The Barbarians XV (containing a host of Springboks) take on the All Blacks in a festival match at Twickenham, London. This is the match thread for discussion of the game.
Points:
Barbarians: 25 (Try – Bryan Habana, Conversion – Matt Giteau, Try 2 – Bryan Habana, Conversion 2 – Matt Giteau, Penalty – Matt Giteau, Try 3 – Bryan Habana, Penalty – Morné Steyn)
All Blacks: 18 (Penalty – Stephen Donald, Try – Ben Smith, Conversion – Stephen Donald, Try – Anthony Boric, Penalty – Mike Delany)
Teams:
Barbarians: 15 Drew Mitchell (Australia), 14 Joe Rokocoko (New Zealand), 13 Jaque Fourie (South Africa), 12 Jamie Roberts (Wales), 11 Bryan Habana (South Africa), 10 Matt Giteau (Australia), 9 Fourie du Preez (South Africa), 8 George Smith (Australia), 7 Schalk Burger (South Africa), 6 Rocky Elsom (Australia), 5 Victor Matfield (South Africa, captain), 4 Carlo del Fava (Italy), 3 WP Nel (Free State Cheetahs), 2 Bismarck du Plessis (South Africa), 1 Salvatore Perugini (Italy).
Replacements: 16 Stephen Moore (Australia), 17 Tendai Mtawarira (South Africa), 18 Quintin Geldenhuys (Italy), 19 Andy Powell (Wales), 20 Will Genia (Australia), 21 Morné Steyn (South Africa), 22 Leigh Halfpenny (Wales).
New Zealand: 15 Cory Jane, 14 Ben Smith, 13 Tamati Ellison, 12 Luke McAlister, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Brendon Leonard, 8 Rodney So’oialo, 7 Richie McCaw (captain), 6 Liam Messam, 5 Anthony Boric, 4 Jason Eaton, 3 John Afoa, 2 Corey Flynn, 1 Wyatt Crockett.
Replacements: 16 Andrew Hore, 17 Neemia Tialata, 18 Adam Thomson, 19 Tanerau Latimer, 20 Jimmy Cowan, 21 Mike Delany, 22 Sitiveni Sivivatu.
Date: Saturday, December 5
Venue: Twickenham, London
Kick-off: 16.30 SA Time (14.30 GMT; 03.30 NZ time, 6 December)
Expected weather conditions: 73 percent chance of rain, (Max 7° C , Min: 2°C ), Wind: Moderate Breeze
Referee: Christophe Berdos (France)
Assistant referees: Romain Poite (France, David Changleng (Scotland)
TMO: Andrew Turner (England), Graham Hughes (England)
Some Photo’s received from Supa & Carol who attended the match with the bunch from London Rugby-Talk….. enjoy!
Oh, and a special word of welcome to the BaaBaa supporters and All Black supporters in these photographs who were told about our site by our friends who were at the match.
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Carol
Send all the picture to GBS last night already…
Mmmmm, will put all the photo’s up in a while… just have to go attend to some Encryption settings on all those that share my HotSpot in the area around my house…
182 – You what?? “Computer Geek Speak” Lol…
The photo’s are all up… both those received from Supa and Carol
This is a great chance for me to thank the London ‘Rugby-Talk’ guys and girls for a really fantastic day.
Me and eight South Africans, you were on top form boys and girls and I really enjoyed your company….
Special thanks to 4man for organising the whole get-together, with military precision!!
The slideshow about the Baabaas game looks great!
GBS, can you see the slideshow even if you are not logged in? I couldnt see the slideshow at first until I logged in…but maybe it was just a temporarily error.
Carol 185
Agree, thanks to you, 4man, JL1, PaulD etc as well. We had a great time and laughed a lot!
And that crazy Baabaas fans …you are indeed TRUE Baabaas supporters!
186@ Supa – No anybody can see it, you do not need to be logged in….
Looks like you guys all had a whale of a time!
189
We did indeed, and the guiness wasnt bad either!
190 – supa, you lot seemed to like the taste of it you had to keep testing new pints……fark I would have been in accident and emergency if I had kept pace with you boys! Heheheh
191 Carol
For a lady you didnt do too bad yourself! 😉
192-Supa… 😆
Guiness!!!!! it that what I was drinking yesterday!!!! I thought it was the Natal drink because it is black and white 😉 My wife insists I drank about 12 pints, I dont think it was any more than 1….gallon.
Great bunch of people, excellent game and we laughed our gatte off.
a bien tot, aufwedersehn, hasta la vista Vaya con Dios, Totsiens…enjoy the week.
194 Norman
Thought we had only one or two 😉
Did you see the slideshow at the top of the thread? Some nice pictures…
184 – GBS,
I can not see any photos boet? Why do I always have a problem with these things…….hehehe. Honest though having huge problems with my laptop that I use here in Umhlanga. Plug my bigger screen and keyboard into it.
Okay just tried again. Really can not open those photos. Pity wanted to see them.
195 – Supa I am not picking up those photos. Not sure why. Pick up all the other photos here on RT just the BaaBaa pics I really wanted to see just wont open. Nothing on the top.
How did you enjoy the BaaBaa game? Sounded great.
Daft idiots that work at Dstv never even showed the BaaBaas game. The last big game of the season and they don’t show it. Felt really angry about it.
You and the RT okes with Carol were all lucky to go to the game. One game I would have enjoyed to go to myself.
GBS, Finally got the slideshow to open. Looked like all the RT bloggers had a great time together.
Supa and Carol thanks for the pics.
Puma
Here is about 10min of the game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2AHeE3OR38
Folks, Cincopa who hosts our Photo Galleries are just temporarily off line… hope it does not take too long for them to fix their site… so bear with us, till the pictures magically appears again!
Fork!
Puma 197
Game was great! So was the company! We really dit enjoy it alot!
OK, photo’s are back online….
#102 Swanie, yep he should have finished the job, heh, heh. 🙂
I thought the ABs played beautiful football in the 1st half, lot’s of running, offloading, no look, pop passes that stuck. Incredible stuff. Who could not have grudging admiration for that kind of rugby? Nothing wrong with the game when teams are capable of these skills. Instead of whining to the IRB about law changes pressure needs to be applied to test coaches to come up with more aggressive, imaginative game plans.
The Baa-Baas played well despite their two tries against the run of play, as one would expect of a team of this calibre. Mitchell was enterprising & Fourie demonstrated why he is the best Bok centre (matches anyone else in the world). FDP was irritating again (if you are a supporter of an opposing team). He pops up everywhere, damn it! I thought the ABs disrupted their team rhythm with subs in the 2nd half. The negative influences of the game were summed up for me when around the 73rd minute Morne Steyn fielded the ball, had 2-3 players outside him & 20-30 meters between him & the ABs. What did he do? Booted the ball down field. Surely a player of his stature can do better than that or is the habit too ingrained?
Anyway I think the supporters Saturday received good value for their money. Nice game to end the year with. Now back to dreadful Guinness Premiership/Magners League games. Maybe I switch the telly off until the S14? 🙁
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