Boks 44 Wallabies 31
28 Aug 2010
GARETH DUNCAN brought you live commentary from the Tri-Nations clash in Pretoria.
80 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! From a turnover in midfield, Hougaard spreads the ball to the left to Matfield, to De Villiers, who offloads to wing JP Pietersen and he bursts through for the match-winning try. James kicks the conversion and Rolland blows the final whistle. The Boks celebrate their first Tri-Nations win. Matfield enjoys his moment as he becomes the first Bok to win his 100th Test. The Boks win 44-31!
77 mins: The Wallabies work the ball to the right side of the field but are penalised for accidental obstruction. The Boks have the opportunity to relieve pressure. Eventually, replacement flyhalf Butch James clears play from the Boks’ 22m area.
75 mins: Boks concede another penalty on the halfway line and Cooper kicks play back into the Boks’ red zone. It looks like the home team will need to defend the final minutes.
70 mins: The Wallabies have a lineout a 7m from the Boks’ try line after Cooper finds touch from a penalty kick. However, for the second time in the match, the Boks make a crucial steal in their red zone. This time Matfield reigns supreme.
68 mins: The Wallabies concede a penalty at the ruck after Beale took a quick lineout throw. Frans Steyn steps up to kick the 60m goal attempt and the ball sails over the cross bar. 37-31 to the Boks!
60 mins: Great defence from the Boks. The Wallabies break into the hosts’ red zone after some great attacking play from a 40m lineout. However, they are kept out by some strong defence and eventually lose the ball into touch.
57 mins: BIG HIT! Centre Adam Ashley-Cooper had 5m to go and one man to beat to score, but Hougaard dives in for a try-saving tackle as he dislodges the ball from Ashley-Cooper’s grasp. 5m defensive scrum to the Boks.
55 mins: After three big attempts to the try line from Fourie, Spies and Hougaard, the Wallabies did well to keep the Boks out. They eventually steal possession and run the ball out of their red zone.
50 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! Who else, but Frans Steyn. The Boks find themselves in a great attacking position as replacement lock Danie Rossouw steals the ball from the kick off. After several phases, the Boks work play to the left and Steyn dives over in the corner. Morne Steyn kicks the difficult conversion. 34-31 to the Boks!
47 mins: Steyn is penalised moments later for the same offence, as he takes O’Connor around the neck. Giteau finds the target from 48m out. 31-27 to the Wallabies!
45 mins: A chance for the Boks to reduce the deficit as hooker Saia Faingaa is penalised for a high tackle on Hougaard in a kickable position. Steyn converts the penalty to make it a one-point game. 28-27 to the Wallabies!
41 mins: Steyn kicks off the second half high and deep. The Wallabies don’t clear the ball but opt to run it from their red zone. After several phases, the can’t seem to find momentum and they eventually kick the ball down field.
Half-time: Boks 24 Wallabies 28
40 mins: The Wallabies run a play from a scrum on halfway, but the ball is knocked forward and Rolland blows for half-time. Much needed break for the players after an action-packed first half.
30 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! Some positive attacking play from the Boks. They put together 14 set phases before Hougaard snipes through the gap and offloads to No 8 Pierre Spies to dive over. Steyn converts. 28-24 to the Boks!
25 mins: WALLABIES TRY! On the counter, the Wallabies run from their own 22m area into the Boks’ red zone. Habana finds himself isolated as he gathers Mitchell’s chip and Frans Steyn is penalised for an illegal clearance at the ruck. Beale takes the quick penalty tap and offloads to lock Dean Mumm to score the Wallabies’ fourth and bonus-point try. Giteau converts for two more points. 28-17 to the Wallabies!
22 mins: Steenkamp is penalised at the breakdown. Beale is called to kick for posts from the halfway line. The fullback clearly has the distance but his attempt fades to the right and Habana clears.
20 mins: Wallabies concede another penalty, 60m from their goal posts. It looks like a Frans Steyn moment, but Morne Steyn steps up. The pivot lines up the kick and finds the target easily. Great kick! 21-17 to the Wallabies!
17 mins: The Boks have another attacking platform. From a lineout 20m out, they work a backline move. However, Rolland blows the Boks for obstruction as Steyn and centre Jean de Villiers collide during the set play. Wallabies kick for touch to ease the pressure.
14 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! Five tries, 14 minutes! Where’s the defence? Skipper John Smit turns down a kickable penalty and tells Steyn to kick for touch. It proves to be a great decision and moments later Guthro Steenkamp breaks through the Wallabies’ defence to score from 5m out. Steyn slots the conversion. 21-14 to the Wallabies!
10 mins: WALLABIES TRY! Unbelievable! My fingers can’t keep up! Wing Bryan Habana drops the ball from the restart and O’Connor pounces to score in the corner from his mistake. Giteau finds the target from the touchline. 21-7 to the Wallabies!
9 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! The Boks work towards the Wallabies’ try line from a scrum in their red zone. Great play from the hosts sees Hougaard dummy a pass to flanker Juan Smith, who runs a perfect angle to score. Morne Steyn kicks the conversion. 14-7 to the Wallabies!
4 mins: WALLABIES TRY! The visitors score from restart after some sloppy defending from the Boks. Fullback Kurtley Beale breaks through the midfield and offloads to the rushing Rocky Elsom. The Wallabies skipper is stopped 5m short but wing James O’Connor dots down after the recycle. Giteau kicks the conversion. 14-0 to the Wallabies!
3 mins: WALLABIES TRY! Referee Alain Rolland penalises the Boks for an early engagement and the Wallabies take a quick tap from their free kick. After strong ball carriers, scrumhalf Will Genia eventually drives over for the try after breaking through lock Victor Matfield’s tackle. Centre Matt Giteau adds the extras. 7-0 to the Wallabies!
2 mins: Boks let off the hook by TMO Shaun Veldsman. It looked like the Wallabies grabbed an early try after some silly errors and poor defence from the home team. This saw wing Drew Mitchell cross the chalk, but Veldsman believes Mitchell fell short and disallows the try. 5m defensive scrum to the Boks.
Kick-off: Wallabies pivot Quade Cooper kicks off high and to centre field, where centre Jaque Fourie gathers possession. The Boks run two set phases before scrumhalf Francois Hougaard kicks a poor up and under. Wallabies have the ball in a dangerous area early on.
Springboks – 15 Frans Steyn, 14 JP Pietersen, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Morne Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 John Smit (c), 1 Gurthro Steenkamp.
Subs: 16 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 17 CJ van der Linde, 18 Danie Rossouw, 19 Ryan Kankowski, 20 Ricky Januarie, 21 Butch James, 22 Juan de Jongh.
Wallabies – 15 Kurtley Beale, 14 James O’Connor, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Richard Brown, 7 David Pocock, 6 Rocky Elsom (c), 5 Nathan Sharpe, 4 Dean Mumm, 3 Salesi Ma’afu, 2 Saia Faainga, 1 Benn Robinson.
Subs: 16 Stephen Moore, 17 James Slipper, 18 Ben McCalman, 19 Scott Higginbotham, 20 Luke Burgess, 21 Berrick Barnes, 22 Anthony Faainga.
348 Comments
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28 Aug 2010, 18:49 pm
@JustAnotherFan(JustAnotherFan)-241:
Don’t get too carried away.
28 Aug 2010, 18:49 pm
@JustAnotherFan(JustAnotherFan)-227: Smit should have been replaced earlier. Preferrably before the Trinations.
28 Aug 2010, 18:49 pm
Nice win Boks. Forwards really played well.
Juan Smith MOTM for me – again.
Frans not amazing, CJ not amazing.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – terrific.
28 Aug 2010, 18:49 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-249: how do you know, NZ were lucky to get the win in the end, could’ve gone either way.
28 Aug 2010, 18:49 pm
Well done bokke. All I can say is f.uck all you Blue Bull c.unt supporters who booed Bu
tch James when he came on.
28 Aug 2010, 18:50 pm
Hougaard’s performance breathing new fire into this Bok team. Lifts the rest of the team immensely. Much like Joost at his peak.
28 Aug 2010, 18:50 pm
Australian women beating SAfrican counterparts 55-0
28 Aug 2010, 18:51 pm
Man, WHAT A GAME!
Juan must be MOM, followed closely by F Hourgaard.
Smit only on for 60 – good call, Chilli looked like an animal – very hungry
Still maintain Smit as a possible 1,2,3 is invaluable – he also had a good game today.
Habanana looked out of sorts again, as dit F Steyn
Matfield – CONGRATS!
28 Aug 2010, 18:51 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-254:
I dont,like you dont so settle down
28 Aug 2010, 18:51 pm
@SodaJoe(SodaJoe)-253: Smith was superb it’s true, best blindside in the world at present.
28 Aug 2010, 18:52 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-259: then why did you say they wouldn’t?
28 Aug 2010, 18:52 pm
much better defence in the 2nd half, Chilli much better for me than John. I would not be singing any praises though
28 Aug 2010, 18:53 pm
MOTM-Juan SMith,IMO
Habana must surely go now!
Butch James,beautiful in the last minutes he was on
J.Smit had a solid performance,well done
J de Villiers,very consistent in mode of tackling-high!haha
Go BOKKE!!
28 Aug 2010, 18:53 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-261:
Its my opinion,no problem is there?
28 Aug 2010, 18:54 pm
well done Bokke, never ever thought youd score more tries then the Aussies..
congrats Big Vic
28 Aug 2010, 18:54 pm
Time to drop Habana
28 Aug 2010, 18:54 pm
255 John Galt
Yep,a disgrace they deserve the 2 finger salute for booing James !
28 Aug 2010, 18:54 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-264: nah it’s cool hurricane
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-219: @gunther(gunther)-228: glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed, SA could’ve done with a few of those hits late on against NZ last week.
28 Aug 2010, 18:55 pm
@Doomsayer(www.pollwar.co.za)-258: What did people expect from Frans Steyn. The bok coach decided to keep him out the game for months. Then he is brought back from holidaying in the Med during French off-season to produce miracles? Get real, plonkers.
28 Aug 2010, 18:55 pm
John Smit is just a passenger, definitely need Bismarck to come back
28 Aug 2010, 18:55 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-260: Well that’s a tough call. Rocky is also excellent. Kaino right now very good too. Dusetoire?
But I will take Juan. Thank you very much.
28 Aug 2010, 18:55 pm
@John Galt(John Galt)-255:
Ahh, the high intelligence of Natal supporters.
28 Aug 2010, 18:56 pm
again wankers crying for smits head pathetic when a player has a great game and still gets insulted
chilli did good but also gave away 3 penalties , so tell me how come we always only pick on one???
skopskiet and again you show ur arrogance and racist views
F steyn although not great was not bad at all
habana made mess up after messup but i guess never blame a none white huh???
28 Aug 2010, 18:56 pm
Congratulations Boks, drop Habana
28 Aug 2010, 18:56 pm
@kwas(kwas)-269: Agreed, for a guy who’s not played for some time he looked ok
28 Aug 2010, 18:57 pm
Much better from the Springboks, thought they would fall off in the second half and they stuck to it. Well done to you, keep focus.
Going to have some humble pie now.
Cheers
28 Aug 2010, 18:57 pm
@danuk(danuk)-270:
John Smit should be appointed coach and Bismarck back at 2.
28 Aug 2010, 18:58 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-268: BH most of these morons only here to insult butch f steyn or smit
f steyn never lost in a bok jersey
butch tackled the living **** in the short time he was on
28 Aug 2010, 18:58 pm
@SodaJoe(SodaJoe)-271:
Soda Big *** licks Bokke bum 24/7, having said that Smith is playing superbly.
28 Aug 2010, 19:01 pm
GARETH DUNCAN brought you live commentary from the uncomfortable Tri-Nations match in Pretoria! Hmmm… John Smit better get comfortable with sitting on the bench. Chilli added some bite when he came on. He harried the living hell out of the Australian breakdown. That disruption was critical.
28 Aug 2010, 19:01 pm
Well done Boks. Great passion and much better attack. Lots of turnovers and spilled ball tonight. Makes for an exciting game as it opens it up, but neither coach will be super pleased with the control and protection at the breakdown. Deans less pleased than PdV I expect. Much ‘looser’ game than the Bok/AB one, but glad I got up at 3:00am to watch it.
28 Aug 2010, 19:02 pm
Well done Boks. That dread-locked loser should never grace a Wallabies jersey again.
28 Aug 2010, 19:03 pm
Respect to Div for post match. I will have a second helping of pie. But one game won’t change it, still hope to see improvement.
28 Aug 2010, 19:03 pm
Snotskiet Yliad,put away your tik pipe…..come out of your sisters room.Jou gespikkelde 28 !
28 Aug 2010, 19:05 pm
Juan Smith deserves his own range of biscuits. What a biscuit!
28 Aug 2010, 19:05 pm
I would’t drop Habanero now?
Got to stick with the greats through their tribulations.
He will be back with a bang, just needs some coaching.
28 Aug 2010, 19:06 pm
PDV HAVE ANSWERED HIS CRITICS ! BOKS ARE BACK AND BEST IN THE WORLD !
28 Aug 2010, 19:07 pm
@rugbygenius(rugbygenius)-287: THE EARTH IS FLAT! DON’T GET TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE. CAPS LOCK IS AWESOME!
28 Aug 2010, 19:08 pm
@rugbygenius(rugbygenius)-287: We only JUST beat the Ausies at altitude,wouldn’t go that far yet
28 Aug 2010, 19:09 pm
Whats the use in arguing with someone else’s opinion. All you can do is out forward your arguments and leave it to the others to formulate their own. In my opinion JS had a very good game. Any skipper who can lead his side back from a 14-0 deficit (not due to his making) has to have some credence. Ok I know its not only up to him but I didn’t see the Bokke panicking except for Habs. I feel sorry for Habs because it seems as though he is playing for the record. When you watch the try scored by Frans again take notice of Habs reaction in the background as the ball almost went to him. He was disappointed not to score and he has to get that ****** off his back (so to speak) and he will be back.
28 Aug 2010, 19:09 pm
@kaksioek(kaksioek)-288: sorry I’m happy that we hav come back and announced we are not the toys of rugby but the champs. NZ is lucky we dont play with them again . We would klap them properly
28 Aug 2010, 19:09 pm
@rugbygenius(rugbygenius)-287:
With an IQ of the mid 40′s you should change your name
28 Aug 2010, 19:10 pm
BisopsOD yes Chili boy hassled the Aussies,put in a huge counter shove
28 Aug 2010, 19:12 pm
@rugbygenius(rugbygenius)-291: bwahahahahahahaah
hang on
bwahahahahahahahaha
28 Aug 2010, 19:14 pm
@wpforever(wpforever)-293: Yet there was a marked deterioration in the fixed faset. Guppie started to battle with Chilly next to him.
28 Aug 2010, 19:14 pm
By the way I would like to open the argument about playing a “fetcher” again. How many of you noticed Pocock today. How effective was he and if he wasn’t Why?……
Playing a fetcher means you effectively have one less forward to get you accross the gain line and if the attacking side can get accross the gain line continuously it is easier for your support to get there and what happens is that the fetcher is nullified. SA have always been better playing direct rugby , my only beef is that they need to improve their driving skills, body positions and attacking the gain line at pace.
From a ruck you don’t have the same space as from a lineout or scrum so you need to be taking that ball at pace.
28 Aug 2010, 19:20 pm
@Brink_015(Brink_015)-292: @poppa69(poppa69)-294: Ja be jealous of our success but PDV has the last laugh in Pretoria. We are the champions of the world again.
28 Aug 2010, 19:21 pm
@bananaboy(bananaboy)-296: If you have no fetcher, like the Boks, you have less ball and you make more tackles. This is tiring and you tend to lose a lot. You can have ball carriers coming out of your ears, but if you have no ball for them to play with it is pretty pointless. Life would be a whole lot easier for the Boks if they had a fetcher to compete at the breakdown.
28 Aug 2010, 19:22 pm
We need Bismarcks athleticism and abrasiveness !
Why do our Boks always want to be glory boys,several times we could have scored but got stopped short because of egoistic play,pass,it`s a 15 man team game,we have so many gifted players…..more so than NZ and AUS…..yet the ball handling skills,knock-ons and decision making is way behind the other Southern hemisphere sides
28 Aug 2010, 19:23 pm
@rugbygenius(rugbygenius)-291:
“NZ is lucky we dont play with them again . We would klap them properly”
If today’s defensive display is anything to go by, the only thing the Boks would klap is the empty spaces through which yet another All Black ran.
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