England (17) 41 / Georgia (10) 10 (Final Score)
England and Georgia did battle in Dunedin at 08:00 SA Time (18:00 NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & CSN on TV in SA.
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Despite a 31-point winning margin and 6 tries, England will not feel at all happy about this match and you can bet your bottom dollar that Martin Johnson must be secretly fuming at the ill-dicipline and overall incompetance of the England side.
If Georgia had a kicker who could slot the penalties, the score would have been very different.
That said, it’s 5 Log points in the bag for England.
Scorers:
England:
- Penalties – Toby Flood (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Shontayne Hape (2), Delon Armitage (1), Manu Tuilagi (1), Chris Ashton (2)
- Conversions – Toby Flood (4)
Georgia:
- Penalties – Merab Kvirikashvili (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Dimitri Basilaia (1)
- Conversions – Merab Kvirikashvili (1)
Teams:
England: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Manu Tuilagi, 12 Shontayne Hape, 11 Delon Armitage, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Lewis Moody (captain), 6 Tom Wood, 5 Tom Palmer, 4 Simon Shaw, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Matt Stevens.
Replacements: 16 Steve Thompson, 17 Alex Corbisiero, 18 Tom Croft, 19 James Haskell, 20 Joe Simpson, 21 Jonny Wilkinson, 22 Matt Banahan.
Georgia: 15 Revaz Gigauri, 14 Irakli Machkhaneli, 13 David Kacharava, 12 Tedo Zibzibadze, 11 Alexander Todua, 10 Merab Kvirikashvili, 9 Irakli Abuseridze (captain), 8 Dimitri Basilaia, 7 Mamuka Gorgodze, 6 Shalva Sutiashvili, 5 Vakhtang Maisuradze, 4 Ilia Zedginidze, 3 David Kubriashvili, 2 Jaba Bregvadze, 1 David Khinchagishvili.
Replacements: 16 Akvsenti Giorgadze, 17 David Zirakashvili, 18 Levan Datunashvili, 19 Giorgi Chkhaidze, 20 Bidzina Samkharadze, 21 Givi Berishvili, 22 Lasha Khmaladze.
Date: Sunday 18 September 2011
Kick-off: 08:00 SA Time (18:00 NZ Time)
Venue: Otago Stadium, Dunedin
Expected weather conditions: Partly clouydy with a high of 14°C, dropping to 6°C.
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Steve Walsh (Australia), Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Goooooooooo Georgia!
About 32 minutes to kick-off
The roof is closed in Otago… the weather very foul in the South of the South Island!
Today we’ll see if England can score big against a minnow….
England have picked a far more mobile pack for this game…. against a strong East-Europan forwards pack.
My SuperBru pick is a win for England by 27
England will play in their traditional WHITE strip… thank goodness
Moody back, will it make a difference
Anthems.
God save the Queen up first
Watching the Welsh match in bed this morning over my fat gut, I got to thinking, has there ever been a team who’s pack has weighed a ton or more? If not the heaviest recorded pack?
7 @ Just For Kicks:
Hello, Skoppers!
Game ON!
England need a big score here if the want to worry any other teams. So far this year, they’ve certainly looked very beatable
Howzit, you’ve been up for a while, I see!
Early penalty for Georgia, too far out though
13 @ Just For Kicks:
Yip… totally against my nature, of course!
Hehehe
Try Hape for the Bleekbene
Try time
England 7 / 0
Try Georgia??
TMO
Maybe a foot out?
Definately a foot out… let off for the Poms
Georgia caught Ben Youngs badly there…
Georgia on my mind
Penalty Georgia, going for posts… one of the Wara-wara-vili’s will go for posts
Missed left… bad miss
It must be the ball
Another penalty to the Georgians
Injury to a VILI
The Vili misses again to the left
Another one missed
Penalty to the Vili’s again, they lick for touch… and England get a team warning.
Yet another Vili penalty… England lucky not to get a Yellow
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