Hi guys,
Well,the Ockers well and trully thrashed the Springboks bouncing back from their heavy loss to the All Blacks.Looks like the next game in the series will be awesome.This was taken from a N.Z newspaper:

Australia 49 South Africa 0

BRISBANE - Australia recorded their biggest win over South Africa in 85 years with a 49-0 demolition in the second round of the Tri-Nations at Lang Park on Saturday.

The Wallabies rebounded from last week's 32-12 loss to New Zealand to produce their best performance of the season, scoring six unanswered tries to chalk up their highest total and biggest winning margin against the Springboks since the teams first played each other in 1921.

Prop Greg Holmes and hooker Jeremy Paul both scored tries in the first half as the Australian forwards responded to the criticism of their dismal showing against the All Blacks with a powerful display against the big South African pack.

The Wallaby backs showed again why they are regarded as one of the best attacking units in the world with another slick demonstration of high-speed running and skilful passing and kicking.

Inside centre Matt Giteau crossed twice while fullback Chris Latham and replacement lock Mark Chisholm scored once each but the Australians might have scored more had they held on to the ball better in the slippery conditions.

Several clear chances went begging and replacement halfback Sam Cordingley and lock Nathan Sharpe were both held up over the line by desperate South African defence.

First five-eighths Stephen Larkham was at his brilliant best, opening the scoring with a long-range drop goal in the third minute and gliding past three defenders to set up his team's second try, while Stirling Mortlock kicked 16 points and provided the South African defenders with plenty of headaches with his strong running.

The Springboks failed to deliver on their promise to dominate the Australian forwards and were badly let down by their own discipline, with lock Victor Matfield earning a 10-minute stint in the sin-bin for a professional foul in the first half.

They offered little in attack and missed too many first up tackles in defence, allowing the Australians to keep them pinned in their own quarter and get within a whisker of South Africa's worst ever defeat, a 53-3 loss to England in 2002.

Cheers,Shay

Not one of our prouder moments. In fact it's just bloody embarassing.

Looks like it could be a see-saw competition this year.
All teams seem to be having highs and lows.
Looking forward to the next match.

Yup watched the game too and you gotta give some credit to the wallabies. They had to put up with a lot of flak from the loss the week before so this certainly is good come back. It was painful to see the Boks fall from the pressure. IMHO, the boks are relying too much on their rushing defense which is quite a big gamble that dont seem to pay back enough dividents. Too many holes pop up once the wallabies managed to feed the ball to their backs.

This weekend's game with the ABs will be interesting though.....criticisms do motivate a team as the wallabies have shown so i wouldnt count the boks out yet.

Go the ABs!

Who plays next game?

All Blacks vs Springboks, played in Wellington. The week after that will be back in Brisbane where the ABs square off against the wallabies again.

Hey,
Here's a link to a good rugby site called "Rugby Heaven".For the rest of the international season see here.
Go the mighty All Blacks!!
Shay

Nah go the Wallabies

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Yer all the way to Bondi!

Ouch! Thet's choice bro... Uf the shoe futs... Just kuddin you ENZECS :-) :-)

Ooohhh....if ya thought you'd get us back with those jibes,take a squizz here.You'll be laughin' like a great gallah! :-) Shay

I dont remember anything. the last time I checked we were where we were a 100 years ago.

Anyone toung tied :-) :-) :-) :-) Accident

Sebastian

Great sense of humour Kiwi !

Best,

Julien

"Officials on both sides of the Atlantic conceded that would be difficult. "They broke Florida," said U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher."

Thus wiping out 80% of the US of A’s retirement homes in one foul swoop! :-) :-)


What do you get if you cross a Kangaroo with an Elephant?

Potholes in Australia! (Plus a further 5 degrees tilt on the World’s axis)