Ireland (6) 21 / Springboks (13) 23 (Final Score)
Ireland hosted the Springboks at Aviva Stadium, Landsdowne Road, Dublin at 19:30 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 and M-Net on TV in SA.
The Springboks forwards were monsterous and they dominated the first half and most of the set pieces.
The Irish came back strongly in the last 20 minutes and a comedy off errors by Sppringbok players nearly made the Irish comeback complete.
Well done to the Springboks though, a win I did not foresee!
3 / 0 for the Southern Hemisphere on the day.
Scores:
Ireland: 3 Penalties Jonathan Sexton, 1 Conversion Ronan O’Gara, 1 Try Tommy Bowe, 1 Try Rob Kearney
Springboks: 3 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morné Steyn, 1 Conversion Patrick Lambie, 1 Try Juan Smith, 1 Try Gio Aplon
Teams:
Ireland: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Brian O’Driscoll (captain), 12 Gordon D’Arcy, 11 Luke Fitzgerald, 10 Jonathan Sexton, 9 Eoin Reddan, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 David Wallace, 6 Stephen Ferris, 5 Mick O’Driscoll, 4 Donncha O’Callaghan, 3 Tony Buckley, 2 Rory Best, 1 Cian Healy.
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Tom Court, 18 Donncha Ryan, 19 Denis Leamy, 20 Peter Stringer, 21 Ronan O’Gara, 22 Keith Earls.
South Africa: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Bjorn Basson, 13 Zane Kirchner, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Keegan Daniel, 20 François Hougaard, 21 Adi Jacobs, 22 Patrick Lambie.
Date: Saturday, 6 November 2010
Kick-off: 19.30 SA Time (GMT 17.30)
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Expected weather: Scattered clouds with a 20 percent chance of rain, a high of 9°C and a northwester of 28 km/h. The temperature is set to drop to 2°C, -2°C with windchill.
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant referees: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand), Keith Brown (New Zealand)
TMO: Hugh Watkins (Wales)
Boys, remember, conditions and a slippery ball made it much tougher….
None of our backline players really shone…. our forwards were monsterous though… we won it up front.
Well done Springboks – you deserved to win.
JdV was enormous and how good was Juan Smith.
I thought we would take this one!
No complaints the BEST team won!
Have a Castle!
Enjoy.
@ bdb:
Ek het kwaai geworry oor Zane in n toets vir die eerste keer senterspeel en dan nog boonop teen daardie twee. Nee wat hy kan maar sy kop hoog hou, niks fout met sy poging vandag nie.
Well done to Puma and the Sharks for winning the Provincial Trophy.
I couldn’t watch the game, but believe your team were great.
267: die subs het ons amper gekos, hy leer nie uit die verlede nie.
Good evening all.
Just hijacked vroulief’s machine to blog a bit.
Whew, my nerves are varked.
Strong scrum for a change, but what does anyone thing of England’s Tight Head? Don’t know him but I think his scrumming was flawless.
Where are all the tight forwards to pass comment?
@ Irish Devil:
Thanks will enjoy the Castle
@ Irish Devil:
Irish, never mind the Castle, I’ll have another double Rum.
Why didn’t O’Gara start?
I think Deon Stegmann did his job quietly but profieciently, our front row was sublime, our locks monsterous… Juan Smith hard as ever and Spies was bloody good.
Ruan’s passing was not always spot-on, sometimes hisitant and slow.. but good game nonetheless
Morné Steyn is still our “Dead-eye Dick”… and Lambie did well on attack, missed a baaad one at posts though.
Jean was solid, organised defence well.
Zane, well you know what I think… out of position he did well in the circumstances apart from one large fumble.
Bryan Habana was OK, not spectacular
Bjorn Basson was quiet but did nothing wrong, one excellent take out of the air.
Gio was a mixed bag, misjudged twice which both resulted in tries, but took calmly from the air, saved us a few times too.
That is my report card.
273: daar is baie min spelers wat met groot sukses van posisie verskuif, en om Zane so groot vuurdoop te gee was ‘n groot kans wat Snorre gevat het, veral om teen een van die wêreld se beste senterpare te speel. Ons kan baie bly wees JDV was daar, hy het die agterlyn goed georganiseer.
Vic was baie goed as speler en kaptein, het van voor gelei. As Vic hierdie span met sukses lei, en Bismark hou aan goed speel, wat gaan Snorre met John Smit doen ?
@ Irish Devil:274 – Irish, Thanks mate. How you been? Have not seen you here for a very long time.
Very close game tonight at the end. Heart stopping stuff too close for me…haha.
280@ bdb:
Ja, stem saam…. Vic is ‘n goeie kaptein en Bissie was blerrie goed vanaand.
So, the AB’s won against the Pom’s, although not too convincing, the Wannabees beat the coal mining Leek eaters, but also not too convicingly, and the Boks scraped home against the Bog Trotters, even though (IMO) they could have (and should have) done so by a far greater margin.
Any of those great anylitical minds out there care to give us their assesments?
274@ Irish Devil:
Hellooooooooo Oirish… you old Devil!
Thanks for the congrats
@ grootblousmile:279 – Lambie missed a bad one but he was far better on attack. Which is the way the game is going. We need that sort of player.
Okay that is me out of here now.
Good night everyone.
Well done to our Boks. A win is a win.
I don’t think O’Gara would have made a difference anyway, the Bok forwards were fantastic.
@ Puma:
Work and married life Puma. Are you well?
279: goeie opsomming.
Ek hou ook nie daarvan om spelers uit posisie te speel nie, BEHALWE as daar ‘n speler is wat soveel talent het, dat jy dit met vertroue kan doen. As Snorre met RP wil voortgaan, dan moet hy FH dalk op vleuel oorweeg, en ek dink hy sal selfs ‘n beter joppie kan doen op senter as Zane en Adi Jacobs.
@ grootblousmile:
Must agree that Big Vic was MOM. He had a good game.
Bokke need to get a decent shrink to work on this win with the team.
I don’t think we all appreciate how big this win was.
283@ Scrumdown:
Yeah, no easy wins for the South today….
Apart from Ireland who were monstered up front, the other 2 Northern Teams were good up front, in the set pieces and on the ground ball.
The gap between North and South seems to be smaller than in a long while.
Ek Glo Bissie was vodde hier teen die einde, n week na n baie goeie CB eindstryd , hy moes dalk die laaste 10 minute ruskans gekry het. Victor kry nooit ruskans nie, amazing.
@ grootblousmile:
See you going from strength to strength GBS. I often come and read your articles. Very informative too.
Well enjoy the win guys and well done.
285: Puma, jy moet vra: as dit die WB finaal is, die Bokke kort 3 punte om te wen in die laaste oomblik van die wedstryd en ons kry ‘n strafskop op die halflyn, wie wil ons hê moet pale toe skop ?
Daar is jou losskakel vir die bokspan.
292@ Irish Devil:
So you’re hitched now…. to a little Irish Devlin without horns… hehehe??
@ grootblousmile:
Haven’t watched the Taffy’s – Wallabies yet. Will try tomorrow early before going to site, but hey, WGC is on early, and if Ernie keeps his BMT has a real chance, so maybe Rugby has to wait until after site.
Flok working for a living is KAK.
@ bdb:
Elton Janties?
293@ bdb:
That’s exactly the way I feel too… when a kick from far is attempted by Morné one still expects him to slot it and one is surprised if he misses, which is not often… whereas a distance kick from Lambie is a lottery.
In the World Cup one needs a goal kicker of Morné’s caliber, no less!
Hey GBS, I see that RT has more than a million (1 000 000) page impressions.
Did you have a celebration?
296@ Scrumdown:
Elton kicks better than Lambie, but experience is the other key in a World Cup… something he lacks.
296: ja, ek soek ‘n betroubare skopper in die span, tot die eindfluitjie geblaas het.
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