Cape Town – The South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Wednesday confirmed that the Springboks will play the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday 4 December 2010 (kick off 14:30), bringing down the curtain on the team’s International season.
The match will be the seventh meeting between the teams and concludes the Springboks’ end-of-season tour, which features Tests against the four Home Unions during November.
“The Barbarians fixture has become the grand finale of the European autumn series and we’re delighted to be taking part once again,” said Andy Marinos, SARU manager of national teams.
“The fixture has a character all of its own and is an opportunity for the players to demonstrate their skills against the very best international players but with different pressures to that of the Test arena.
“The Barbarians routinely produce an outstanding combination as they showed when a team featuring several Springboks beat the All Blacks last season.
“There’ll also be plenty of incentive for our players following our last game against them in 2007.”
The Springboks were beaten 22-5 by the Barbarians at Twickenham in the final match of the 2007 season and the historical record between the teams stands at three wins apiece.
Barbarians’ president Micky Steele-Bodger said: “As the years go by, our long-established fixtures against the the major powers of the southern hemisphere are, if anything, becoming more and more popular.
“Success breeds success, not necessarily in terms of match results but in providing an attractive environment where true followers are almost guaranteed an entertaining afternoon of top-class sport. We look forward to another such occasion next December.”
Courtesy of Sport24
The year before the WC.
On the one side they complain about players playing to much ruggas.
On the other side they agree to matches like this…
Strange
Can the Bokke do the Grand Slam and then Slam-dunk the Baabaas?
Blouste
That is why I say we should be developing two streams of Boks-_ call it seniors and juniors or whayever, but have them feeding one another with youth and experience vise versa by mixing and matching them to suit the opposition.
Unnecessary match, nothing to gain lots to loose. Play the development team. You don’t want to play your A team and loose or worse pick up an injury to a senior player.
If the Team insist to play because of the money incentive we are on course for a major disaster. Players are not in a position to ask more games. The management of the team must know how to manage their best asset. Where is the Players union. Surely they must restrict the games.
For the BaaBaas it is worth it , they fill a stadium and they knock the Boks preparation for the WC back.
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