Springboks (6) 9 / Wallabies (0) 14 (Final Score)
The South African Springboks hosted the Australian Wallabies at 17:05 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SHD & M-Net on TV in SA.
The Wallabies mounted a massive second half fight back to beat the Springboks by 5 points, all their points coming in the second half.
Scorers:
Springboks: 1 Penalty Frans Steyn, 2 Penalties Butch James
Wallabies: 3 Penalties James O’Connor, 1 Try Pat McCabe
Teams:
South Africa: 15 Frans Steyn, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Butch James, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Danie Rossouw, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 John Smit (c), 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Gurthro Steenkamp, 18 Gerhard Mostert, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Morne Steyn, 22 Gio Aplon.
Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 James O’Connor, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Pat McCabe, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Scott Higginbotham, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (c), 5 James Horwill, 4 Nathan Sharpe, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Sekope Kepu.
Replacements: 16 Saia Faingaa, 17 Salesi Ma’afu, 18 Sitaleki Timani, 19 Radike Samo, 20 Ben McCalman, 21 Luke Burgess, 22 Anthony Faingaa.
Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Carlo Damasco (Italy)
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
The Puppet is panicking, Mostert also on.
Penalty to Aussie…. kickable
Can some of the more knowledgeable guys please explain to me why the Boks keep kicking to the Aussie backs whom are infinitely more adept with ball in hand than our players?
Also there seems to be a “work to rule” in the Bokke tackle department in the last 15 minutes or so. Or am I just too critical of professional sportsmen?
Wallabies 11 / 9
@ Scrumdown:
That is not Shakespeare, Sir.
Oh shit Aussies in the lead.
Raining cats and dogs now
Morné Steyn on, so too Gurthro Steenkamp
FFS we can’t even look after our own maul ball!
If the Boks lose this I reckon they’ll get booed off Kings Park for the second succesive time.
Where are the Bok forwards?
Relieving penalty Bokke…. Morne makes an excellent clearance
10 minutes left
The Boks are being man shamed.
125@ Loosehead:
No, but in the words of another famous scribe from that most Mud Covered Isle, “they were the best of times, they were the worst of times”. Maybe quite apt for Mr Snor and his merry bunch of support staff.
Look at the difference in coaches, Aussies have made 2 changes, while the puppet has cleared his bench in panic.
Snor, take Smit off NOW! He is not a prop.
Wallabies shove the Bokke scrum to shit… and get an easy penalty
Nou kuk ons aan vaskopkant, eishhh!!!
Wallabies 14 / 9
Boks are going to lose this game. Fuk you Peter De Villiers!
Bokke need a converted try to win…. 3 minutes left
Smit off, Jannie on,
Penalty Bokke…. they HAVE TO kick for touch
And the scrum look good.
Boks look like they’ve run out of gas.
Backline almost pedestrian, and forwards slow to the breakdown.
Another Bokke penalty… come on put it out 5m out!
Daniesaurus knocks…. Wallabies win
ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING!
Final Score: Wallabies 14 / 9 Springboks
The DSTV adds featuring the Boks are a disgrace.
Well we know 2 things…
Bismarck is the better hooker, compared with John Smit… and John Smit is terrible at tight head as a prop…
The Bokke looked at their best in the first 25 minutes, when I expected them to look at their worst erly on.
They ran out of steam, pure and simple.
What now Twakkie… still winless in the Tri-Nations….
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