Less singing more rugby please.
Less singing more rugby please.
Good presentation Pakie 
. Becs won't luv you anymore for this.
I'm not worried the Boks will take this easily.
Good luck Boks, should be an easy game.
I see Frenchmen with white jerseys in the crowd. Off with their heads!
Early penalty England. Both teams tested with high bombs, England winning both.
Penalty to Poms already. Same old thing going for 3.
Steph should really just stay away from tackle ball, he has no idea how to fetch.
Farrell kicks a 3.
Looks like England's going to target shorty Arendse with high kicks.
Boks need to find their grove, line out loss.
England steal the Bok lineout.
Looks like plenty of high kicks are gonna go to our wings.
Another hoist, another clean England take. They're not France in that respect.
Poms have the upper hand in first7 minutes
Boks again lose an England high ball. Kick ahead, Bok lineout 10m out.
Now scrum England, skew throw. Boks a shambles early on, two blown lineouts.
England players looking relaxed and enjoying it. Nice being the underdog.
Another penalty to Poms
Penalty England. Should be 3 more.
If that was Kwagga, the Boks would have been down on the otherside of the field. Test quality vs Vodacom Cup quality.
Second breakdown penalty against the Boks.
Poms will kick you to death. Boks may be forced to be more adventurous.
Looking ominous.
Boks look flat, not on their game, and like they could be half the team they were last week.
Dangerous times.
England are playing well, Boks cant get into the game yet.
England are ruling the air, and lineouts are not going well for the Boks
Stewart is good in the air, pointless kicking to him,
Boks may have to play some rugby to score points here, England not making any soft mistakes to feed on.
Poms delaying the game, same old tricks.
Easy out for England as we put it high again, they gather without problem and kick clear.
Maul, England turns it over. Penalty Boks. Touchline. Lineout 10 or so.
England are dominating the Boks phyiscally.
Mauls are not going well
Wheels are coming off the Boks tank.
The old 11 man maul, it falls apart. England ball. Handbags.
Boks getting flustered.
So has Rasnaber prepared anything outside of mauls and high kicks?
We might need to remove Mosterd, and bring on Synman for more bulk
Boks should take the 3.
We still have speed and we will still have moments where England have a lapse. These will be 7 points so long as Earl Rose 0.1 can kick them.
We're leaving points on the table going for touch. Better start scoring from those lineouts.
Maul ain't working. Mostert drops it after a good hit on the ball. That's no thank you to potential 6 points.
Mostert is the least of our worries. We have nearly 12 players worse than him.
Scrum penalty. Oh dear.
Good take Arendse in the air.
And we kick it back to England who secure it, of course.
Owen is such a dick!!
Well at least we got a penalty after kicking it to England again. Farrell gets marched 10m, it's kickable now.
Very fortunate penalty.
Well, Poms are only 3 points ahead in spite of all the mistakes of the Boks.
Our saving grace right now is that England isn't much of an attacking threat yet. Libbok with 3, it's 6-3 England. Thanks Owie you numpty.
Another penalty to Poms Boks have to settle down
Kak pass Willemse, England can rumble now. Cross kick just wide. Penalty England nonetheless. Boks pulling a Frantic France on themselves.
That was close. Far too close!
Captain Kolisi concedes another penalty. Get Kwagga on.
9-3.
England very tight. Nothing spectacular, but solid and low on errors. Giving the Boks nothing.
We need Kwagga, and Wiese would have been good.
Bit of an attack by Arendse, but Boks lose it again. Get it back from the kick, breakdown penalty Boks this time.
Not straight. Boks are really struggling. Fortunately the Poms haven't scored much.
Skew throw again. For Fuck's Sake. Amateur hour.
The skew Bok lineout has been a staple for a few years now.
Rassie needs a yellow light or two.
Erasputin needs concrete boots and deep lagoon.
England player sealing off, not called.
I can believe the Boks are being pinged for these things now. If only Erasputin ironed out the sloppiness.
Penalty England. Lineout 10m line.
Mostert steals a lineout. Better win theirs cause we're not winning ours. Another crap kick gives England the ball. Attacking ball.
30 minutes of rugby and ball has not gone down the Bok backline once.
Not once.
Boks manage to turn it over. Libbok drops the pass but we had a penalty advantage.
Pollard on. Boks want the 3s.
We keep kicking against a side that is just gobbling up those balls and saying thank you.
French must be kicking themselves seeing how their frantic nonsense fed the Boks last week.
Bok attack play hasn't been anything for years Plum. No space, no run. We need free beaks. Fortunately, England will have lapses and we'll score from those because speed is hard to stop in space.
Another lame kick to England. No respect for possession. Are we going to keep kicking it back hoping for a soft mistake?
Fucking maul again. Going nowhere.
Poms are getting thru the bok forwards in the mauls.
Poms are getting thru the bok forwards in the mauls.
And finally the mistake from a high kick comes but England manage to secure it. Turnover Boks though. Phase attack, poor pass ends it. Penalty Boks. Should be 3.
So I guess the plan is kick and maul until it works. Okay then.
Thankyou Pollard. Goodbye Earl Rose 0.1
9-6. Trench warfare.
Funny how England is neutering the Boks by just doing the basics well. We bleed another penalty as Steph blocks the chaser.
Poms kicking and niggling you to death.
12-6. Not looking good. Boks are feeding England and strangling themselves.
Horrible 1/2 of rugby.
Well that was a whole lot of nothing. We did literally nothing except kick and maul, both poorly. England just patiently taking what we give them for free and milking penalties. They're not even playing much rugby. Embarrassing.
The playing conditions are not great, looks like players are slipping allot.
Manie has less experience in these conditions, perhaps why Rassie pulled him off.
The worst area of the game has been the lineouts.
What is worrying is that the reserve hooker Fourie is not a renouned thrower. However, it cant be worse that what Bongi has delivered so far.
England has done better in arial game.
The mauls have not been great either.
Maul has been pathetic, but England might be entering from the side sometimes.
Althogh England are playing very well- very physical.
Boks without Marx are looking less physical.
Wiese might have been better on the bench in these conditions
Kiwi ref blowing us out of tbe game.
Have to beat 16 men.
Strange how suddenly Boks can do nothing right.
Crooked throws in line out by England ignored. Why that last penalty.
We are not out of this. Go BOKS!!!?
At a friend's house so won't be posting much.
Bear with the disappointment.
Schalk says energy levels not great.
Mallet talking about doubtful decisions including a yellow against Farrel.
Boks are shit Beeno, it's bloody England. Fiji nearly smashed them. Quit blaming the ref. We're not even trying to play rugby, just booting it back to them.
Libbok is garbage in all conditions. He has 0 good tests. He was garbage last week. The English are simply not allowing the Boks to settle in their Skop N Pop and P16 game plan. I don't think it'll last, and our bench has many deserved starters. The conditions were fine early on. Libbok's only weapon has been the wonky cross kick hoping it's uncontested.
Reinach impersonating Fluff with that kick.
And kick. And England ball. FFS.
I'm about to start cheering for England. Boks are dishing up utter bullshit. Lame ass safety first courageless bullshit.
This ref is a RETARD
Far more Bok retarding than ref retarding going on.
This is the extent of Erasputin's game. It's all he ever had.
He is, some bad calls keeping us in it, so far.
At last. The one eyed ref calls England for Crooked throw in!!!
Unloading the bench.
3yzebeth off!
Eben off?
Why is Kwagga not on yet? How many more minutes for Captain Invisible?
Delay, delay.
And ball is ripped from Kitsy. Two bashes into an "attacking move".
Kolisi drops the ball.
We kick it to England. They accept gratefully.
Faf offside. Not called. Need to be careful.
We have something of a loose trio now. Finally.
At last Captain Cockup is off and Kwagga is on.
Finally something from the Boks.
Skop N Pop failed there.
Scrum dominance right away as the slackers leave the field.
Like I said Poms kicking you to death.
England walk right over Arendse after fielding the kickoff, no protection for him. Droppie Farrell, 15-6.
How the Pom fans can be happy with this crap I don't know.
Kriel knocks.
Polly is wasted in this team.
And we kick it away again as soon as we lay hands on it.
JW, you compete against the Boks playing this way, because they can't play rugby. That's why I predicted a Scot and France loss, because they don't know how to play this kind of tripe.
South Africa are making so many basic errors.
Kick it away again.
We fumble the high ball again. Arendse knocks. England absolutely smashing us with the most basic of rugby.
England are just outmuscling the Boks, and the high kick is usually against the England Fullback
Boks win a scrum penalty.
Strange call.
Is P16 going to come to the rescue again?
Yes, go blind side where there is absolutely fuckall space. Brilliant. England lineout.
Willie with a horrible kick, poms get it
P16 is the safety net.
Advantage and we fucking kick it away. Fuck this hopeless lot.
Boks will weather it and get 2 to 3 tries. Then mass amnesia will ensue.
That's the script. P16.
The Boks don't deserve to win this.
Fiji played a better game against England.
All the many experiments and all the "hulle weetie wat ons weetie" comes down to this...
A clueless Bok team being embarrassed in a semi by a sub-par English side.
At least the Bok scrum has started playing well with OX
Another lost lineout.
Oh NOW we want to play? Still getting murdered at the breakdowns.
This is what kills the game.
Poms delaying game.
Jesus this is a trainwreck of a game. Battle of the Boring.
A clueless Bok team being embarrassed in a semi by a sub-par English side.
Remember 2019?
A clueless Bok team being embarrassed in a semi by a sub-par Welsh side.
It's going to be a win. No matter how it looks. Just worry about the All Blacks.
Good kick by Pollard, Attacking lineout,
Yes Snyman....
Try Boks
Thanks P16. The platform for the Boks for several years. I know the script.
RG over. None too soon.
Pollard nails it..
15-13
Brilliant burst by Deon Fourie.
Well played Snyman
Kwagga with the try saver tackle.
Bongi gets his strapping adjusted, hopefully that's straightened his throwing alignment.
Call a scrum off the mark lads, go on.
Again we get beaten in the air.
Another Bok penalty.
Haha, they actually call a scrum.
Why call a scrum just to kick it away upfield anyway? Throw away 2 minutes of game time for what?
This is the game here.
Scrum penalty Boks. Kickable.
Lol Pollard has to sink it from over 50m to save face for the Boks.
England lose, but not only that, rugby loses.
Boks old guys pull the game out.
16-15 Boks.
Beware the droppie. Don't lose possession.
Good touch, out of immediate range.
WOW BOKS
2weeks in a row, the Boks have beaten the better team
Boks win but not a great performance.
Oh my word...
All we need now is to see Owen FagGirl cry...
England loses it. All over. Holy fuck that was a shitshow. I don't think we even deserved to win that.
South Africa played badly in the wet weather.
Snyman was the only brilliant player. Pollards pole kicking was a life saver
Never in doubt.
NZ ref almost cost us the match.
Well done Boks!!!
If that kickathon was Rassie's plan, what a disservice to his players. Not allowing them to actually play any rugby in a World Cup semi. Nearly robbed them of a final. Pathetic.
Beeno, the kiwi ref had to make it look legit
Snyman was patchy. Nobody really stood out. Ox maybe, but even then, some bad calls. Ox is obviously better than Kits - apparently the best loose head of all time .
This win came down to P16. That's been a key contributor to the Erasputin myth.
If we play like this against the All Blacks, I say go All Blacks. What we saw tonight from the Boks against a side that had absolutely nothing in their arsenal except making as few errors as possible was a disservice to the game. Not even a modicum of effort to do anything constructive.
My nerves are shot. How many times can we ride our luck
Whew!
Well done Bokke!
I feel a bit deflated even though we won because we were just dreadful throughout the game. The only thing we did well was scrum and even that was only after Ox came on.
We'll have to show a huge improvement if we are to have any chance against the All Blacks.
Come on Bokke!
Fixed the heading.
Ou Pakster on his moaning trip once again. We won when not at our best. Take the win and move on.
Me, I am delighted. Making the final is a tremendous achievement.
You revel in mediocrity Beeno. I don't.
Difficult to congratulate this showing as there was nothing much worthy of praise. Did manage to pull it thru thanks to individual efforts again. Our inability to create was embarrassingly obvious tonight.
Pakie, make no mistake, England were intelligent in how they approached the game. If we had to go toe to toe with them playing actual rugby, we would be annihilated. England are vastly superior in that way. With a real coach and real selections, it'd be another story.
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Almost ready to go.