RUGBY WALES v SA

[rowdy]

Springboks: 15 Percy Montgomery, 14 Conrad Jantjes, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Meyer Bosman, 9 Michael Claassens, 8 Jacques Cronjé, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 John Smit (captain), 1 Lawrence Sephaka. Replacements: 16 Hanyani Shimange, 17 Os du Randt, 18 Albert van den Berg, 19 Danie Rossouw, 20 Bolla Conradie, 21 De Wet Barry, 22 Brent Russell. 2 new boys in the halves, Cheeters team mates Claassens and Bosman. Other than that its a pretty standard team fro the SAs. One which should have far too much power in the forwards for the Welsh. SAs last game was a 34 - 23 win over Argentina in Buenos Aires 2 weeks ago,not an easy game by any means these days. While Wales had an unispiring and lucky 11 - 10 win over lowly Fiji. Wales: 15 Lee Byrne (Llanelli Scarlets), 14 Dafydd James (Llanelli Scarlets), 13 Gareth Thomas (Toulouse, captain), 12 Sonny Parker (Ospreys), 11 Shane Williams (Ospreys), 10 Stephen Jones (Clermont Auvergne), 9 Gareth Cooper (Dragons), 8 Michael Owen (Dragons), 7 Martyn Williams (Cardiff Blues), 6 Colin Charvis (Newcastle), 5 Robert Sidoli (Cardiff Blues), 4 Luke Charteris (Dragons), 3 Chris Horsman (Worcester), 2 Rhys Thomas (Cardiff Blues), 1 Duncan Jones (Ospreys), Replacements: 16 Mefin Davies (Gloucester), 17 Adam Jones (Ospreys), 18 Ian Gough (Dragons), 19 Jonathan Thomas (Ospreys), 20 Mike Phillips (Cardiff Blues), 21 Ceri Sweeney (Dragons), 22 Matthew Watkins (Llanelli Scarlets). Wales has had to make a 2 changes forced by injury. Charteris and James bith come in, but there have also been annother 8 changes from the team that faced the ABs 2weeks ago. My opinion is that the SAs should quite easily run away with this one. The Welsh play a similar type of game to the ABs and OZ, and the SAs through this yrs tri nations ave had a lot of practise and retty good success. Notibly the only team to beat te current AB team. They should have far too much in the forwards which should allow the 2 new boys time to work a pretty explosive backline. Interested to hear your thoughts on this game, but Ill be looking at a 13+ point victory to the SAs

[Citizen Kane]

Re: RUGBY WALES v SA No great explanation just a feeling but I think Wales will cover. 1pt Wales +16.5 @ 1.87 (NZTab) Cheers CK