Tri-Nations: Aus v SA

zAbbo

10:30am Saturday 15th Sky Sports 2 (Kick off 11.05am)

A later kick off should favour one or two posters on this board

Looking forward to watching this one and it has a few of my fave players (Mortlock, Habana and Gerrard), and it's been a while since I've saw the springboks in action.

Excellent preview here - http://www.planet-rugby.com/Tournaments/Tri_Nations/story_52436.shtml

Australia: 15 Chris Latham, 14 Mark Gerrard, 13 Stirling Mortlock (vice-captain), 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Lote Tuqiri, 10 Stephen Larkham, 9 George Gregan (captain), 8 Scott Fava, 7 George Smith, 6 Rocky Elsom, 5 Dan Vickerman (vice-captain), 4 Nathan Sharpe, 3 Guy Shepherdson, 2 Jeremy Paul, 1 Greg Holmes.
Replacements: 16 Sean Hardman, 17 Al Baxter, 18 Mark Chisholm, 19 Phil Waugh, 20 Sam Cordingley, 21 Mat Rogers, 22 Clyde Rathbone.

South Africa: 15 Percy Montgomery, 14 Akona Ndungane, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Jaco van der Westhuyzen, 9 Ricky Januarie, 8 Pierre Spies, 7 Juan Smith, 6 Joe van Niekerk, 5 Danie Rossouw, 4 Victor Matfield, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 John Smit (captain), 1 Os du Randt.
Replacements: 16 Danie Coetzee, 17 Eddie Andrews, 18 Albert van der Berg, 19 Jacques Cronjé, 20 Fourie du Preez, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Breyton Paulse.

Downtime

It's an 11am Kick Off isn't it?

zAbbo

Coverage begins at 10.30am, On th planetrugby link it says kick at 10.05am (GMT)

I'm not sure how much pre-match the sky guys will do.

mikedragon32

zabbo wrote:

Coverage begins at 10.30am, On th planetrugby link it says kick at 10.05am (GMT)

I'm not sure how much pre-match the sky guys will do.

GMT is an hour behind BST, so that would be correct.

Pre-match is your standard Sky Sports fare... Key players to look out for etc.

zAbbo

mikedragon32 wrote:

GMT is an hour behind BST, so that would be correct.

Pre-match is your standard Sky Sports fare... Key players to look out for etc.

Changed the original post to unclude the 11.05am kickoff.

Should be a good un, but with our good weather weekend coming up, I might just record it an watch it that evening

toomevara

Think it's going to be a pretty one sided affair, i just cant see where the wallabies are going to get any ball from (dogged efforts of the brilliant George Smith excepted)....they'll live off scraps as usual and defend doggedly but can only see one winner........

zAbbo

Heads up, Kickoff in just over an hour.

It's a hot one outside, so I'll sky+ it

And now to avoid the score...

toomevara

toomevara wrote:

Think it's going to be a pretty one sided affair, i just cant see where the wallabies are going to get any ball from (dogged efforts of the brilliant George Smith excepted)....they'll live off scraps as usual and defend doggedly but can only see one winner........

Once again my mighty rugby brain and huge powers of prescient punditry have called it to a tee......I'll refrain from further comment on this match as its clearly obvious I haven't a bull's notion what the hell is going on.....unless of course there's a miracle turnaround in which case I told you so and I'm a genius...

crybaby

south africa look rubbish, seems like if you get through the first ten minutes of bullying and dirty play they start crumbling into indiscipline all over the pitch

van der Westhuyzen having a nightmare

toomevara

OK just one more comment: My God! SA, what a rabble! Reminds me of of the twickers rout....pretty abject performance, can hear the knives being sharpened for poor old Jakey......

zAbbo

Australia 49 - South Africa 0

A proper rout, SA done themselves no favours in slippery conditions but the amount of missed tackles, turnovers and handling errors was huge.

I though Rocky Elson had a suberb game, making up for last week.

Matt Giteu was at inside centre and was brilliant, but there was very little pressure put on Aus apart from the Rush tackling which didn't look great.


Review here - http://www.planet-rugby.com/Tournaments/Tri_Nations/story_52455.shtml

Nukem

zabbo wrote:

Australia 49 - South Africa 0

HAHA - cant say what i want to say without bein sensored so there is no need to say anything at all:D