The Tri Nations test match between the Boks and their greatest rivals The All Blacks, will be played at the state-of-the-art Soccer City stadium in Soweto on 21 August.
Soccer City will be hosting the Soccer World Cup final next Sunday and has a capacity of 95000. The decision to move the fixture from Ellis Park hasnt been officially announced yet but according to reports it has already been discussed with Ellis Park season ticket holders (all 53 of them)
More on this as it develops…
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I’m keen..now to covince my wife to go to Soweto with me. 😯
@Pokkel (Comment 1) :
Koop vir haar n R8000 painting of iets!! 😈 😉
53? That’s 2 more than at Newlands, isn’t it?
@wpw (Comment 2) : Ja my liefste ou Handbriekie
It’s an awesome stadium… and actually quite easy to get to (providing there isn’t soccer & rugby on at the same time!)
@Greg (Comment 3) :
Hey Greg!! Ol buddy Ol Pal!! 😉 😈
@wpw (Comment 2) : Dan koop ek liewer daai HD TV wat ek nog nie het nie en kyk die game by die huis.
Well done Henry!! 🙄 😆 😆
@klempie (Comment 8) : Hoe gaan dit klempie ou maat??
@Pokkel (Comment 9) : Lekker dankie, self, ouboet? 😎
Morning all……. i imagine the AB’s will be well supported in Soweto !
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 11) : Soweto isn’t in Cape Town so I don’t think so 😛
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 11) : No dude. Cape Town is their support stronghold. 🙄
@Pokkel (Comment 1) : I’m sure you guys will love it – it’s a beatiful stadium 😀
I will also try to get tickets.
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 11) : I imagine 90 000 Springbok Supporters
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 11) : ehhh – judging by small / tiny / almost non-existant 🙄 support for the Crusaders when they played Noulle – I don’t think so .
@Pokkel (Comment 12) : Fools barely differ!
@JarsonX (Comment 15) : will be interesting to see whether they’ll manage to sell out.
@klempie (Comment 10) : Goed kan nie kla nie…net gatvol vir die winter.
@rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 16) : You will have to explain what Nulle means to the poor lad.
@CS (Comment 5) :
@klempie (Comment 17) : More like great minds
@Pokkel (Comment 19) : Ek dink ek’t griep. 🙁
Great news, would be the biggest crowd in SA Rugby history for a home test… 😛
@klempie (Comment 23) : Ek dink nie ek weet maar begin nou beter voel…
@klempie (Comment 20) : i’m sure he will figure it out – it only involves negligable mental exercise 😆
@klempie (Comment 23) : OOO – is it a moany Friday ?
I have cold 🙁
@Charlie (Comment 24) : once again – if they sell out.
a lot of people spent lost of money on soccer – they may be tendency to stay home in front of tv.
@klempie (Comment 23) : Voël of Vark ?
@rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 28) : 😉 Let’s see…
@rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 26) : Maar hy praat nie Afrikaans nie so hy sal nie weet wat Nul beteken nie. 😛
@Charlie (Comment 29) : Sal moet wag om uit te vind. Dis net my keel wat op die oomblik daai “feeling” het.
@klempie (Comment 32) : Dit moet vark wees….
@Pokkel (Comment 12) : @klempie (Comment 13) : @JarsonX (Comment 15) : @rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 16) :
Cape Town…i didn’t know that !
Although the Crusaders are the same team as the All Blacks……the Black jersey does have it’s global fan base especially in places like Soweto i’d imagine !
@Pokkel (Comment 33) : 😈
@klempie (Comment 31) : Ek praat nie Afrikaans either maar I’m friends with google translate
Are the seats a gross Orange Colour … ?
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 37) : yip – you can have a look on google streetview.
@rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 36) : @Hertford Highlander (Comment 37) : Sorry about the Afrikaans….but every now and again it’s just ‘lekka’ to express in Afrikaans. Afrikaans has some expressions that could just never be translated
@Pokkel (Comment 39) : Like referring to the Bulls as the Nulle. 😈
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 34) :
So what you’re saying is there are no Highlanders players in the All Blacks squad??
That great team is not represented?? 😯 😈
@klempie (Comment 40) : Ja and my favourite Afrikaans word ‘gatvol’ (my favourite among the ones that are allowed on this site 😉 )
@Pokkel (Comment 39) : 😉 nie ma sprawy.
@rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 43) : HUH?? 😯
@wpw (Comment 41) :
Just our Captain Jimmy Cowan….. I don’t think the AB have ever fielded a side without a man from the ‘Deep South’. 😉
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 45) :
Israel Dagg?? 🙄
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 11) : Soweto loves the Boks, the AB’s prefer playing at Newlands where they have huge support from the local community.
@wpw (Comment 46) : Injured I think
@wpw (Comment 46) : True i didn’t include Adam Thomson either as him and Dagg are Crusaders bound ! IDIOTS 😈
Just read a pearler of a post:
Growing the game in non-rugby areas is the right thing to do. The Bulls need to take some of their games to Ellis Park.
@Morné (Comment 50) : 😆 😆
@Morné (Comment 50) : 😆 😆 😆 😆
@Morné (Comment 50) :
Someone should post that on WTR. 😈 😉
@wpw (Comment 53) : Do it! 😈
I just devoured a huge Russian. Hope I don’t live to regret it. 😳
@klempie (Comment 55) :
Dude, read it again but this time slowly.
Doesn’t sound right bru!! 🙄
(all 53 of them) 😆
I think this is awesome. SC FTW
@klempie (Comment 55) : As in a mail order bride or what ❓
@wpw (Comment 56) : I know!
But I couldn’t think of a better way to right it. 😛
@klempie (Comment 55) : This is not that kind of site
I wonder how long before Ellis Park is raised to the ground? If the Boks are going to play at Soccer City from now on it doesn’t make sense to keep Ellis Park open.
I would love to go for this game.
Oh no! 🙁 Vuvuzela’s coming back to rugby again 🙁 🙁 🙁 Keep the vuvuzelas with soccer, it really doesn’t suit rugby!!!
@Hertford Highlander ( Comment 11)
What makes you think the AB’s will be well supported in Soweto ???
Rob is here… 🙂
@rekinek (Go Podolski!) (Comment 43) : WTF is (nie ma sprawy.)
Ek laag vir julle boere taal
@robdylan (Comment 65) : oh no, run and hide
@Hertford Highlander (Comment 49) : hey HH did you try one of those bunny chows yet
@robdylan (Comment 65) : oh my who is in the [email protected] now
@war1 (Comment 67) : hi war 1 how did the studys
@chaz (Comment 70) : keeping on
One of theses fine days of Rugby the nulle will move to soccer city and join in with the game 😎
@The Sharks Sharkie (Comment 63) : well think of it this way if we as fans scream at the top of your voice and later don’t hv on then you the VuVuZelas 🙄
@Dalz (Comment 64) : i would like to know the answer to that to 🙄
@Pokkel (Comment 25) : jy moet eendag griep drink (one day flu)can buy it anywhere and it works 🙄
I’ve been in a packed Greenpoint stadium, and the Vuvuzelas were no problem: actually sound much better than on tv.
Don’t really get all the whining about them.
all 53 of them Bwhahahahahahahahaha