RWC 2011 - Quarter final 3 : Springbokke v. Wallabies CLOSED

The funniest part of the game I recall was an incident where Habana is tackled, then is on the ground with a player holding him up his head. He is looking at the referee as if to say 'why aren't you penalising them', then realises it is actually one of his own players.

Strangely enough I think it was actually Burger that has him by the head. At least he shares the love around.

In the first half if anyone has the ability to find it.

Our lot always bring up something special. Makes up for the misery

Gold, Paarl

Priceless.

Quite obvious how Bryce Elsom has been made to appear far more intelligent and worldly than the others. A true renaissance man.

Well done!!

On the Ruggamatrix podcast a few days before the game, it was mentioned that Brussow had dodgy ribs and would require an injection to play.

Yep I recall Djuro and the fellas mentioning that too.

I just wish they didn't keep postponing shows. (Can't wait to hear Les Kiss on the QF!)

Yep he didn't seem is usual self from the word go, we actually commented on it.

Amazing that wordplay biased = buyest translates from spoken german.

So much gold.

Bryce Beale.would be an awesome porn star name Dirk Diggler who!?

He has got the Molest-ache down pat.

So amusing and wildly factually inaccurate to characterise the NZ-wide, deliberate national cheap shot of relentless media attacks and constant booing of QC this RWC as merely arising from a 'thug element', and 'dickheads', etc.

When the ex-AB Captain Randell a few days back came out and championed the idea that the national work against QC was desirable and should continue, I think we arrived at the truth of the matter. And then this great little snippet today from Wayne Smith (the Aussie journo one) re his unthinking hypocrisy:

(Btw, I stand by all my assessments made in the first post relating to this matter.)

You mean like this:

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Ummmm.

Love

Hows this for love:

Difference is Matfield's prop continued to support him unlike Alexander who let go and Samo plonked to earth.

By that stage of the game we should have been up be at least 10 or more.

Fuck I am still not over it. Fuck fuck fuck.

Which is akin to plenty of what the Boks were getting away with all game.

Its not uncommon for Refs to ignore such matters until a bloke lands on his head, as Samo did.

Which still does not make the penalty any less uncontroversial.

No matter how many of those you find, the fact of the matter is you should have had a player red-carded then banned for at least 30 weeks for eye-gouging. I think if one were to go through this, or really most, game with a fine-tooth comb they'd find the ledger is pretty even.

Haha nice one reebokkie. I think if we were to watch the whole game in super slow motion, picking out images or short image sequences that have been slowed down by 300% we would find hundreds of incidents that weren't picked up for both teams! I have no doubt that if we watched every single ruck in super slow motion from multiple different angles we would find a number of incidents similar to the Schalk vs Pocock incident that appear as if they should have been yellow card/citing but are simply not picked up or do not look quite as bad at normal speed.