Leicester 22 SA XV 17
Keo.co.za brought you live commentary from the Springboks’ end-of-year tour opener at Welford Road.
80 mins: South Africa run through numerous phases as they move towards the try line, but a strong Leicester defence keeps them at bay. Odwa Ndungane eventually loses the ball forward and Lote Tuqiri dives over the touchline with the ball. The Leicester players celebrate as they played four minutes into extra time. Leicester beat South Africa 22-17!
79 mins: Leicester drive the ball forward through their heavies as try to waste time, but they concede a penalty to the South Africans with a minute to play. Pienaar kicks for touch to give his side a lineout in Leicester’s 22m area.
77 mins: South Africa are awarded a crucial penalty in Leicester’s 22m area. Pienaar bags the three points, which sees the visitors need a converted try to achieve victory. 22-17 to Leicester!
65 mins: After a frustrating period of play, South Africa decide to go for posts when they are awarded a penalty in the last quarter. Pienaar slots the attemot to score their first points of the second stanza. 22-14 to Leicester!
58 mins: Leicester receive their third penalty after South Africa struggle to compete at the scrums. Youngs kicks the home side into a 11-point lead. 22-11 to Leicester!
52 mins: After being dominated at the scrums, the Leicester forwards start to rule the air battle at the lineouts.
45 mins: Heinke van der Merwe comes on for Steenkamp in his prefered loosehead position, but Castrogiovanni still destroys him in the scrum and earns his side a penalty. Leicester score the first points of the second half as Youngs converts the goal attempt. 19-11 to Leicester!
Half-time: Leicester 16 South Africa 11
40 mins: Mauger concedes a penalty on the stroke of half-time for obstructing the South Africans from chasing the ball. Pienaar kicks the three-pointer to leave South Africa trailing by five points at the break. 16-11 to Leicester!
39 mins: Ill discipline costs the visitors as Youngs converts his third penalty. 16-8 to Leicester!
38 mins: South Africa penalised again after being out-scrummed by the Leicester front row. Guthro Steenkamp a major concern as Martin Castrogiovanni has the clear upper hand.
33 mins: Leicester are awarded a penalty on the 50m line after the South African pack were out-scrummed. Youngs bags the three points with an impressive attempt. 13-8 to Leicester!
27 mins: Leicester try! A poor clearance from Pienaar allowed Leicester to run a counter attack. A swift switch from centre Manu Tuilagi put wing Lucas Amorosino through for their first five-pointer. Youngs converted the try to put the home side in the lead. 10-8 to Leicester!
20 mins: Captain Chilliboy Ralepelle leaves the field early after suffering an injury in a scrum. Bandise Maku comes on to replace the skipper.
10 mins: Leicester hit right back as Youngs makes up for his woeful miss earlier in the game by slotting his second attempt. 8-3 to South Africa!
8 mins: South African try! After a good kick and chase from South Africa, the secure possession in Leicester’s 22m area, although it seemed centre Juan de Jongh interfered with the receiver. Fullback Earl Rose then puts a chip through, which is gather by wing Jongi Nokwe, and the Bok flyer dives over for the opening try. 8-0 to South Africa!
5 mins: Ruan Pienaar puts the visitors ahead after South Africa were awarded a penalty in front of the posts. 3-0 to South Africa!
2 mins: South Africa concede an early penalty in a kickable position, but scrumhalf Ben Youngs pushes his attempt wide.
1 min: Deep kickoff from pivot Aaron Mauger, which is received by Ashley Johnson. The No 8 secures possession as he sets up the first phase. Ruan Pienaar then kicks a good clearance back into Leicester’s half.
Leicester – 15 Scott Hamilton, 14 Lucas Amorosino, 13 Andy Forsyth, 12 Manu Tuilagi, 11 Johne Murphy, 10 Aaron Mauger (c), 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Brett Deacon, 7 Ben Pienaar, 6 Geoff Parling, 5 Ben Kay, 4 Calum Green, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Mefin Davies,1 Marcos Ayerza.
Subs: 16 George Chuter, 17 Dan Cole, 18 Tom Armes, 19 Dan Hemingway, 20 James Grindal, 21 Greig Tonks, 22 Lote Tuqiri.
South Africa XV – 15 Earl Rose, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Ruan Pienaar, 9 Heini Adams, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Davon Raubenheimer, 6 Dewald Potgieter, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle (c), 1 Gurthro Steenkamp.
Subs: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Heinke van der Merwe, 18 Alistair Hargreaves, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Riaan Viljoen.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
SA! dragons
November 6th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Good luck to our Dirt Trackers Bok team.
November 6th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Go BOKKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I think you should rather call them the boks.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
chilli boy and Ashley should have a blinder tonight.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Is this k/o time right?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Go bokke!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
AT LAST THE TIME HAS COME !
EARL’S TIME HAS COME !
STAND UP ! WHEREVER YOU ARE STAND UP !
JOIN ME AND START CHANTING AS LOUD AS YOU CAN
EARL EARL EARL EARL EARL EARL EARL !
WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE THE BIRTH OF SHEER GENIUS !
EARL THE WHOLE OF SOUTH AFRICA IS WITH YOU !
WE LOVE YOU MORE THAN WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN !
TONIGHT HE IS BIGGER THAN THE BOKKE JERSEY !
November 6th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
He he he “love him more than we love our children”? Now i’ve heard it all.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
#6 Big Hit:
Yip, it should be 19h30 in your time. We are 2 ahead.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
#9 theOracle: YES WE DO ! WE WOULD GLADLY TRADE OUR OWN YOUNGSTERS FOR A PAIR OF EARLS BOKKE SOCKS ! EAAAAAARRRLLLL !
November 6th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Lets hope Heinke destroys when he comes on and Earl gets a couple of high balls tonight..
November 6th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Rugby genius,I hope for ur sake Earl plays well tonight cause u are the only person on this site singing his praises. So lets hope we are all proved wrong tonight but I doubt it’.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
#12 Winston: High balls – low balls – it doesn’t matter ! Join the rugby world in saluting and cheering our diamond Earl .
November 6th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
#4 Wezwp: Read on rugby 365 they call them Bok Dirt Tracker team. kinda like we used to call our Dirt Tracker team years back. Nothing wrong with it.
Good luck to our boys in green and gold.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
#10 Robzim: ok, thought you were only 1 ahead.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
#13 Winston: NO ! Me and MILLIONS of other Earl fanatics around the world !
November 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Look,jokes aside Rugby genius,what is it that u see in Earl that makes u think he is the greatest.. U speak of him like he is greater than Dan Carter,I think he was a very good junior player and can do the odd good thing here and then but he just too many silly things for me. But lets see what he does tonight..
November 6th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Big Hit,its one hour in our winter and your summer,but two hours in our summer and your winter.. Geography lesson for the day.:-)
November 6th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
#16 Big Hit: not since the uk clocks changed the other day
November 6th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
#18 Winston: he has received a lot of bad press and this has had a negative impact on his game ! Today he shall show the world what a star he is !
November 6th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
nice stadium
November 6th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
#20 Waz: #19 Winston: thanks, explains a lot. link is justin.tv/stusportsextra/popout if anyone needs it
November 6th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
go EARL south africa is fully behind you, take the opportunity with both hands!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
At the end of the day the Earl Rose subject has been flogged to death,just like Smit playing at 3,lets see how it goes tonight..
November 6th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
lol what’s the point in playing the national anthem for Tigers?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
go bokke!!!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
eish stuart dickinson
November 6th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
#23 Big Hit: Thanks bud. Loading it up now.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
#29 SodaJoe: was hoping you’d be around to get it, good work, hope it lasts the full 80
November 6th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
that was such a k@k kick!!! Even ruan can’t mess up worse than that!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
#31 Transformation: go easy he’s just a kid
, bright start from A.Johnson
November 6th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Olivier boshed
November 6th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
earl rose baby!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
lol Rose is a genius, perfect up and under, perfect grubber
November 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
the pearl !
November 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Great Gary-Owen. Lovely grubber. Nice boys.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Nice kick from Ruan. Good crowd no booing. We should learn from that.
First try. Boks. Nice little kick by Rose there to set that try up.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Rose pulls a Fourie du Preez – learning fast.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
EARL IS A RUGBY GOD !
EAT HUMBLE PIES ALL YOU FOOLS WHO INSULTED THE KING !
November 6th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
all the quotas showing how its done Raubenheimer Johnson Adams Rose De Jongh and Nokwe rounding it off. Stick that in your pipe and smoke hard.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
welcome to international rugby Heinie – get rid of it quickly.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
That was some very good play from Earl Rose.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Funny. People say Earl is no hoper and after one move he is a genius.
Well done, by the way, Mr. Rose, very well done. But no, you ain’t genius.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
this tuliagi is a mountain!! Fark
November 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Very impressed with the loose forwards so far. The team seems to have geled somewhat in the short time they had available.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Olivier is going to have a long night
November 6th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Dirt tracker’s doing ok so far tackling well. Johnson and Raubenheimer looking fine.
November 6th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Jannie is taking shots in the scrum not looking good there
November 6th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Ralephelle off injured