Barbarians (19) 26 / Springboks (3) 20 (Final Score)
The Barbarians and the Springboks met at Twickenham, North London, at 16:30 SA Time on Saturday in the last match for Southern Hemisphere rugby interest for 2010. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 2, M-Net and SuperSport HD on TV in SA.
It was an error-ridden match with lots of penalties by the French referee and most of the excitement came from the Barbarians in the first 20 minutes.
The Barbarians scored 4 tries, the Springboks 3.
Kicking to posts by Elton Jantjies was abysmal.
Scorers:
Barbarians: 3 Conversions & 1 Try James O’Connor, 2 Tries Drew Mitchell, 1 Try Quintin Geldenhuys
Springboks: 1 Penalty & 1 Conversion Elton Jantjies, 1 Try Odwa Ndungane, 1 Try Bakkies Botha, 1 Try Bandise Maku
Teams:
Barbarians: 15 James O’Connor, 14 Joe Rokocoko, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Matt Giteau (captain), 9 Will Genia, 8 Colin Bourke, 7 Martyn Williams, 6 Rodney So’oialo, 5 Chris Jack, 4 Anton van Zyl, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Salvatore Perugini.
Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 John Yapp, 18 Quintin Geldenhuys, 19 Daniel Braid, 20 Andy Ellis, 21 Stephen Donald, 22 Seru Rabini.
South Africa: 15 Patrick Lambie, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Adi Jacobs, 12 Andries Strauss, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 François Hougaard, 8 Ryan Kankowski, 7 Juan Smith (captain), 6 Willem Alberts, 5 Alistair Hargreaves, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Coenie Oosthuizen.
Replacements: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Tendai Mtawarira, 18 Werner Kruger, 19 Flip van der Merwe, 20 Keegan Daniel, 21 Charl McLeod, 22 Gio Aplon.
Date: Saturday, 4 December 2010
Kick-off: 16.30 SA Time (14.30 GMT)
Venue: Twickenham, London
Expected weather: There is a 20 percent chance of snow, a high of 5°C (windchill: -3°C), dropping to-2°C, and a southwester of 14 km/h
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Assistant referees: Christophe Berdos (France), Peter Allan (Scotland)
@ grootblousmile:
When you see the empty stands you wonder why the game is being played.
Less than 2 min left… BaaBaas will win… and Man Of The Match goes to Anton van Zyl
Try Maku…. too little, too late
TRY MAKU!
I would like to see Mallet coach the Boks in NZ next year.
BaaBaas 26 / 20
Final Score
So, what have we learnt from this match…. not much…
What we have seen is that Elton Jantjies was still too green for this occasion.
What we also clearly saw in the 1st half was that we got far too little possession in the first 30 minutes as a result of not playing the ground ball and breakdowns well. Why did we not get good ground ball then? Maybe we should look critically at the imbalance of the Bokke loosies… 2 classic blindsiders playing with a looser No 8, in stead of a classic fetcher, good blindsider and a very hard and tight No 8.
Exactly what I argued this week and forever….
Nothing also worked in our backline…. nothing
Eishhhhh, it’s never nice when the Bokke lose… even if this one did not enjoy Test status.
goed om die jong manne te sien game time kry..
ek het vrede gemaak met die feit dat die bokke nie die world cup gaan wen nie maar wat sy kwaad maak is sarfu se slapgat houding en nie snor fire nie.white was ook vrot voor die world cup maar snor vat die koek.
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