Waratahs ease past Rebels
21 Apr 2012
GARETH DUNCAN reports on the Waratahs’ 30-21 victory over the Rebels in Sydney.
The result was expected. The Rebels are known for their poor record on the road, and they expectedly folded against the Waratahs’ charge. The latter dominated with a strong superior forwards display, moments of impressive backline interplay and clever decision-making to cruise to victory. Despite two tries in a late fightback from the visitors, the hosts still held on for a comfortable win.
The Waratahs will, however, lament their inability to score a fourth try for the bonus point. In the dying moments, they camped in the Rebels’ red zone, but they couldn’t reach the whitewash after several attempts. This could prove costly in their pursuit for a play-off place, considering their poor start to the season.
The Sydney team started the match strongly, grabbing the opening try after just 26 seconds. After winning possession from the kick-off, they built moment through strong ball carries before a smart backline move, mixed with inside and outside offloads, was finished off by fullback Bernard Foley. Scrumhalf Brendan McKibbin added the extras, and kicked two penalties for an early 13-0 lead.
The Rebels managed to hit back through a try scored by hooker Ged Robinson, but McKibbin slotted another three-pointer to make the half-time tally 16-7 in the Waratahs’ favour.
Hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau powered through after a clever lineout move to give the hosts a perfect start to the second half, and outside centre Rob Horne created a big opportunity for a bonus-point win when he scored the third try moments later. But their ill-discipline cost them momentum, and saw them reduced to 14 men when Horne was yellow carded.
The Rebels made full use of their one-man advantage and capitalised on that ascendancy to cross the chalk via flanker Tom Davidson and wing Lachlan Mitchell.
Once they returned to 15 men, the Waratahs regained their control of the match, but failed to find that valuable fourth try.
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21 Apr 2012, 15:01 pm
@cab(cab)-97: I watched a few games when Ray Mordt and Rob Louw played for Wigan in the 80′s. Was okay then. But as you say now it is pretty boring.
21 Apr 2012, 15:02 pm
@viewer(viewer)-100: Oh, could be then. I have no clue about the rules. But I saw way more than 6 tackles before they kicked.
21 Apr 2012, 15:04 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-101:
that wouldve been bladdy interesting, didnt realise rob louw played too, i think mordt scored alot of tries for wigan, he was a monster on the hoof – i watched the domestic aussie stuff, they the best at it.
21 Apr 2012, 15:04 pm
Bulls might have a problem at scrum time. Don’t know Dawie at all. Plus they have Steenkamp in who is a little light.
21 Apr 2012, 15:06 pm
@cab(cab)-103: They both went over in 85 I think. They wanted to come back in 86 for the Cavaliers tour but were not allowed. Reinach replaced Mordt and Bartman replaced Louw. Actually Burger Geldenhuys was the 1st choice 6 but then he broke Dalton’s jaw.
21 Apr 2012, 15:10 pm
What is happening here today? So slow.
21 Apr 2012, 15:10 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-105:
yes i loved that series, pity it werent the ABs, remember going to ellis, that was still a cracking SA backline, in fact that team would have revolutionised the way ppl think of Springbok rugby and wouldve played the type of game the name Springbok was originally coined for.
21 Apr 2012, 15:11 pm
might catch up later for the sharks game if i get back in time, should be some interesting games this arvie, wouldnt like to bet on either.
21 Apr 2012, 15:12 pm
@cab(cab)-107: Yes, fantastic backs. Some of the best tries the Boks ever scored. Gerber, the 2 du Plessis, Naas, Reinach, Heunis, and Garth Wright.
21 Apr 2012, 15:14 pm
look there IS something to be said for standing firm and if one dies for a cause.. even if that cause might be a little dubious from inception.. sometimes the cause and effect laws of nature and of existence demands that dying is as much a part of living.. and history gotta take shape and get formed.. so the cannon fodder gets sacrificed for the veracious vagaries of some mogul emperor’s designs for war…
there is not really any rights or wrongs in creation or in action and reaction.. only the inevitability of living and dying.. like inhaling and exhaling .. or being eaten or eating.. or being free or being enslaved.. there are so many wrongs for every right.. and they gotta cancel each other out.. else the equation of life cannot happen from the alpha to the omega when the big bang is engulfed by the big crunch .. and the universe starts all over again.
In the meantime we find causes to live and die for and religions to preach and cry for about people we never knew from any other.. its the creation of existence that pretends to be real.. when back at the inception ranch its only a dream that seems due to its material make up… that the illusion of who it is that is dreaming is so painfully and explicitly real…
21 Apr 2012, 15:14 pm
@cab(cab)-108: Hard to call. Sharks do better us underdogs. Hopefully they will be rested and firing today. Chiefs are favorites though.
Bulls I’m also worried about. Always am.
21 Apr 2012, 15:15 pm
These Aussie games like the Vodofone Cup
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-109:
Garth Wright – One of the Best Bok halfbacks I have seen play.
21 Apr 2012, 15:16 pm
greentea: if you got your head out of your arse you would know that results between us & Oz ebb & flow, we’ve enjoyed good runs against them before & now they’re enjoying one, it doesn’t mean they have the depth to field 5 teams in super rugby you dumbfcuk.
test results have sweet buggerall to do with player numbers which is what i was talking about until you dragged the conversation towards your hobbyhorse.
:scratched record smiley:
21 Apr 2012, 15:18 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-112: Yes, he was a great little 9 who did all the basics right. Quick to clear, good pass, good box kicks. He was way better than Christo Ferreria.
21 Apr 2012, 15:20 pm
Watch these tries,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJsB-OL73
21 Apr 2012, 15:24 pm
Sorry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJsB-OL730
21 Apr 2012, 15:28 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-113:
Very true…….re Oz v Boks….. Sa had the wood on Abs pre isolation… and in recent times Abs have…..who is to say the tide may turn again
21 Apr 2012, 15:30 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-113: good response to the trollwanker.
Talking of w*nkers, I’m trying to decide who is more boring once on their soapbox, skopshyte or ET?
21 Apr 2012, 15:31 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-110:
Enjoyed that……
21 Apr 2012, 15:35 pm
So I’d like to know who this Skyewalker really is. He’s a new name around here, but when he confessed to knowing skopshyte has been banned more times from Keo than Capo, I’m beginning to wonder if Charo’s suspicion that it is JustRugby or Gwant10 back under a new guise is correct…
21 Apr 2012, 15:35 pm
PrickBoks is Blank Panther, no doubt.
Seems the Keo drug is too much for some.
21 Apr 2012, 15:38 pm
Better get used to the war remembrance boys, in two years time it will have been a century from the start of the Great War. There will rightfully be a great deal made about it.
21 Apr 2012, 15:46 pm
A history lesson for skopshyte (source: Wikipedia):
When World War I broke out in 1914, the South African government chose to join the war on the side of the Allies. General Louis Botha, the then prime minister, faced widespread Afrikaner opposition to fighting alongside Great Britain so soon after the Second Boer War and had to put down a revolt by some of the more militant elements before he could send an expeditionary force of some 67,000 troops to invade German South-West Africa (now Namibia). The German troops stationed there eventually surrendered to the South African forces in July 1915. (In 1920 South Africa received a League of Nations mandate to govern the former German colony and to prepare it for independence within a few years.)
Later, an infantry brigade and various other supporting units were shipped to France in order to fight on the Western Front. The 1st South African Brigade – as this infantry brigade was named – consisted of four infantry battalions, representing men from all four provinces of the Union of South Africa as well as Rhodesia: the 1st Regiment was from the Cape Province, the 2nd Regiment was from Natal and the Orange Free State and the 3rd Regiment was from Transvaal and Rhodesia. The 4th Regiment was called the South African Scottish and was raised from members of the Transvaal Scottish and the Cape Town Highlanders; they wore the Atholl Murray tartan.
The supporting units included five batteries of heavy artillery, a field ambulance unit, a Royal Engineers signals company and a military hospital.
The most costly action that the South African forces on the Western Front fought in was the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916 – of the 3,000 men from the brigade who entered the wood, only 768 emerged unscathed.
Another tragic loss of life for the South African forces during the war was the Mendi sinking on 21 February 1917, when the troopship Mendi – while transporting 607 members of the 802nd South African Native Labour Corps from Britain to France – was struck and cut almost in half by another ship.
In addition, the war against the German and Askari forces in German East Africa also involved more than 20,000 South African troops; they fought under General Jan Smuts’s command when he directed the British campaign against there in 1915. (During the war, the army was led by General Smuts, who had rejoined the army from his position as Minister of Defence on the outbreak of the war.)
South Africans also saw action with the Cape Corps in Palestine.
More than 146,000 whites, 83,000 blacks and 2,500 people of mixed race (“Coloureds”) and Asians served in South African military units during the war, including 43,000 in German South-West Africa and 30,000 on the Western Front. An estimated 3,000 South Africans also joined the Royal Flying Corps.
The total South African casualties during the war was about 18,600 with over 12,452 killed – more than 4,600 in the European theater alone.
21 Apr 2012, 15:47 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-121: Good luck to your Sharkies later.
21 Apr 2012, 15:48 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-124: Cheers Kleuter – they will need it!
21 Apr 2012, 15:51 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-125: Well you never know. They had a week off, completed a good tour. Motivation will be high. Also think Chiefs are a bit dof. Very talented team but not much kop.
21 Apr 2012, 16:14 pm
I love PS I Love you
21 Apr 2012, 16:15 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-116:
Thank you for that. Yes. And Great servant of EP rugby. Literally responsible for getting them to 4th place back in 1993 in CC.
21 Apr 2012, 16:16 pm
@brainstrust, are you drinking?
21 Apr 2012, 16:21 pm
@greatest13gerber(greatest13gerber)-128: It was a great moment when Garth and Naas played together the first time. Garth was in school and on a rugby tour to Pretoria. They went for a braai at a teacher’s house and this coach’s son gave Garth Northern Transvaal socks worn by Naas. It became one of his most prized possessions.
A number of years later they played together in a test against NZ.
Great stuff.
21 Apr 2012, 16:23 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-113:
and you think you have the depth, pre 07′ you couldn’t buy a win, did you hear the Aussies calling for your teams to be culled when really they should have, the Cheetahs have won a couple of games after 16 years of sharing the wooden spoon with the Lions and in the early days the Bulls, you don’t have the depth for 5 teams either
21 Apr 2012, 17:06 pm
@Kleuter(Kleuter)-130:
Great story – Thank you for sharing
I still remember when in 1993, He was the number 1 halfback in the country but he declined to Play for the Boks so he could focus on helping EP in the CC.
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