Boks versus Oirland

Plum, it looked like it, but it's not 100%, so can't overturn on field.

5 points...5 min...nice try.

Second big Lowe fckup

Dis nou 'n Bok skrum...vatso!!!

Enjoyed that, better quality game than the ABS. Irish a tad unlucky but Boks did enough to deserve the win.

Agree all your points.

PSDT was my MOTM....DdA wasn't half bad either.

Of course PSdT was MotM . . .again!

To think otherwise you'd have to be a rugby noob or a hopelessly biased fool.

I'm pretty sure it's only on this forum that this great Springbok gets castigated week in and week out. Pieter Steph and Eben are two great players - among the best of their generation - yet on this board, one of them is idolized and gushed over, being called the greatest in his position of all time and other such accolades    while the other is demonized, written off as a talentless plodder who makes a lot mistakes, never has a positive impact and pretty much lumbers around the field making no contribution other than "process" tackles.

Like I said, I'm pretty sure it's only on this board but even if it's not, this childish little theory that Eben is the best in the world while PSdT is the worst in the world gets disproved in nearly every game where the two play in the same test . . . as it did today . . . and in the previous game against Wales . . . as it was disproved in the RWC . . . and before that in the semifinal . . . and many, many times before that as well.

Just wait for the shrill shrieks of blasphemy in response to this post but it's true, Pieter-Steph has made a bigger impact than Eben in nearly every game they've both started in the last year or so and more often than not, he is the Springbok who makes the difference between us winning games we would otherwise have lost without him . . . and never more so than in the big games where he always steps up to the plate . . . like in the last two RWC finals . . . which we won!

Only on this board is this great Springbok treated with such disrespect . . . and that's probably because we have so many ignorant and biased rugby noobs.

Well done Bokke!

Kolbe and Arendse are my two MOMs. They literally created and finished two tries. Other players who had exceptionally good games include Kriel and Kolisi. Stephanie had his best lineout performance in a while.

Kriel was the official MOTM, but for me PSDT had a super match on the right wing.

Kriel seemed to have a high error rate on first viewing. Did plenty of running but not always to good effect, like at 51:20 when he failed to offload to Willie in space on his inside with Arendse running support outside, which would have been a prime try scoring opportunity. I'll watch the game again later, had a distracted viewing last night.