Wallabies (15) 39 / Springboks (6) 20 (Final Score)
The Wallabies hosted the Springboks at ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia at 12:00 SA Time (20:00 Sydney 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.
Sub-standard performance from the Springboks and a consumate Wallaby performance. 5 Tries to 2.
Scorers:
Wallabies: 4 Conversions & 2 Penalties & 1 Try James O’Connor, 1 Try Ben Alexander, 1 Try Digby Ioane, 1 Try Stephen Moore, 1 Try Adam Ashley-Cooper
Springboks: 2 Penalties Morné Steyn, 2 Conversions Patrick Lambie, 1 Try Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Try John Smit
Teams:
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 Ben McCalman, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (captain), 5 James Horwill, 4 Rob Simmons, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Sekope Kepu.
Replacements: 16 Saia Fainga’a, 17 Pekahou Cowan, 18 Nathan Sharpe, 19 Matt Hodgson, 20 Scott Higginbotham, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Anthony Fainga’a.
South Africa: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Bjorn Basson, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Danie Rossouw, 6 Deon Stegmann, 5 Alistair Hargreaves, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 John Smit (captain), 1 Dean Greyling
Replacements: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Ryan Kankowski , 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Charl McLeod, 21 Adrian Jacobs, 22 Patrick Lambie
Date: Saturday, July 23
Kick-off: 20.00 (12.00 SA Time)
Venue: ANZ Stadium, Sydney
Expected weather: There is a 50 percent chance of rain, with a high of 14°C, dropping to 9°C
Referee: Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Keith Brown (New Zealand), Vinny Munro (New Zealand)
TMO: Matt Goddard (Australia)
Kanko spills the ball
Game Over
Final Score: Wallabies 39 / 20 Springboks
Congrats to the Wallabies… did everything which was necessary. Definately more potent in the backline and they ruled the ground ball situations, had great lineout possession.. all round game
@ grootblousmile:
What a contrast from last week. A better performance from the Wallabies. As for the experimental boks, not a bad performance, under the circumstances. I get the feeling there are better days ahead for the boks.
154@ Old Griquas 14 in Sydney:
Everything that I feared happened or went wrong today.
The Bokke did not do the basics well, handling was poor, Bokke lost the ground ball battle by a mile… and the Wallabies did exactly the opposite, well controlled and of course the silky skills of Sir Surfer Dude and Will Genia… ably assisted by Ioane and O’Connor.
But make no mistake, the foundation was laid up front by the Wallabies.
Was hoping to come here and get good new…obviously mistaken….sigh. Hope my beloved Cheetahs can make my day…go Cheetahs!
This game was always going to be a ‘at a glance game’ nothing serious to take from it.
The boks have done the wallabies a favour by giving them a run on in the paddock with an okay side….give the wallabies time to get combinations right. Robbie deans worked these buggers heaps this week. They were swimming in training…out in the freezing wet weather whilst the boks did theirs in a gymnasium.
I think mr deano pulled his finger out this time instead of the very little training the wallabies did before the samoa game.
We can concede from this that firstly our game plan is antiquated quad cooper made Morne Steyn and Meisekind look silly. I am very disappointed in the way we scrummed, I really expected a lot from Werner and Dean.
Do our players not look where that pass.
I know this was not our first choice team, but hell these guys didn’t look motivated, there was no intensity or urgency.
I wont take anything serious about this game. The Full Springbok team will be much better. But the skill and decision making speed of Genia and co are impresive. We play slo-mo compared to them.
Aussie Press says
At times, Quade Cooper toyed with the defence as he sparked wave after wave of Australian attacks.
But the brilliant five-eighth had no shortage of co-stars.
Yes Quad Cooper and Genia are class players, but then if Ruan isn’t there to defend and Genia has to run around a few props it does make it look easy.
The same applies to Quad Cooper, he immediately saw that the SA defence was hesitant and on the back foot, how easy was it not for him all day.
Today reminded me of when Larkham confused our backs.
@ biltongbek:
Look lets face it the Boks brainstrust might have plans for him and Genia but you must be wide awake for 90 minutes they do their stuff so instinctively. They dont have set moves for that, they just access the situation in milli seconds and hurt you.
McLook said he will look for trigger actions by them i hope he expose them for us.
Luckily for us we won’t meet Australia until the final anyway. Besides that I doubt whether we’ll get past NZ in the semi’s.
To be honest they will exploit any defence that is hesitant.
It’s no use to try and find trigger actions, put them under pressure cut off their space outside which means they can only go one way, and have a player tackle the toffee out of them a couple of times. That is the only way you’ll break their confidence,
biltongbek wrote:
Ja that can work, WCups was won by defense, i will be surprized if that trend stops in this years WC. Look in the first round games expect massive scores by Australia and NZ, but in Quarter finals the nerves will make teams play the safest options.
Jan de Koning rates the South African players:
15 Gio Aplon:
He had the occasional run, but found no holes of note.
5/10
14 Bjorn Basson:
Looked threatening with ball in hand … on the few occasions he received it.
6/10
13 Juan de Jongh:
Tried to step and found a yellow wall. Tried to run and found no space. Looked like he lacked pace.
4/10
12 Wynand Olivier:
Hopefully he played under instructions, because bashing up into a yellow wall of defenders when it looks on outside is not a good thing.
4/10
11 Lwazi Mvovo:
Had a couple of decent runs, but never had enough possession in space.
6/10
10 Morné Steyn:
This has not been his best year.
4/10
9 Ruan Pienaar:
By some way his worst Test ever.
3/10
8 Ashley Johnson:
He looked like a deer in headlights and was a huge liability on defence.
2/10
7 Danie Rossouw:
One of the few players that played with heart.
7/10
6 Deon Stegmann:
Affected a couple of turnovers, one a penalty, and had his moments on defence.
6/10
5 Alistair Hargreaves:
Was badly showed up – appears to lack the ability to step up to Test level.
3/10
4 Flip van der Merwe:
Injured early, battled on for about 20 minutes, but was no factor.
5/10
3 Werner Kruger:
Had his moments in the scrums and the occasional carry.
5/10
2 John Smit (captain):
Looked badly out of sorts. Maybe he needs these games at hooker and to improve his form.
4/10
1 Dean Greyling:
Tried hard, but no real impact.
5/10
Replacements:
16 Chiliboy Ralepelle (on for Dean Greyling, 57th min):
Made an immediate impact and showed he will fill the void left by Smit when the legend moves on after the World Cup – alongside Bismarck du Plessis of course..
7/10
17 CJ van der Linde (on for Dean Greyling – 7th and 23rd mins; on for Werner Kruger, 75th min):
Every time he came on the Bok scrum was under pressure.
4/10
18 Ryan Kankowski (on for Flip van der Merwe, 34th min):
Showed he can play with ball in hand, but lacks plenty in the physical exchanges.
5/10
19 Jean Deysel (on for Ashley Johnson, 52nd min):
Carried strongly, but often lacked support.
6/10
20 Charl McLeod:
Not used.
21 Adrian Jacobs (on for Wynand Olivier, 65th min):
Not enough time to be rated.
22 Patrick Lambie (on for Morné Steyn, 57th min):
One of the rare rays of bright light in the Bok backline.
6/10
Anybody wants to comment on this statement by another blogger.
I think the Bok’s little crash course with Jacque Niebenaber (the defence coach) was such a waste of time. It shows. Defence is a habit, it’s a culture. They might have done more harm than good to expose the players from different backgrounds to one system they had to rigidly adhere to.
Players were running around like they didn’t know what to expect from one another. (on attack or defence).
@ superBul:
Jawat, heeltemal reg.
Dis die Stormers se verdedigings afrigter, Mnr. Nienaber. Hy was net by die Bokke vir twee weke, nou wat wil hy bereik met manne wat van verskillende unies af kom waar verskillende verdedigingstrukture daagliks in hulle in gedril word?
Dis ‘n gemors, want nou sal die helfte van die laaities probeer daarby hou met die vrees die Bokafrigters hulle streng dophou om seker te maak hulle hou by die instruksie wat hulle by die Bokke ontvang en hulle kanse op nog geleenthede verder vorentoe. Wat n gemors.
Jy kon sien hoe meganies ons verdediging was. Hulle was net georganiseer vanaf n afskop soos stapsoldaatjies, van gebroke veld af was hulle nêrens, dit het sowaar gelyk of hulle eerder mekaar en die “regte” linies probeer vind as op die opposisie te fokus. En dit smaak my is ‘n span wat die stres ondervind van noudat hulle deurmekaar gemaak is met n nuwe verdedigingstelsel.
Jy kon sien hoe Stegman en Kruger op en af hol om eers tussen die senters te staan en dan weer in te skakel met die heelagter vir n moontlike teenaanval, maar so na as moontlik aan die eeste paar fases moes hulle ook nog wees. Jy kon sien hoe moeg hulle was van gedurig dwars oor die veld hol. Vir wat? Jy haal die speler effektief uit die spel uit, want telkens is hulle buite posisie betrap, en dan omdat ons so maklik aangeslaan het, moes hul onmiddellik omswaai om hok te slaan op die aanvallende springrotte wat deur die middeveld so maklik kon gly. En dan wanneer ons omkeerbesit geniet het, bly hulle net daar staan en word ons van ons eie bal afgedryf, want hulle dink mos soos die Stormers gaan hulle een-een die losskrum verstewig asof hulle oombliklik gaan recycle en wyd stuur. My donner, ons was seker 5 keer so omgedop, en Pienaar is 2 keer met die bal betrap agter die lyn.
Die agterlyn het soos die Lions gespeel wat Muir onlangs afgerig het, m.a.w. soos spelers wat glad nie afgerig word. En Muir is die Springbokke se agterlynafrigter. Pienaar besluit sommer om te skippass net vir die gerief daarvan, net vir afwisseling jy weet. Nie omdat ons dringend spasie oopgehad het aan die buitekant nie, en dan het die vories mos doelloos hulself langs die skakelpaar ingewikkel want hulle word misgekyk, plaas daarvan om die opposisie vories aan die raai te hou met hulle teenwoordigheid voorlangs. Totaal naief om so n telegram uit te stuur.
Ek dog Smit is hierdie moerse kaptein. Hy moes sy voet na 20 minute al dwarsgesit het. Dankie die Vader dat Chiliboy opgekom het. Eers na 60 minute se geploeter het hulle besluit om die ondersteunede vories naby te hou. Kyk hoe goed was ons dryfgemale gewees wanneer ons dit aangedurf het. Ons het veld en strafskoppe so gewen. Regte bliksemse Blou Bul rugby. Nou hoekom voeter hulle die middeveld in een-een teen 2 or 3 verdegigers vas wat vir hulle staan en wag? Hoekom moes die vaste 5 sorg vir spasie aan die een kant van die veld sodat die onnosele agterlyn die kans kon had om dit te doen? En dan wissel hulle dit net van een kantlyn na die ander soos klokslag. Liewe Hemel.
Ek weet verseker die laaities wou nie so speel nie, jy kon die frustrasie op hul moe gesigte sien. Dis nou jammer elke coach dink hy die beste en nuutste antwoord op elke raaisel.
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