Schalk Burger
If you had to pick one person in sport to live the rest of their life in a compression chamber it would be Robbie Deans. As he says, he is “used to pressure”.
It seems the the Bookies, around the world have made the Springboks slight favourites to win the Tri-Nations over the All Blacks and the Wallabies trailing way behind in the backgroud.
Wallabies (13) 20 / England (15) 21 (Final Score)
Australian Wallabies hosted England at 12:00 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 on DSTV in SA.
England won by 21 / 20 as Matt Giteau costs Australia the game with no less than 4 misses in going for posts, the last of which was a sitter right in front of the posts.
The 2 Test Series between the Wallabies and England end in a 1-all draw.
The Australian way: get the best talent, however young into a Test jersey, writes Sunday Telegraph columnist Paul Ackford
Wallaby flank George Smith – one of only four Australians to have reached the milestone of 100 Tests – has announced his retirement from international rugby and will be released from his Australian Rugby Union and Brumbies contract at the end of the 2010 Super 14 season. Continue reading
Only minor changes to the Wallaby team to take on Scotland on the weekend, whereas Graham Henry on the other hand made some major changes to his starting team against England. Continue reading
Not a lot of change for the Wallabies with the only change to the team that beat England last weekend being David Pocock replacing George Smith in the starting line-up to play Ireland at Croke Park on Sunday. George moves back to the bench. Continue reading
Yes, we do have some other, not so important rugby on today… Continue reading
Sheesh, it seems the Wallabies has found a counter for Andre Pretorius. All he had to do was injure the ankle on the flight over and that would have been that! Continue reading