Team for South Africa

[Graigwen]

Apparently the announcement has been brought forward to noon today (about ten minutes from the time of writing this), so here is a thread ready for it.

To be honest, there are not too many alternatives available for a lot of positions.

Saturday will be awful.

[Graigwen]

Wales: Blair Murray; Ellis Mee, Joe Roberts, Joe Hawkins, Rio Dyer; Dan Edwards, Kieran Hardy; Gareth Thomas, Dewi Lake, Keiron Assiratti, Ben Carter, Rhys Davies, Taine Plumtree, Alex Mann, Aaron Wainwright.

Replacements: Brodie Coghlan, Danny Southworth, Chris Coleman, James Ratti, Morgan Morse, Reuben Morgan-Williams, Callum Sheedy, Ben Thomas.

[Graigwen]

I am a bit surprised to see Sheedy and Thomas on the bench.

[Graigwen]

Apparently Rogers is having a scan on an injury, according to Tandy.

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[Son of Mathonwy]

Not much to complain about given the limited options. Shame to lose Rogers but great to have Wainwright back.

Surprised that Fender's not involved. Is he injured? (Yeah, just seen the update - shoulder injury)

I think I'd prefer Ratti at 6 to Plumtree, but if Plumtree can rein in the errors he'll be good.

Deaves didn't do anything wrong but with Wainwright back and vs SA his size counts against him.

Mee is good. Shame to have the two wingers coming in cold but that's we we are.

I guess the 23 shirt was between Thomas and Beetham. Coin toss.

Let's see what the Ospreys half-backs can produce. If they get any ball.

[Son of Mathonwy]

Oh yeah, hope we don't pay the price this weekend for not giving our back-up 2nd rowers any game time. I think they should have had a bit of bench time (not sure Freddie Thomas is that much better).

[UKHamlet]

I thought the Saffers might go easy on us. They haven't.

South Africa: Damian Willemse; Ethan Hooker, Damian de Allende, Andre Esterhuizen, Canan Moodie; Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Morne van den Berg; Gerhard Steenkamp, Johan Grobbelaar, Wilco Louw, Jean Kleyn, Ruan Nortje, Siya Kolisi (Captain), Franco Mostert, Jasper Wiese.

Replacements: Bongi Mbonambi, Zachary Porthen, Asenathi Ntlabakanye, Eben Etzebeth, Marco van Staden, Ben Jason-Dixon, Kwagga Smith, Cobus Reinach.

7-1 split.

[pompey-zebra]

7-1 split? Clearly they're worried about matching our forward power.