* New buys in italics
FR Stephen Moore (AUS) - $1,162,500
FR Bismarck du Plessis (SAF) - $1,225,000
LK Victor Matfield (SAF) - $1,262,500
LK Mark Chisholm (AUS) - $1,062,500
LF Pierre Spies (SAF) - $1,245,000
LF George Smith (AUS) - $1,177,500
HV Fourie du Preez (SAF) - $1,120,000
HV Matt Giteau (AUS) - $1,295,000
CT Jaque Fourie (SAF) - $1,220,000
CT James O'Connor (AUS) - $887,500
OB Peter Hynes (AUS) - $1,137,500
OB Bryan Habana (SAF) - $1,205,000
Team Value: $14,000,000
Cash in Bank: $986,000
I had to make a lot of forced changes to keep up with injured (and culled) Wallabies. With money no longer an object, I could easily afford all the players I wanted, but transfers are getting tight so I'll be hoping for minimal team changes next week from both these sides. Matfield, Spies, du Plessis all pick themselves. Chisholm has the potential to get a similar total to Sharpe's usual haul and he scores a lot of tries for a lock. I chose du Preez over Steyn at HV. He's a class player at any time but I'm hoping that reaching his test half-century will bring out the best in him - and I still believe that Steyn is a very average international flyhalf. Fourie and De Villiers are pretty neck-and-neck in points this tournament, and in the end I plumped for Fourie because of his awesome 1970s haircut. For the backs, I picked Hynes because he was a TR-points scoring machine in his cameo last week and Habana because with Pienaar at fullback he might even get passed the ball... but I'm not counting on it.
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