NPR

Aussies doing a great job in denying the Boks any forward momentum.

Shambles.......vokken shambles

PCPhil wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:52 am Aussies looking really good but SA starting to feel their way back in.

Eh?

Chilli wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:55 am

PCPhil wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:52 am Aussies looking really good but SA starting to feel their way back in.

Eh?

Yeah.....

Commentator's curse by Matt Pearce there.

Hollard misses his first kick of TRC

Why kick that?

PSDT??????

Last move showed SA can really play when wanting to.

Couple of great defensive tackles from Oz there.

Boks really throwing the kitchen sink at the Wallabies and they are holding on beautifully.

Thought there was head contact on Galant earlier in the movement. No replays so far. TMO must think it was fine.

I don't want to say the whole game changed when Dweba went off and Marx came on...but it is not coincidence.

Ominous on both line out and scrum now.

Rugby is a hard enough game to watch live as it is. Watching it in a stadium where you are sitting another 20 yards from the play must be utterly shite.

Boks trying to lose?
Playing to get rid of Rasnaber?

Fuck, Pollard left his kicking boots in SA. Going to be a looooooong day at the office.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:01 am Rugby is a hard enough game to watch live as it is. Watching it in a stadium where you are sitting another 20 yards from the play must be utterly shite.

Agree. We are spoiled here in Hamilton. Eden Park and the cake tin are shite

That's soft. Barely got in his way at all.

Third time is the charm for Pollard. Boks finally on the scoreboard.

Well done Marx. That could have been a sore one.

Wow - strength from Marx

I swear Am has some form of precognition.
It's impossible how he always finds himself where the ball is and then it just bounces into his hands.

Aus suddenly looking like a rabble…..

Kick-offs still a concern for the Boks, but at least getting some momentum from the poor Aussie lineout and strong Bok set pieces. Let's see if that continues now that Dweba is back on the pitch.

Did Faf just crib 5 meters?

We can still win this. Nothing in it really

FFS Dweba.

First lineout throw skew.
Second...marginal. Looked skew to me, but ref let it go.
Third...won by the Wallabies.

Scrums:
First one a free kick against the Boks
Second one reset twice.

I've been his biggest cheerleader on this forum, but I think it's clear that he is out of his league at test level.

Momentum was firmly with the Boks for the 10 mins Marx was on, and went away the moment he went off.

I think we can end the Dweba experiment now

Tom Wright yellow carded for cynical play in the red zone.

Great play by Vermeulen. Old wise man milked manufactured that card with the quick tap.

Sards wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:12 am I think we can end the Dweba experiment now

Agreed. He needs a stellar URC to be in contentiion for the Boks again.

Need to get Grobbelaar or Akker vd Merwe into the mix in the interim.

That delayed scrum feed from Faf screwed the Saffers there

Old man Vermeulen showing why he is still firmly part of Nienaber's plans.

Galant really not gelling well on the wing today.

Whichever team cuts out the stupid mistakes will do this easily

Sigh...why are we so bad at converting a penalty advantage into something genuinely threatening?

We always just kick it. Why not try something high risk and creative?

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 6:18 am Whichever team cuts out the stupid mistakes will do this easily

Indeed, but the Wallabies are just relentless in infringing in the red zone and getting away with it. 9 penalties now.

Another card?

How is that not a card?

Terrible tackle technique but it saved a try

Fuck me Koroibete playing the game of his life today.

Didn't think there was a wrap there though...

What a spectacular save.
The dithering mess that has been the last 20 minutes certainly needed that.

like fuck that's a legal tackle. no arms and Mapimpi landed on his head

Great tackle!