Wallabies (17) 30 / Springboks (3) 13 (Final Score)
The Wallabies hosted the Springboks in Brisbane, Australia at 12:00 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSpor 1 on DSTV in SA.
The Wallabies, like feared, had a plethera of possession and break-down ball to work with in the 1st half, ran intelligently and recycled the ball well.
This earned them penalty after penalty and they built up a hefty lead as a result from kicks at goal.
In the 2nd half, when Dewald Potgieter replaced Ryan Kankowski, things evened up a bit, enabling the Springboks to score 2 tries but the Wallabies fought and defended well to maintain a lead and run out winners by a 17-point margin.
The final score was Wallabies 30 / 13.
Scores:
Wallabies: 5 Penalties Matt Giteau, 1 Penalty & 1 Conversion James O’Connor, 1 Try Drew Mitchell, 1 Try Will Genia
Springboks: 1 Penalty Morné Steyn, 1 Try Jaque Fourie, 1 Try Gurthro Steenkamp
The teams:
Australia: 15 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 14 James O’Connor, 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 Fainga’a, 1 Benin Robinson.
Replacements: 16 Stephen Moore, 17 James Slipper, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Ben McCalman, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Berrick Barnes, 22 Kurtley Beale.
South Africa: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Wynand Oliver, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Ryan Kankowski, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 BJ Botha, 2 John Smit (captain), 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Dewald Potgieter, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Butch James, 22 Juan de Jongh.
Date: Saturday, July 24
Kick-off: 20.00 (10.00 GMT; 12.00 SA time)
Venue: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Expected weather conditions: Partly cloudy with a 30% chance of rain, a high of 20°C, dropping to 9°C and a southeaster of 18 km/h
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Keith Brown (New Zealand), Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
TMO: Matt Goddard (Australia)
Assessor: Steve Hilditch (Ireland)
Recent results:
2009: Australia won 21-6 at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
2009: South Africa won 32-25 at Subiaco Oval, Perth
2009: South Africa won 29-17 at Newlands
2008: South Africa won 53-8 at Ellis Park, Johannesburg
2008: Australia won 27-15 at Kings Park Stadium, Durban
2008: Australia won 16-9 at Subiaco Oval, Perth
2007: Australia won 25-17 at Stadium Australia, Sydney
2007: South Africa won 22-19 at Newlands
2006: South Africa won 24-16 at Ellis Park, Johannesburg
2006: Australia won 20-18 at Stadium Australia, Sydney
2006: Australia won 49-0 at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Is that a cross-dresser singing our Anthem…. hehehehe
grootblousmile wrote:
Hehehehe, my wife just said, that when hearing the anthem she thought it was a guy.
Game ON!
Boks look switched on
Ozzies already running from everywhere..
Yellow for Mossie for Mossie for a Tip-Tackle
here we go again
Eishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
OH MY FEKKING HELL!!!!!
YELLOW AGAIN.
not again!!
f*k man!!
GBS hoe breek die geel kaart nou my gemoed
….hopefully this will open up the game and allow the ball to flow quicker 🙂 Let’s stay possitive
Mossie will forfeit his match fees to the rest of te Bokke, that was the deal Matfield spoke about!
There we go again losing a player in the first minutes to the bin. BLOODY HELL WHAT GOES ON IN THE HEAD OF SOME DAFT players head. J. Fourie that was just damn STUPID VERY, VERY STUPID tackle that will get cited too. Bugger I am angry with our players.
Now we play catch up again. For goodness sake we need to be more disciplined. Players getting yellows should be dropped for the next test. Teach them to be more disciplined. Letting the team down J. Fourie just not good enough.
aussies like nz did
are sealin the ball off at the ruck!!
Hoor my lied, Super Cooper is going to turn into Super Blooper today. I’m listening Ausie commentry and they are already complaining about the ref
@ Ashley:71 – Yip again Ash, I feel bloody spitting angry with J. Fourie. He will get cited for that tackle it looked worse than the tackle JdV had on Rene Ranger.
hehe Super Cooper stuffs up again
I said this week that the Bokke will have less than 50% possession in the game, we’ve had only 17% possession so far.
yeah ref hows about a free kick for us there
We need to slow down play a bit.
Bliksem habana
Well Ruan is a revelation at Scrumhalf
We are doing okay with our 14 men at the moment
Ruan is so much better than Ricky
grootblousmile wrote:
miles better
Mossie coming back on… no points given… luckily
gbs @ 86
agree
clean, quick frontfoot ball at last!!
We haven’t conceded any points thus far with 14 men on the field. I think that’s a major positive
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