South Africa v Romania (Sunday/Monday)

[Lizard]

1 Ox Nche
2 Mbongeni Mbonambi (c)
3 Vincent Koch
4 Jean Kleyn
5 Marvin Orie
6 Marco van Staden
7 Kwagga Smith
8 Duane Vermeulen
9 Cobus Reinach
10 Damian Willemse
11 Makazole Mapimpi
12 Andre Esterhuizen
13 Canan Moodie
14 Grant Williams
15 Willie Le Roux

Replacements

16 Deon Fourie
17 Steven Kitshoff
18 Trevor Nyakane
19 RG Snyman
20 Jasper Wiese
21 Jaden Hendrikse
22 Faf de Klerk
23 Jesse Kriel

[Mikey Brown]

What do you do with 4 scrumhalves exactly or is this some exercise to see if Faf can cover 10/15?

[Puja]

What do you do with 4 scrumhalves exactly or is this some exercise to see if Faf can cover 10/15?

Unlocking further 7:1 possibilities?

Puja

[Lizard]

What do you do with 4 scrumhalves exactly or is this some exercise to see if Faf can cover 10/15?

It’s a ploy by Rassie to make everyone think he is even more nuts and to therefore underestimate SA in the play-offs

[Lizard]

https://x.com/analystgus/status/1702009 ... TiU_uMKQtA

[BaldiePete]

It’s a ploy to beat the referee into submission by having four loudmouthed, chippy, short-arsed wee fuckers in his ear throughout the game.

[pompey-zebra]

What do you do with 4 scrumhalves exactly or is this some exercise to see if Faf can cover 10/15?

It’s a ploy by Rassie to make everyone think he is even more nuts and to therefore underestimate SA in the play-offs

Clearly he doesn't think waving led lights around is nuts enough.

[bruce]

Romania worst team in the competition?

[bruce]

2 points a minute currently

[bruce]

Bonus point in 11 mins

[Ross. S]

SA looking like they're sending a message to Ireland

[bruce]

Romania could conceivably have 200 points scored against them in 2 games

[bruce]

I do like a good duck lip slo mo

[Puja]

Van Staden now packing down at hooker, with Fourie into the back row. Wild. Not to mention De Klerk at 10 and Williams on the wing.

Puja

[Puja]

And now South Africa score a first phase try involving just scrum-halves - Hendrikse pass to De Klerk, De Klerk to Williams for the score.

Romania are dire - just waving South Africa through from some really basic attacking moves. There's a basic switch move and the Romanian defence is utterly torn apart. They really need to have a good look at themselves after this tournament - it is a tough draw for them, but they're comfortably the worst team here.

Puja

[Puja]

Just looked at the statistics - the last century score in a RWC was in 2007 (NZ vs Portugal - the only one of that tournament). I think Romania are probably safe from that, given there's only 9 minutes left, but that probably has more to do with South Africa's errors than anything done by Romania.

Puja

[Puja]

Van Staden now packing down at hooker, with Fourie into the back row. Wild. Not to mention De Klerk at 10 and Williams on the wing.

Puja

Van Staden's not looked uncomfortable in his first appearance at hooker since school, but I don't really know how much is actually being learned from this. Not really giving a clue as to whether he'd survive if called upon vs someone like Ireland.

Puja

[16th man]

Bloody hell, over 2000 metres made by the Boks.

[UKHamlet]

Despite not scoring as many, that was a much more convincing display than Ireland's. South Africa are the team to beat at the moment.

[Sandydragon]

Ireland vs Bokke next weekend is going to be huge.I’d have South Africa as favourite as I think they are peaking at just the right time, but theres 2 quality sides going head to head there.

[Lizard]

Is there any point watching the highlights of this?

Poor old Romania. Haven’t been the same since the revolution.

European qualifying will be interesting next time. It looks like Georgia will not get in automatically. And there’s an outside chance Italy could screw the pooch v Uruguay.