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, 23:09 pm
#291 bluealligator: Give us all a break with you bullsh*t.
Get a hint and go away.
6 Nov 2009, 23:10 pm
name the players that shouldn’t be there Tassies come on there’s your challenge. Should have sacked all the die hard dinosaurs and played new ones we would have done better.
D. Roussouw
R. Pienaar
O. Ndungane
G. Steenkamp
J. Du Plessis
Those the players should have been left behind. Who are your merit players that you want in instead.
6 Nov 2009, 23:11 pm
The Bokke lost to a club
6 Nov 2009, 23:11 pm
Ashley J – take a bow
6 Nov 2009, 23:11 pm
take the points
6 Nov 2009, 23:11 pm
#293 SodaJoe: It is Joe, then expected this with the team that got selected. Not good we have to select our best. Every other country does just that. Not here in SA we never will.
Even in the Test side. JdV and Frans Steyn should still have got selected even if they are playing overseas.
This is embarrassing. I feel angry as a supporter. They let us down by not selecting the best. Our 2nd best would have creamed this team.
6 Nov 2009, 23:11 pm
#295 AndrewBK: this one but then again the most racist coach in history picked them hey
6 Nov 2009, 23:11 pm
Ruan if you ever needed to show you can kick under pressure do it now.
6 Nov 2009, 23:12 pm
Potgieter is trying but not up to this level. Sure its a scratch Bok team, but Leicester have done very well. At least give them some credit. They are a club team but do play in the Heineken (European) Cup – they are not *******…..
6 Nov 2009, 23:12 pm
#304 panniepeet: Yes he has played very well.
6 Nov 2009, 23:12 pm
#300 WP_:
Yip, he is just as overrated as some of the so-called quotas.
6 Nov 2009, 23:12 pm
Has anyone hit the post more than RP?
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
Maku shouldnt be there either, or Raubenheimer
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
We dont deserve to win this – the Leicester side is good and have played well. Questions about our front row need to be asked and we need to address this ASAP
as for Blue alligator the biggest let downs have been JDP, Roussouw and Pienaar so not sure where the race bit come from? Oh and ndugane but he is always ****
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
#282 TASSIES: getting a thumping like this isn’t going to be good for any of the newbies. This is like boys against men.
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
#278 skopskiet:
hi Skop. As you well know, this is a team sport. Lets start at the front row………and move to flyhalf shall we…..and then we can address the rest. In any man’s book, this is a kak side. Poorly selected and the result is probably no surprised to some. Poor reflection on the coaching/selection. Just my opinion old chap.
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
#309 Hambafrika:
The problem is that this is there B- team!!
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
good scrum boks, not over yet
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
Sheez, am I glad I didn’t make the trip from London to Leicester today… Doesn’t bode well for the support at Wembley when these w*nkers play Saracens
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
#309 Hambafrika: Yes and they have been playing together much longer than this scratch team that only have trained for 3 days. Still saying that if we took the players that should have got selected we would have won tonight.
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
Hmmmm so Dickinson has it in for the boks
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
it might be worth noting that the biggest disappointment was not person everyone thought would suck the most (Earl Rose) but rather the more established players that have let us down big time.
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
puma you and Tassies like a bunch of cry babies
Anybody think this is a second grade club side think again. Our first team would have been annihilated up front by this front row as bad.
6 Nov 2009, 23:13 pm
Last Chance Saloon.
6 Nov 2009, 23:14 pm
#307 bluealligator: Your sh*t is stinking up the place.
Who let this guy in.
6 Nov 2009, 23:14 pm
#312 SodaJoe:
i think he aims for the posts themselves rather than between them, its unfortunate really…
6 Nov 2009, 23:14 pm
#317 Robzim: And our C or D team.
6 Nov 2009, 23:14 pm
who selected this palooka bok team? Arrogance in the extreme!
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
#316 TASSIES:
Hi Tassies,
Unfortunately I agree with u.
I have no problem with them picking emerging or experimental sides but what p#ssed me off is that Hoskins is trying to sell this as a merit only side.
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
i was gonna say to the guys before the game started, watch out, i have watched leicester play and they can play, and our team tonight has not played together, some are there on merit, some not, but so be it, Some of you said we gonna walk over Leicester, you probably dont have satelite because they are a good team, the boks are so uncohesive and it shows they are not used to each other. and that brings me to my last point, the A Bok team has issues in the front row. and i think we will be shown up in the scrums. Goooooooooooooooooo bokke goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
#291 bluealligator: Well said Bluealligator. Its as clear as the nose on your face yet everyone is skirting around the blatant bullshit that is this teams selection. Its the beginning of the end.
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
game over
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
Will Leicester C choke ?
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
Yup Robzim. Where’s Duane Vermeulen when you need him?
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
#317 Robzim: Yes, but still a powerful side. There are lots of players in the international frame. Just because they are not household names in the S Hemisphere does not mean they cant win on any day? They have beaten the Boks playing Bok rugby……
6 Nov 2009, 23:15 pm
#301 Ezee-23: In a word you racist pig you bugger off PDV makes Hitler look like an Amnesty international spearhead
6 Nov 2009, 23:16 pm
Good Win Leicester!!!This team is kak. Joe p should be there.
6 Nov 2009, 23:16 pm
here we go, last chance to steal it back
6 Nov 2009, 23:16 pm
No depth in SA rugby. NZ are a shoo-in to win the 2011 RWC on home turf. The Yarpies are absolutely bloody useless. Getting horribly reamed by Leicester??? How embarrassing for Piet Helium and his shabby team of woolly-woofters?
6 Nov 2009, 23:16 pm
#302 skopskiet: Stop talking ****.
6 Nov 2009, 23:17 pm
#323 skopskiet: Skop this is a good side we are playing. I am frustrated that some of our 2nd best players never got selected. You know there are many that never and if they did we would have won tonight. Why select players ahead of players that really should have been there.
We will lose them to overseas they not going sit and take this. I don’t blame them either.
Where is Vermeulen, Sykes, Alberts. WP. Nel. A. Strauss, J. Pietersen damn there are many more I must have missed out.
I would never pay to see a team not selected on merit. NEVER.
6 Nov 2009, 23:18 pm
#331 bok2007: You too? Save it for another day. It’s a waste of space at this moment in time.
Go Away!!!
6 Nov 2009, 23:18 pm
#341 Puma: Mapoe should have been there too.
6 Nov 2009, 23:19 pm
#325 Ezee-23: You did you piece of rectal offal
6 Nov 2009, 23:19 pm
intense
6 Nov 2009, 23:19 pm
swing it dammit!!
6 Nov 2009, 23:20 pm
#331 bok2007: Yep that is the crux of the matter.
6 Nov 2009, 23:20 pm
useless. they didn’t even have a run, what the heck.
6 Nov 2009, 23:20 pm
what a win! Cockerill didn’t even smile haha
6 Nov 2009, 23:21 pm
What a disgrace
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