Some snapshots from the first half of Wallabies vs Boks. If there’s any interest I’ll do the second half later and consider making snapshots a recurring blog. Oh, these are dodgy ones taken with the digital camera, however, the new PC is going so in the future I’ll have good quality TV capture images with optimum quality (well, best you’ll get taking pics of a TV anyway).

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Pre-Game feature with Rod Kafer getting out the chalkboard to explain to Kobus Weise why size doesn’t matter.

Palu forgets the offside rule and gifts francois the Penalty kick.

Francois makes the conversoin, 3-0 to the Springboks

It’s thirsty being a token puppet

Mortlock committing to the high ball which popped out of his arms

Bakkies Botha sees amusment in George Smith trying to pick a fight with him

Francois gets into our half so fires off a drop goal, missed out to the right

Giteau’s patented head into hip tackle still not working, and Piers Spies makes a good break after bouncing out of this one

Lote runs a good line and makes great metres down the middle of the field

Then Piers Spies shows why he played wing for the Boks U19 squad by running down Tuqiri

Baxter pounces on the loose ball making Januarie look slow in the process

Rocky discovers his inner claret while getting penalised for not supporting his own body weight.

The resulting scrum is collapsed by CJ Van Der Linde with the Wallabies being awarded a full arm penalty on the Boks feed.

can’t beat em, join em. Berrick Barnes has a shocker of an attempt at a drop goal which dribbles along the ground towards the corner.

Rocky goes into the blood bin as his eye is still leaking, MMM gets a run.

George Smith shows why he is one of the best in the business and pilfers the ball from right under Steyn’s nose.

From a Bok scrum, JP Pietersen enters the backline and they create a gap in midfield by committing Barnes to Pietersen and Mortlock to Steyn while DeVilliers pops through the gap and is away.

The Springboks get within striking distance, and the Wallabies defence scrambles well to hold them up on the tryline. Horwill gets in a sneaky hand from an offside position which the ref rules as lost forward by the springboks.

Giteau’s skillful kick over the bok tryline gives Jantes a lucky bounce to ground the ball in goal under pressure.

The Boks manage to cross through Habana, unfortunately the last pass from Britz went forward along the ground as he was trying to avoid the sideline.

Tuqiri bashes through Jean to cross in the corner, 5-3 to the Wallabies.

The Conrad Falcon is rarely seen this far north in the winter months.