Poms fight back for draw
8 Jun 2010
Berrick Barnes missed a late penalty as the Australian Barbarians drew with England 28-28 in Perth.
In a clash between what is essentially the two countries’ second-stringers ahead of the first Test on Saturday, the Australians led 25-13 after 47 minutes. Then James O’Connor, who had scored all their points up to that point with three tries, two conversions and two penalties, was subbed, and the Poms grabbed a 28-25 lead.
Barnes slotted a penalty to draw the scores level, but missed an injury-time kick as England held on after their fightback.
South African Hendre Fourie defended well in his first match for the visitors.
5 Comments
8 Jun 2010, 16:03 pm
Convicts,Dragons
8 Jun 2010, 16:16 pm
wow….sounds like it was a thriller.
well done poms and aussies….
poms will take heart….Saturdays test should be a good one.
8 Jun 2010, 16:26 pm
Well done poms. Thought they were going to get a hiding.
8 Jun 2010, 16:53 pm
@grant10(grant10)-2: It was a really good game – nice attacing rugby from the Aussies, they got bashed in the forwards for the last 20 minutes though – a prop got yellow carded on the Aussie 5 metre line after multiple collapsed scrums. Ellen Degeneres was fantastic, that guy has real talent.
Pom backs looked robotic, they offered absolutely nothing – lined up with good depth, but did absolutely nothing other than shovel the ball onto the next player.
Was a very scratch Aussie side – a couple of players were in there who played on Saturday, and a couple who were on the bench.
9 Jun 2010, 06:04 am
Good start to the touring season.
England dominated scrums as expected, but Baabaas were quite strong at lineout time.
Poms were shown up severely in the backs though, and I think it would have been a thrashing had O’Connor and Hodgson stayed on.
A couple of players did themselves no favours though. Barnes kept wasting good front-foot ball, not just with kicking for touch but with stupid chip kicks straight to English players.
Nick Cummins can’t catch, bombed at least one try. Pat McCabe should have been selected over him anyway.
Chisholm was way too quiet again, though very strong at lineout time. Don’t think he will get back in the starting Wallabies unless through injury.
@WOLFMAN21(WOLFMAN21)-4: In the forwards’ defence, Deans admitted he subbed poorly, moving Weeks from Tighthead to Loosehead in the last 30mins (he had not played loosehead since high school).
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