Jayden Hendrickse looking very hesitant . . . looks like our version of Cortez Ratima so far.
Jayden Hendrickse looking very hesitant . . . looks like our version of Cortez Ratima so far.
Yes! Mapimpi is in from a Pollard cross kick. 5-0 to the Bokke.
Pollard hooks the conversion left.
Bok lineout is a shambles. We've lost two of our own already.
Penalty Scotland in a kickable position. Finn Russell steps up . . . should be 5-3.
Hugh Jones pass through the leg skill
Looking at foul play by Scotland, this might be reversed . . . yes, yellow card to the Scots and Boks get away with one . . . Scott Cummings is the player off.
Naand Snark and Jinx.
First scrum of the game . . .
Boks too early and it's a free kick to the Scots . . . now Boks penalised for obstruction.
Russell kicks it over and it's 5-3.
Boks have been poor so far.
Scotland yellow is upgraded to a 20 minute red.
Penalty fest….rules trumping rules. Laughable, pathetic red.
Boks finally win a lineout but it's knocked on and a Scottish scrum. Can we have a completed scrum here?
Am messing up twice already.
And the new scrum rules save Scotland.
Should be 8-3 now
No, it's another free kick, this time to the Boks and Hendrickse gifts possession back to Scotland. 3rd attempt at a scrum.
Boks looking clueless here. Russell has another shot . . . if he gets it we'll have shipped 6 points with the extra man.
He does kick it over and Scotland lead.
Esterhuizen makes good ground but then Etzebeth gets thumped backwards . . . Boks penalised yet again.
Another mindless kick from Pollard and the Boks lose a lot of ground. This is hard to watch!
Boks botch another lineout but somehow it comes to Thomas du Toit in the clear and he's over for the try. 10-6 and the Boks finally score against the 14 men. Pollard converts and it's 12-6.
Kwagga gives away a penalty for not rolling away and Russell has a chance here to reduce the deficit.
One of the worst Bok performances of the year so far. Russel converts. 12-9.
Scrum to SA after Scotland took too long to clear.
At last a dominant scrum and Mapimpi scores a second try from a cross kick. 17-9.
Pollard converts and the Boks have a rather fortunate 10 point lead.
Looks like we might have a repeat of the Oz/Eng game...
Scotland might win this.
Blair Kinghorn sets up Ben White for an easy try and Scotland score . . . hang on . . .
There was a knock on in the build up and it's no try. Scrum to the Boks.
Just tuned in.
Pity about Scots getting a red as it spoils the game.
Scots score. Very clever bit of work.
Scotland problems will start when the bomb squad comes on.
Lol no try. Okay. We'll take that
Esterhuizen with another powerful run but it's back for a penalty which is sent into touch and it's half time. 19-9.
Hope the Boks improve in the second half because that was pretty awful . . . even though we're winning.
Great 
Anybody playing well oaks?
You can see this team hasn’t played together much….Quite embarrassing and now the Scotties score …our scrum is looking ordinary.
Esterhuizen and Mapimpi the only Boks playing particularly well. Moodie has had a few moments but he's also made a few mistakes.
Hey Rooitwit could you please take off the wee ab jersey you have been wearing for a week now!
Thanks.
Watching the replay of the red card incident and it's a bit of a joke. Shouldn't have even been a yellow.
Schalk, Victor etc say red was rediculous.
Thomas du Toit penalised and Russell will have a shot here. It's over. 19-12.
Very early bomb squad . . . 6 changes.
Here comes da bomb SQUAD.
Wee Scots getting uppity!
7 changes actually. PSdT for Louw, RG for Mostert, Marx for Bongi, Siya for van Staden, Koch for du Toit, Wiese for Kwagga and Steenekamp for Ox.
Why is Williams not on yet?
Hendrikse having a shocker
I have not seen 1 dominant scrum yet…. Honestly Jaden having a nightmare, bring on Williams mr Genius… man we playing bad
Great work Eben.
Great scrum.
Bok scrum looking a lot better. Scotland back on attack but Huw Jones throws a poor pass . . . let's see if the lineout also improves . . .
No, we lose another on our own throw . . . Huw Jones busts a few tackles and Scotland are close . . .
Jones breezes past Dud Toit
Mapimpi yellow carded and now the Boks are down to 14.
Wee Scots are steamed up.
Penalty Scotland bang in front.
Great skills being shown by Scots.
For what did Mapimpi get yellow??
Scotland just losing composure in try scoring positions…they should be ahead.
It's over and the score is 19-15.
Don't know why Rassie selected this team. No point having Le Roux, Mpimpi, Koch etc when he could just select his best team for the 3 test matches
Wake up Boks.
Kolisi being exposed as a useless captain and player
Well played Am
AE is nothing more than a bettering ram.
So many stoppages, the should just move the player off the field and carry on
A battering ram that can pass and offload.
Kak kick by Hendrikse
Penalty Boks and Pollard converts. 22-15.
"Kolisi being exposed as a useless captain and player "
We miss the stopping power of Allende and Kriel.
Mapimpi back on. Still not clear why he was carded in the first place . . . and at long last, Williams comes on for Hendrickse who has been poor all game.
And the bartering ram makes a crucial turnover….Williams on for the useless Hendrikse.
Ja, Rassie should have picked 3 backs
Williams making an immediate difference with quick and accurate passing but Pollard kicks possession away. . . back for a Bok penalty.
Let's go Bokke!!!
Lucky advantage, can the boks make it count
Attacking scrum for the Boks . . .
Tell me the difference between between Williams annd Hendrikse isn't day and night?
Scrum penalty right in front. Pollard kicks it to give the Boks a 10 point lead. 25-15.
Kaklisi doing his usual thing and camping on the wing
Penalty Boks and that should be the game.
They take the scrum . . . just over a minute to play.
Wiese scores and the Boks win. 30-15 with the kick to come.
Boks too much power for wee Scots.
Bit tight for first 70 min. PSDT and Grant Williams making a difference.
Now question, who will Rassie select next week?
Pollard converts and it's over. 32-15. A comfortable win in the end but it was anything but convincing. Poor selections by Rassie in my opinion and hopefully a big wake up call.
Scots tied hard against an experimental Bok side but eventually cracked in last 15 minutes.
Pity about that red.
Etzebeth MOM.
Esterhuisen had a good game.
"Esterhuisen had a good game."
Yes, he's about the only starter in this game to emerge with any credit.
AE was useless. Earlier on he had a few good runs but faded away. Only a nutjob would argue he us better than Allende a very good well rounded center.
This obviously was not our best team.
Don’t know what you guys thought about van Staden? But he was poor. So was Kolisi. Bring on Cameron Hanekom!!
How many times does Rassie still want to try Kwagga at 8?? It just doesn’t work in my opinion. He is Better at 6.
Elrigh Louw also had a of day. Thomas Du toit is Not a good TH… Wilco should get his chance against England I hope.
I expect we'll see wholesale changes for the game against England. Fassi, Kolbe, Arendse, Kriel, Williams, PSdT, Siya, and Wilco should all get a start.
TX ........ commentary better than game.
Couldn't watch due to other engagements but sounds like I didn't miss much.
The fact is he S pringboks played substandard rugby. I saw Briwn talking seriously to one of he assistance and it ovuiysky was he poor backline issues, cneters around the malfucioning of he backline. There wwere serious problems in defense and worse in attack, So Pollock was good - Esterhuizen was poor and Am sunstandard as well,
Esterhuizen was poor and Am sunstandard as well,
From your prized Rugby365:
12 Andre Esterhuizen
Produced some powerful surges, often getting over the advantage line and his 10 bursts yielded more than 50 metres. Add in a team-high 13 tackles and you realise his true value.
8/10
Eat your heart out ouMaaik & ffs. have an early night ................ your posts are becoming incomprehensible.
G ained enar to zero meers - caused a penalty and his defense was not acceptable. Howeve the backline never really function from an attacking perrspective and that incident where he failed to prperly tackle cased the scoring of e disallowed try - ecause in the ball preceeding that backline a ball were dropped fowards, The try was disallowed because of a knock-on esrlier otseen b the ref and if it ws not fond out on review a try by he S cots would ave followed, One cannot take a chance with that type of thing, Alsoave away a penalty, e it as it may agains His performance as an attackin g backline player was as dead as a doornail.and I think that w what upset Brown abdlly. I saw none of the above and the bursts of 50 meterds ere BS. If that was rue h abckline would ahve been dangerous - the wo tries scord er both crosskicks to . The fifty meters did nt rpoduce a single line brreak or beating a single defender anyway.
I was at the game today and I have switched seats from half way line to 2nd or 3rd tier behind the posts.
The flow and threats presented and nullified are very obvious to see. It's just never a perspective the TV will show. We were sloppy ... poor on attack today... distribution and accuracy from the base seemed to be a big issue as well as speed in our unstructured attack . There was little cohesion in attack but our defence and scrambled defence was really quite special to watch. I know he has his haters but watching Willie organise the backs is like having a coach on the field. Bar the French game I have seen all the Bok RWC knock out games since 2915. We are becoming a really formidable force winning a lot of games we definitely would have lost pre 2015. My biggest concern is the post Rassie era. The player identification is on track but what about the coaching....
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Come on Bokke!