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Eden Park comes to Cape Town

Started by Plum5 REPLIES36 VIEWS· 29 Aug 2026, 08:25
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Plum
PlumCaptain21,782 posts
29 Aug 2026, 08:25
#1
29 Aug 2026, 08:25#1

I wan to feel more confident about a win today but I'm struggling.

There were a few reffing clangers last week. Enough so that Rassie will feel that the strategy was probably on point and doesn't need much tweaking.

As a result, I have a feeling we'll see even less running this week and instead see an even more conservative one-off runner style from the Boks.

Reinach will take his sweet time, box kick everything, and when Sacha does get the ball once in a while he'll be under orders to kick some more.

Let's hope I'm wrong. Let's hope Willemse gets to join the line and play off Sacha. Let's hope there is some good interplay between the backs and forwards. Let's hope our wingers get some ball to run with. Let's hope all our pipe dreams come true.

MO
Pro2,421 posts
moolaa29 Aug 2026, 09:20

Good luck Plum. Reading this somehow reminded me of a monologue from Shawshank Redemption!!

Plum
Captain21,782 posts
Plum29 Aug 2026, 09:29

@moolaa indeed Mools, let's hope for a good game!

Pakie
PakieCaptain18,070 posts
29 Aug 2026, 12:14
#2
29 Aug 2026, 12:14#2

Cape is wet, might be a messy old affair.

Plum
Captain21,782 posts
Plum29 Aug 2026, 10:30

Which worries me even more. At Eden park last year, they slid us back over the ball by getting to rucks earlier than us and the wet ground helped them do that.

I will actually be on the the match thread today because i have told the horde I'm ill...hahaha

BE
Beeno1Captain40,265 posts
29 Aug 2026, 12:23
#3
29 Aug 2026, 12:23#3

I am going with what looks to be the majority view out there saying the Boks will win. The wounded Bok etc and the LEARINGS.
I saw one You Tuber saying the fix is in regarding the change of ref and that they want the wee abs to win. I didn't bother to view the video but refs if crooked can play the decisive role as we have seen so often and again last Saturday.
Bye the way what often also happens is a pundit lists a number of serious errors that prevents points being scored, yellow or red cards etc and then say not that the winning side wouldn't have won anyway. No account of the points lost, opposition points lost or momentum.
To those hatters I recommend a basic course in LOGIC.
Also that they grow a spine. In truth some are just scared to be called a Ref Whinger. Nobody is more petrified of this than dear old rooitwitterbug. Hahahahahahaha.

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