France (13) 16 / Wallabies (13) 59 (Final Score)
France hosted the Wallabies at Stade de France at 21:45 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 & CSN on TV in SA.
With the halftime score still indicating 13 / 13 and the Wallabies scrum in trouble in the first half, the Wallabies opened the taps and put a sorry French side to the sword in the second half, raining in the tries and giving the French their biggest ever defeat against the Wallabies, with a 43 point winning margin.
Fianl score Wallabies 59 / 16.
The Wallabies scored 7 tries against one penalty try.
Scorers:
France: 3 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morgan Parra, 1 Penalty Try
Wallabies: 6 Conversions & 4 Penalties & 1 Try James O’Connor, 1 Try Adam Ashley-Cooper, 1 Try Ben Robinson, 1 Try Will Genia, 3 Tries Drew Mitchell
Teams:
France: 15 Jerome Porical, 14 Yoann Huget, 13 Aurelien Rougerie, 12 Yannick Jauzion, 11 Alexis Palisson, 10 Damien Traille, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Sebastien Chabal, 7 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Lionel Nallet, 4 Julien Pierre, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Thomas Domingo.
Replacements: 16 Guilhem Guirado, 17 Jerome Schuster, 18 Jerome Thion, 19 Julien Bonnaire, 20 Dimitri Yachvili, 21 Fabrice Estebanez, 22 Marc Andreu.
Australia: 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 James O’Connor, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Ben McCalman, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (captain), 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Rob Simmons, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 James Slipper.
Replacements: 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 Benn Robinson, 18 Mark Chisholm, 19 Scott Higginbotham, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Matt Giteau, 22 Lachie Turner.
Date: Saturday, November 27
Venue: Stade de France, Paris
Kick-off: 21.45 SA Time (19.45 GMT)
Weather: Light snow expected in the evening, with a low of -1°C and high of 3°C.
Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Wayne Barnes (England), Carlo Damasco (Italy)
TMO: Hugh Watkins (Wales)
We have hard abrasive backline players in SA…..
Another beaut, thanks Aussies
You bewdy! A try to Drew Mitchell. Good intensity from the Wallabies.
Try Drew Mitchell
Wallabies 37 / 16
Do you remember how Habana was put into space by FduP, slick angled runs, WO also. But we do not have a back line coach
Penalty Wallas… will they kick for goal or set up the lineout?
The handling by both teams are great, watch and learn Bokkies
Wallabies 40 / 16
Another try for Drew Mitchell….. French now truly farked
Wallabies are heading towards putting 50 points on the the Frogs . . . Good try to Drew Mitchell.
Wallabies 47 / 16
Old Griquas 14 in Sydney, your team leaved the best for last. What a game by Australia. Really impressed by your team tonight.
If it remains like this, then the biggest loss ever by France to the Wallabies
Try Rocky Elsom….
No, it’s anothr try rather by Drew Mitchell
Tonight a few cocks will be cooked, hope it sound right
Third try to Mitchell and that’s the 50 for the Wallabies. Excellent outcome after a tough EOYT.
Wallabies 54 / 16
Try James O’Connor….
It’s raining tries.
Wallabies 59 / 16
Final Score
What a win!!
Whooow what a pakslae.
Great win Aussies, congrats this was worth it to stay up.
I’m afraid, Oldie might just have pee’d in his pants from glee….. hehehe
From 13-13 at halftime
80 16 – 59
O’Connor – try
77 16 – 54
O’Connor – conversion
76 16 – 52
TRY Mitchell bags his third after following up a Rocky Elsom surge
74 16 – 47
O’Connor – conversion
73 16 – 45
TRY Mitchell bags his second off an Ashley-Cooper grubber
72 16 – 40
PENALTY O’Connor rubs further salt in the wounds with another three points
67 16 – 37
O’Connor – conversion
66 16 – 35
TRY Kurtlety Beale draws the last man to send Mitchell coasting in
60 16 – 30
PENALTY O’Connor takes the Wallabies two tries clear with a well-struck kick
52 16 – 27
O’Connor – conversion
51 16 – 25
TRY Two massive hand-offs by Ashley-Cooper open up France and Genia dummies his way over from close range
49 16 – 20
O’Connor – conversion
48 16 – 18
TRY Loose-head Benn Robinson powers over from close range
41 16 – 13
PENALTY Parra follows up two bug surges with a penalty
@ superBul:
I like your turn of phrase, Superbul. Indeed, the cocks are cooked tonight.
I also like the comment from the English commentator: ‘you can have the best scrum; you can have the best defence; but if your attack doesn’t score points, then what’s the good of the rest?’
The Wallabies can and will be criticised once again for their scrumming but at the end of the day, the Australian attack is pure and exciting rugby to watch.
46-3 second half, eish that is rough
@ Old Griquas 14 in Sydney:
When you play Aus now you must smother them completely or score more tries than them, so it is easy score 8 😆
Hell…. now I must put this machine away and hurt the mattress a bit…
See you guys later.
Well done Wallas and congrats Oldie… this was an excellent 2nd half from your boys.
Thanks GBS and Superbul. An exciting game and great result generally for SH rugby and the Wallabies in particular.
Australia
Metres run with ball 324
Passes 165
South Africa
Metres run with ball 175 (so by the way England ran according to Scum, 596 meters)
Passes 107
New Zealand
Metres run with ball 611
Passes 145
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