Leicester 22 SA XV 17
6 Nov 2009
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.
855 Comments
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6 Nov 2009, 20:10 pm
SA! dragons
6 Nov 2009, 20:21 pm
Good luck to our Dirt Trackers Bok team.
6 Nov 2009, 20:48 pm
Go BOKKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
6 Nov 2009, 21:00 pm
I think you should rather call them the boks.
6 Nov 2009, 21:01 pm
chilli boy and Ashley should have a blinder tonight.
6 Nov 2009, 21:02 pm
Is this k/o time right?
6 Nov 2009, 21:02 pm
Go bokke!
6 Nov 2009, 21:06 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 !
6 Nov 2009, 21:13 pm
He he he “love him more than we love our children”? Now i’ve heard it all.
6 Nov 2009, 21:14 pm
#6 Big Hit:
Yip, it should be 19h30 in your time. We are 2 ahead.
6 Nov 2009, 21:15 pm
#9 theOracle: YES WE DO ! WE WOULD GLADLY TRADE OUR OWN YOUNGSTERS FOR A PAIR OF EARLS BOKKE SOCKS ! EAAAAAARRRLLLL !
6 Nov 2009, 21:16 pm
Lets hope Heinke destroys when he comes on and Earl gets a couple of high balls tonight..
6 Nov 2009, 21:18 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’.
6 Nov 2009, 21:19 pm
#12 Winston: High balls – low balls – it doesn’t matter ! Join the rugby world in saluting and cheering our diamond Earl .
6 Nov 2009, 21:19 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.
6 Nov 2009, 21:19 pm
#10 Robzim: ok, thought you were only 1 ahead.
6 Nov 2009, 21:20 pm
#13 Winston: NO ! Me and MILLIONS of other Earl fanatics around the world !
6 Nov 2009, 21:23 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..
6 Nov 2009, 21:24 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.:-)
6 Nov 2009, 21:24 pm
#16 Big Hit: not since the uk clocks changed the other day
6 Nov 2009, 21:25 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 !
6 Nov 2009, 21:25 pm
nice stadium
6 Nov 2009, 21:27 pm
#20 Waz: #19 Winston: thanks, explains a lot. link is justin.tv/stusportsextra/popout if anyone needs it
6 Nov 2009, 21:29 pm
go EARL south africa is fully behind you, take the opportunity with both hands!
6 Nov 2009, 21:29 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..
6 Nov 2009, 21:33 pm
lol what’s the point in playing the national anthem for Tigers?
6 Nov 2009, 21:34 pm
go bokke!!!!!
6 Nov 2009, 21:34 pm
eish stuart dickinson
6 Nov 2009, 21:34 pm
#23 Big Hit: Thanks bud. Loading it up now.
6 Nov 2009, 21:35 pm
#29 SodaJoe: was hoping you’d be around to get it, good work, hope it lasts the full 80
6 Nov 2009, 21:37 pm
that was such a k@k kick!!! Even ruan can’t mess up worse than that!
6 Nov 2009, 21:38 pm
#31 Transformation: go easy he’s just a kid
, bright start from A.Johnson
6 Nov 2009, 21:39 pm
Olivier boshed
6 Nov 2009, 21:42 pm
earl rose baby!!!
6 Nov 2009, 21:42 pm
lol Rose is a genius, perfect up and under, perfect grubber
6 Nov 2009, 21:43 pm
the pearl !
6 Nov 2009, 21:43 pm
Great Gary-Owen. Lovely grubber. Nice boys.
6 Nov 2009, 21:43 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.
6 Nov 2009, 21:43 pm
Rose pulls a Fourie du Preez – learning fast.
6 Nov 2009, 21:44 pm
EARL IS A RUGBY GOD !
EAT HUMBLE PIES ALL YOU FOOLS WHO INSULTED THE KING !
6 Nov 2009, 21:45 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.
6 Nov 2009, 21:45 pm
welcome to international rugby Heinie – get rid of it quickly.
6 Nov 2009, 21:46 pm
That was some very good play from Earl Rose.
6 Nov 2009, 21:49 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.
6 Nov 2009, 21:53 pm
this tuliagi is a mountain!! Fark
6 Nov 2009, 21:53 pm
Very impressed with the loose forwards so far. The team seems to have geled somewhat in the short time they had available.
6 Nov 2009, 21:55 pm
Olivier is going to have a long night
6 Nov 2009, 21:55 pm
Dirt tracker’s doing ok so far tackling well. Johnson and Raubenheimer looking fine.
6 Nov 2009, 21:56 pm
Jannie is taking shots in the scrum not looking good there
6 Nov 2009, 21:56 pm
Ralephelle off injured
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