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Grand Slam tour beckons for Boks

Friday, January 29 The Springboks will play all four of the ‘Home Unions’ in November as part of their end-of-year tour. SARU made the announcement on Friday following confirmation of the fixture programme by the International Rugby Board (IRB).

The Springboks start the tour against Ireland in Dublin on November 6, having accepted an invitation to provide the opposition for hosts Ireland when they officially open the new Aviva Stadium (the redeveloped Lansdowne Road).

The Springboks then play Wales, Scotland and England on the following Saturdays. The tour is planned to end with a fixture against the Barbarians at a venue to be confirmed.

Meanwhile the venue of the Springboks’ season-opening Test against France on June 12 remains undecided. SARU are hoping to meet the local organising committee of the FIFA 2010 World Cup to arrive at a final decision on the availability of the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.

Springbok end-of-year tour fixtures:

Saturday, November 6, Ireland v South Africa (Aviva Stadium, Dublin)
Saturday, November 13, Wales v South Africa (Millennium Stadium, Cardiff)
Saturday, November 20, Scotland v South Africa (Murrayfield, Edinburgh)
Saturday, November 27, England v South Africa (Twickenham, London)
Saturday, December 4, Barbarians v South Africa (TBC)

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By rugby-man - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Hope we do better than last November.
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By zambezikid - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
More likely to be a Grand-slammed Tour than us doing the Grand slamming, based on recent years evidence.
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By maniac6911 - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Chances are we will be resting most of our top players for this due to the world cup in 2011 even with it being a year later. I cant see us winning most of the games doing that but perhaps playing some new players can give us a good look at some up and coming stars.
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By gfaulcon - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
living in scotland now, i cant wait, got the whole yr to prepare for a grandslam tour of my own. woop woop, bokke!!!!
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By RagingBull - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
What a (edited) year to organize a grand slam, we will be resting our top players for the WC. Why not organize for 2012?
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By Gilbert - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Its fine we'll still beat 3 out of the 4 unions with a second string team, its just Ireland we have to worry about. Perhaps our top players can be flown down for that game and then come home after that Laughing Could work i guess...and it would do wonders for our confidence for the RWC 2011 if we have just won a grand slam.
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By zulustormer - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
with piet helium u can expect to c earl rose at flyhalf or fullback, raubenheimer at 7, ralapele at 2 or maybe maku...my 2nd string bok side..1cj vander linde, 2gary botha, 3 bj botha, 4nico breedt, 5anton van zyl, 6francios louw, 7 deysel, 8vermeulen, 9hougaard, 10james, 11joe peterson, 12de villiers, 13de jongh, 14mapoe, 15frans steyn......16wp nel, 17liebenberg, 18sykes, 19wikus van heerden, 20vermaak, 21peter grant, 22ludik...
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By Kojak - Castle Braai recommendations: 1
Hey the Boks needed a break last year! Dont be so fickle! They had an amaizing year with a low finish all that did was give us a reason to come back and slam them again, expecialy Ireland and England! Dont forget you are all just spectators try competing at their level of physical activity for so many games! They deserved a rest! And nobody took anything away from us! Good Luck for 2010 Springboks!!
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By cramer - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Well this will be Peter D's watershed moment to show how good a coach he really is or will he rely on his 3 stooges to help pick the next best squad.

I want to see how good he is with out the likes of John Smit, Victor Matfield, Bakkies Botha, Schalc Burger, Juan Smith, Pier Spies, Fourie Dupreez, Jean De Villiers, Jacque Fourie, Bryan Habana and JP Pietersen.

A lot of these players will be retiring and if I was him I would choose at least 15 players under the age of 25 that we can take to the next world cup and built towards the future. But the question is which of the youngsters are good enough to fill their boots.

Will we find more Steyns, Pietersesn's, Habanas etc
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By crazysharksman - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
cramer why don't you stop blabbering for a while.
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By ronnie - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
SA Rugby must field the best team at all times....these guys get paid big salaries and this is what they do and train for.Thats why we call them professionals.
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By Boerbok - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Ronnie stick to ballet. No contact to get over Shocked .
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By Preshen - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
As far as I know, the RWC only kicks off with the opening game on 9 Sept 2011, with our first game only on the 11th, thats about 10 months between the EOYT and the World Cup, surely we should be playing our full strength team here and resting them during the Tri Nations instead...
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By ronnie - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Boerbok...explain i dont understand what you mean..."stick to ballet"!!!Or are you just having a brain fart.I was refering to the comments.
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By woelwater - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Take a team full of transformation and see what they can do

Maybe a surprise surprise
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By Stormer10 - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Smacks of SARU filling their coffers. Disgraceful. All about the money.

They know the Boks must rest pre-2011 WC and yet they org a grand-slam tour. Idiots.
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By hakwa - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
it takes alot of guts to take a full strength Boks team on a grand slam tour after the Super 14 and Tri-Nations and just before the RWC
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By guns - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
Im sick of hearing these excuses because Irland played Just as many games! Boks were arrogant and they lost it! Obviously they were overplayed but so 1 could argue for Ireland, they played 6nations as well as Lions Tour, infact they may have played more games!
Boks should have squashed them!
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By Sharkbok - Castle Braai recommendations: 0
send a quota team Idea
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