england try, off a rolling maul.
33-21
Oh dear…
Is Yaya Hartzenberg on the field yet??? 😕
time left?
@wpw (Comment 50) : Happy 1st birthday!! awesome isn’t it?
@Morné (Comment 36) : http://www.irb.com/jwc/video/index.html
Thats that then
@Claytie (Comment 54) :
I take it we didn’t win?? 🙄
Alas that was a big carrot, but they tried hard, the English pack was huge!!
Didnt we go down to them last year as well?
damn
👿 I’m grumpy now.
@Claytie (Comment 57) : Yip, we did, hope this is not a sign of things to come. I hate losing to the English they are so bloody arrogant here(Abu Dhabi) think they are still running the empire.
So what was the final score?
OK, got it from Keo. 40-21, a hiding of note.
😳 😥
Hope Sauls get fired after this one. I mean the Brutes havent even make the CC U19 semis and a SA team full of Brutes. Help if the coach runs the Brutes Academy. 😈
@Salmonoid (Comment 62) : ouch – didn’t know it was that bad.
Apart from not knowing the laws of the game, how to tackle, play the ball at the ruck, kick for position or commit to the tackle area, the Baby Boks were good. But when you fail at 85% of the ball game, you’re never going to win.
It looked like they didn’t want to be there, no commitment which was the biggest disappointment.
Was impressed with Kyle Cooper at hooker – scrums were awesome – 2 heel against the heads, and should have been 3 except crap ref blew us out of the game.
@Baldrick (Comment 66) : I blame the Bulls
You guys should check Steven Jones’ latest ramblings, on how poo the Kings were: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby_union/article6521474.ece
@molly (Comment 68) : man,if I wrote anything even vaguely as one-sided as that, you guys would crucify me!
@robdylan: I blame the Bulls too
@molly (Comment 68) : Not even worth reading Stephen Jones’ articles…consistently one-eyed without ever giving the opposition any credit.
@s.h.a.r.k.s (Comment 70) : good man! 🙂