Tri Nations 2011. Australia vs South Africa preview.

Tri Nations 2011.
Australia vs South Africa
Sydney.
23 July 2011.

The kick-off to the Tri-Nations is between South Africa and Australia.

Australia will go into the game determined after their 32-23 defeat to Samoa. Although Samoa are a team not to be underrated it has been called an "upset" so Australia will be looking to prove themselves.
There is speculations on both camps. In the Australian camp the main contreversy is of dropping Utility back, Matt Gitteu.
Will Genia and Quade Cooper proved in the Super Rugby season that they can be a deadly combination. Although Quade Coopers kicking could result quite badly during the clash.
James O'Connor is back from injury and, although form always drops after injury, he is always a deadly player on the wing and the young Western Force player is a man to keep your eye on.

South Africa's so called "B" team will be going out to prove that they are worth "A" team material. In my opinion it is a "B" team and very cleverly done so. Peter De Villiers obviously has his idea of his Rugby World Cup squad and is giving oppurtuities to the possible to prove themselve. Ruan Pienaar is at scrum half which is disastraus is he is most likely the worst South AFrican scrum half.

I am putting my money on Australia as it seems unlikely that the Boks will be able to pull off a win.
The Bookies have given the South Africa an 8 point start for this match - with an offer of Bet 10 and Get 20 in Bets. We think the Springboks will be a little cold this week and the Wallabies will win relatively comfortably. Wallabies to win by 12.

Players to watch:
Will Genia.
Quade Cooper.
Stephen Moore
Lwazi Mvovo.
Gio Aplon.

Teams:
Australia:
Kurtley Beale; James O'Connor, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Pat McCabe, Digby Ioane; Quade Cooper, Will Genia; Ben McCalman, David Pocock, Rocky Elsom (capt); James Horwill, Rob Simmons; Ben Alexander, Stephen Moore, Sekope Kepu.

Reserves: Saia Faingaa, Pekahou Cowan, Nathan Sharpe, Matt Hodgson, Scott Higginbotham, Nick Phipps, Anthony Faingaa.

South Africa:
Gio Aplon; Bjorn Basson, Juan De Jongh, Wynand Olivier, Lwazi Mvovo; Morne Steyn, Ruan Pienaar; Ashley Johnson, Danie Rossouw, Deon Stegmann; Alistair Hargreaves, Flip van der Merwe; Werner Kruger, John Smit (capt), Dean Greyling.

Reserves: Chiliboy Ralepelle, CJ van der Linde, Ryan Kankowski, Jean Deysel, Charl McLeod, Adrian Jacobs, Patrick Lambie.