All Blacks too good for Wallabies
18 Aug 2012
GARETH DUNCAN watched the All Blacks ease to a comfortable 27-19 win over the Wallabies in Sydney.
It wasn’t the most convincing All Blacks performance, but there were clear signs that the current world champions will be the side to beat of this Rugby Championship.
They dominated most of the facets of play, especially in general play as their breakdown dominance laid the platform for this victory. The All Blacks pack dominated their Australian counterparts, which saw the backline thrive.
Despite this ascendancy, the All Blacks only had limited chances to cross the chalk. But they were lethal in the opposition’s red zone, finishing off most of their try-scoring opportunities. This should improve as this team continues to build during the campaign.
The scoreline flattered the Wallabies, who struggled on attack and were guilty of too many individual errors. Kurtley Beale had a nightmare at fullback as his two missed tackles in the last line of defence cost his team two tries.
The boot of Berrick Barnes kept the hosts in the game, but they’ll need to work on their cohesion and offence if they want to be a threat this season. Talks of them being the Pumas’ best bet for victory on Argentinean soil seem likely.
The Wallabies enjoyed a good start to the match, forcing a penalty from an early scrum shortly after the kick-off. Barnes was on target. But once the All Blacks kicked into gear, they gained control of the match.
The All Blacks surged into a 13-3 lead by the end of the first quarter, thanks to Israel Dagg’s try and Dan Carter’s boot.
Dagg’s try came from a smart set-piece move, which saw Sonny Bill Williams and Ma’a Nonu’s dummy runs suck in the Wallabies defence, and Carter’s accurate pass to his fullback giving him a one-on-one run against Beale. And Dagg beat the Aussie No 15 on his outside to sneak in at the corner. Carter added the extras, in addition to two penalties.
The Wallabies created promising chances thereafter, but poor handling and interplay saw the All Blacks easily restricting the home team, creating pressure.
This pressure was evident on the half-hour mark as Beale knocked-on an easy pass from Genia in the Wallabies’ 22m area, which proved costly. From the resulting scrum, the All Blacks shifted possession quickly through the backline, which created space for Cory Jane out wide. Again, Beale was beaten on the outside and Jane dived over.
With an 18-3 advantage, it looked like the All Blacks were going to cruise to victory. But the Wallabies hit back cruicially before half-time as Digby Ioane’s rush to the tryline put Nathan Sharpe in a position to power over. Barnes kicked the conversion for the last points of the first stanza, which saw the All Blacks hold an 18-10 lead at the break.
The final 40 proved to be a kicking contest, with Carter and Barnes adding three penalties apiece. The All Blacks had two clear try-scoring opportunities, but the Wallabies did well to force the visitors into touch.
Australia managed to cut the deficit to five points during the dying stages of the Test as Barnes slotted his fourth three-pointer. But it was always going to be too late and New Zealand held on.
Carter kicked a penalty for the last action of the game, taking the winning margin to eight points and denying the hosts a losing bonus-point.
Wallabies head coach Robbie Deans’ record against the All Blacks reads three wins from 16 fixtures. This will likely be three from 17 next weekend when the two teams clash again in Auckland.
276 Comments
18 Aug 2012, 10:02 am
ABs by 20.
18 Aug 2012, 10:38 am
Jip… Final score. Nzl-32. Aus-12
With read man of the match!!!
18 Aug 2012, 10:45 am
Here we go, here we go
18 Aug 2012, 10:50 am
GO MY OTHER BOYS!!!
18 Aug 2012, 11:38 am
That’s a helluva AB side – especially the backline – I think the Boks can take them
18 Aug 2012, 11:45 am
@cab-5:
You are thinking with your heart
18 Aug 2012, 11:46 am
When Smith returns these guys could play the Bokke and the Wobblies on the same day and then finish off ther Pumas in the evening?
18 Aug 2012, 11:52 am
@cab-5: interested to see how SBW and Nonu go together, but when we meet your side it will be Smith and Nonu..
kia kaha Black..
18 Aug 2012, 11:52 am
Maybe RobbieZ but I think if HM picked tge right pack we could mow them.
Here we go – time for some proper sport.
18 Aug 2012, 11:54 am
Popps – yeah I think the world champs will be nervous that the Boks give them a whitewash ala 2009??? Then we we all know how skeef brycie is…
18 Aug 2012, 11:56 am
@cab-10: that was reversed in 2010 though Cab…
but yeah, please bring back bakkies and FDP.. please
I heard Smit has also slimmed down some??
18 Aug 2012, 11:56 am
@cab-9:
I am still suffering from withdrawel symptoms since the Olympics but this should be good. Hope Australia can do the near impossible.
18 Aug 2012, 11:57 am
@Robzim-12: they are always tough at home, just hoping for a great game to be honest..
18 Aug 2012, 11:57 am
The Kiwis are rather old; average age round 30. Waterhouse , the bookie, has just offered money back for any wobbly supporter who bets $25 on the Wobblies, if they lose. If the Kiwis win I don’t think he’ll have any money to give back.
18 Aug 2012, 11:58 am
The AB’s should take this at a canter.
18 Aug 2012, 12:07 pm
Damn, I’m working, can’t watch.
18 Aug 2012, 12:12 pm
Ref has already had two brain farts, why aren’t the Jaapies complaining?
18 Aug 2012, 12:17 pm
@cab-5: I think the Boks can take a Disprin, but that’s about all, pilgrim. With water.
18 Aug 2012, 12:17 pm
Definite forward pass missed in that move.
18 Aug 2012, 12:19 pm
3 – 3
18 Aug 2012, 12:20 pm
Tackler – yip the ABs are going to need to take a disprin after the young Boks are done. There’s a big surprise in store.
18 Aug 2012, 12:21 pm
Dag is a genius no room!
18 Aug 2012, 12:22 pm
good try from a planned and well practiced move.
18 Aug 2012, 12:22 pm
Too easy
18 Aug 2012, 12:22 pm
@poppa69-13:
Great game already.
Dagg just smoked Beale.
18 Aug 2012, 12:23 pm
sbw the decoy runner!
heyneke meyer are you watching?
18 Aug 2012, 12:26 pm
the wobblies are almost as bad as the referee. Where is the linesman?
18 Aug 2012, 12:26 pm
Looks like the Arsetralia U/14 B side has come out to play.
18 Aug 2012, 12:27 pm
@Robzim-25: yeah, was surprised Beale missed him to be honest.. good intensity to the game..
18 Aug 2012, 12:29 pm
Look… BOKS HAS to field 4 player of colour…. We have to play zane….. Compare zane to anyone in the all black team.” we’re f@cked. Blame anc not meyer
18 Aug 2012, 12:29 pm
See Sharks have signed Carel du Plessis’s son Jean-Luc du Plessis. Who plays flyhalf. For a two year contract.
So Province have no lost two of the best school boy fhs. Pollard to the Bulls and Jean-Luc du Plessis to the Sharks.
18 Aug 2012, 12:31 pm
Also why is it that when the nz cannibals play in aus or nz there are 50 000 plus ppl. But when they play in nz there are about 20 000. Is it because of the high crime rate that ppl dont want to leave their house??
18 Aug 2012, 12:31 pm
@Puma-31: no = now
18 Aug 2012, 12:32 pm
@grant100-32: That is rather pathetic.
18 Aug 2012, 12:34 pm
@Puma-31: Bwahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa great news as according to tha Wp supporters Jnr Dup is a better 10 than Pollard
18 Aug 2012, 12:36 pm
@goyougoodthing2-34: its not rather, its totally pathetic…
18 Aug 2012, 12:36 pm
@grant100-32: @grant100-30: seriously dude??? stop the race BS
18 Aug 2012, 12:36 pm
Rolland likes his whistle more than Joubert… let it flow chump.
18 Aug 2012, 12:37 pm
@Puma-33: where did you hear about Jnr Dup bro??
18 Aug 2012, 12:37 pm
How is the OZ no 8 still on the park?
Three times now he has taken a swipe at someone.
Three guYs hold Ritchie down and the OZ takes a quick tap.No Oz forward on his feet at almost any ruck! Are these officials sponsored by sporstbet?
18 Aug 2012, 12:37 pm
31
Morning Puma
Well that is a good signing,province are losing lots of players because of their style of play,chaotic management and the fickle nature of the stormersaders supporters.
**** weather aswell and heaps of brokeback gerbilstuffers.
18 Aug 2012, 12:38 pm
@AiDoc-40: wont get mentioned here, only when the ABs do it
@goyougoodthing2-38: thought youd be happy hes penalising the ABs for going off their feet?
18 Aug 2012, 12:38 pm
Aussies off the pace. What did they do with their extra two weeks of prep
18 Aug 2012, 12:39 pm
Wallaby scrum in serious trouble.. it is struggling.
18 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm
@poppa69-42: He’s a referee, I will NEVER be happy
I think he is a bit quick on the horn though, nothing wrong with a little advantage now and then. Must be a high count already.
18 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm
@Fern-41: Carel Dup knew to send his KId where he would be better off
18 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm
@Puma-31:
Think of Elton Jantjies landing in WP soon, they’re just clearing the room for him
18 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm
Can’t watch the game.Keep up the game analysis lads.Btw,how do people get away,on this website,making shocking unrelated rugby comments?
18 Aug 2012, 12:41 pm
@goyougoodthing2-45: I agree with you, he is not letting the teams work into the game… too stop/start is killing it as a spectacle..
18 Aug 2012, 12:41 pm
2 bad mistakes by both teams nr 8… Spies not looking to kak is he
18 Aug 2012, 12:42 pm
This could go very very pear shaped… Beale is better than that.
18 Aug 2012, 12:42 pm
Lol…. Beale just saw himself in the mirror and got a fright…that guy is super ugly….
18 Aug 2012, 12:42 pm
Once more I say, it looks like the Aussie u/14 out there.
18 Aug 2012, 12:42 pm
Wow what a pass
18 Aug 2012, 12:42 pm
Scott FrigginBotham
18 Aug 2012, 12:43 pm
The wobbly scrum is pathetic and the ref gives them penalties at almost every scrum??
Higginbotham’s hands are so sore from whacking people behind play, he drops the ball.
Beale is playing like he thinks he is cooper..
AND Jane outplays the referee again!!
18 Aug 2012, 12:43 pm
@46
for sure
good try by jane.
18 Aug 2012, 12:43 pm
these all blacks are just sublime..
18 Aug 2012, 12:44 pm
In test rugby that’s the price you pay for 2 dropped balls. 5 points, possibly 7.
18 Aug 2012, 12:44 pm
I reckon Suzie slipped something in the Wollbies’ drinks before kickoff
this is getting ridiculous from a test side
18 Aug 2012, 12:45 pm
@Transformation-58: They’re okay. THe rubbish wobblies make them look sublime though.
18 Aug 2012, 12:45 pm
Forward pass from Dagg to Jane and its a try
JdV can only look in envy at those masters with his primitive forward passes to Aplon
18 Aug 2012, 12:46 pm
Looks like someone has bypassed the parental control on their PC… childish comments flying…
18 Aug 2012, 12:46 pm
That was rubbish by the ref, All lacks did not roll away, no way for Sharp to place the ball
18 Aug 2012, 12:46 pm
Nah suzie is dead…. The nz 1995 team ate her the night before thevrwc final… Thats why they shat through a straw
18 Aug 2012, 12:47 pm
Something tells me Beale is having a bad game, what could it be?
18 Aug 2012, 12:48 pm
Sharpe gets it.
18 Aug 2012, 12:48 pm
@sharks_lover-64: Rollain is all kinds of awful…
18 Aug 2012, 12:49 pm
good try Aussie..
18 Aug 2012, 12:49 pm
If sharpe can score against the all blacks imagine what bekker would do …..
18 Aug 2012, 12:49 pm
@grant100-65: brilliant
18 Aug 2012, 12:49 pm
Finally something other than useless from the woblies, but I think it’s more case of three ABs letting their concentration drop.
18 Aug 2012, 12:50 pm
Beale is having a rotten game, but Barnes is not far behind him. And they have a rubbish centre paring too.
18 Aug 2012, 12:50 pm
Why are all those yellow and black-shirted players doing on the field, getting in the way ? They must be under the mistaken impression that the crowd has come to see them play a bit of rugby rather than watch a mighty fine game of refereeing. Get off the field, all you annoying yellow men and black men! You’re blocking our view of the referee!
18 Aug 2012, 12:51 pm
nice try for oz,they had to score before halftime to stay in touch.
they butchered one good oppurtunity and another promising one.
the real rugby will only start later when the Springboks play,this is just a fairly interesting opening act.
18 Aug 2012, 12:51 pm
@grant100-70: Go missing most probably, he has a werry sore wittle back doesn’t he?
18 Aug 2012, 12:52 pm
@TheTackler-74: I concur. The little Irishman with the French name is loving his moment in the sun.
18 Aug 2012, 12:52 pm
@goyougoodthing2-68: he wasnt in 2009 though
18 Aug 2012, 12:54 pm
@poppa69-78: I have to say, he is quite pedantic, quite useless and I don’t like the way he blows the game. Ever.
18 Aug 2012, 12:54 pm
Yo Tackler would you rather have the ref do nothing? At least one if the AB tries was a forward pass break. But the pop pass gets a bye because it looks cool…cool forward.
18 Aug 2012, 12:57 pm
@goyougoodthing2-79: nope, me either…
@goodstuff-80: yawn , and you can tell this from sitting in your lounge room on another continent watching the TV? hahaha no mention of the Aussie indiscretions? fair enough..
18 Aug 2012, 12:57 pm
Crappy, shapeless game. The Wannabes really are terrible apart from Genia & Ioane.
18 Aug 2012, 12:57 pm
Should say, have been.
18 Aug 2012, 12:57 pm
I must say, I don’t like the idea of bonus points in test matches.
18 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm
Higginbottom holding Mccaw back at a ruck, yet nary a word here? if it was the reverse there would be 20 posts on it by now..
18 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm
@goodstuff-80:
All AB tries are illeagal etc, we know.
18 Aug 2012, 13:00 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-82:
There have been some awesome AB backline moves you must say.
Both teams struggling at times to hold/keep the ball.
18 Aug 2012, 13:01 pm
@poppa69-78:
hahaha yeah strange that.
18 Aug 2012, 13:01 pm
@poppa69-85: Sod off, little man. I can’t think of anyone who wants you here.
18 Aug 2012, 13:01 pm
@puma and sharkslover
the sharks has a great culture
i am sure the fact that jp peterson’s uncle played for natal had a huge influence on him.
18 Aug 2012, 13:01 pm
ding ding round 2
18 Aug 2012, 13:02 pm
Wobblies havent kicked once…..they need better field position and dtop the kid errors
18 Aug 2012, 13:02 pm
@katman-89:
thats it, you just cant think fullstop
18 Aug 2012, 13:02 pm
Carter not so accurate anymore… Without trying to be funny, he should ask grant and goosen for some tips….
18 Aug 2012, 13:02 pm
@Fern-90: Of course the sad irony is that the Noble boys were considered hot favourites to join the Sharks and the JP stood up and Dusty and co are now playing 1st Div. Life is tough.
18 Aug 2012, 13:02 pm
@sharks_lover-64: I read about Jean-Luc Du Plessis signing with the Sharks in todays paper.
Its said that WP rugby official spoke off the record about how confident he was that Du Plessis, the son of former Springbok Carel du plessis, would sign for WP. “We’ve lost Pollard but the best one is staying home,” he said.
How wrong he was. However, the decision by the promising all-rounder wasn’t and easy one to make. As he is also plays cricket. He said. “It was a tough call to make” said Du plessis. “I enjoy team sport and love playing cricket, but, after serious thought, I have chosen to forgo cricket in favour of a career in rugby.
“The offer from the Sharks to join their rugby academy is a great way to kick things off for me. The way they went about thinks, the professionlism…I was sold.”
“WP had, like the Sharks, met me to talk about my future. In the end, though their offer and where they saw me years down the line didn’t match that of the Sharks.”
So he has signed a two year contract with the Sharks.
18 Aug 2012, 13:03 pm
@katman-89: What about the people he would otherwise be bothering in real life?
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
@Hurricane-93: You’re missing 4 pieces of punctuation there. Want to try and tell me what they are?
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
@katman-89: you mayt as well enjoy watching the test matches mate, seeing as your leeus-ers will be confined to playing CC rugby
hahahahahaha
truth hurt does it katcnut?
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
@goyougoodthing2-77:
That scoundrel won us few tests, the 2009 Thri Nations included
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
Wakefield will mean the end of wp as we know it…. Mark my words
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
And berrick kicks….guess deans had a word
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
Is the Kiwi no 5 is still growing?? He looks much bigger than at the RWC lottery.
18 Aug 2012, 13:04 pm
@Fern-90: For sure Fern.
18 Aug 2012, 13:05 pm
@kaksioek-97: That’s life, I’m afraid.
18 Aug 2012, 13:05 pm
@95
thats rugby for you
christie is a legend and a gentleman
he played for pinetown back in the day.
18 Aug 2012, 13:05 pm
@grant100-70: Knock it on?
18 Aug 2012, 13:05 pm
@Puma-96: Must be that ‘terrible’ ‘useless’ Mr Straueli that organised this, along with BVZ. The Sharks know exactly what they are doing in terms of recruitment, and our Academy is the best… but a lot of people won’t give the right people the credit for this.
18 Aug 2012, 13:06 pm
@poppa69-99: Laughing at you own posts smacks of desperation, little man. If they’re funny enough, others will do the laughing, and therein lies the magic.
18 Aug 2012, 13:06 pm
@Hurricane-87: You guys must be pleased to have Jane back. Such an accomplished player. Dagg also looking a different player in black to the guy we saw in SR.
18 Aug 2012, 13:07 pm
@katman-98:
You are missing some respect little fella.
Do not give me the punctuation line, obviously you have nothing else.
18 Aug 2012, 13:08 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-110:
I am happy mate.
Jane is one of our best wingers, all round play is brilliant.
18 Aug 2012, 13:08 pm
@Hurricane-111: That’s a little better, but still not great.
18 Aug 2012, 13:08 pm
@katman-109: in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion plays no more..
in the jungle the mighty jungle the lion plays no more
like I said Katcnut, just pointing out that you saffas will notice NZ indiscretions, but not the Wobblies ones?
guess the pain of only 12 victories in 20 years must really hurt, coupled with 8th equal at the WC
life is wonderful…
18 Aug 2012, 13:09 pm
Difficult to believe the Wallabies only trailing by 5 points
After Beale gifted them 2 tries?
18 Aug 2012, 13:10 pm
What is up with the Wobblies, I mean they have nothing else to concentrate on, no travel, no politics, with a coach who knows a thing or two and yet… they punch below their weight.
18 Aug 2012, 13:10 pm
Whistle bloomin whistle. Why are there morons from the bleatingish and oilyish isles officiating games between the two top teams in the world????
18 Aug 2012, 13:10 pm
@poppa69-114: Good for you, Giulietta.
18 Aug 2012, 13:11 pm
Poppa, doesn’t look like the ref favouring any team, he’s just holding to the rules, but you ab’s believe you should be above the law.
18 Aug 2012, 13:11 pm
I want to stick that whistle right up his … play advantage ffs
18 Aug 2012, 13:11 pm
The oilyish are clearly a third tier nation and they have third rate referees.
18 Aug 2012, 13:12 pm
Gosh, Referees like this plonker need to he drawn and quartered. What a blight on rugby these pedantic twats are.
18 Aug 2012, 13:12 pm
This little fiddle-de-dee-potato ref should try going 25 seconds without blowing his whistle.
18 Aug 2012, 13:12 pm
@katman-118: hehehe nice comeback biiitch..
just think of all the extra spare time youre gonna have on the weekends now
18 Aug 2012, 13:12 pm
@sharks_lover-39: Bro come blog with us on RT. This site is not working. Takes forever (about 10min) for me to post and to log on it took even longer. Just don’t have the patience for that. Plenty of us on RT right now. Also there is a crici thread there.
See you over there bro.
18 Aug 2012, 13:13 pm
Ritchie is always ‘on the edge of the law’
18 Aug 2012, 13:14 pm
@poppa69-124: Oh you got me there. Yes, that certainly hurts, Giulietta.
18 Aug 2012, 13:15 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-122:
Yeah a bit too much i think.
18 Aug 2012, 13:15 pm
@Puma-125:
Whats RT?
18 Aug 2012, 13:15 pm
‘just floated forward a little bit which is ok’?
That’s a bendy bit of Australian logic for you.
18 Aug 2012, 13:15 pm
@goodstuff-119: Im not saying he is, Im saying most Saffa supporters will moan about ABs indiscretions, but remain extremely silent when the Wallabies do something illegal? why is this? surely as neutrals you guys will see it from both sides?
but it only ever gets mentioned when its the ABs, guess the fact we have dominated you guys for the last twenty years really has carved resentment deep into the Saffa psyche..
18 Aug 2012, 13:16 pm
@Hurricane-129: http://www.Rugby-talk.com come chat if ya want hurricane
18 Aug 2012, 13:17 pm
@katman-127: Guilietta? oh, so now you have to hide behind a language?
how brave of you katcnut..
18 Aug 2012, 13:17 pm
This is the fourth penalty attempt in the past 7 mintes!!!!
18 Aug 2012, 13:18 pm
@goyougoodthing2-130:
Of course you will have the Ozzie commentators.
18 Aug 2012, 13:18 pm
@poppa69-133: What does that even mean, Giulietta?
18 Aug 2012, 13:18 pm
@poppa69-131: I know what it is, would you like to know?
South African’s love to beat Australians even more than we all like to beat WP. We also like to beat NZ but the kiwi media, Grant Nisbet, TJ and co whine like babies so often when things don’t go their way it has tarred the whole spectacle.
Although this is not the thoughts of the ave kiwi, those 2 especially are such little girls they make it bad for everyone else.
Paddy O doesn’t help either.
18 Aug 2012, 13:18 pm
Min 53
Another penalty on Pocock where it should have gone the other way
The Wallabies must be missing badly Kaplan now, at least he punishes the cheaters
18 Aug 2012, 13:19 pm
50m out and carter falls way short
frans steyn has dropped them over from 60m
this is the extra x factor that frans steyn has,he can kick penalties from far out.
18 Aug 2012, 13:20 pm
Why is mess is up so hesitant? Run you mongrel run.
18 Aug 2012, 13:20 pm
@Hurricane-135: Blame SuperSport, but it is a blessing not having Nisbo for a change.
18 Aug 2012, 13:20 pm
The case in black world champs??? Really??? Boks will kill this kak wallaby team…..
18 Aug 2012, 13:20 pm
@katman-136: youre the one using it.. thing is, I was having a decent rugby chat, you came straight in swinging, now youre trying to play the saint?
do fck off, little boy..
18 Aug 2012, 13:21 pm
Case – guys .. Farking auto correct
18 Aug 2012, 13:22 pm
@Fern-139: Dude, you can’t compare Carter to Steyn… big kicks are one thing, but Carter is by far the best 10 ever.
Humble, class, finesse… there is none more complete.
18 Aug 2012, 13:22 pm
@poppa69-143: Your name is Giulietta because you’re average time between breakdowns is simliar to the old Alfa.
18 Aug 2012, 13:22 pm
@grant100-142:
Ozzie beat the 6 nations #1 team 3 times this year. You struggled past an english team.
Do not write off the Ozzies.
18 Aug 2012, 13:22 pm
Even pdv knows more of rugby than that strange nisbo thing
18 Aug 2012, 13:22 pm
you’re = your
18 Aug 2012, 13:24 pm
Carter has the longest successful kick ever. About 65 metres i believe.
18 Aug 2012, 13:25 pm
this Irish / French ref far too quick on his NH penny whistle blowing Pocock up at every steal for holding.
Only time in recent years that Wobbly had it over NZ was when Cooper albeit on the rare occasion when he been blowing hot rather than cold was at pivot. With one track Berrick in the driving seat Wobbly got no trick of surprise up their sleeve so AB’s just gonna grind out another pedestrian win. They’d be better off switching Barnes and Beale around play Beale at 10 and Barnes at 15 that way they might just spark something unique. Barnes is the Aussie equivalent to Morne Steyn, Mr one track dependable no fireworks non creating droll.
18 Aug 2012, 13:25 pm
@katman-149:
18 Aug 2012, 13:25 pm
Aidoc with a 220mph wind behind him maybe……
18 Aug 2012, 13:26 pm
Off the topic but can anyone tell me who the ref is for the Bok game
18 Aug 2012, 13:26 pm
@AiDoc-150: Um, no chance
Paul Thorburn, full-back for Wales. In 1986, v. Scotland at Cardiff Arms Park, he kicked a penalty a distance of 70 yards and 8 inches.
18 Aug 2012, 13:27 pm
@katman-146: hahah when was my last “breakdown” Katman? you are so arrogant you believe you can decide someones state on an internet forum?
you da man katcnut, you da man!
18 Aug 2012, 13:27 pm
Min62
Penalty to the ABs where the replay showed it was the other way around?
18 Aug 2012, 13:28 pm
The alcholic cheater walsh @ nautigal
18 Aug 2012, 13:28 pm
Ritchie was sealing off completely. That was a poor call.
One of many both ways.
18 Aug 2012, 13:29 pm
Probably the end of Deans, no excuses really, his No 3 Kepu hasn’t made a tackle yet!
And Beale?, gee
18 Aug 2012, 13:30 pm
Indeed, you’re having a good run, Giulietta. But once an Alfa, always an Alfa.
18 Aug 2012, 13:31 pm
where’s the attack ball benefit law gone? Haven’t these NH refs been education about roll away give daylight and allow carrying player to place the ball, instead he blowing in favour of defense team in this case AB’s every single time?
Pocock and Ioane been done in every single time in possession the wrong way round Mr. Irish / Frenchie ref.
18 Aug 2012, 13:31 pm
Aaron Smith just gave Will a taste of his own medicine…
18 Aug 2012, 13:31 pm
STeve walsh goes to a bar…..and he stays there till it closes…
18 Aug 2012, 13:32 pm
The new no 8 does not bind at all!
Genia not so flash when smith shows him up. Two wobblies headbutt each other.
At last a penalty to the dominant scrum!
18 Aug 2012, 13:32 pm
@katman-161: again, the arrogance to assume you can determine my state via an internet forum really is the epitome of stupid..
so well done, but hey , I understand, its the same kind of stupid that means you dont have a team to support in Super rugby…
18 Aug 2012, 13:32 pm
There have been at least 8 forward passes until minute 65 before the ABs were called?
How come
18 Aug 2012, 13:33 pm
What? Now there are complains Pocock does not have a free reign?
I should rewatch a certain QF again.
18 Aug 2012, 13:33 pm
@fitz1ella-162: So Skoppie wat nou?? Jan Luc Dup has signed to play for the SHarks?? whats happening to your union??
18 Aug 2012, 13:34 pm
Gear could have dived!!
18 Aug 2012, 13:37 pm
The white rhino will kill sonny bill.. I would run if i was money bill
18 Aug 2012, 13:38 pm
SBW: CHEAT. That was pretty blatant.
18 Aug 2012, 13:38 pm
Sneaky block on AAC there by the AB’s
18 Aug 2012, 13:39 pm
Min 70
Case in point
Jane was 2m ahead of Williams who passed well ahead of Jane, do the calcs
On a short distance it must be a 35-40 degrees forward pass, it seemed well practiced move!
JdV take a note
18 Aug 2012, 13:39 pm
@Hondo-174: JDV only does that against the Sharks
18 Aug 2012, 13:40 pm
Deans been a poor Aussie coach, hasn’t got the maximization out of a bunch of relatively talented rugby players. Mckenzie would have gotten far more out of this collection of players. Only thing Deans got right in his 4 years in charge is making SA his bunnies in the last 2 seasons, which isn’t saying much with players like Smit, Burger, Spies, Steyn, Kirchner and FdP ******** the Bok team chances 9 times out of every 10.
18 Aug 2012, 13:41 pm
No advantage again
18 Aug 2012, 13:42 pm
Aussies going for a BP…
18 Aug 2012, 13:42 pm
Barnes goes for the poles?
18 Aug 2012, 13:42 pm
@Hondo-174: are you serious? the missed try by Jane? is that what youre talking about? it was touched by beale, should have been a scrum to the ABs.
open both eyes
18 Aug 2012, 13:42 pm
looks like refs been paid by south africa to ensure Aussie win
18 Aug 2012, 13:42 pm
How anyone can judge a forward pass on tv is beyond me. Parallax error makes it almost impossible.
18 Aug 2012, 13:43 pm
Finally McCaw gets pinged, he does that in every match.
18 Aug 2012, 13:44 pm
@AiDoc-182: That pass then that Barnes missed, parallax error?
18 Aug 2012, 13:44 pm
@goyougoodthing2-137: Which province you live in boet? Me personally I don’t get the whole anit WP thing that has been the case of you inland people for the las how many years. Must be the fact that we live in the only province that has a functioning government, some will say that it’s the WP supporters that are ******** or whatever, I don’t by that, both sharks/ bulls and even the occasional lions fan can be a real idiot.
But I guess it could also be that you think of us as wussies or pansies but then we beat you and then what does that make you?
But in the end of the day I don’t really care, I drive on on roads that have potholes, I do my work without black out interuptions, I stop at the traffic light not fearing that I will be highjacked and then pay my taxes knowing that it will be used.
So hate us if you like.
18 Aug 2012, 13:44 pm
Beale is still on the field?
When strike runners such Mitchell are on the bench?
18 Aug 2012, 13:45 pm
HTF did that pop out? Absolute bs.
18 Aug 2012, 13:45 pm
Not releasing the tackler ref? Rolling away?
18 Aug 2012, 13:46 pm
and Beale turned the ball over,,,
18 Aug 2012, 13:46 pm
Israel Dagg MotM
18 Aug 2012, 13:46 pm
Boks can take these all blacks
18 Aug 2012, 13:47 pm
@goodstuff-185: Durban, a Shark.
3 – 1 I believe.
Keep your trousers on.
18 Aug 2012, 13:47 pm
Some refs conviently forget that daylight needs to be applied…there was no daylight.
18 Aug 2012, 13:47 pm
Kick against the pole… Aussie catches the ball and go score under the sticks
18 Aug 2012, 13:47 pm
That’s the game… how did that ball come out of the ruck… I suspect sneaky hands… reminiscent of a certain QF game in RWC11
18 Aug 2012, 13:48 pm
Beale should always make himself blead like that… He looks better LOL
18 Aug 2012, 13:48 pm
Fat lady sings. Carter eradicates bonus losing point
18 Aug 2012, 13:48 pm
@goodstuff-193: not when its a maul
18 Aug 2012, 13:49 pm
@goyougoodthing2-192: You can count, good for you, doesn’t change that fact that you got humiliated in the final, 37-6 I believe it was, which made it 2-0 against the Chiefs.
Why did the sharks even bother?
18 Aug 2012, 13:49 pm
Aus back to square one. Deans’ future probably settled now. Pity
18 Aug 2012, 13:49 pm
@goodstuff-185: Oh, and I meant to say, we like beating you, over and over and over, because the press hypes up the WP and it all ends in tears.
18 Aug 2012, 13:50 pm
@spartan-198: Was it a maul, don’t recall the ref calling it, maybe I missed.
18 Aug 2012, 13:51 pm
@goodstuff-199: go have some Hipster coffee.
18 Aug 2012, 13:51 pm
@goyougoodthing2-201: Just like they hyped you before that pathetic final?
18 Aug 2012, 13:51 pm
F@%# it!
18 Aug 2012, 13:52 pm
I cannot remember a worse game in the SH since neutral referees were introduced.
God save us from that racist Gerrymander known as the IRB
18 Aug 2012, 13:52 pm
The Aussies lost to a sub par ABs team at their fortress
Knives will be out for Beans and rightly so!
Palu Malu, Beale, Kefu, Faingaa were the big holes in the Wallabies defence today, real shame.
18 Aug 2012, 13:52 pm
@goodstuff-199: You really are from Whine Country aren’t you.
18 Aug 2012, 13:52 pm
@goyougoodthing2-203: Funny but funny that is the best you got, go drink some cholora water lots of that in KZN.
18 Aug 2012, 13:54 pm
@goyougoodthing2-208: Nah, not whining, you beat us fair ans square, but you still embarased yourself in the final and SA. Also in 2007 when you lost a home final.
18 Aug 2012, 13:54 pm
@goodstuff-204: The final was a bridge too far, that was pretty clear. The Sharks played with huge hearts, their bodies were just not up to it.
Go cry in your cup, oh, that’s right, you don’t have any…
#Ends.
18 Aug 2012, 13:54 pm
if Jean Luc Dup signed with Sharkshits all it means is there is a perception in WP that the white player got no future here and they must rather chase the mercenary money where white run rugby still rules.
Pity its come down to ideology ruling and ruining the day, if that’s how its going going gone, then WP got their own damage control factor to rue for themselves.
Seems rugby still split along political ideology lines, and don’t seem its gonna heal too quick till all the morons get the fck out the way.
18 Aug 2012, 13:55 pm
Anyone who thought that the Ozzie teams SR campaign was an indicator of how their national team would fare in the RC, better think. The competition’s defending champs won’t roll over for anyone… Boks Beware..
18 Aug 2012, 13:55 pm
#Handbags at dawn it seems.
I really can’t… yawn.
18 Aug 2012, 13:55 pm
@goodstuff-209: Cholora? Kiss my aura, Dora. It’s real angora. With the right cholora fora da flora anda da fauna.
18 Aug 2012, 13:56 pm
Our OZ commentators are slating the referee, especially Slack.
18 Aug 2012, 13:56 pm
@goyougoodthing2-211: And you do? We have the Vodacom Cup last I checked.
18 Aug 2012, 13:57 pm
@TheTackler-215: Funny
18 Aug 2012, 13:57 pm
@fitz1ella-212: I think the truth is it is fairly obvious WP rugby is run by a bunch of schmucks of all colours. Don’t make it a race thing where there isn’t one.
Rob Wagner needed to grow a pair years back and didn’t. You guys need a clean out from the top.
18 Aug 2012, 13:58 pm
@goodstuff-202:
pretty sure he said ball is up
18 Aug 2012, 13:59 pm
@goyougoodthing2-214: you know i renamed Newlands??
Well we always winning there so i took it as another home ground for us Sharks,
Well the Tank is in Durban, SO newlands is now the reserve Tank
18 Aug 2012, 13:59 pm
@goodstuff-217: The Vodacom Cup? What about the U13c Girls’ Netball Challenge cup?
18 Aug 2012, 14:00 pm
@sharks_lover-221:
18 Aug 2012, 14:01 pm
@goyougoodthing2-219: I agree with you 100%, bunch of chops running WP rugby, too much power with local clubs. WP is like SA rugby, stuck in the amature era in regards to administration. Why does the Border rugby union have a say in who coaches the springboks, same reason why Kuilsrivier rugby clubs has a say in WP rugby. Amature era administration.
The whole system is pathetic, that’s what the sharks have going for them, a proffesional rugby union.
18 Aug 2012, 14:02 pm
@goyougoodthing2-222: I think you guys got that one.
18 Aug 2012, 14:02 pm
Well done All blacks, We were just not in it, not good enough, should have been ABs by 40. Special mention to Kurtley Beale with the worst possible performance, Wooden spoon here we come
18 Aug 2012, 14:02 pm
@fitz1ella-212:
Not IF Skop, he has signed with the sharks, a 2 year deal so far. And it has nothing to do with politics, he says he had good offers from botht eh Sharks and WPRU, Sharks offer was just so much more appealing,
18 Aug 2012, 14:03 pm
@sharks_lover-221: One win in Nuwlands not really classifies as always, not even classified as many, you should have learnt that at school, but guessing you got schooled in KZN…
18 Aug 2012, 14:04 pm
@goodstuff-224: Yep, it’s a sad state of affairs down your way, I would be 7 kinds of cross as a fan, and let’s be honest, you guys fill that stadium week in and out.
It’s time that the pro arm which brings in the money, tell the President to go play with the clubs and leave the grown up stuff to the grown ups.
However, it will take a change of leadership to do that and I can’t see you guys getting a decent CEO next time around either.
It’s still nice to beat you though.
18 Aug 2012, 14:05 pm
Anyway, good game ABs (kind of), but poor showing by Ozzies, better job next time and leave Barnes in the change room.
18 Aug 2012, 14:05 pm
One of the worst games of rugby I’ve watched. Ref was winner by long shot, loved the sound of his whistle so much I wanted to shove it up his arse!!!
18 Aug 2012, 14:05 pm
@goodstuff-225: Hey, we take Netball VERY seriously in KZN. I think Kearsney College and Hilton are dual national champs at the moment…
18 Aug 2012, 14:05 pm
@SAussie/QldRed-226: cheers, your boys made too many handling errors, worst game Ive ever seen by Beale..
18 Aug 2012, 14:06 pm
@KiwiBoi-231: I think everyone can agree with you.
18 Aug 2012, 14:07 pm
@goyougoodthing2-229:
, cheers, hopefully HM can conjur a better bok performance this week.
18 Aug 2012, 14:09 pm
@goodstuff-228: HOw old are you? like 3?? petty little insults makes you feel good huh?? by the way come fetch R20.00. ill donate it to you, BUY URSELF A SENSE OF HUMOUR
And if you had a little brain that actually worked?? Sharks beat Stormers Flew to NZ , Flew back and beat WP the very next week,
But seriously you shouldnt blog?? you get ur G@y knickers in a twost to quickly
18 Aug 2012, 14:09 pm
Congrats All Black.An away victory is always good.
18 Aug 2012, 14:10 pm
@SAussie/QldRed-226:
mate you will be fine.
We didnt really play that good as well.
Ozzies can get better.
18 Aug 2012, 14:11 pm
And congrats Kiwis on a good win
18 Aug 2012, 14:11 pm
Anyway, cheers all.
Enjoy and go Boks and Sharks.
18 Aug 2012, 14:12 pm
@KiwiBoi-231: Yeah Ref was not good, but made a lot of mistakes both ways
18 Aug 2012, 14:16 pm
I really don’t understand fitz1ella’s comment.Just be cause a schoolboy signed for a province other than WP it suddenly becomes race-baced ideologies etc etc.
18 Aug 2012, 14:21 pm
That is also very classy indeed sharks_lover.You mention insults but proceeds to fire off a volley of your own.Maybe you should take heed of your own advice.
18 Aug 2012, 14:23 pm
@wnbb-243: And MAybe you should stay out of someting you were not involved in, He started when i had not been talking to him and i finished it for him.
But i do not recall asking your opinion.
18 Aug 2012, 14:28 pm
Now it’s a two way race between the improving Boks and the Blacks.
18 Aug 2012, 14:31 pm
It’s an open forum Sharks_lover where all posts are open to public scrutiny.If you need a personal medium there is always the inbox of Facebook for you.
18 Aug 2012, 14:36 pm
Haven’t watch the game,so I really can’t comment on it.Never good to lose your home games in this competition,so the Wallabies are up against it already.
18 Aug 2012, 14:40 pm
The Sheepshaggers actually were seven shades of unimpressive against this shy.te error prone wobbly team…
Heynekes majority Sharks boys can fuckemup six love.
18 Aug 2012, 15:18 pm
Closer than I expected.
18 Aug 2012, 15:21 pm
@Heavens Game-248:
preach it
18 Aug 2012, 15:22 pm
@Heavens Game-248: Let’s wait and see how fuckemupping sixlove will be Sharkie boys against the minnows at home for starters. And only then look up to the biggies.
18 Aug 2012, 15:24 pm
@Nils-251:
which national,provincial and club sides do you support?
where did you play clubrugby?
nail your colours to the mast.
18 Aug 2012, 15:32 pm
@Fern-252: Hasn’t that been fairly obvious during these years?
New Zealand (other favs Argentina, Georgia)
Crusaders
Canterbury (although do not have that big interest in NPC)
I do watch Currie cup and NH competitions, too, although have no particular teams to root for, just enjoy.
I did play in amateur competition in Latvia, that was a long time ago and returned to rugby (although only as a beer drinking lazy watching enjoyer) about decade ago.
18 Aug 2012, 15:33 pm
@Fern-252: Beyootiful schedule today… Sharks A’s vs Los Pumas, 5pm at the Reserve Tank (TM SharksLover) followed by Sharks B vs Lions at 7pm, Sharks Tank…
What an awesome afternoon of dynamite rugga
18 Aug 2012, 15:34 pm
@Nils-253: However, if pressed then in 6 Nations I usually cheer for French and Welsh.
18 Aug 2012, 15:35 pm
@Nils-251: Yes… Not long to wait for Black and White, Green and Gold Dynamite.
18 Aug 2012, 15:35 pm
@Heavens Game-254: Just so you know????
Sharks u19 at the moment up 18-0 against Bulls u19
18 Aug 2012, 15:37 pm
@sharks_lover-257: Eish, go you good things… This is starting to sound like an era of all round Black and White dominance starting….
18 Aug 2012, 15:38 pm
@Heavens Game-256: yes, finally. hoping, Pumas play well and avoid the thumping, that will do their cause world of good. even if they lose all 6 games.
18 Aug 2012, 15:40 pm
@Nils-253:
what was this amateur comp in latvia?
@Heavens Game-254:
Awesome day for some good rugga and lots of vitamen beer.
18 Aug 2012, 15:40 pm
@Nils-259: Los Pumas will not be pumped by scoreline… But farkme they gonna be terrorised by Black and White dynamite today on field…
Like King Keegan, Cappie to be…. Now you see him… now you dont
18 Aug 2012, 15:42 pm
@Fern-260: Vitamin Beer…You like that?
(Tm HG)
18 Aug 2012, 15:42 pm
@Heavens Game-261:
Whats your take on Carel Dup’s lightie signing for 2 years at the Sharks?
18 Aug 2012, 15:44 pm
@Heavens Game-262:
Up there with “crocodile death rolls with duvet clasped between the legs”(tm Chunt du Fernly).
18 Aug 2012, 15:46 pm
@Fern-263: Good for the future… Nice to see the DuPs can see which way the Rugby bread is buttered…
But I reckon we need a tighthead and a lock then S15 2013 is ours already.
18 Aug 2012, 15:47 pm
@Fern-264: Lol… Outtahere for now… its Rugga time… Go Boks… Go Sharks.
Later
18 Aug 2012, 15:55 pm
The black mercenaries Fckng up the powder blue mercenaries where will it ever end
Sharkshitmanure over Bullshitmanicdepression
18 Aug 2012, 15:58 pm
@Fern-260: I do not recall (and frankly do not care a bit) that was so long ago – the 80s, we were still kids.
18 Aug 2012, 16:09 pm
rugby already gone all the way equal to soccer, if Carel Dup’s lightie is lured to sharkshits due to a better cash offer, then all the traditions and allegiances in this game have long ago been eroded by mercenary money bartering and pride of provincial allegiance long ago disappeared down the money mogul plughole.
Just like sad eyed Sadie and hovering Hougie young Jean Luc Dup gonna be crying bitter sweet mercenary tears just the same
18 Aug 2012, 16:45 pm
Dagg and Jane will both take sometimes take it easy during super rugby, by boy do those two know how to dial it in for a test match. Two of the form outside backs in the world.
18 Aug 2012, 20:57 pm
@DAS-270:
Have to agree fully
best wing and best 15 in the world
18 Aug 2012, 23:19 pm
There are a few ABs approaching their sell by date. Will be very interesting to see how McCaw, Carter, Mealamu, Hore, Nonu, Conrad Smith, Woodcock etc are replaced in time for the next world cup.
ABs are in danger of hanging onto their world cup winners just a bit too long. A mistake previously made by Aus, England and SA. Sentimentality is a dangerous thing. And how do you replace McCaw and Carter?
19 Aug 2012, 00:13 am
Mccaw is still fine, but it seems like Carter hasn’t been the goods all season.
19 Aug 2012, 04:05 am
@munkiboi-272: Based on what we can see at the moment, McCaw = Kane, Carter = Cruden,Woodcock = Franks. There are a couple of possible new hookers, but not at the same standard yet. Hooker maybe the biggest concern. Kahui will take over from Smith (4 years younger) for a while if needed, so there is a few years to go before centre becomes a major issue. 2nd five is a bit of a worry though. No massive standout for that one yet. Maybe Toeava when fit. The good thing is that of the players mentioned, maybe only Woodcock and McCaw are perhaps past there very best (aging bodies) watching them so far this season. Both still world class though, and fortunately with decent looking replacements already starting to come through. Hore and Mealamu still very strong, with Mealamu having one of his best games last night. Watch the EOY tour to see what Hansen is starting to bring through for Hooker and midfield.
19 Aug 2012, 11:00 am
Keep an eye out for Charlie Ngatai a young midfeild back just signed by the Chiefs
19 Aug 2012, 11:54 am
Munkiboy
ABs are already bringing the next generation through. Retallick, Romano, Barrit, Savea, Smith, Cane etc these guys have been introduced to not only test rugby but the AB systems and I can guarantee they have been informed of the things in their game they need to work on.
Hansen has surprised me in the fact he has blooded so many youngsters already.
Tameifuna, Faumuiana also. expect these youngsters to improve in next seasons super rugby tourney.
the future for AB rugby is looking very good imho
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