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The Springboks will play the opening match at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin – on the site of the old Lansdowne Road – when the 50 000 capacity stadium hosts its first rugby International on 6 November next year (2010).
SA Rugby announced on Thursday that it had accepted an invitation from the Irish Rugby Football Union to be the first international opposition to play Ireland in the new Stadium. The Aviva Stadium is due to be handed over to the Irish Rugby Football Union and Football Association of Ireland upon completion in April next year.
Ireland are already scheduled to play Samoa, New Zealand and Argentina during November in 2010 as part of the international calendar. The Springbok fixture has been added to that schedule to open the international season.
The historical significance of the game will also see a reversal of the age-old international rugby tradition of the home team changing its jersey in the event of a colour clash. To mark the special occasion SA Rugby has agreed to wear an alternative strip to allow the Ireland team to wear their traditional green jersey.
“We’re delighted to have been invited to help Ireland mark this historic occasion,” said Andy Marinos, acting managing director of SA Rugby. “It is an honour to have been asked and is the second time that the privilege has gone to the World Champion Springboks. In 1999 we were the opposition when the Welsh Rugby Union opened the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.”
IRFU Chief Executive Philip Browne said, “The Aviva stadium promises to become an iconic landmark for Irish sport and we are delighted that World Champions South Africa have agreed to be the opposition for the game.”
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We're World Champions, We beat the Lions (which included the bumbling Irish), and We just won the Tri-Nations by beating the All Blacks three times in a row & the Wallabies twice.
If I were to venture a guess, the Irish haven't done anything close to that, EVER!
Your "argument" of SA last winning in 2000 is of less relevance to than game than SA being World Champions or ranked #1 in the World!
You choose to forget the fact that SA hold an overall record of 14 wins to 3 over Ireland! Oh, and why didn't you mention that SA beat Ireland 7 times before in your precious Dublin (to Irelands 3). And did your selective memory not allow you to recall that Ireland have NEVER won in SA!? And I'm not talking about when you have to get the help of 3 of your neighbours to gang up on one Nation... Which SA won (the Series at least) too!
BTW, I'm not saying Ireland don't stand a chance... just that your argument of "this current Bok team" is ignorant and irrelevant! They last played Ireland in 2006... Rather look at what "this current Bok team" has done since then!
Me thinks John will be out to avenge that loss along with that terrible performance when they celebrated the Boks 100th year of existence.
Anyways, doesn't make Irelands history vs the Boks suck any less and surely isn't relevant to the match.
I don't care if Ireland hasn't lost all year, who is it that they've played against? Have they beaten the AB's, Australia, and most importantly SA?! The answer is a resounding NO! The fact is that the Northern Hemisphere isn't close to the Southern Hemisphere, and you can deny that all you want, but it won't make it any less true.
If a combination of FOUR Nations couldn't beat the Boks, I seriously doubt that the good old Irish on their own is going to manage it.
You crack me up man, keep these jokes of yours coming!
i think the irish did beat us the last time we played but habana was at 13 for goodness sake and we had fortuin @ fullback....he actually had a decent game lol......but is n ow playing for swd or some other rubbish team!
player 4 player only o'driscoll is better than his opp man imo......and only just!
Gaelic football (Kinda like Aussie rules but more violent)
Hurling (Like hockey for mental patients and psychopaths)
Soccer (Played by girls mostly)
then and only then.....
Rugby (Played by a select few, automatic place in heaven despite being Catholic)
You should change your name to "I_wish_I_was_a_smart_rugby_supporter", hit the yellow brick road & go find yourself a brain mate!
All I’m doing is disagreeing with a few opinions on this site and am being blasted for it!! Some things never change in the Republic.
Its kinda getting to be a common act, beating the boks in Dublin over the last few years. Try not to make it too easy for us next month lads! And if by some cruel twist of fate we do lose, I’ll be the first to congratulate the Boks unlike some of the sore one sided immature cretins featured above and probably below in the next few hours!!
soundly-wait and see!!
I will tell you why they are so sensitive to any criticism
First - if the Boks lose to the Irish or the French, that will make their team appear not so invincible and that will crush them forever, their manhood will suffer a massive blow
Second - they fear that since their game pattern closely rememble your Northern Hemisphere Teams, with drop goals mentality galore, they might not do so well
so take heart krustybrown, and imagine that sinking feeling they will feel when it is only 30seconds to go, and the Irish are ahead by 8points
Arrogance and overconfidence is a big enemy to a rugby side and many great NZ side has been whipped by a side like France (twice in WC series) etc etc, SA has fallen to it on several occasions. Ireland could well teach us a lesson of humility and respect.
I think PdV is going to pick a lot of emerging players and rest some "oldies".