Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has made one positional change to his starting line-up for their Tri-Nations clash against the All Blacks in Wellington.
The 21-year old Patrick Lambie will now slot into the flyhalf position, with Morné Steyn moving to fullback.
De Villiers earlier named Steyn at flyhalf and Lambie at fullback.
But, according to Beeld’s J.J. Harmse, the change was apparent during the Boks’ final training session on Thursday, when Lambie called the shots from flyhalf.
Steyn has only played two matches at fullback – in 2008 for the Bulls – but he is not worried about the challenge he faces. “I may not have played many games at fullback, but I’m confident that I could make a success of it,” said Steyn.
Steyn says he has an idea of how Carter’s head works, which will help him to cover the All Black pivot’s lethal tactical kicking and even pose an attacking threat to the New Zealanders from the back.
Steyn will still be taking the kicks at goal for the Boks.
Teams:
All Blacks:
15 Mils Muliaina 14 Cory Jane 13 Conrad Smith 12 Ma’a Nonu 11 Zac Guildford 10 Daniel Carter 9 Jimmy Cowan 8 Adam Thomson 7 Richie McCaw (C) 6 Jerome Kaino 5 Ali Williams 4 Samuel Whitelock 3 Ben Franks 2 Andrew Hore 1 Wyatt Crockett
Substitutes:
16 Corey Flynn 17 John Afoa 18 Jarrad Hoeata 19 Liam Messam 20 Piri Weepu 21 Colin Slade 22 Sonny Bill Williams
Springboks:
15 Morné Steyn , 14 Bjorn Basson, 13 Adi Jacobs, 12 Juan de Jongh, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Patrick Lambie, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Danie Roussow, 7 Jean Deysel, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Alistair Hargreaves, 4 Gerhard Mostert, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 John Smit (captain), 1 Dean Greyling
Substitutes:
16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Ryan Kankowski, 19 Ashley Johnson, 20 Charl McLeod, 21 Wynand Olivier, 22 Odwa Ndungane
@ biltongbek:
moet met jou saam stem oor daai post
biltongbek wrote:
Yes i do but trying to counter it will only leave us with the catchup game, we must develop our own new plans, yes the current squad is not able to do it but a total new invention to catch them off guard is needed.
Second point – the Bulls have succses with subtle variations to their main game plan. I said a year or 2 back that if you get your scrum back to the days where you had dominating frontrows you will catch everyone off guard. Like the Crusaders did this year. Maybe too late again for SA.
In this World Cup we must just defend and pray someone chokes. No in reality we look totally disorganized but maybe PdeV will lead us to the…………………..promised land
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