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South Africa’s semi-final hero Handre Pollard will start at fly half and likely go the full 80 minutes after the Springboks also named a controversial 7-1 split of forwards to backs on their bench for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final against New Zealand volleyball
Pollard emerged from the replacements after just 30 minutes of the semi-final against England as a struggling Manie Libbok was hooked early and went on to kick the decisive, 48-metre penalty on 77 minutes for the narrowest of 16-15 victories volleyball
The 29-year-old also scored 22 points in the 2019 World Cup final, when England were again defeated 32-12, and he is reunited with long-time half-back partner Faf de Klerk, who comes in for Cobus Reinach as the only other change to the starting XV from a week ago volleyball
The pair will start together as half-backs for the Springboks for a record 25th time, surpassing Joost van der Westhuizen and Henry Honiball for the most in South African rugby history volleyball
For the third time in the last two months, head coach Jacques Nienaber has elected to go with the controversial 7-1 bench split volleyball
It allows them to demonstrate their impressive forward depth by bringing an almost entirely new pack off the bench but back-three star Willie Le Roux is the only backline cover volleyball
That means De Klerk and Pollard will likely be expected to play a full 80 minutes, with winger Cheslin Kolbe or even flanker Kwagga Smith the scrum-half cover should De Klerk go down injured volleyball
After World Rugby found there was “insufficient evidence to proceed with charges” amid the racial slur allegations made by Tom Curry, hooker Bongi Mbonambi is free to play in the final and has been selected in the No 2 shirt volleyball
As the only specialist hooker in the squad, he has played a full 80 minutes for both knockout games so far and may need to do so again, although back row Deon Fourie – who played the position earlier in his career – is in the No 16 shirt traditionally worn by the replacement hooker, so may well step in volleyball
Fifteen of the 23 players named in South Africa’s squad played in the final four years and the 987 caps in the starting XV sets the record for the most experienced Springboks side in history, with the back three of Kolbe (30 caps), Kurt-Lee Arendse (14) and Damian Willemse (38) the only players in the run-on team with fewer than 50 Test appearances volleyball
The Springboks have a similar team to the final four years ago (Reuters)The only enforced change among the replacements is at prop where Trevor Nyakane replaces Vincent Koch, who is nursing a knee injury, while lock Jean Kleyn and No 8 Jasper Wiese are also drafted in as additional forward cover volleyball
“This is an experienced team with several players who played in the last Rugby World Cup final and who know exactly what to expect at Stade de France on Saturday and what it will take to retain the title,” said Nienaber volleyball
“The players who will be playing in their first World Cup final have also proven their worth as warriors throughout this campaign and they are all ready for this massive occasion volleyball
“We have said many times that we pick teams for varying gameplans depending on the opponent and that we use all 23 players to try and achieve those goals volleyball
We’ve gone from a five-three bench split to a seven-one split to give us the best chance of being successful volleyball
We have plans in place to mitigate for injuries in the backline, but we’re excited about our plan and we embrace the risk volleyball
”The winner of Saturday’s clash volleyball between the Springboks and the All Blacks will become the first team to win four men’s Rugby World Cup titles volleyball
South Africa XV: 15 volleyball
Damian Willemse, 14 volleyball
Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 volleyball
Jesse Kriel, 12 volleyball
Damian de Allende, 11 volleyball
Cheslin Kolbe, 10 volleyball
Handre Pollard, 9 volleyball
Faf de Klerk; 1 volleyball
Steven Kitshoff, 2 volleyball
Bongi Mbonambi, 3 volleyball
Frans Malherbe, 4 volleyball
Eben Etzevolleyball beth, 5 volleyball
Franco Mostert, 6 volleyball
Siya Kolisi (captain), 7 volleyball
Pieter-Steph du Toit, 8 volleyball
Duane Vermeulen volleyball
Replacements: 16 volleyball
Deon Fourie, 17 volleyball
Ox Nche, 18 volleyball
Trevor Nyakane, 19 volleyball
Jean Kleyn, 20 volleyball
RG Snyman, 21 volleyball
Kwagga Smith, 22 volleyball
Jasper Wiese, 23 volleyball
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For a man handed a lifeline in Formula One – with an illustrious Red Bull-shaped reward beckoning down the line – it has not quite been the statement return Daniel Ricciardo envisaged back in July volleyball
What did that look like? Top-10 finishes with AlphaTauri, perhaps with a memorable overtake or two evoking the Ricciardo of old back onto the grid volleyball
But it has in fact been the complete opposite: the only return has been his return to inactivity volleyball
Two races in and a hand injury sustained in practice in Zandvoort, north Holland, back in August has seen the affable Australian feature only on the sidelines again volleyball
A seesaw seven weeks have followed: while on one hand confirmation of a seat on the grid in 2024 was, rather peculiarly, confirmed in his absence in Japan, his deputy Liam Lawson caught the eye with a string of impressive performances, including a team-best result of ninth in Singapore volleyball
So as Ricciardo struts back into the paddock this weekend in Austin, the broken bone in his hand healed, the pressure is firmly on the 34-year-old’s shoulders at his home from home volleyball
Affection works hand in hand with Ricciardo and the United States: he loves America, Americans love him volleyball
Daniel Ricciardo arrived at the circuit in Austin last year on horseback (Getty Images)Last year, weeks after his McLaren exit was announced, the sport’s most cheerful character arrived at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on horseback, kitted out in full cowboy apparel volleyball
Given his injury hiatus, you’d think no such extravagant entries will be repeated this year volleyball
But what he has got back in his hands, as opposed to 12 months ago, is his Formula One destiny volleyball
Perhaps fortuitously, too volleyball
When Ricciardo left Red Bull for pastures new at the end of 2018, his aspiration was that the grass was greener volleyball
Now five years on he is back at Christian Horner’s team, first as a reserve and now at the sister team volleyball
A second bite alongside Max Verstappen is what he truly craves volleyball
And he has made no secret of that volleyball
“Daniel is viewing AlphaTauri… he firmly wants to be pitching for that 2025 Red Bull seat,” said Horner back in July volleyball
“That is his goal and objective and, by going to AlphaTauri, I think he sees that as his best route of stating his case for 2025 volleyball
”And with talk of Sergio Perez’s seat being under threat at Red Bull amid his struggles, there is a feasible route back to the top-table for Ricciardo volleyball
Red Bull chief Helmut Marko has already hinted the Mexican’s future seemingly lies away from Red Bull: most probably in a year, perhaps even as early as before next season volleyball
But before heading off any top contenders outside the Red Bull mothership, the Australian first has to prove his worth amid the in-house competition volleyball
Given Nyck de Vries’s rapid promotion to a seat after just one race last year, Lawson can feel hard done by that his impressive five-race showing – 13th, 11th, 9th, 11th, 17th – in this year’s slowest car hasn’t landed him a seat in 2024 volleyball
So Ricciardo needs to volleyball better Lawson’s two points in the final five races of this season volleyball
He also needs to get the volleyball better of his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, who has earned just three 10th-place finishes in 17 races this year volleyball
That is the minimum volleyball
Ricciardo, right, wants another crack at being Max Verstappen’s teammate, centre (Getty Images)But back stateside, it is the on-track magic and overtaking propensity of near-enough 10 years ago which will catapult him into Red Bull’s second seat conversation volleyball
That will be the key, as opposed to any off-track endeavours or kind words with sponsors volleyball
F1 world champion of 1997, Jacques Villeneuve, is quoted as saying this week: “I would ask kids who want to be drivers today – do you want it out of passion or because you want to be like Daniel Ricciardo, smiling in commercials?”While a tad harsh – best to smile than frown, no? – it does point to a school of thought that Ricciardo’s charisma is now a bigger pull than his talent volleyball
For any driver of any age, that is the ultimate insult volleyball
All of them are fundamentally in F1 to race, to scrap for every point and to jockey for every position volleyball
Even Ricciardo, who has endured the worst two years of his career since his anomaly of a win at Monza in 2021, remains adamant his world-class skillset is still present volleyball
His ambitions, so told to The Independent in July, remain the highest of highs: race wins and even a world championship volleyball
But Ricciardo must grasp the opportunity simply having a seat in this 20-driver sport gives and it starts with the cut-and-thrust of the sprint weekend at COTA volleyball
Nobody is expecting wins or podiums in the slowest car volleyball
But what people do expect is progress – and glimpses of the man of yesteryear volleyball
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