The pools for the Junior World Championships (JWC) has been announced. The same irritating format which sees teams divided into 3 pools, with only the winners of each pool and only the single best second placed pool team overall advancing to the semi-finals, stays in place. In order to book a place in the semis, the Baby Boks will have to once again overcome a well-oiled England team, who by that time would have had benefit of a cohesion building Six Nations tournament under the belt. The South African juniors also have the often unpredictable hosts France in their pool. To ensure survival, it is almost essential for the Baby Boks to secure first place, as second spot in the pool may not be enough to avoid the potentially controversial fourth semi-final place decider. Fortunately Pool B could also be a really tough one if Ireland brings their A-game to match the efforts of Australia and the consistently good New Zealanders. However even at this point in time, one has to make the second place finishers in Pool C where Argentina and Wales are expected to be the pace-setters, the favourites to clinch the last semi-final spot.
Junior World Championship 2013 Pools:
| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C |
| England | Australia | Argentina |
| France | Fiji | Samoa |
| South Africa | Ireland | Scotland |
| United States | New Zealand | Wales |
At present Baby Bok coach Dawie Theron is busy having his first serious look at under-20 players during the training camp on the go in Stellenbosch. It includes a series of trial games. Comments made by Theron when the training squad was announced included, “It is still early days, but I am very excited about this squad”; “this will be a first step towards France in June and a lot can happen before then, but it will be good to get the squad together and start moulding them”; “we will no doubt look at those things that worked for us this year and look at how that compliments the strengths of this new group. The camp will be exciting as we’ll get new energy and ideas as well as lot of new faces”; and “a lot of these players played to a particular structure in the last couple of months and it will be interesting to see how they react to new structures and playing partners.”
Baby Bok squad: Jacques Rossouw, Sean Robinson, Cheslin Kolbe, Ruwellyn Isbell, Seabelo Sanata, Kotaro Matsushima, Sylvian Mahuza, JP Lewis, Jan Serfontein, Jade Stighling, Burger Odendaal, Harold Verster, Tyler Fisher, Henko Marais, Justin Geduldt, Francois Tredoux, Robert du Preez, Tim Swiel, Carlo Engelbrecht, Kefentse Mahlo, KK Hlungwane, Percy Williams, Hanco Venter, Stefan Ongerer, Jean Nel, Clyde Davids, Jacques du Plessis, Leneve Damens, Roelof Smit, Ruan Steenkamp, Tienie Burger, Kwagga Smit, Andrew van Tonder, Justin Benn, Jurie van Vuuren, Dennis Visser, Irnè Herbst, Marvin Orie, Myles Tucker, Andrew Bekker, Andrew Beerwinkel, Jan Enslin, Justin Forwood, Neethling Fouchè, Luan de Bruin, Marne Coetzee, Sti Sithole, Jacques du Toit, Mornè du Plessis, Freddie Kirsten.
@QC86: SO you’re the guy behind Mabovula? Great meat!
@Ploegskaar: sounds like you are a big MDM seller,judging by your clientele@beet: heart problem i heard
@QC86: I certainly cannot say that about a client, but I suppose you can. Good guys and a good market for us if you include Krull, Meat4U and Crave in East London.
@QC86: Thanks. Sad to hear about Taffy. He did not look that old in 2000 when I met him.
@Ploegskaar: you mean fat Shane the Harley nightrider,yes one of our suppliers
@QC86: Then you are very familiar with my mate Shane @ Zwelitsha Cold Store.
@QC86: No never ou Bog, he can’t even clone his own footprint.
@Andre T: i heard it was the younger brother of Bond ,James Bond,and he goes by the name of BOG,ploegskaar Bog
@QC86: Do you perhaps know who cloned my debit card?
@beet: yes,knew taffy well,he was the pick and pay butchery manager in QT then became the Vincent park manager in EL,but sadly pasted on,Eddie, Clive all still in QT and still all in the livestock game.@Ploegskaar: no,my shop is in King called Mabovula butchery,know all those guys well,i have great respect for the eat sum meat group@BoishaaiPa: thanx, hope he had a good game,hes a good player,Geduld has got a lot of x factor
@QC86: Do you perhaps know or remember an old Welsh butcher in Qtown named Taffy. I used to work for StockOwners in KZN so had very limited dealings with the likes of Eddie L, Peter B, Clive R, Anton G even the abattoir manager Sarel.
@QC86: When you say butchery, are you still in QT? You one of the Cold Store Group boys, or with Farmhouse or Eat Sum Meat?
@beet: agree…you just gave T an excuse for his SA vs Irl score!
@QC86: no prob Fred is like my second son anyway..our families are very close friends..we are all spending Xmas together in Stilbaai this year. Fred says they had a grueling 80 min trial game today..both his props were 130kg’s!..but again he had to play against that huge bulls forwards!..@Beet…Geduld scored 4 tries today!
@QC86: spoke to Phanta, told me he’s back home, but I haven’t seen him yet
@beet
Do you know anything about the SA U16 Elite rugby squad ?? I’m told that the best from the HP squad are chosen here…
@beet: thanx beet,closing the butchery now,little drive out to the farm so that i can be in time for the first game,phanta was in the shop today,says he will be back at the lions next year,looking lean and mean,cheers and good luck
@QC86: Superbru is 8/10ths luck and 1/10th logic. So your actual rugby knowledge only counts 10%. To prove my point in the past guys like Jake White and Nick Mallett have finished last while Heyneke Meyer was the overall winner. So true rugby skill counts for little. 8)
@beet: thanx beet,you got me on abit of a edge with this superbru stuff,ludz leaving his picks late,what gives
@QC86: I heard the trial games are today and Monday
@BoishaaiPa: sorry,thought Freddie was your son,
have you got any news from the camp?
@QC86: Nee…My seun is nie daar nie..hy is n krieketspeler…Dis my seun se beste pel wat daar is!
@BoishaaiPa,hoe gaan dit by die oefen kamp,ons hier in die oos kaap hou duim vas vir daai seun van jou,teen minste die no16 hempie :smile:
I think we will win it again even though Dawie isn’t selecting the best players