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, 22:33 pm
Tuilagi key man
6 Nov 2009, 22:33 pm
DWARSLAT: if thats the case why hasnt that happened before?? It is certainly been the best team we have seen….
6 Nov 2009, 22:33 pm
De Jongh missing a tackle
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
#141 WakaNathan: I wouldn’t bet on it. This side would probably not be competitive in the Currie Cup I’m afraid. Let the final scoreline be the ultimate arbiter.
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
Just at least be happy the hookers found their jumpers.
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
Tiger now have a problem. Who do they play at 12 next week ?
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
Get rid of rubbish Raubenheimer, bring on Deysel!
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
Quote of the night: He has done more for Nottingham than Robin Hood……
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
#148 Dwarslat: Idiot
6 Nov 2009, 22:34 pm
these whining Sa so called supporters should check who’s letting the side down. None of the quotas only the seasoned bok’s like Steenkamp, Du Plessis, Pienaar and Ndungane have been the problem.
Not Johnson, Nokwe, Adams, De Jongh or Rose. Its same old f.up front row woes and that has nothing to do with quotas thats to do with poor selection not playing Nel or Du Preez or Blaauw or Buys.
J. Dup and Steenkamp the problem as in the A team Smit and Beast will be our Achilles heel too.
Tuilagi is their go to man in the backs and their front row is eating ours alive.
6 Nov 2009, 22:35 pm
Bring on the bench quick.
6 Nov 2009, 22:35 pm
Bok pack humiliated at scrum time
6 Nov 2009, 22:36 pm
i might turn the telly off after all.
6 Nov 2009, 22:37 pm
Earl Rose is Sa’s number one fullback. heinke the white quota getting man handled.
6 Nov 2009, 22:37 pm
our scrum: destroyed
6 Nov 2009, 22:37 pm
#142 armchair coach:
Nah we have a young guy from Leinster who’s being keeping CJ Van der Linde out of the starting line up since he came back. CIAN HEALY remember the name he’s going to be a star. Can’t wait for the game.
6 Nov 2009, 22:37 pm
Give up not going to watch this ****. Who selected this team?
Where is Mapoe, Vermeulen, Alberts, J. Pietersen, WP. Nel. Sykes. Who else must have missed some names.
Always select on merit.
6 Nov 2009, 22:38 pm
good play Johnson
6 Nov 2009, 22:38 pm
Heinke getting drukked by the Italian just as bad.
Come Bokke show some grit you gonna do it
6 Nov 2009, 22:38 pm
The lineout is now fecked !!!
6 Nov 2009, 22:38 pm
de villiers and muir looking like they ate bad sushi for lunch…
6 Nov 2009, 22:39 pm
#164 Wezwp: Should have had WP Nel not Heinke he has not played since APRIL. WHO the heck selects like that. Get rid of the stupid selectors. They know nothing.
6 Nov 2009, 22:39 pm
#160 skopskiet: What about our ‘captain’ Rallepele….? And our ’3rd best’ hooker in SA – Maku….?
6 Nov 2009, 22:39 pm
danie ha ha
6 Nov 2009, 22:40 pm
we get a good drive on and danie has a moment
6 Nov 2009, 22:40 pm
JS: Played golf with Brett Wilkinson almost burst out laughing when I heard he was a prop 4 years ago, he is incredibly mobile, he used to be a scrumhalf – big loss for SA and nervous if you got better than him
6 Nov 2009, 22:40 pm
#125 WakaNathan,
Wonderful in the scrums, that man.
Rugby ‘Genius’,
I hope you are aware of the irony in your name. King of knee-jerk would be more fiting.
#136,
Don’t you have better things to do in your life than commenting on anything race-related you don’t like?
It is true that there are quite a few white faces in the squad that should not be there, and vice versa. Same goes for the rest.
6 Nov 2009, 22:40 pm
Danie Rossouw killing us . No respect for the jersey. He still sour grapes cos he not with matfield and co.
6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
go boks goooooo, play your bleeding hearts out.
6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
if this side loses to a Leicester 2nd XV it answers a lot of questions about our depth and particularly depth in transformation. Pity but true. Still a lot of work to be done in this department afraid. Maybe its game time. Maybe its something else. Who knows?
6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
#148 Dwarslat: you have to do better than that now plonker.
6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
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6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
#171 gunther: The excuses will come why they left out the 2nd best Bok squad. I could name a 2nd team that would be as good as our first but they are not there. Why do we have to put up with this rubbish of poor selections just because some players have to play WHY? Then we have Muir coaching this side. Where is Gold? Here in SA still. So who has coached the forwards? Muir? It is a joke and so are many of these players. Bugger feel mad about the selections.
6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
more good play from Johnson
6 Nov 2009, 22:41 pm
Johnson having a cracker…
6 Nov 2009, 22:42 pm
#184 Big Hit: always a post ahead of me!
6 Nov 2009, 22:43 pm
Ashley Johnson you beauty. Cant say the same about the rest.
6 Nov 2009, 22:43 pm
Johnson certainly pick of the forwards
6 Nov 2009, 22:43 pm
Puma and some others you like little f.ng girls get lost switch the Tv off second grade supporters.
6 Nov 2009, 22:44 pm
#180 TASSIES: Howzit Tassies. Too many left out that should have been selected.
Vermeulen, Sykes, Alberts, J. Pietersen, Mapoe, WP. Nel many more left out. Not fair on those that played some good rugby and now sitting at home for guys that have not even played S14.
6 Nov 2009, 22:44 pm
#183 Puma:
mate coach picks the team our job is to get behind them we will never all agree…I am enjoying ashley johnson
6 Nov 2009, 22:44 pm
Hamilton you twat
6 Nov 2009, 22:44 pm
another professional foul?
6 Nov 2009, 22:45 pm
#189 skopskiet: You get lost. This is not our 2nd team and you know it. At least I speak the truth.
6 Nov 2009, 22:45 pm
Certainly hope yer not incl Ashley Johnson in the ‘quota’ category, this guy is magic.
6 Nov 2009, 22:45 pm
Ball ripped from Danie rossouw and deysel twice in two minutes.
6 Nov 2009, 22:46 pm
#189 skopskiet: agree skop, should support your team through thick and thin
6 Nov 2009, 22:46 pm
#191 gunther: I am behind them but we would have done better with the better players there.
6 Nov 2009, 22:46 pm
Ball got taken away from Danie R TWICE like candy from a baby…
6 Nov 2009, 22:47 pm
Danie Roussouw showing why he isnt in the first team, hardly passed the ball when we need him – the balance needs to shift ASAP
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