Overall I thought it was a fairly uninspiring contest once again marred by bewildering refereeing. The attack from both sides was fairly substandard and the only highlight for mine was the standard of the Bok's defence. It was reminiscint of how the Wallabies defended in the World Cup of 99 with multiple phases just out from the line but no-one could get across.
I thought we were lucky to still be in it, especially after not really capitalising on the two second half sin-bins. The surprising thing was that we were still in it. Even with a shonky scrum and Burke's worst kicking performance of recent times (yes even including Lions game two). This really tightens up the Tri-Nations but the Wallabies will have to improve markedly if they are going to retain the trophy. I hope the All-Blacks beat the Bok's in Kiwiland so we can play out the decider in Eales' last test. It will be interesting to see the Kiwi reaction if they win considering "The Tri-Nations means nothing to them" and "It is so meaningless that it should only be played every second year".
Typically of a draw, I was left with that flat empty feeling but wouldn't it have been great to see Larkham do it again
I thought we were lucky to still be in it, especially after not really capitalising on the two second half sin-bins. The surprising thing was that we were still in it. Even with a shonky scrum and Burke's worst kicking performance of recent times (yes even including Lions game two). This really tightens up the Tri-Nations but the Wallabies will have to improve markedly if they are going to retain the trophy. I hope the All-Blacks beat the Bok's in Kiwiland so we can play out the decider in Eales' last test. It will be interesting to see the Kiwi reaction if they win considering "The Tri-Nations means nothing to them" and "It is so meaningless that it should only be played every second year".
Typically of a draw, I was left with that flat empty feeling but wouldn't it have been great to see Larkham do it again