Springboks (13) 13 / Samoa (0) 5 (Final Score)
The South African Springboks and Samoa did battle in Albany at 09:30 SA Time (20:30 NZ Time).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1, SHD & M-Net on TV in SA.
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The Springboks won a very hard match, with a lot of niggle in the match and a fiery Samoa not giving up.
The game was marred by the first Red Card of the tournament, to Paul Williams, for a punch to the face of Heinrich Brussow and also marred by a Yellow Card to John Smit.
Samoa exits the tournament and the Springboks end top of the “Pool of Death”, Pool D.
Scorers:
Springboks:
- Penalties – Frans Steyn (1), Morné Steyn (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Bryan Habana (1)
- Conversions – Morné Steyn (1)
Samoa:
- Penalties – 0
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – George Stowers (1)
- Conversions – 0
Teams:
South Africa: 15 Pat Lambie, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morné Steyn , 9 Fourie du Preez, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Schalk Burger, 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Victor Matfield (captain), 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Replacements: 16 John Smit, 17 Gurthrö Steenkamp, 18 CJ van der Linde, 19 Willem Alberts, 20 François Louw, 21 François Hougaard, 22 Jean de Villiers.
Samoa: 15 Paul Williams, 14 David Lemi, 13 Seilala Mapusua, 12 Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu, 11 Alesana Tuilagi, 10 Tusi Pisi, 9 Kahn Fotuali’i, 8 George Stowers, 7 Maurie Fa’asavalu, 6 Taiasina Tuifua, 5 Kane Thompson, 4 Daniel Leo, 3 Census Johnston, 2 Mahonri Schwalger (captain), 1 Sakaria Taulafo.
Replacements: 16 Olé Avei, 17 Anthony Perenise, 18 Logovi’i Mulipola, 19 Ofisa Treviranus, 20 Filipo Lavea Levi, 21 Junior Poluleuligaga, 22 George Pisi.
Date: Friday 30 September
Venue: North Harbour Stadium, Albany
Kick-off: 09:30 SA Time (20:30 NZ Time)
Expected weather: Partly cloudy with a high of 18°C, dropping to 12°C.
Referee: Nigel Owens (Wales)
Assistant referees: Wayne Barnes (England), Stuart Terheege (England)
TMO: Graham Hughes (England)
4 Pool matches, 4 wins… Bokke top the Pool of Death!
268@ grootblousmile:agree, the way they played at the end, they deserved better
Samoa exit…. their tournament is done
Outta here, Enjoy your Friday boys, see you in the morning
Bokke make me sweat and worry… a lot!
Winning with kicks at goal again, as in previous WC wins, perhaps that why we need Morne. For the rest he is quite ineffective at #10.
Don’t know what the reason is but Boks just never came out firing from the very start. Matfield said they went to sleep in the second half but in my opinion they never ever woke up. Was that gap between matches just too long’ Expected more from Beast. Seems like Bissy and Beast are better as impact players.
Heers vir eers, thx for your company, see you all later.
Where can we be critical on the Bokke performance…. well, there’s a lot to be critical about!
They broke the Springbok line a lot
Morné Steyn kicked quite a few too many up and unders
Bokke lost focus at crucial times
Bokke were roped into the off-the-ball scuffs
Had me very worried. But good defence held out in the end. We kicked away too much possession, and it seemed as if Nigel Owens tried to blow us out of the match, especially Smits yellow card. Any thoughts?
Summation:
So gaan ons nie die Titel behou nie!
Relax boys, dit was do or die vir Samoa, of course sou hulle alles in gesit het, liewer nou een game voor australia n’ tawwe game he, die Ozzie voorspelers gaan ons ouens laat voel hulle speel teen n’ klomp softies, Oz se voorspelers kan nie so n’ tagtig minute performance insit nie.
Well, the game is out of the way… the win was achieved.
The next game in RWC is at 04:30 tomorrow morning, Australia vs Russia
IMO the Boks really needed to start a free for all early in the game, get the niggling out of the way and show the dirty Islanders how to play Rugby.
We were dragged into FAR too much off the ball sh1t which really seemed to disrupt things.
Much for Div and co to think about, but hey, tomorrow is another day.
GO ITALY!!!!
If you give Samoa as much ball as we did, they will hurt you. We played into their hands, and our kick chase did not work
I am just so farking disappointed with that performance. Guys, let’s be honest here. We said of the Wales match that the Welsh played out of their skins and the Boks were just rusty. We can’t keep on using the same excuse. This was Sanoa for fark sake. They should never have a sniff of victory against our first 15.
They never had a sniff Turk, our execution let us down and cost us a number of tries, have we scored those every one would have been happy.
Rather look at what this games means to us looking forward.
The Bok management will castigate the players for poor decision making and for their execution on attack.
We overdid the damn scrum once we realised we could push them back, and giving away a penalty in attack when Spies rolled into the scrum when we were five meters out became predictable.
Twice on attack close to their line we conceded penalties.
Our defence will learn out of this game that even an effective umbrella defence can be too predictable.
Instead of going into the Wallaby QF with too much confidence we will now focus on the ares that need work.
287 @ The_Young_Turk:
Personally I think Samoa was the side to have improved the most of all the minnows.
Wales only managed to win against Samoa by 17 / 10 or something against them as well.
What I’d like to concentrate on is the errors by the Bokke… missing first time tackles, specially in the second half.
Also, Bokke need cooler heads, stay out of the fights and play to their own pattern and strenghts, and that implies we need to hold onto ball and not just give possession away.
There’s a LOT to work on for the Bokke!
@ biltongbek:
I know, i know look at he positives. But FFS man we should be past this stage of learning already. We should be improving every match and ironing out the kinks, not discovering a whole lot more!
@ grootblousmile:
How’s that other business of mine coming along?
291 @ Scrumdown:
Very well, hope to have it finished before I have to leave for Roftus.
@ grootblousmile:
That’s my point Gbs, there’s just too much to work on and no time left anymore.
Well the only positive I can think of is that now the Boks will go into the QF against OZ as the overwhelming underdogs. No one will be expecting them to win and the Ozzies will already be planning their match against NZ.
OK folks, let me work… I still have to go to Loftus too this afternoon… for you rugby hungry farkers!
Boks always play better as underdogs or with their backs to the wall. I think we will come out firing for Oz and lose against NZ. No matter how much it guts me to say it, we’re just not good enough.
292@ grootblousmile:
Great. I’ll give you a call over the weekend to come and collect.
The_Young_Turk wrote:
We have been the underdogs from the start nothing has changed.
1st half we looked good, a bit over eager, but looking to get into our straps. We kept ball in hand better. Samoan defence was outstanding, limiting us to 13 points. Where SA made the mistake, they let the niggles get to them, and our kicks were not accurate. Morne Steyn missed too many touch finders and tactically, our kick chase was poor, giving them the ball to run at us. When Samoa kicked they kicked with purpose and direction.
Looks like you were all on the edge of your seats with this one, would have expected the Boks to do much better, but I guess a win is a win. Just had look at short highlights, lucky the guy who got red carded didn’t strike like that at Brussow with his fist, otherwise he may have been concussed and possibly missed out on next weeks game.
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