Holy crap. I was up early, saw the half time score and went back to bed. Didn't expect to wake up to that scoreline!
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Wobblies I
Just watched the replay --
Boks looked unstoppable for first 18 - 20 mins ..The box kicking was very accurate and put all kinds of pressure on the Wallabies. Then they noticeably started tiring up front - I feel BOK (ref) insisting on a fast game aided this.
To keep Boks scoreless in second 40 was impressive, big efforts by Aussie back row with some key turnovers.
Boks discipline was very poor with repeated infringements -- TRC is wide open now.
Too many steroids
The boks aerobic fitness was awful, the faster pace of super rugby this year might have helped the aussies
@stodders said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@Smuts good luck Smuts
Shot mate. Didn’t need luck as it turned out. They defended about as poorly as the Boks must’ve in the second half. Got a lot of sad looks and commiserations from the boys as I came off the field and was genuinely bamboozled. I mean, I wasn’t Carter in the 2nd Lions test, but we still put up the half ton.
I guess this game goes into the tiny number of bok tests I’ve never watched.
That in my opinion, was probably best I have seen Wallabies play. They were pretty impressive, and by same token the Boks seemed to just crumble when pressure came on. Wallabies also showed the benefit of a good hard series against Lions. That was a warning for us all for Wallabies this year.
Watching delayed and saw the perfect example of when a ref should just ping a bloke rather than warning him. We had that discussion earlier in the year. Can't remember who with. Was in a Drua match in Fiji.
If the half dummies just ping him Ben. He knows it's wrong. It doesn't need a warning.
Well if ya don't put them away when you should and keep letting the wounded in, that's what happens. South Africa have themselves to blame for that capitulation, turning down 3s, a needless intercept which changed the game completely, it was one hell of a collapse caused by themselves lol. It reminded me of Bledisloe 1 last year, where we were cruising and then got ourselves stuck and ended up almost losing the test where we had no right to (if it went another 10 mins, we would have).
Credit to the Wallabies, they hung tough and outlasted the Boks fitness wise.
@pakman said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@delicatessen My bad. I realised I’d mistyped, but after @smuts had taken the bait so magnificently, there seemed little point in correcting!
Inadvertently misspelled it right.
I can't remember a worse five-eighth performance. Libbok was dreadful.
Apparently that's the first Wallaby victory at Ellis Park since 1963?
Well. Fuck me. I've just seen the score and had to check it wasn't the wrong way around.
That'll be interesting viewing
@NTA said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Well. Fuck me. I've just seen the score and had to check it wasn't the wrong way around.
That'll be interesting viewing
You might want to have a box of tissues nearby
@NTA said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Well. Fuck me. I've just seen the score and had to check it wasn't the wrong way around.
That'll be interesting viewing
Great highlights.
Can we have Schmidt back please.
@sparky said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Sean Maloney sounding like he's ejaculating.
Big Seanny is an absolute top bloke and an absolute Rugby nuffy.
He's played various levels in Sydney and knows the landscape here very well - the good, bad, and ugly.
He's a champion for the game here and his love of the game is unparalleled.
@canefan said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@NTA said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Well. Fuck me. I've just seen the score and had to check it wasn't the wrong way around.
That'll be interesting viewing
You might want to have a box of tissues nearby
Eh ? The Wallabies won, he won’t be crying…..
Aw hang on……
Dude…..
@antipodean said in Boks v Wobblies I:
I can't remember a worse five-eighth performance. Libbok was dreadful.
Apparently that's the first Wallaby victory at Ellis Park since 1963?
And their first win in the republic since 2011. When they won 14-9 at Durban. A game where they had another kiwi coach and JOC started on the wing.
How bad is my Wallabies Fan PTSD?
All I can think now is how the Boks will cut their error rate and absolutely ream us next week 
Just caught the extended highlights, that was so much fun to watch. Well done Wallabies! Man I wish Schmidt was our coach
Serious question, has Joe Schmidt indicated he still wants to coach after the Wallabies?
Love to see him coach one of the Super sides.
@NTA said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Big Seanny is an absolute top bloke and an absolute Rugby nuffy.
He's played various levels in Sydney and knows the landscape here very well - the good, bad, and ugly.
He's a champion for the game here and his love of the game is unparalleled.
I can’t recall the exact year he started doing the commentary but I don’t think in his time he’s seen a win in the SA.
All the emotion that we saw in the super season when there was the collective weez woz robbed and then in the lead up to the Lions and the constant writing off to only just narrowly lose the series to last night.
Don’t mind the call from the big man.
Brilliant innovation by the Master Innovator. So innovative I can't work out his long game 3D chess innovative innovationess.
And ... are we back at No.1?
@NTA said in Boks v Wobblies I:
How bad is my Wallabies Fan PTSD?
All I can think now is how the Boks will cut their error rate and absolutely ream us next week
Dude - just enjoy one of the all time great test match comebacks and one of the best Wallaby performances ever. Next week cannot change that.
Gutted I only watched the highlights of this, but couldn't risk the score being mentioned in the ABs match (and it was).
Well done Wobblies.
What a win. Second best in the last 15 years or so (number one is knocking England out of their own WC in 2015).
So happy for JOC, what a story. And Jorgo and Wright really putting forward world class performances when they get space to work with.
As for the Boks, they started chasing the fools gold out wide when they were beating us up on tight. Real failing from 9/10. We just herded them wide, and picked them off. Or they dropped it.
The last five minutes of camerawork, titled ‘let’s show as many desolate Boks fans as possible’ should win awards.
@barbarian said in Boks v Wobblies I:
What a win. Second best in the last 15 years or so (number one is knocking England out of their own WC in 2015).
So happy for JOC, what a story. And Jorgo and Wright really putting forward world class performances when they get space to work with.
As for the Boks, they started chasing the fools gold out wide when they were beating us up on tight. Real failing from 9/10. We just herded them wide, and picked them off. Or they dropped it.
The last five minutes of camerawork, titled ‘let’s show as many desolate Boks fans as possible’ should win awards.
I hope you have that recorded to rewatch mate, it's been a long time between drinks
@MiketheSnow said in Boks v Wobblies I:
@KiwiMurph said in Boks v Wobblies I:
As an aside - I thought BOK was outstanding
Nope
What'd he get wrong?
@SammyC said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Too many steroids
The boks aerobic fitness was awful, the faster pace of super rugby this year might have helped the aussies
Replacement THP looked a candidate for the dietician.
@W32 said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Joe Schmidt seems to be living on pre Farrell Ireland reputation.. hasn’t added much to any team he’s been involved with since then, and Ireland have been better under Farrell. A bit like Plumtree. Posers
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Boks v Wobblies I:
Campese wiping egg off his face this morning as well. Cripes, how many times has that schmuck opened his mouth and it's been the opposite.
Sounds like he has a strong jinx game