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.
Scores:
Wallabies: 2 Penalties & 2 Conversions & 2 Tries Matt Giteau
England: 2 Penalties & 1 Conversion Toby Flood, 1 Penalty Johnny Wilkinson, 1 Try Ben Youngs, 1 Try Chris Ashton
Teams:
Australia:
15 James O’Connor, 14 Digby Ioane, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Richard Brown, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (captain), 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Dean Mumm, 3 Salesi Ma’afu, 2 Saia Faingaa, 1 Ben Daley.
Replacements: 16 Huia Edmonds, 17 James Slipper, 18 Mark Chisholm, 19 Matt Hodgson, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Berrick Barnes, 22 Adam Ashley-Cooper.
England:
15 Ben Foden, 14 Mark Cueto, 13 Mike Tindall, 12 Shontayne Hape, 11 Chris Ashton, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Lewis Moody (captain), 6 Tom Croft, 5 Tom Palmer, 4 Courtney Lawes, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Steve Thompson, 1 Tim Payne.
Replacements: 16 George Chuter, 17 David Wilson, 18 Simon Shaw, 19 James Haskell, 20 Danny Care, 21 Jonny Wilkinson, 22 Delon Armitage.
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
58@ Pam Anderson:
He’s missed 4 already, time for O’Connor to take over the kicking.
Hy lyk of hy hoekvlag toe mik
60@ Blue Bird:
Yip
@ grootblousmile:
Even Elsom can do better!
The ref continues to be absolutely rubbish.
A couple of handbags swung
i must agree this ref will get a blasting from the Aussies
4 min left
Penalty Poms, 57m out… too far
Another penalty, this one kickable.
Now Johnny misses a sitter
Less than a minute left, Poms have possession, they’ll now just grind it out.
England win…. as Giteau costs the Ozzies this game.
Well done, England. Congrats Blue Bird, your team wanted it more. Let’s just hope that Stephen Jones handles it well, hehe!
One could see last week already that this match was going to be close.
Well done England. Never saw the game. Was down at the beach singing and having fun with the Dutch football supporters.
Think England’s rugby team doing better than their football team it looks like for now.
Congrats Blue Bird, now you have something to smile about this weekend!
OK, going to check on proceedings outside, see just now on the Bokke thread.
Wonder why BB did not pick on Superbru, only Blouste picked England, i picked AUS by 3 so i will get half a point.
My question to the ref?
Why s that when it is our ball the scrum keeps collapsing…then when it is english ball the scrum stays up?
Those scrum collapses I can guarnatee have been caused by english collapsing…problem for our young front row is that they are not wise enough to counter!!
Lets hope this experience sticks in the heads of this young wallaby front row!!!
Well done to Robbie Deans for giving them this experience and being tough to endure…this young front row is gooing to thank him plenty.
I feel sorry for this english side…with such a dominant scrum they can only scrap through!! England did not just get parity they completely dominated our front row and they only get 1 point to show!!
Not good for the english come this time next year!
@ Wallabie.:19
Walla before I go, how you mate? Also spoke to plenty Aussies down at the beach front today. They are all camping at Kings Mead. All of them loving it here.
Okay now off to get the braai ready.
@ Wallabie.:
I only started watching in the 25th minute, but this ref was not blowing the game but more to all the talk beforehand. I really thought a few collapses was milked by England.
Watch the Aussie press tomorrow.
Puma
Long time no see..how are you doing? did you have a great holiday?
I know a few who are down in RSA and absolutely loving it…al the party, atmosphere…you can feel it here. The african way!!! Jabulani!
@ fender:
Why, thank-you Fender……Nice to have the words ‘England and Won’ in the same sentence!!
@ superBul:
superBul…I did not pick England to win because I am still not very confident with their play!!
You know to get success on superBru you pick with your head and not your heart!!
Ok very late for me, have been partying…..might need a lie in tomorrow. 🙂
Congrats to England on last night’s win; as someone said earlier, they did look as if they wanted the win more than the Wallabies. Giteau’s kicking has me just shaking my head in amazement. Meanwhile, I’m not one to blame a referee for a loss, so suffice to say Monsieur Romain and his crouch, touch, pause, pause, pause and pause, then engage – is a comedian in referee’s garb!!! Is there something about NH refs? No matter which of the Tri Nations teams they referee, they act like they are from another planet . . .
Well done England, good game to watch, huge improvement.
@ Old Griquas 14 in
Sydney:
The ref was shocking to say the least. Git’s kicking equally woefull.
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All future televised England/SA soccer matches have been moved to the gay adult channel as the sight of 11 arseholes getting hammered for 90 minutes was far to explicit for terrestrial tv.
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