EINA!!!

No Durban test match!!!

Or Cape Town... After we go shafted last year. Not cool.

I am from CT and I think it's just clever really: Bloem Ellis, and Loftus, all altitude and super tough to play at, Newlands did get the aussies this year. and Durbs did get the lions. It is just better for us at the end of the day to play at JHB and Pretoria in particular. Sucks that we cant go to a game, but would rather increase our chances of winning to be honest. Reckon its quite a good schedule actually.

No dunedin or Cristchurch, awsome, nice quick 3 week tour. get NZ away comes out of the way immediately, so if we can pull off 1 win there (Wellingotn Auckland) its all good I reckon. and then hopefully Brisbane.

Then big break, cos there are bound to be bad niggles after that tour, and three cuck hard tour games for them!!!!
Ellis park, NZ's bogey stadium, then loftus, which is unbeatable and then Bloem where i reckon the aussies will be cuck tired after loftus.

all in all for 2 tour games against the All Blacks i am fairly happy with that schedule.....

Cape Town got 2 British Lions matches.... You just can't please some people!! Lol...

Why Bloem...they always battle to sell tickets.

I think new zealand has got the best draw.

SA are playing three back to back test, twice.

NZ plays, 2 back to backs, get's a break for two weeks and then play another 2 back to back. 2 Week break before heading over to SA and then gets another 2 weeks break, before waiting for astralia who will play 2 back to back test in SA with the third agains't New Zealand at home.

I Think SA has got the worst, followed by Aus. If they wanted to be fair they should have send NZ direct to SA after the play Aus.

cramer... SA got the best tour this year one feels, so fair is fair.

SA will be lucky to win one on the road (against AB's) although they will be more competitive against the Aussies in Brisbane with no jet lag issues.

Australia should be better than this year (winning their home games), but not good enough to win at altitude. I reckon that next year might come down to bonus points, or a single away win will be enough. You always feel that the team that has to play in Australia twice is always best placed however.

Boks got the bad draw like NZ did this year, next time it will be Aus.

NZ SA AUS
H A
H A
A H
A H
H A

A H
H A
H A
A H

NZ-SA-AUS
H--A----
H--A----
b--A--H
A-----H
H-----A
bye-----
A--H---
b--H--A
b--H--A
A-----H

Just thought I would show how Easy the AB has got it this year.

This also proves that we need a fourth team. I would bring Argentina in earlier. Even if they are the whipping boys.

Or alternatively an invitation team consisting out of Pacific islanders and Argetinians. Imagine having the Argie scrum with the back line of the PI.

Ahhh pretty early releasing the schedule..
Anyway cant wait for next year!!! and end of year tour!!!

Boks got the same draw as that this year (the three tests x 2)and the year before
So once again we got the wost draw and nz get the best

YES!! At last!!! Auckland got the boks game!!! Pity the ARU wouldn't give harbour the game though instead of Eden park. Typical though they give Auckland the game when the reconstrucion is going on so there's only 25000 seats instead of the usual 48000. 60% of the stadium will be bok supporters I reckon with all the expats.

lol so wt if we gt an easy draw we gt it hard this year? Did you expect us to have the hardest draw for two years in a row? pfft

At first glance I was like, WTF! This is going to be tough but I don't think it will be as bad with a 3 week quick blast in Australasia then time to play at home after a couple of weeks off!

Let's break this duck in Brisbane!

Nz didn't have the bad draw his year!! Ok they had 3 games in a row but then they had a 2 week break then 1 game then a 3 week break and them 2 games. Boks never had 5 weeks rest

are you serious we had to play at home then fly all the way over to Sa to play a week l8er, when did you have to do anything like that this year?

SA getting 3 tests in a row twice every TN while NZ and Aussie
have a much easier schedule!!!Longer and more breaks to recover from injuries and have arest!!We always get the dogs tail!

I was hoping for a SA vs AUSS in Perth. such a big SA supporter presence there.

They have got to beat the bloody aussies in Brisbane!!!

It's a good draw - pretty similar to the one in 2008 which we managed to cokc op nicely after arriving back home...

It gives us a chance to get a head start, because if we even win 1 of those 3 away matches the other 2 will have to play catchup by beating us at home, on the highveld.

So, I think it's a good draw.

And I would bet my bottom dollar that our main aim would be to #!$! the Aussies in Brisbane to break the hoodoo, just as our main aim of last year's away leg was to beat the AB's in Dunedin.

We can do it!