Jnr Springboks (6) 20 / 28 (18) England (Final Score)
The South African Junior Springboks and England Under 20 did battle in a semi-final in the World Rugby Under
20 Championship at Stadio San Michele, Calvisano at 20:30 SA Time (20:30 Italy Time, 19:30 BST, 18:30 GMT).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1 & CSN on TV in SA.
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Other matches – Fixtures & Results:
Australia 31 / 21 Scotland (Final Score)
New Zealand 45 / 7 France (Final Score)
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Scorers:
Jnr Springboks:
- Penalties – Brandon Thompson (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Malcolm Jaer (1), Daniel du Plessis (1)
- Conversions – Brandon Thompson (2)
England:
- Penalties – Rory Jennings (3)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – James Chisholm (1), Penalty Try (1), Nick Tompkins (1)
- Conversions – Rory Jennings (2)
Teams:
South Africa Under 20 |
England Under 20 |
| 15 June at 20:30 SA Time | |
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Referee: Brendon Pickerill
Assistant Referees: TBA
TMO: TBA
England 28 / 6 Junior Springboks
Bokkies penalty.
TMO asked to check for the No of a high tackle… No 13 Tompkins, gets a Yellow
7 Minutes of agony to go
England make some subs in the forwards
This scrum and it’s resets have now lasted more than 3 minutes… and it’s still not finished
Consolation try, Jaer, Bokkies
England 28 / 13 Junior Springboks
England lineout, 1 Minute to go… they will close it out here
Try Du Plessis, Bokkies
England 28 / 20 Junior Springboks
Final Score: England (18) 28 / 20 (6) South Africa Under 20
Shocking Bokkies, shocking!
Wrong game plan, bad dicipline, bad defence at times, weak scrum, bad lineout throws… baaaaaad handling!
So, the Final will be between England and New Zealand
OK, I’m out!
Goeie nag, slaap sag!
Ai herr meyer, dis jou skuld die bokkies het verloor
Everything in SA Rugby is turning to shit in 2015:
1. Very poor display by all 5 Super Rugby sides, with the Stormers the inbetweener and part of the Top 6 only by vertue of the Conference win.
2. Blitzbokke faded badly in the latter stages of the HSBC Sevens World Series, from 1st with a couple of weeks to go… to also-runs.
3. Junior Springboks choke in the semi-final tonight.
4. Many SA based players leaving for overseas.
5. 5 of the 6 SA Super Rugby Franchises now seeing coaching changes – Cheetahs (Naka out, Franco Smith in), Stormers (losing Toetie after Super Rugby to Japan), Sharks (having announced that Gary Gold will not coach but will only be Director of Rugby and a coach is now sought), Bulls (Ludeke stepping down), Southern Kings (not a coach in sight yet).
So, what will the Springboks deliver?
What material will Heyneke have to work with?
How many top players will be in form and brimming with confidence?
It’s looking bleak, extremely bleak!
But we will have heads up, shouting our support, staying positive….
Tomorrow is 16 June, a Public Holiday in SA… but for me it’s a day of serious toil, mostly out of the office… so see you when I see you, sometime tomorrow!
There is still some news I want to put up but I have run out of time tonight, and I am definately not working till after midnight tonight… not again!
317 @ grootblousmile:
Seems like hitting the sack at half time was the better option.
I too have a full day today.
Have to pick up an automation engineer from Finland at the airport this morning and take him to site in Rustenburg.
Then baby sit him the next 2 days and get him back on his flight on Thursday night.
All while trying to get to my own work.
Good luck for the “holiday” everyone.
Hopefully we wont see too many international scandals slithering forth from our corridors of power today.
Morning,
Does anybody else think the ref last night was too harsh?
Why did they get a penalty try on our line when their scrum was at fault?
319 @ alpal_za:
Hello alpal_za sorry didn’t comment on your post earlier when I spotted it. Think today is the first time have seen you here, so if so welcome onboard from me.
I didn’t see the first half so can’t comment on the two yellow cards we got – what did you make of the tackles, have there been citings for them? Missed that try which must have been late in the first half, from what I saw in the 2nd half England scrum was dominating ours and making it very difficult for our scrumhalf to get the ball out, legally or not I am not qualified to say as don’t always know what goes on in the scrums.
One area where I do think the ref was lenient on England was around the breakdown, there were various instances of what I would call foul play by them that went unpunished, on one occasion one of their players threw one of the Bokkies out of the way by grasping around his neck. Then there was another ruck where think England 7 took out a Bokkie almost a few metres away from the ruck on our side of it, gridiron style, something we see New Zealand coached teams do quite a lot and what I saw Ireland get away with against Scotland in the 6 Nations. But overall I think the Bokkies were just not good enough to win and should have ran the ball in the backs a lot sooner than they did.
@ Bullscot: We were outplayed. Simple as that. Watched the game from start to finish. The high tackles were borderline but legit in the strict interpretation of the laws. We were warned too. But even when we were back to a full strength scrum we were outscrumed on both England’s and own ball regular as clockwork. Our lineouts weren’t too wonderful either, in the first half in particular. No, we definitely did not deserve to win this one.
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