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)
Fransie Setyn looks injured… hammie
GREAT tackles by Bakkies and the Habana.
Bok defence k@k there for a few minutres.
Try to Pat McCabe for Aussie
Try Aussies, oh dear.
Wallabies 8 / 6
U21’s. Last minute, Lion Cubs lead 41 – 32 after a great fightback.
Surely Aplon was taken in the air?
Bokke now being outplayed a bit
Gio Aplon on for Fransie Steyn, Bismarck on, Jannie off
Brussouw off? What the fluck is the puppet up to?
Jean Deysel on, Brussow off
Free State U21’s should never have lost this game.
Finals score Lions U21 41 – 32 Free State U21
Bismark steals a great ball, and Matfield kicks it away………….waste.
this thread could have been around 300 posts by now, i lost about 15, error whatever… sorry i watch the game now, no more attempting to post
Wallabies getting more and more into the game
@ Scrumdown:
Well done.
Ons speel nie hardloop rugby nie, so bring MS op vir ‘n paar skepskoppe en om meer afstand te kry met lynskoppe.
WTF is going on with the Boks?
Did they think the Aussies would roll over and play dead?
Penalty advantage to SA…. penalty awarded!
Slot it Butch!
Bokke 9 / 8
Spies is terug.
Penalty advantage, kick the points.
Good play by Spies.
Beast’s offloads in the tackle are….. ewll non existant!
Great attack by the Bokke…. goes lost inches from the line
Hougie on for habana… for blood
@ ben_die_bul:
One swallow does not a summer make.
20 min left on the clock
113@ Scrumdown:
PUMA, leave my keyboard alone please.
Typo, typo typo.
Bissie is a machine!
Aussies are playing better and better.
115@ Loosehead:
Even a blind squirrel gets lucky and can find a nut from time to time!
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