Sadly, Mapimpi is confirmed to be out of the RWC with a fractured eye socket.
Feel really sad for him - he gives 100% all the time.

Will be interesting to see who they bring in to replace him.
The standby list currently reads:
Lukhanyo Am (Centre)
Lood de Jager (Lock)
Joseph Dweba (Hooker)
Thomas du Toit (Prop)
Jean-Luc du Preez (Loosie)
Herschel Jantjies (Scrumhalf)
Evan Roos (Loosie)
Gerhard Steenekamp (Prop)

@Billy-Webb said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Sadly, Mapimpi is confirmed to be out of the RWC with a fractured eye socket.
Feel really sad for him - he gives 100% all the time.

Will be interesting to see who they bring in to replace him.
The standby list currently reads:
Lukhanyo Am (Centre)
Lood de Jager (Lock)
Joseph Dweba (Hooker)
Thomas du Toit (Prop)
Jean-Luc du Preez (Loosie)
Herschel Jantjies (Scrumhalf)
Evan Roos (Loosie)
Gerhard Steenekamp (Prop)

Be interesting what happens here, on field was penalty only wasn't it? Yet clearly it needed another look. Now he has effectively got the same injury as Dupont, which was 12 down to 6.

Roll the dice time?

Irish and Scottish fans wrecking SA fans heads who thought SA had already qualified for the quarters after their win.

They're pushing the scenario where Scotland take the lead next weekend and with both teams having scored four tries, it's say 36-22 to Scotland with 5 minutes to go. Ireland need to score a try to get the losing bonus point and qualify top of the pool.

OR concede another one to lose by a margin of 21. All 3 teams on 15 points and H2H doesn't separate them. PD would put Scotland top of the pool ahead of SA and Ireland, with second place going to Ireland by virtue of their head to head with SA.

@Bones said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@Billy-Tell said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@Dodge said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Shoulder to head, saw him coming, never got in a position to make a legal tackle so no mitigation. Genuinely baffled by that one

I’m guessing you’ve never played rugby?

You looking for people like you to join a club?

Clubs are thinly spread where I live but all are welcome.

@Billy-Webb said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Sadly, Mapimpi is confirmed to be out of the RWC with a fractured eye socket.
Feel really sad for him - he gives 100% all the time.

Will be interesting to see who they bring in to replace him.
The standby list currently reads:
Lukhanyo Am (Centre)
Lood de Jager (Lock)
Joseph Dweba (Hooker)
Thomas du Toit (Prop)
Jean-Luc du Preez (Loosie)
Herschel Jantjies (Scrumhalf)
Evan Roos (Loosie)
Gerhard Steenekamp (Prop)

So, to answer my own question: Lukhanyo Am is being called up.

Happy about that although how is he supposed to get game time before a possible QF...?

@taniwharugby

It looks fairly obvious on the footage on my phone.

Of course I am not a pro lip reader but others picked up on it!

@DaGrubster Wishful thinking on your part? Cant tell what he is saying at all

@Billy-Webb said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@Billy-Webb said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Sadly, Mapimpi is confirmed to be out of the RWC with a fractured eye socket.
Feel really sad for him - he gives 100% all the time.

Will be interesting to see who they bring in to replace him.
The standby list currently reads:
Lukhanyo Am (Centre)
Lood de Jager (Lock)
Joseph Dweba (Hooker)
Thomas du Toit (Prop)
Jean-Luc du Preez (Loosie)
Herschel Jantjies (Scrumhalf)
Evan Roos (Loosie)
Gerhard Steenekamp (Prop)

So, to answer my own question: Lukhanyo Am is being called up.

Happy about that although how is he supposed to get game time before a possible QF...?

With their bench, I would've called up a hooker

@Machpants Fourie as been much better then our backup hooker (Dweba) will be with a motm performance. Fourie has been the Stormers best player now for 2 seasons.

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@DaGrubster Wishful thinking on your part? Cant tell what he is saying at all

I'll back @DaGrubster that it could easily be as reported above. I'm not a lip reader. But without sound it could be anything.

@booboo but that’s the point I’m making . @da_grubster doesn't know either. That’s a pretty serious accusation… hopefully a lip reader can tell us

Anyway the ref was super shit and mapimpi is out which sucks.

@Derm-McCrum said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Irish and Scottish fans wrecking SA fans heads who thought SA had already qualified for the quarters after their win.

They're pushing the scenario where Scotland take the lead next weekend and with both teams having scored four tries, it's say 36-22 to Scotland with 5 minutes to go. Ireland need to score a try to get the losing bonus point and qualify top of the pool.

OR concede another one to lose by a margin of 21. All 3 teams on 15 points and H2H doesn't separate them. PD would put Scotland top of the pool ahead of SA and Ireland, with second place going to Ireland by virtue of their head to head with SA.

This whole theory falls apart if you consider Ireland is on a 16 game winning streak. They are a great team and will not want to lose that momentum.... Or the chance to equal / break the record.

@thelemmning70 or that they would seriously consider losing on purpose or theyd prefer France in the quarter

@W32

Wishful thinking? Silly.

Of course I don’t know, but my amateur lip reading skills can make it out.

And I was not the only one who has.

Would rather keep Le Roux on the field anyway due to the way he is playing

@DaGrubster

Willie can be accused of many things (most commonly that he is not a very good rugby player) and he could be a hood wearing Nazi that hates all black people with a deep burning hatred - but its highly unlikely he would call a pacific island a "black fluffybunny", not because he isnt racist or anything, but that is not racial insult that exists in his context and pacific islanders are not considered "black" in SA culture.

Maybe he called him a back fluffybunny, because backs really are fluffybunnies, and it takes one to know one?

Spurious not to mention defamatory... You do know that one of his best mates happens to be Makazole Mapimpi ?? Not a chance that he would ever jeopardise himself or the jersey with anything close to that kind of language…. Even in the heat of the moment. He simply isn’t wired like that

@booboo is fluffybunny even in the South African vocabulary? I haven't lived there in 30 years, but none of the South Africans I interact with have even heard of it.

@W32 precisely...
It is not in the vocab... And this is the only place making mention of it....

Remove your foil hats people....

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@booboo is fluffybunny even in the South African vocabulary? I haven't lived there in 30 years, but none of the South Africans I interact with have even heard of it.

Just checking: you do know that "fluffybunny" is used an an automatic replacement filter for "fluffybunny" on this site huh?

This reminds me of my first meeting with an Australian. I was in Israel and met a young Australian about my age. This was 30 years ago. When he heard that I was from South Africa, he said “ you’re a racist”
I was shocked and affronted. I guess he didn’t know about what happened to the aborigines in his own country.

@booboo said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@booboo is fluffybunny even in the South African vocabulary? I haven't lived there in 30 years, but none of the South Africans I interact with have even heard of it.

Just checking: you do know that "fluffybunny" is used an an automatic replacement filter for "fluffybunny" on this site huh?

That explanation worked well...

@thelemmning70 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@W32 precisely...
It is not in the vocab... And this is the only place making mention of it....

Remove your foil hats people....

Fluffybunny here is an automatic filter for a word that rhymes with hunt (but not bunt, runt or punt). Of course nobody would use (or even know) that word in South Africa, they're all too sweet and pure.

So Willie called a Tongan player a runt? How many Tongans are smaller than 92kg of steaming he-man Willie Le Roux?

@Derm-McCrum said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Irish and Scottish fans wrecking SA fans heads who thought SA had already qualified for the quarters after their win.

They're pushing the scenario where Scotland take the lead next weekend and with both teams having scored four tries, it's say 36-22 to Scotland with 5 minutes to go. Ireland need to score a try to get the losing bonus point and qualify top of the pool.

OR concede another one to lose by a margin of 21. All 3 teams on 15 points and H2H doesn't separate them. PD would put Scotland top of the pool ahead of SA and Ireland, with second place going to Ireland by virtue of their head to head with SA.

Man I hope that happens, can you imagine the pacts SA would come up with in the years after? Would be amazing.

@No-Quarter said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@Derm-McCrum said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

Irish and Scottish fans wrecking SA fans heads who thought SA had already qualified for the quarters after their win.

They're pushing the scenario where Scotland take the lead next weekend and with both teams having scored four tries, it's say 36-22 to Scotland with 5 minutes to go. Ireland need to score a try to get the losing bonus point and qualify top of the pool.

OR concede another one to lose by a margin of 21. All 3 teams on 15 points and H2H doesn't separate them. PD would put Scotland top of the pool ahead of SA and Ireland, with second place going to Ireland by virtue of their head to head with SA.

Man I hope that happens, can you imagine the pacts SA would come up with in the years after? Would be amazing.

I just dont see this happening.... Ireland would want to continue their winning streak not to mention they would prefer playing the weaker side in the quarter so would want to finish top of log.

@taniwharugby said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@booboo said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@booboo is fluffybunny even in the South African vocabulary? I haven't lived there in 30 years, but none of the South Africans I interact with have even heard of it.

Just checking: you do know that "fluffybunny" is used an an automatic replacement filter for "fluffybunny" on this site huh?

That explanation worked well...

Kinda deliberate

Suggests he tries quoting it and reading in the editor...

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

This reminds me of my first meeting with an Australian. I was in Israel and met a young Australian about my age. This was 30 years ago. When he heard that I was from South Africa, he said “ you’re a racist”
I was shocked and affronted. I guess he didn’t know about what happened to the aborigines in his own country.

Care to explain this rather obscure analogy?

Somehow this is meant to convey that Le Roux didn't use an obscene word for female gentalia because Aussies are racist?

@booboo it means that some people like to label South Africans racist because they are South African. Pretty easy to understand

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@booboo it means that some people like to label South Africans racist because they are South African. Pretty easy to understand

Who was talking about circling wagons earlier?

Edit: pretty sure nobody was implying that all South Africans are racist. Pretty easy to understand.

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

@booboo it means that some people like to label South Africans racist because they are South African. Pretty easy to understand

If South Africans want to call each other racist I don't want to get involved. Their business, not mine.

@W32 said in RWC Week 4: Springboks v Tonga:

This reminds me of my first meeting with an Australian. I was in Israel and met a young Australian about my age. This was 30 years ago. When he heard that I was from South Africa, he said “ you’re a racist”
I was shocked and affronted. I guess he didn’t know about what happened to the aborigines in his own country.

Better than being called a sheep fůcker during all of high school. And a Nazi because I'm half German. You got off easy!