Boks confirm Baabaas clash at Twickenham

[Intercept King JDV]

The South African Rugby Union (Saru) have confirmed that the Springboks will play the Barbarians at Twickenham on December 4, bringing down the curtain on the team's International season.

The match will be the seventh meeting between the teams and concludes the Springboks' end-of-season tour, which features Tests against the four Home Unions during November.

"The Barbarians fixture has become the grand finale of the European autumn series and we're delighted to be taking part once again," said Andy Marinos, Saru manager of national teams.

"The fixture has a character all of its own and is an opportunity for the players to demonstrate their skills against the very best international players but with different pressures to that of the Test arena.

"The Barbarians routinely produce an outstanding combination as they showed when a team featuring several Springboks beat the All Blacks last season.

"There'll also be plenty of incentive for our players following our last game against them in 2007."

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So that's now 15 confirmed games for the Boks this year, long and hard year awaits them, that's for sure!

This is where a "B team" that is just as good as the 1st choice team comes in handy!

 

[Feicarsinn]

Well, based on last year's display by South Africa's second string,a few bad beatings may be on the way. They'll most definetely need to dip into their European stock to be competitive in all games. In some ways it's good move to give so much exposure to your players at this level but it's advantages are counterbalanced by the obvious consequences of player burnout and a dilution of the jersey's worth.