Today we had the much awaited match between the Wallabies and the Springboks, taking place at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. The Wallabies won convincingly, 21 / 6
The Wallabies came out firing from the first whistle, playing the better game, throughout the match. They scored first, through a Giteau penalty and stayed in front right to the end.
Initally it was trading penalties and drop goals and a hard physical battle. The Wallabies scored two tries, first by Ashley Cooper, and then near the end, one by James O’Conner.
The Springboks never crossed the allabie try line.
One important record was achieved by Morne Sten, becomming the Bok player to score the fastest 100 points in the history of the game, beating the record Jannie de Beer, who (Jannie) scored his 100 from 9 Tests.
Points:
Wallabies: Matt Giteau 2 penalties & 1 drop goal & 1 conversion. Tries: Ashley Cooper, James O’Conner
Bokke: Morne Steyn 1 drop goal and 1 penalty
Teams:
Australia: 15 James O’Connor, 14 Lachie Turner, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Matt Giteau, 9 Will Genia, 8 George Smith (captain), 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom, 5 Mark Chisholm, 4 James Horwill, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 1 Benn Robinson.
Replacements: 16 Stephen Moore, 17 Pek Cowan, 18 Dean Mumm, 19 Wycliff Palu, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Quade Cooper, 22 Peter Hynes.
South Africa: 15 Ruan Pienaar, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 John Smit (captain), 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 Jannie du Plessis, 18 Danie Rossouw, 19 Schalk Burger, 20 Ricky Januarie, 21 Adi Jacobs, 22 Frans Steyn.
Expected weather conditions: Thunderstorm with a 70 percent chance of rain, a high of 21°C, dropping to 13°C, and a northwester of 21 km/h dropping slightly
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant referees: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand), Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
TMO: Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
@Irish Devil – Cheetahs of course.
@grootblousmile –
You have mail boet!!
@bdb –
Well said. All players try to get away with as much as possible when it comes to the breakdown, scrums etc. Sometime it will go for you, like against the Lions in test one, and today against you, because each ref interprets the situation differently. The Boks lost to a better team today. The Aussies were all over us. Its not Barnes’s fault we lost. They were better.
542@tight head – Saw… and published it !!
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Springbok Player Ratings
Here are the Springbok player ratings for the Tri-Nations loss to the Wallabies in Brisbane.
1. Tendai Mtawarira – 5
The Beast put in a physical effort at the breakdown, but once again failed to impose himself at scrum time. It wasn’t a performance that warrants him being dropped, but it also wasn’t a performance worthy of the Green and Gold
2. Bismarck du Plessis – 7
Du Plessis was one of the better Springboks on the day. He came out firing and hardly put a foot wrong. Flew into the tackles, the breakdown and looked good with ball in hand and came out with his reputation enhanced in a losing team.
3. John Smit – 6
Has to shoulder the blame for some lacklustre scrumming with his loose-head and is marked down despite some good contributions in the loose.
4. Bakkies Botha – 5
Did nothing apart from give away a few silly penalties. This may sound a bit harsh, but we’ve come to expect so much more from Botha.
5. Victor Matfield – 5
Nowhere near his best.
6. Heinrich Brussow – 6
Mixed in some decent stuff with a lot of silly penalties and costly errors.
7. Juan Smith – 7
Always put his best foot forward and was a driving force for the Bok pack despite never really setting the field alight. Was also outshone by Elsom on the day which won’t make the big man happy.
8. Pierre Spies – 6
Some of his old bad habits started creeping in as he went quiet when the Boks needed him and slipped off a few tackles. He was still solid at the back of a shaky scrum and one of the Boks biggest attacking threats, but nowhere near the form he has showed up to this game.
9. Fourie du Preez – 7
Du Preez was rock solid up until the error that cost the Boks a chance of a bonus point. Far from his best game, but still in a different class. Like Smith he won’t be happy with his opposing number getting the upper hand.
10. Morne Steyn – 6
If you play a ‘kicking flyhalf’ his kicking has to be spot on. Steyn’s wasn’t and it was actually his running, distribution and covering of the field that saves him from a lower ranking.
11. Bryan Habana – 7
Limped off injured in the first half, but not before he put in two mammoth try saving tackles to keep the Boks in the game.
12. Jean de Villiers – 5.5
Started brightly with some good runs and slick passes to put Fourie away, but disappeared at half time never to return.
13. Jaque Fourie – 8
The Bok man-of-the-match by a country mile. Started with some good running, followed it with some great awareness of the play and topped it off with a try-saving tackle to spare Adi Jacobs some serious blushes.
14. Odwa Ndungane – 5
Tried to fill some big boots when replacing JP Pietersen and, unfortunately, didn’t come close. He’s a solid and honest player, but the Boks would be better off with someone who offers more on attack. Someone like Jongi Nokwe. Things didn’t work for the Sharks man on the day.
15. Ruan Pienaar – 3
I spend a lot of time listening to people singing his praises and I’m still baffled as to why. Perhaps they are more in love with the idea of a running flyhalf than awake to the reality that he is a one-dimensional, half paced pretender who can neither spark the backline nor finish off attacking moves. Particularly unsuited to fullback and the biggest nightmare seen from a Bok fullback in many a moon.
18. Danie Rossouw – 5
Fluffed a crucial lineout with his first touch and failed to really recover.
19. Schalk Burger – 5
Smashed by a centre with his first touch and like Rossouw failed to impact the game.
21. Adi Jacobs – 6
Will cop a lot of criticism for that ill-judged flip inside that nearly cost his team, but did well up to that point and was on the ball to be in a position to cover in the first place.
22. Frans Steyn – 6
A very short time on the field where things didn’t pay off for him, but showed that he’s got many things to offer the side which Pienaar doesn’t – namely pace, a boot and a presence.
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