Tri-Nations: Springboks vs Wallabies – Game Thread

Published 13 August 2011 | By grootblousmile

Springboks (6) 9 / Wallabies (0) 14 (Final Score)

The South African Springboks hosted the Australian Wallabies at 17:05 SA 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.

The Wallabies mounted a massive second half fight back to beat the Springboks by 5 points, all their points coming in the second half.

Scorers:

Springboks: 1 Penalty Frans Steyn, 2 Penalties Butch James

Wallabies: 3 Penalties James O’Connor, 1 Try Pat McCabe

Teams:

South Africa: 15 Frans Steyn, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Butch James, 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Danie Rossouw, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Bakkies Botha, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 John Smit (c), 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Gurthro Steenkamp, 18 Gerhard Mostert, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Morne Steyn, 22 Gio Aplon.

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 Scott Higginbotham, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (c), 5 James Horwill, 4 Nathan Sharpe, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Sekope Kepu.
Replacements: 16 Saia Faingaa, 17 Salesi Ma’afu, 18 Sitaleki Timani, 19 Radike Samo, 20 Ben McCalman, 21 Luke Burgess, 22 Anthony Faingaa.

Referee: Bryce Lawrence (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Carlo Damasco (Italy)
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)

172 Responses to Tri-Nations: Springboks vs Wallabies – Game Thread

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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:21 pm

Bokke not looking too shabby
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:22 pm

FDP should play the game and not the re.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:22 pm

Bokke penalty, within range… Butch goes for touch
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:24 pm

@ grootblousmile:
I keep getting: Error establishing a database connection
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:25 pm

Another Bokke penalty, from a scrum.

Butch going for posts
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:28 pm

Another kickable penalty.

Well played Spies.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:28 pm

Bokke 6 / 0

Butch goes for posts again
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Scrumdown on 13 August 2011 at 5:29 pm

Butch jou drol.
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superBul on 13 August 2011 at 5:30 pm

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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:30 pm

This time Butch misses
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:30 pm

Fluck me, how did he miss that?
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:32 pm

Try now…. I’ve disabled some items
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Scrumdown on 13 August 2011 at 5:33 pm

Cheetahs U21 25, Lions U21 14. 2nd half just kicked off.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:33 pm

Seems faster now
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:33 pm

Scrums are going well enough.
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superBul on 13 August 2011 at 5:34 pm

yes now we can talk
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:34 pm

@ grootblousmile:
Much better, thank you.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:35 pm

Tryyyyyyyy Jaque Fourie???

TMO
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:35 pm

TRYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FOURIE!
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Scrumdown on 13 August 2011 at 5:35 pm

As much as I say it, FdP is in a class of his own among the SA Scrum Halves.

Tooooo casual Surver Dude.
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:36 pm

Mrs Loosehead bought kak biltong.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:36 pm

Could be ruled a knock by Jaque Fourie… very difficult to judge
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Scrumdown on 13 August 2011 at 5:36 pm

Off the head is not a knock.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:37 pm

5m scrum for the Aussies
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superBul on 13 August 2011 at 5:37 pm

Close but no cigar
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Scrumdown on 13 August 2011 at 5:39 pm

Vark me Free State have some talented youngsters.

32/14 ahead now in the U21 game.
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:39 pm

Eishhhh, luckily you guys have a hard working webmonster….
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grootblousmile on 13 August 2011 at 5:40 pm

Bokke piling on the pressure on the Aussies
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Scrumdown on 13 August 2011 at 5:40 pm

Eish GBS, nothing like blowing your own trumpet.

If you can of course!!!
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Loosehead on 13 August 2011 at 5:41 pm

Butch should have got the drop kick.

Tri-Nations: Springboks vs Wallabies – Game Thread

Springboks (6) 9 / Wallabies (0) 14 (Final Score)

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