Wallabies 28 All Blacks 49
31 Jul 2010
Keo.co.za brought you live commentary on the Tri-Nations clash in Melbourne.
Full time: Wallabies 28 All Blacks 49
80 mins: All Blacks try! Was basic. The All Blacks just spread the ball end to end on each attack to stretch the Wallabies’ defence. As they broke into the Wallabies’ red zone, the ball was passed to the right, where the All Blacks had a major overlap. Replacement hooker Corey Flynn touches down in the corner. Carter misses the conversion, which could’ve made it the All Blacks’ highest score tally against the Wallabies. The final hooter blows to end the game. The All Blacks win 49-28!
70 mins: Wallabies try! From the lineout, the Wallabies build momentum with several ball carriers. Eventually, skipper Rocky Elsom breaks through and crosses the chalk. Giteau converts. 44-28 to the All Blacks!
68 mins: All Blacks determined to run the ball as they play from their red zone. However, Pocock wins the Wallabies a penalty as he catches out the All Blacks holding on to the ball on the ground. Wallabies kick for touch.
58 mins: All Blacks try! Didn’t take too long before the All Blacks hit back. The visitors won the ball at the kickoff (again) and set out on an attack. After a couple of set phases, play goes wide and Nonu’s pass threads Rokocoko through and the wing stretches out for another try. Carter misses the conversion, 44-21 to the All Blacks!
55 mins: Wallabies try! Finally! After spending eight minutes in the All Blacks’ red zone, Ashley-Cooper dives over after gatherong a loose pass from Giteau. Giteau converts. 39-21 to the All Blacks!
52 mins: Genia takes another quick penalty tap and Pocock drives over the line moments after. However, the TMO rules the ball is held up. 5m scrum to the Wallabies.
50 mins: All Blacks concede a penalty in their 22m area and scrumhalf Will Genia takes the quick penalty tap. After 15 phases, the Wallabies get another penlaty as the visitors are adjudged to be offside.
47 mins: All Blacks try! Wallabies have the put in to the scrum in their 22m area, but the All Blacks pack drive through and win possession. Read drives up and the ball is spread wide to an unmarked Muliaina, who grabs his brace. Carter slots the conversion. 39-14 to the All Blacks!
43 mins: Wallabies see red as Mitchell is sent off after receiving his second yellow card for obstructing a quick throw. Joubert gave the final warning in the first half and the Wallabies will have to play with 14 men for the rest of the game.
41 mins: Good kickoff from Carter, which allows No 8 Kieron Read to win the ball in the air. However, Read loses the ball forward and the Wallabies have the scrum. Lucky layoff early on for the hosts.
Half-time: Wallabies 14 All Blacks 32
40 mins: All Blacks have the lineout as the half-time hooter blows. However, Pocock makes another steal at the next breakdown. The Wallabies spread play wide and Mitchell puts in the kick ahead, but it’s too long and rolls out. Joubert blows to end the half.
35 mins: All Blacks try! And it’s the bonus-point five-pointer! From a 10m lineout, lock Brad Thorn drives up play. As the forwards gain metres, replacement scrumhalf Piri Weepu decides to go back to the blindside and the ball is passed wide to Jane, who touches down in the corner. Carter kicks over the difficult conversion. 32-14 to the All Blacks!
32 mins: All Blacks win the ball from the restart and the Wallabies are later penalised for a breakdown infringement. Carter converts. 25-14 to the Wallabies!
30 mins: The All Blacks are caught out as they attempt to run the ball from their 22m area. Inside centre Ma’a Nonu gets possession and slips, and is penalised for holding on at the tackle point. Giteau slots the penalty from right in front. 22-14 to the All Blacks!
28 mins: Mitchell is yellow-carded after a call from the assistant referee Cobus Wessels. The punishment is for no arms in the tackle, which was late too. Wallabies down to 14 men.
25 mins: All Blacks try! Clever tactics from the All Blacks. They target Ashley-Cooper with a chip and win a turnover from the breakdown. Skipper Richie McCaw picks up the ball and runs down the touchline and beats three defenders to score. Carter adds the extras. 22-11 to the All Blacks!
24 mins: BIG HIT! Wing Joe Rokocoko bumps off fullback Adam Ashley-Cooper in a big collision. Ashley-Cooper gets medical attention.
22 mins: All Blacks Owen Franks is sent to the sin bin for an offside and shoulder charge tackle. All Blacks down to 14 men.
20 mins: All Blacks win possession from the restart and use their forwards to drive into the Wallabies’ red zone. But Wallabies flanker David Pocock makes a crucial steal and the Wallabies are awarded a scrum.
17 mins: Giteau gets another opportunity at goal as the All Blacks are penalised moments after again. This time the pivot converts. 15-11 to the All Blacks!
15 mins: The first scrum of the game and All Blacks loosehead prop Tony Woodcock is penalised in a kickable position. But Giteau misses the straight forward kick.
13 mins: All Blacks try! All Blacks pass the ball through the hands and wing Cory Jane puts the chip ahead. Muliaina gets the perfect birthday gift as he gathers to dot down. Carter misses the conversion. 15-8 to the All Blacks!
10 mins: All Blacks try! Can you believe it!? Carter makes up for his earlier error as he charged down inside centre Berrick Barnes’ clearance after the restart and dives over for the All Blacks’ first five-pointer. Carter converts and the All Blacks are ahead. 10-8 to the All Blacks!
8 mins: Wallabies try! The home team regain the lead as wing Drew Mitchell charged down Carter’s clearance. The All Blacks pivot took too long with his kick and the Mitchell pounced to dive in at the corner. Giteau misses the conversion. 8-3 to the All Blacks!
6 mins: All Blacks get their first penalty moments after the kickoff as the Wallabies are penalised for competing at the breakdown off their feet. Pivot Dan Carter finds the target. Score level at 3-3!
2 mins: Great break from pivot Matt Giteau from his own 22m area as he set out on a 40m run. It’s 3 on 2 and Giteau offloads to wing James O’Connor who has centre Rob Horne on his outside. O’Connor decides not to pass and goes down to recycle. Poor passing slows momentum. However, the Wallabies still break into the All Blacks’ red zone with a penalty advantage for offside. Nothing comes from it the opportunity and referee Craig Joubert awards Wallabies the first penalty. Giteau converts. 3-0 to the Wallabies!
1 min: Wallabies kickoff and it’s a deep one. Easy for the All Blacks to secure possession and they run a couple a phases before fullback Mils Muliaina puts a long toe-poke through.
Wallabies – 15 Adam Ashley Cooper, 14 James O’Connor, 13 Rob Horne, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Matt Giteau, 9 Will Genia, 8 Richard Brown, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (c), 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Dean Mumm, 3 Salesi Ma’afu, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Benn Robinson
Subs: 16 Saia Faingaa, 17 James Slipper, 18 Rob Simmons, 19 Matt Hodgson, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Anthony Faingaa, 22 Kurtley Beale.
All Blacks – 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Daniel Carter, 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw (c), 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Tom Donnelly, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock
Subs: 16 Corey Flynn, 17 Ben Franks, 18 Sam Whitelock, 19 Victor Vito, 20 Piri Weepu, 21 Aaron Cruden, 22 Israel Dagg.
By Gareth Duncan
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1 Aug 2010, 23:44 pm
other way around Louden and Campese developed Bulls and Sharks, which national coach fed off, even then he could not win 3N while he was losing 49-0 the franchises were winning the S14
lost more than he won at all competitions, 44% success in 3N and 50% on eoyt’s
So where all this consistency and confidence took him to it was all losing and losses till EJ and the Argy-England cake walk WC came around.
White did not develop the core group of players, they were all there before, Smit, Botha, Matfield, Smith even Burger, Van Niekerk, Os, BJ and CJ, JdV and Percy were there before Jake came around.
He improved on Streauli but not by much, Streauli lost 53-3 and Jake 49-0 almost one as good as the other.
1 Aug 2010, 23:50 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-551: SARU: War declared on SA
Wow!!! The wagons are circling big time now. I wonder if the people that make these comments ever stop to think about how silly they look to the world outside SA? I guess their main focus is to stir up local public opinion and move the focus away from on field dissapointments, but this on top of PdV’s declaration that the refs and IRB are ‘cheats’ must make a lot of SA supporters absolutely cringe.
The really scary thing is that even with it being obvious what they are really trying to achieve, it doesn’t mean that a portion of the supporters won’t buy into the conspiracy hysteria, and unfortunately we will probably see it appear on this blog.
Find some class SARU and sort out your public image. After that you might like to help PdV and the team get back the focus they need to play to their potential. This sort of rubbish will be a massive hinderance to the players mindset when they really need to be very focussed on their own recent poor performances. Giving them reasons to blame the world instead is just plain dumb! Don’t just blame the players if they come up short again this season.
1 Aug 2010, 23:54 pm
Haha u just can’t give him credit, u forgot plumtree too
jakey had a total win record of 66%, a world cup, a 3n and an unbeaten home test record – perhaps a handful of coaches on the last 30 years can claim that.
He not only developed them but importantly stuck with them through thick and thin, which very ever did or would do now. When the rwc came along every dingle I had been dotted and t crossed, never ever has a springbok team been that professionally prepared.
1 Aug 2010, 23:59 pm
@aliboy(aliboy)-652:
So what SARU is saying is that they support the stance that the referees may have been involved in a NZ-RWC and/or NZ-Aus conspiracy against SA ?
I blame the Oirish. That evil David McHugh started it all when he winked at Big Piet in the crowd before King Richie handed out some law enforcement, Judge Dredd-style. In 2010, the Oirish are all in on the act. The NZ-Aus conspiracy is merely a cover for the NZ-Ire conspiracy, launched over a few pints of Vitamin G and ended up in winning RWC-hosting rights for Piney and the boys. Cheers !
2 Aug 2010, 00:02 am
Insofar as professionalism is concerned, no-one in sa rugby has ever come close and no-one currently does either, problem with White is he is a coach, not a diplomat and he like krusty have a knack for riling up folk
Mitchell I think is a great coach, a very different attacking coach, but he not what the lions need IMO, he is more what the bold need to take them to the next level in his skill finishing skill but am hoping pdv can do that, the best coach for the lions right now would be jakey and not in that bullshite advisory role, rather in coaching role where his rep is staked to results, he will then bust a gut to get them right, but he now got the taste for the high life and seems a bit of a shitstorrer trying to usurp pdv. If that is the case he must fk right off, he of all ppl should know how it is after a few losses
2 Aug 2010, 00:16 am
Im surprised the Aussies havent alleged a NZ-SA conspiracy by now given that they (a) lost (b) the ref was a Safa clown and (c) had a player YCed (Mitchells 1st YC) when it shouldnt have been.
I just presumed that was the formula now:- Lost + Dodgy Ref x YCs = Conspiracy
Surely the Convicts will show their true colours. Wont they ? Id be embarrassed if they just Man’ed Up, instead, and took a loss on the chin. Like most people would.
2 Aug 2010, 00:20 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-592: The head of USA rugby is an ex-New Zealander.
2 Aug 2010, 00:20 am
This yellow cards are also killing the game, been saying so for about 2 years now, u get a player sent off early and it’s tickets, game is just too intense
2 Aug 2010, 00:26 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-656:
Dont be silly ! They’ll just go and take the p*ss instead……
“How the hell did that happen? Here is the real 10-point plan to beat those mongrel All Blacks
PETER FITZSIMONS
August 2, 2010
On Saturday, Peter FitzSimons fearlessly predicted the Wallabies would romp to victory over the All Blacks. Today, he clarifies his position.
Oh, come off it. One time in your life, one time in your life, you haven’t made a complete ******** of yourself by publicly proclaiming the Ten Reasons the Wallabies would thump the All Blacks, only to subsequently see them go down by a near record score? All while wearing the absurd affectation of a red bandanna?
I know I have.
And the worst of it is I didn’t really mean to. For when I went back to compare what I had written with what was published, I was horrified to see that what I had originally written was actually right on the money, and it was just the bloody subeditors that changed the meaning. Here, thus, finally, is the original, unexpurgated version.
Ten reasons we’re gunna be flogged like a convict caught with the governor’s wife.
1. While it is against the natural order of things for a group of New Zealanders to beat a group of Australians at anything, you only have to see how Julia Gillard went from playing full-forward with the Western Bulldogs to being Prime Minister – all in the space of three weeks – to see that stranger things have happened.
2. George Bernard Shaw once said German composer Richard Wagner ”has some wonderful moments … but some terrible half- hours!” and as the same may be said of the Wallabies over the past few Tests, there is every chance that will happen again.
3. The All Blacks are on fire. Some blowhard know-nothings say there is no way they can possibly play better, ever, than they did against the Springboks in their past two Tests, but form like that doesn’t die overnight.
4. Our forward pack is going to get belted! Yes, they’ve moved forward from the days of having a collapsing scrum and a dud lineout, but they’re still probably a week off being able to BELT THOSE MONGRELS STUPID!
5. We’re out of our depth. When you lose a player the likes of Quade Cooper at five-eighth, it doesn’t matter when you have a genius the calibre of Matt Giteau to move into that position, it never happens immediately. By next Saturday in Christchurch the new combination should be on fire, but I fear it won’t happen immediately.
6. Drew Mitchell. He worries me. Yes, he’s talented, but he’s also hot-headed. If you really want to know what I think, I fear he’s going to threaten my record for being the only Wallaby sent from the field in a match against the All Blacks.
7. Richie McCaw. He is the most damaging player in the world, and has never been stronger than right now. I think he will tear us apart in the second half. Plus he has the luck of the All Blacks.We’re Australians. They’re Kiwis. They’re a lot luckier than us. Fair dinkum, how long is it since the ball bloody well bounced our way in a Bledisloe Test? EVERY freaking time, they get the rub of the green and we get a hole in the bloody donut. There is no reason to expect that will change.
8. History shows that the All Blacks are never stronger than a year out from the World Cup, and that is exactly where they are now.
9. The Kiwis want it more. We Australians have so many things to boast about, we lose track. Those poor ******** only have the All Blacks, so they ride it harder.
10. The Wallabies are cleverer. The most important match is not this first match, but the NEXT THREE, when our blokes will be BAAACK to tear them apart, after having lulled them into a false sense of security by allowing them to rack up 49 points. Remember, you heard it here first!”.
2 Aug 2010, 01:29 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-657: No wonder they are USeless … we’ll send PdV to them … green card is one he hasn’t got yet – he’ll jump at it.
2 Aug 2010, 01:38 am
@TheBoksAreBack(bringbacktheboks)-660: They’re a tiny minority sport, as what underwater hockey is in SA, but they’ve already beaten a team like Tonga, who ran the Boks very close in RWC2007 (30-25). But they have 50000 registered players and have two Olympic gold medals for rugby.
2 Aug 2010, 02:52 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-657: it’s Nigel Melville, no? O’Sullivan is head coach.
2 Aug 2010, 02:56 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-656: the ‘convicts’ just get the laws changed, that’s their answer to everything:
‘While the Wallabies are trying to get more numbers around the ball, the Australian Rugby Union is hoping to drastically slash the number of pages of the law book devoted to foul play. At the moment, there are about 70 of them — five times what the AFL and NRL find necessary — and the result so far in this Tri-Nations has been that all four Tests played have been affected by sin-binnings and send-offs.
“We’ve ended up in a situation where jurisprudence is dominating sound common sense and sound rugby decisions,” ARU chief executive John O’Neill said. “The equilibrium between the law and common sense is out of kilter.”
A SANZAR-supported workshop will be held in Sydney on September 8 as part of an IRB review of the foul play regulations, but it comes too late to avert the farcical situation where two minor offences by winger Drew Mitchell combined to see him become only the second Australian to be sent off in a rugby Test.
Heaven knows what the legendary hard men of the game, Slaggy Miller, Tony Shaw, Stan Pilecki and Simon Poidevin, would make of Mitchell being sent off for slapping the ball out of an All Blacks’ hand to prevent a quick lineout.’
2 Aug 2010, 03:22 am
@cab(cab)-658:
I was disappointed when Mitchell got sent off but in actual fact on Sat both teams played their best rugby and racked up plenty of points while down to 14 players.
2 Aug 2010, 03:44 am
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-662: The head of any nation’s rugby union isn’t the coach. It’s the chairman of the board. Kevin Roberts is the man — the former head of Saatchi & Saatchi international and a publicity expert.
2 Aug 2010, 03:50 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-665: Actually, Roberts is STILL the global big cheese of Saatchi and he heads USA Rugby as an extra-mural interest.
2 Aug 2010, 04:27 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-665: yeah I read Melville was President and CEO of USA rugby, but you’re right Roberts is his superior. I don’t think rugby is really a goer in the US (15s anyway), I read an article not long ago about how it would take a major investment and no one’s prepared to stump up the cash on that scale. It’s a good thing too imo, they’d be even worse than John O’Neill when it came to law changes and altering the fundamentals and dumbing down the game for the masses.
2 Aug 2010, 05:22 am
Rugby in the US doesn’t HAVE to be as big as the NFL or even the College Football League. All it needs to do is draw 5% of some of the top-flight athletes away from NFL or CFL to play rugby and American rugby union could be absolutely huge and deep and pose a real threat to the existing powers.
Already they have 50000 players — imagine if that number grew to 500000! There’d have to be a whole swag of really good ‘uns in that intake. And the USA has the spare cash to buy in and to train up world-class coaches, refs, conditioner-trainers etc and apply their science.
And they’ve got a master-marketer at the helm. Roberts really doesn’t have a “Too Hard Basket” in his office.
2 Aug 2010, 09:38 am
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-663:
The law change at the breakdown certainly has made the game far more fluent and attractive to watch and has encouraged positive play. And Engl and the Boks still have the rolling maul. Surely we can agree that the game has improved since the ELVs were binned and 2009′s dreadful kick’n'chase slow poison ?
2 Aug 2010, 11:18 am
catchacrabbertjie is all @ss about face again.
White was a useless coach and a half decent manager. His on field coaching was diabolical hence the 45-26 hiding at home by Nz at Loftus and the 49-0 destruction by Oz at Brisbane. Any decent rugby coach would not capitulate by such margins. His strengths were planning and talent identification but certainly not coaching else he would not have begged EJ to come rescue his down trodden no clue game plan end of 07 when he knew he was up the creek without a paddle before the Wc.
Whites strengths compared to Pdv are actually opposite. Pdv far the superior hands on coach and White the better back room manager. Pdv is weak in overall planning and assistant managing, much better with the players and with hands on coaching on the field.
White handed the coaching reigns to EJ after tri nations 07 and good and well he did, because between himself Smal and Coetsee they simply didn’t have a foggy clue. All the drills and strategy came from Jones prior to and during Wc while White took the honors. .
2 Aug 2010, 17:09 pm
@skopskiet(yliad)-670: Blowing air.
Jake White won a RWC, Div will never in a million years, with the wind behind him.
And you blame JW for the problems in the team now… how dare he win a world cup.
You need to go back to school.
2 Aug 2010, 17:12 pm
Ou doos still going on about lucky packet, but the trophy is in the cabinet
If EJ such a great coach and made all the difference, how come reds got done 96-3 by bulls and worst season ever under his reign?
Boks were 2nd favourites going into the rwc long before jones came into picture.
I think pdv is the correct coach to take the current bok team to the next level with his skillful upload game which is surely the pinnacle, but JW is the coach you use to build a team by getting their basics right and getting dome wins and confidence before going to next level.
The danger is too forget the fundamentals and try play like nz, but where the kiwis have always been based on a ruthless pack – the game is still won upfront, you can have all the skill and strike runners in the world but if you beaten upfront, you fuggered up, end of story.
2 Aug 2010, 17:18 pm
Snor is a joke, open your eyes.
2 Aug 2010, 17:46 pm
Far as I can tell pdv got exact same record as jw so far having won a 3n and a 66% win record, he also has beaten nz away twice which jw never did once in 4 years
problem is pdv has had a few key injuries like jw did in 2006 hence the string if losses to top quality 3n opposition who on the day can blitz u on the day or vice versa
2 Aug 2010, 22:24 pm
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-657: No wonder its been so slow on the uptake – NZ administrators dont do much – they all ben dover and let O’neill do it all for them…
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