15 Willie le Roux, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Canan Moodie, 12 Andre Esterhuizen, 11 Makazole Mapimpi, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Grant Williams, 8 Jasper Wiese, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Ruan Nortje, 4 Salmaan Moerat (c), 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Thomas du Toit
Reserves: 16 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 17 Ox Nche, 18 Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19 Cobus Wiese, 20 Evan Roos, 21 Cobus Reinach, 22 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, 23 Ethan Hooker

15 Mirko Belloni, 14 Louis Lynagh, 13 Tommaso Menoncello, 12 Marco Zanon, 11 Jacopo Trulla, 10 Giacomo Da Re, 9 Alessandro Garbisi, 8 Ross Vintcent, 7 Manuel Zuliani, 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Andrea Zambonin, 4 Niccolò Cannone (c), 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Tommaso Di Bartolomeo, 1 Danilo Fischetti
Reserves: 16 Pablo Dimcheff, 17 Mirco Spagnolo, 18 Muhamed Hasa, 19 Matteo Canali, 20 Alessandro Izekor, 21 David Odiase, 22 Stephen Varney, 23 Giulio Bertaccini

No sure if there's enough interest for a match thread.. but there were a few comments after the first game

Can’t see Italy backing up last week’s performance

SA comfortably

Why not ? They will have a cohesion the Springboks won't have due to the many changes in the team. But the Springboks' firepower should easily prevail in the end IMO.

Because history

Looking forward to see Willie and Libbok factor to put AE and Moodie in space on attack. SMZ from the bench is also great.. Expect much more attack from the Bokke.

The fuck? Surely intentionally doing that is a penalty?

SA purposefully ran in front of the kicker at kick off and only kicked it like 2m straight to the guy in front, to force a scrum.

Wiese goes full Wiese. Red card for a headbutt.

Prolly about time Rassie and his boys got their comeuppance for their antics, but can't see Italy taking advantage.

@Bones said in Springboks v Italy II:

Wiese goes full Wiese. Red card for a headbutt.

I thought there was nothing in that - just touched his forehead with the Italian player. Totally deserved Red for stupidity in today's reffing environment, though.

And the Italian on the sideline in acres of space, knocking it on spectacularly from a fine pass, illustrates why.

@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v Italy II:

@Bones said in Springboks v Italy II:

Wiese goes full Wiese. Red card for a headbutt.

I thought there was nothing in that - just touched his forehead with the Italian player. Totally deserved Red for stupidity in today's reffing environment, though.

Prexactly. There's zero reason to do it, doing it either shows you've lost your head or you're trying to aggravate others to. Fuck it off.

Would've been red a year or two ago, but will be mitigated to yellow for the change in direction.

I only just realised that's not Kolbe on the wing

A 14 man Sth Africa with loads of new players are making the Italian A team look a bit silly.

Hate to think what they'd do to the French team currently in NZ.

@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v Italy II:

Hate to think what they'd do to the French team currently in NZ.

Lose horribly.

Who are the new players?

@Bones said in Springboks v Italy II:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v Italy II:

Hate to think what they'd do to the French team currently in NZ.

Lose horribly.

Who are the new players?

I heard the Saffa commentators talking about 4 debutants.

Strikes me SA are years ahead of us player-pool/development wise

@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v Italy II:

@Bones said in Springboks v Italy II:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Springboks v Italy II:

Hate to think what they'd do to the French team currently in NZ.

Lose horribly.

Who are the new players?

I heard the Saffa commentators talking about 4 debutants.

Strikes me SA are years ahead of us player-pool/development wise

By playing 4 debutants against what appears to be a weakened Italy?

I can't tell if you're taking the piss or angling on a foster defence.

Norris, Holland, Kirifi, Tavatavanawai....

I'm thinking I've been whooshed

@Bones

Thinking more about how much better SA are at developing players.

And playing for 80 minutes...

EDIT: The Barrett Conglomerate make up for stupid cards though.....