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Anybody watching the Tri-Nations this year? Should hopefully be a tight and exciting tournament, with three of the best teams in world rugby right now

Sadly my Springboks couldn't break a ten year wait for a win in New Zealand

TRI-NATIONS GAME 1

NEW ZEALAND 19
Tries- Jerome Kaino
Conversions- Dan Carter
Penalties- Dan Carter (4)

SOUTH AFRICA 8
Tries- Bryan Habana
Conversions- NONE
Penalties- Butch James

The two teams do it all again next weekend, with the second game taking place in Dunedin- Come on Springboks!!!

What is a tri-nations?

Aussie Aussie Aussie- Oi Oi Oi!!!!

Whist our team is a little weak this year-there is still hope.

Good luck to all the other teams!

@Darrien13- A Rugby Union Game, played amongst the best three teams in the World.

Australia may beat south africa but I hold little hope of them beating new zealand

akira5665 wrote:@Darrien13- A Rugby Union Game, played amongst the best three teams in the World.

You blokes in the Southern Hemisphere seem to think a lot of yourself. The irony of course is that none of the 3 nations qualifies to be a member of the "Global South." Probably why they can afford high level rugby play.

Having said that, I don't get Setanta at school. And I don't have the free time to head over to the one pub in town of British ancestry and hope the game is on. Actually, in a few weeks when I get home, my favorite local pub, also of British ancestry, will certainly have the games on. Hoom.

EDIT: I just finished playing my 2nd year of rugby in the highest division (at the university level) in the US. Front row FTW!! I am now retired.

"You blokes in the Southern Hemisphere seem to think a lot of yourself. The irony of course is that none of the 3 nations qualifies to be a member of the "Global South." Probably why they can afford high level rugby play. "

When you have an economy that's on the verge of a big recession, dwindling resources leading to regular 5 hour blackouts in the East, record rates of r@pes, carjackings, murders, 1000 people dying a day of AIDS, huge amounts of corruption in government and big businesses and quota policies that limit the working abilities of part of the population (hence why I'm working in the uk)...............what else do we have left but sport?

We don't think a lot of ourselves, we just KNOW for sure we are 2x World Champions lol

Sian xx

Springboks Team to play the All-Blacks in Dunedin

1. Gurthro Steenkamp
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. CJ van der Linde
4. Bakkies Botha
5. Victor Matfield (Captain)
6. Schalk Burger
7. Juan Smith
8. Joe van Niekerk
9. Ricky Januarie
10. Butch James
11. Bryan Habana
12. Jean de Villiers
13. Adrian Jacobs
14. JP Pietersen
15. Percy Montgomery

Replacements- Schalk Brits, Brian Mujati, Andries Bekker, Luke Watson, Ruan Pienaar, Francois Steyn, Conrad Jantjes


Sian xx

Australian rugby is struggling ATM.

Its running out of money, grass roots player numbers is dropping and its been relying on snatching high profile rugby league players away (and they have done very well).

We easily beat Ireland a few weeks ago and thrashed an understrength France last weekend.

I just wish they would do something about the number of penalties, and lower the points for a penalty conversion because it gets very boring when the game is always stopping and all the points scored are from penalty kicks.

I've never had a problem with penalties being worth 3 points, but I do agree that the number of infractions that result in a penalty kick should be reduced somewhat

Living in England, the general consensus seems to be that Penalties should be worth 7 points and should be given for everything lol

As rugby league is much, much more popular in Oz its easy to see why as the game flows so much faster.

I like rugby union more in all respects except for the penalties and penalty conversions.

But aussie rules is better than all your ball sports.

Gary Moorcroft (who is 5 foot 6 inches tall) and Essendon FTW!

I'm a Fremantle Dockers fan myself, but I would be lying if I said it was more than a casual interest lol

My favourite sport by some distance is cricket, followed by rugby union and then football- With the cricket team being downright bullied by England right now and the football team in complete shambles it's all up to the rugby to salvage the weekend lol

There are alot of south africans here in Oz. They have been flocking here the last decade.

Most (farmer types especially) have settled in western Australia.

Yes, something like 250,000 white South Africans have emigrated since 1994- most of them to either the UK or Australia it seems. I remember watching a documentary a few years ago on the amount of South African military personnel that have moved to Australia's armed forces, most notably the Air Force

Half-Time

NEW ZEALAND- 15
Tries- NONE
Penalties- Dan Carter (5)
Conversions- NONE
Drop Goals- NONE

SPRINGBOKS- 17
Tries- JP Pietersen
Penalties- Percy Montgomery (3)
Conversions- NONE
Drop Goals- Butch James


Very entertaining half of rugby, although South Africa only ahead by 2 despite having largely the better play in the first half. I think the referee has been very 'fussy' so far and the commentators even mentioned he was penalty happy,after giving out 50+ penalties a few weeks ago during a match between Argentina and Italy

WOOOHOOOOO VICTORY FOR THE BOKS!!!!

Full-Time-

NEW ZEALAND- 28
Tries- Sione Lauaki
Conversions- Dan Carter
Penalties- Dan Carter (6)
Drop Goals- Dan Carter

SPRINGBOKS- 30
Tries- JP Pietersen, Ricky Januarie
Conversions- Francois Steyn
Penalties- Percy Montgomery (3), Butch James (2)
Drop Goals- Butch James

I thought Ricky Januarie had a very good game today and he deserved a vital try for his efforts. Hugely exciting game to watch and I'm eagerly looking forward to Australia vs. South Africa at the Subiaco Oval in Perth

Bigchris1313

"You blokes in the Southern Hemisphere seem to think a lot of yourself. The irony of course is that none of the 3 nations qualifies to be a member of the "Global South." Probably why they can afford high level rugby play. "

The good thing about us is, because we don't rate ourselves TOO highly, most of our School students can at least name the Capital Cities of Countries they DON'T live in.

I like that about Australia.

The Springboks team to play Australia in Perth has been announced, Injuries starting to pile up but on the plus side Pierre Spies and Ryan Kankowski are back

1. Gurthro Steenkamp
2. Schalk Brits
3. CJ van der Linde
4. Bakkies Botha
5. Victor Matfield (Captain)
6. Schalk Burger
7. Juan Smith
8. Pierre Spies
9. Ricky Januarie
10. Butch James
11. Bryan Habana
12. Jean de Villiers
13. Francois Steyn
14. JP Pietersen
15. Conrad Jantjes

Replacements- Adriaan Strauss, Tendai Mtawarira, Brian Mujati, Andries Bekker, Ryan Kankowski, Ruan Pienaar, Peter Grant

And now the Wallabies team for Saturday's game has been announced-

1. Benn Robinson
2. Stephen Moore
3. Al Baxter
4. James Horwill
5. Nathan Sharpe
6. Rocky Elsom
7. George Smith
8. Wycliff Palu
9. Luke Burgess
10. Matt Giteau
11. Lote Tuqiri
12. Berrick Barnes
13. Stirling Mortlock (Captain)
14. Peter Hynes
15. Adam Ashley-Cooper

Replacements- Tatafu Polota-Nau, Matt Dunning, Hugh McMeniman, Phil Waugh, Sam Cordingley, Ryan Cross, Drew Mitchell


Sian xx

HALF-TIME

AUSTRALIA- 5
Tries- Lote Tuqiri
Conversions- NONE
Penalties- NONE

SPRINGBOKS- 3
Tries- NONE
Conversions- NONE
Penalties- Francois Steyn


Scrappy game so far, hopefully a bit more lively in the second half!

Sian xx

Full-Time Result (No extra birthday present for Nelson Mandela sadly! lol)

AUSTRALIA- 16
Tries- Lote Tuqiri, Stirling Mortlock
Conversions- NONE
Penalties- Matt Giteau
Drop Goals- Berrick Barnes

SPRINGBOKS- 9
Tries- NONE
Conversions- NONE
Penalties- Francois Steyn (2), Butch James
Drop Goals- NONE

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.
Oi, oi, oi!!!!

Watched most of it (from about the 25 minute mark) with music blaring, whilst playing pool, and severely inebriated at the pub.

Made for a great game.