2010 Trinations 03 – Wallabies v Springboks

The Wallabies host The Springboks in Brisbane in the third game of the 2010 Trinations. Match details and teamsheets are as follows:

Date: Saturday, July 24
Kick-off: 20.00 (10.00 GMT; 12.00 SA time)
Venue: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Keith Brown (NZ), Vinny Munro (NZ)
TMO: Matt Goddard (Australia)
Assessor: Steve Hilditch (Ireland)

Gio replaces banned Jean at 14, Ricky McJanuarie finally dropped and Ruan starts at 9 (covered by Hougaard), Flo Louw axed completely from the 22 and replaced by Kanko, CJ replaced by BJ, Flip takes Bekker’s seat on the bench.

Springboks – 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morne Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Ryan Kankowski, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 BJ Botha, 2 John Smit (c), 1 Gurthro Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Dewald Potgieter, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Butch James, 22 Juan de Jongh.

Wallabies – 15 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 14 James O’Connor, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Richard Brown, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom, 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Dean Mumm, 3 Salesi Ma’afu, 2 Saia Fainga’a, 1 Benn Robinson
Replacements: Stephen Moore, James Slipper, Rob Simmons, Matt Hodgson, Luke Burgess, Berrick Barnes, Kurtley Beale

P.Divvy: ‘Australia are technically better than the rest of the world in all sporting codes. It doesn’t matter whether it is athletics, swimming, or rugby. They will pick up the little things and really work on it. We are battered and bruised a bit. They didn’t play for four weeks and it perhaps balances each other out nicely. They will obviously be much fresher and also draw some energy that we haven’t won a game yet on tour. I think it will be difficult to contain them when we take the field on Saturday.’