Springboks 27 Argentina 6
18 Aug 2012
GARETH DUNCAN brought you live commentary from the Test in Cape Town.
80 mins: Argentina are awarded a penalty in their 22m area. Hernandez clears the ball into touch as the final hooter blows. Disappointing end to the match for the Boks. SPRINGBOKS BEAT THE PUMAS 27-6!
76 mins: Time is running out at Newlands, and it seems the Boks are going to fall short of that four-try bonus point.
73 mins: The Boks have clear control of the game, but are struggling to turn this ascendancy into points.
69 mins: The Boks are breaking the Pumas defensive line regularly, but not enough support play. They’re also losing ball at breakdown too often.
66 mins: The flood gates have opened. The game has opened up and both teams are running the ball dangerously.
62 mins: Interesting sub. Mvovo is called off, and Ruan Pienaar comes on to play scrumhalf. Hougaard shifted to wing. Is this the way he it should be?
57 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! And it’s a brilliant try. Morne Steyn puts in a cross kick with two chasers following the ball. And it’s wing Bryan Habana who grabbs the pill, and falls to score. Steyn converts, another difficult conversion. SPRINGBOKS LEAD 27-6!
55 mins: The Boks forcing play into Argentine red zone. Pumas struggling under pressure as the knock-on ball 10m from the tryline. Heyneke Meyer’s men have a good platform to score from.
53 mins: The Boks not going for goal from long distances, intent is clear that they want four tries. Four-try bonus points against Argentina will be crucial in Rugby Championship title race. The Boks need more composure on attack though.
50 mins: A poor clearance sees the Pumas under pressure in their own 22m area. The Boks enjoy a clean lineout, but lose the ball forward in the first tackle.
47 mins: Herandez misses another penalty moments later. Argentine driving maul looking very dangerous.
45 mins: This time, Hernandez misses. The Pumas No 10 pushes his kick wide.
43 mins: The Pumas have a lineout at the halfway line, and they show they can also produce a strong driving maul. They force play up field, and win a penalty in a kickable position.
HALF-TIME: SPRINGBOKS 20 ARGENTINA 6
39 mins: The hooter blows as the Boks attack from a scrum in centre field. They get three good phases in, but lose possession after a poor De Villiers offload. The Pumas hack the ball forward, but the Boks manage to boot the ball into touch. And that’s the end of the first half.
37 mins: The Boks find themselves in another try-scoring position, following a good touch finder from Morne Steyn. However, this time, the Pumas defend well, killing off the ball at a breakdown and winning the feed to a scrum.
34 mins: Hernandez is proving to be magician with the boot, he has a superb tactical kicking game. If only the Pumas could capitalise on these favourable field positions.
32 mins: PUMAS PENALTY! After being well restricted by a firm Bok defence, Pumas get awarded a penalty as the hosts are caught offside. Hernandez slots the three-pointer. SPRINGBOKS LEAD 20-6!
31 mins: Another injury for the Boks, and another Du Plessis brother. Jannie du Plessis limps off with an injury after bumping heads with the Beast, and Pat Cilliers gets an early run off the bench. It’s only a temporary blood replacement.
28 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! Boks using their driving mauls to great effect, and the Pumas are struggling to stand firm against the hosts’ powerful pack. Flank Marcell Coetzee spots space out wide and peels off to touch down in the corner. Morne Steyn finds the target from a difficult angle. SPRINGBOKS LEAD 20-3!
26 mins: Argentina showing poor discipline midway through the first half. They’re pinned on halfway, this time for a breakdown foul. Could we see a long shot from one of the Steyns? No… De Villiers wants to attack and tells Morne Steyn to kick for touch.
24 mins: SPRINGBOK PENALTY! Morne Steyn gets a good touch finder, and the Boks win a penalty shortly after the resulting lineout as they catch Argentina offside. Steyn converts the easy penalty. SPRINGBOKS LEAD 13-3!
23 mins: Wing Lwazi Mvovo jumps high for an up and under, and gets tackled in the air. Receives some medical attention, but gets up and returns to action. Penalty awarded to the Boks.
22 mins: Hernandez tries another up and under, but this time, it’s an easy take in for Kirchner, who calls for the mark. The Bulls man then drives the ball back into Pumas’ territory. Good game so far for the fullback.
20 mins: Argentina build on the counter-attack, and tighthead prop Jannie du Plessis is pinned for a late shoulder charge. Poor by the experienced front-rower.
16 mins: SPRINGBOK TRY! Argentina lose the ball forward after the restart, and Boks have attacking scrum. Pumas are pinned for early engagement again, and Hougaard takes the quick tap. After a strong carry from inside centre Frans Steyn and flank Willem Alberts, Kirchner is put into space outwide and crashes over the try-line. Steyn converts the extras. SPRINGBOKS LEAD 10-3!
14 mins: PUMAS PENALTY! Hernandez scores Argentina’s first points of the match from right in front of the posts. SCORES ARE LEVEL AT 3-3!
13 mins: Great up and under from Hernandez after frustrating period of play for Argentina, and well taken in by fullback Zane Kirchner. However, the tourists manage to turnover possession and they go left on the counter. But Boks force tourists into touch. Referee Steve Walsh awards Argentina a penalty for a transgression before then.
9 mins: The Bok lineout is well composed and doesn’t succumb to the early pressure. Hougaard clears play to the halfway line.
8 mins: Argentina now enjoy a good spell of possession. Flyhalf Juan Martin Hernandez capitalises and boots a good touch finder into the Boks’ red zone.
4 mins: SPRINGBOK PENALTY! No advanatage, and Steyn will get his first pot at goal. And its successful. Bad news though, as hooker Bismarck du Plessis is carried off the field with what looks like a serious injury. Adriaan Strauss gets an early run. SPRINGBOKS LEAD 3-0!
3 mins: Pumas are pinned for an early engagement, and the Boks attack from a quick tap. From the second phase, skipper Jean de Villiers runs into space and offloads to wing Bryan Habana, who rushes deep into the Argentine 22m area. The Pumas are penalised for a breakdown infringement.
2 mins: Scrumhalf Francois Hougaard executes his first box kick, just inside the Pumas’ half. It doesn’t go far, but Argentina lose the ball forward. Boks get feed to the first scrum.
KICK-OFF: Springbok flyhalf Morne Steyn will start the game, and he does so with a high kick-off. Argentina gather possession, and clear play from their territory.
South Africa – 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jean de Villiers (c), 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Lwazi Mvovo, 10 Morné Steyn, 9 François Hougaard, 8 Keegan Daniel, 7 Willem Alberts, 6 Marcell Coetzee, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Bismarck du Plessis, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Subs: 16 Adriaan Strauss, 17 Pat Cilliers, 18 Flip van der Merwe, 19 Jacques Potgieter, 20 Ruan Pienaar, 21 Pat Lambie, 22 JJ Engelbrecht.
Argentina – 15 Lucas Amorosino, 14 Gonzalo Camacho, 13 Marcelo Bosch, 12 Santiago Fernández, 11 Horacio Agulla, 10 Juan Martín Hernández, 9 Nicolas Vergallo, 8 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe (c), 7 Álvaro Galindo, 6 Julio Cabello, 5 Patricio Albacete, 4 Manuel Carizza, 3 Juan Figallo, 2 Eusebio Guiñazu, 1 Rodrigo Roncero.
Subs: 16 Bruno Postiglioni, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Juan Pablo Orlandi, 19 Tomás Leonardi, 20 Leonardo Senatore, 21 Martín Landajo, 22 Martín Rodríguez.
235 Comments
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18 Aug 2012, 18:53 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-195: Boet Daniel had a good game, he played 8thman not flank, also remember Bismark was there to do the Fetching duties, sadly he went off early
lso remember Brussow is injured, you cant choose him
18 Aug 2012, 18:53 pm
@sharks_lover-199: He did get a few kicks over in this game.
18 Aug 2012, 18:56 pm
Jannie du Plessis really displayed his thuggish behaviour with that cowardly shoulder charge on Hernandez.Commentator said he was just late????
18 Aug 2012, 18:56 pm
@Dusky-202: Yeah but still Dusky he played the game plan as instructed, thats not his fault.
Also we must remember this team is now just starting off again, AB’s and Aussie didnt look great this morning either
18 Aug 2012, 18:58 pm
How pathetic was that? BB (losing) rugby all over again. Argies had most of the possesion due to useless MS kicking everything back at them.
Try that against Oz and NZ and we’re sunk.
No backline because no backline ball.
When the ball eventually got to JdV he tries the hero routine and loses it in the tackle.
HM empties his BB’s onto the pitch and the boks go nowhere except that Pienaar made a huge difference in distribution (mainly because he passed MS …) – and refuses (again) to sub a BB player.
HM joins the ‘horrors list’ of previous idiots with his provincialistic attitude.
How long is HM’s contract?
Sorry, unless HM changes his attitude and selections it’s ‘goodnight sweet nurse’.
18 Aug 2012, 18:58 pm
Boks will have to step up against the mighty BLACKS and even Aussies forn that matter. Difficult to judge from this performance.
But the game did not live up to expectations.
18 Aug 2012, 18:59 pm
The Aussies and Blacks won’t be losing any sleep. I hope we can lift our game on tour!
18 Aug 2012, 18:59 pm
@OCO-205: HIyas OCO long time no see
18 Aug 2012, 18:59 pm
forward pass try sbw
fark
i cannot stand these people
18 Aug 2012, 18:59 pm
Got to say Hougaard really did look like a wing when he moved there, dangerous. Should not be playing scrum-half when you have a player like Pienaar available.
18 Aug 2012, 19:01 pm
Poor support play from the loosies on attack today.Most of the times they arrived too late at the breakdown to support the attacking player hence the two penalties against de Villiers etc etc.
18 Aug 2012, 19:01 pm
@sharks_lover-208:
Yo S_L, hows it going?
Methinks we’re in deep doodoo with HM there. Hate to say it but right now he looks worse than PDiv.
18 Aug 2012, 19:02 pm
The problem here is the expectations of fans.
I’m not expecting us to win the Four Nations with the players we currently have available. Second place will be mission accomplished for Heyneke in his first season.
If we sneak a home win against NZ on top of that, it will be an absolute bonus.
So 4 out of 6 will be mission accomplished this year.
18 Aug 2012, 19:02 pm
@Peter Mkata-206: At least it should now be blatantly obvious where Meyer needs to focus his attention.
The quality of both RC matches today has left me cold, tbh but I find this one hard to stomach, somehow it feels even worse that the England draw earlier seeing our Boks so helpless at the breakdown.
18 Aug 2012, 19:03 pm
@Tacitus-213: Agreed. My expectations were far too high and I come away from watching bitterly dissapointed. Again.
18 Aug 2012, 19:04 pm
@OCO-212: good and you boet??
mate 1st game out , will come right
Also yes we need to stop kicking everything away
we have good enough backline players to score more tries
18 Aug 2012, 19:04 pm
Spies, its easy to make Heyneke jokes (as I have) In seriousness I’d like to give HM the benefit of the doubt & hope for the team to play more convincingly & in a dynamic way that will challenge the ABs. However I believe this is it for this team. They will spend 4 years replicating the kick & chase approach. Sad but true
18 Aug 2012, 19:06 pm
@Big Hit-210: Yes mate. It’s really unrugbylike for a natural strikerunner, arguably the most dangerous Bok back like Hougaard to be kicking bombs all game like we saw. Pienaar a better playmaker at 9 anyway and FH to the wing.
18 Aug 2012, 19:06 pm
Good performances from Bekker and Etzebeth.Not spectacular,but very solid.
18 Aug 2012, 19:07 pm
@sharks_lover-216:
Yes we have the backline players but they’re not seeing and ball with MS there. Kick, kick and kick. Missed the touchline on numerous occassions. As i said, against Oz and NZ it’s like handing them tries. We’ll be lucky with 2 out of 6 at this stage.
18 Aug 2012, 19:08 pm
@wnbb-219: Agreed.
18 Aug 2012, 19:09 pm
More likely than not for Hougie to move to the bench as an impact sub then,Spiesis.The wings are solid at the moment,even considering that JP is out injured.
18 Aug 2012, 19:14 pm
@Spiesisworthless1-214:
Something is missing in this Bok team, no cohesion. I guess the expectation was that Hanneke Meyer will bring some messiahnic(spelling) wonders. But the Boks are not convincing at all with 3 tests gone.
18 Aug 2012, 19:21 pm
@Big Hit-210
TOTALLY AGREED!
Hougaard really plays the ref too much – doesnt give quick enough service and doesn’t attack the gain line as he should…..
Pienaar opened up gaps all over the park with his ellusive running and quick service
18 Aug 2012, 19:25 pm
@Peter Mkata-223: At times like this we really get to appreciate the value of stalwarts of the not too distant past. Guys like Juan Smith, Fourie Du Preez, Jaque Fourie All monumental Bok players extremely difficult to replace. I’d include Brussouw in that category too- an absolutely world class player. He might currently be injured but I’m sure Meyer is already realising how much value he can add in the future. There’s a gaping hole in the team that only a guy Brussouw will plug.
All this goes to show is that at the coalface of test rugby our much proclaimed rugby depth in this country doesn’t always stand up to close scrutiny.
18 Aug 2012, 19:44 pm
@Tacitus-213: SA have the players to win the tournament, if you go down their line-up and compare it with today’s NZ line-up they are at least as good particularly in the pack where games are won and lost.
There’s no reason why SA supporters shouldn’t expect their team to win the tournament.
18 Aug 2012, 20:29 pm
@Big Hit-226:
Hey Big hit
Maybe we can match them in the forwards but not in the backs
They have better 9s
They have the best 10s in the world
Centers about even especially when SBW goes to japan
Better wings Jane the best wing in the world
Best full back in the world
18 Aug 2012, 20:40 pm
Ok all the Daniel haters
He was much better than Spies, and was clearly told to play a tighter game
His covering and speed across the field was very good.
He plays a 1000 times harder than Spies and has a lot of guts
In saying that i would hope Vermeulen gets his shot at 8 or maybe Alberts there
However if if means bringing the useless Potgieter in at flank, then leave Daniels in at 8 until vermeulen is ready
18 Aug 2012, 20:43 pm
How can anyone have a flank in their team who cannot pass or offload ??
Potgieter dies with the ball
Sorry dives with the ball
18 Aug 2012, 20:46 pm
@Tacitus-165:
Steve was very pleasant in his reffing performance
Must have taken his meds
18 Aug 2012, 21:03 pm
W!thout B!smark we no longer have any ” to the ball” players wh!ch !s requ!red aga!nst the b!g boys.
The Arg!es showed today how effect!ve !t !s, even !n a los!ng cause.
19 Aug 2012, 00:14 am
The SANZAR bigwigs were savvy enough to get the ’8th place playoff’ games out of the way early in the inaugural Rugby Championship. Even better when it produces an upset like this.
19 Aug 2012, 08:23 am
Hawhawhaw
~Bellywobble guffaw~
19 Aug 2012, 08:47 am
Hopefully Hash w!ll do the bus!ness on Labarung.
19 Aug 2012, 13:08 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-209:
Who are these people?
Suppose you thought Marcell Coetzee was a fair try?
Look again, broke off the maul and i another bok was in front of him and took out a Puma defender.
To me that is truck and trailor and obstruction…..damn i hate these poeple
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