South Africa v France

cjp · Post by **cjp** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:44 pm

South Africa: 15 Percy Montgomery, 14 Jean de Villiers, 13 Marius Joubert, 12 De Wet Barry, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 9 Fourie de Preez, 8 Jacques CronjÃ©, 7 Danie Rossouw, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Albert van den Bergh, 3 Eddie Andrews, 2 John Smit (captain), 1 Os du Randt.

Replacements: 16 Hanyani Shimange, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Juan Smith, 19 Joe van Niekerk, 20 Enrico Januarie, 21 Jaque Fourie, 22 Brent Russell.

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:30 am

France: Julien Laharrague (Brive); Julien Candelon (Narbonne), Florian Fritz (Toulouse), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse), Cedric Heymans (Toulouse); Frederic Michalak (Toulouse), Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (Toulouse/capt); Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Francais), Sebastien Bruno (Sale/ENG), Olivier Milloud (Bourgoin), Romain Millo-Chluski (Toulouse), Pascal Pape (Bourgoin), Yannick Nyanga (Beziers), Olivier Magne (Clermont), Julien Bonnaire (Bourgoin)
Replacements: William Servat (Toulouse), Pieter de Villiers (Stade Francais), Gregory Lamboley (Toulouse), Remy Martin (Stade FranÃ§ais), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz), Benoit Baby (Toulouse), Nicolas Brusque (Biarritz)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/4093418.stm

Laporte's resting a few but that still looks a strong side. If only they play like we know they can (viz Toulouse and Biarritz in ERC) and not like the shower of $h!te on view during the 6N they would be bloody awesome.

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:22 pm

a very exciting 30 30 draw
French unlucky not to win at the end - Yachvili's conversion hitting the post

cjp · Post by **cjp** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:52 pm

Michalak was superb, his drop goal was pretty special.

cjp · Post by **cjp** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:48 pm

A fair few changes for France:

France: 15 Nicolas Brusque (Biarritz), 14 Vincent Clerc (Stade Toulousain), 13 Yannick Jauzion (Stade Toulousain), 12 Damien Traille (Biarritz), 11 Cedric Heymans (Stade Toulousain), 10 Frederic Michalak (Stade Toulousain), 9 Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz, captain), 8 Julien Bonnaire (Bourgoin), 7 Yannick Nyanga (Beziers), 6 Remy Martin (Stade Francais), 5 Pascal Pape (Stade Toulousain), 4 Thibault Privat (Clermont), 3 Pieter De Villiers (Stade Francais), 2 William Servat (Stade Toulousain), 1 Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Francais).

Replacements: 16 Sebastien Bruno (Sale/England), 17 Olivier Milloud (Bourgoin), 18 Gregory Lamboley (Stade Toulousain), 19 Olivier Magne (Clermont), 20 Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (Stade Toulousain), 21 Benoit Baby (Stade Toulousain), 22 Julien Laharrague (Brive).

cjp · Post by **cjp** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:17 am

South Africa team: Montgomery, De Villiers, Joubert, Barry, Habana, Van der Westhuyzen, Januarie; Du Randt, Smit (capt), Sephaka, Van den Berg, Matfield, Berger, Roussouw, Cronje.

Replacements: Shimange, Van der Linde, Smith, Van Niekerk, Du Preez, Fourie, Russell

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:42 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/4622785.stm

reasonably comfortable win for the Boks