The bad news is that England-South Africa and France-Australia will not be shown live tomorrow-Setanta Sports will be showing both games on Sunday Evening. My friend Jacques plans on coming over to catch the former, I am going to have to TIVO the latter, as we are going to get together at my brother Bill’s house for my dad’s 70th birthday party.
South Africa will have to get over it’s problems at the ruck-they were penalised a whole lot in their game against Scotland last weekend. To be honest, they were just hanging on at the end, and dodged a bullet when Scotland muffed an easy penalty with 6 minutes left in the game that altered thins a bit in the final minutes. A loss at Murrayfield would have left the Boks red-faced, to be sure. The Boks won’t be the only team at Twickenham with something to prove. England’s front row is still licking their wounds after the Australian front row’s amazing performance in the Wallabies win last weekend. It’s been a long time since an Australian pack of forwards have played so well against England. England clearly has more talent to go against the South Africans-will they bring as much heart to tomorrow’s contest as the plucky Scots did last weekend in Edinburgh?
As much as my friend Jacques, a Port Elizabeth native, will be looking forward to the game from Twickenham, I am highly looking forward to see if Australia can continue it’s good form-and to see if France will open things up a bit and play with more flair and cut down on the horrible kicking that marred their contest against Argentina a fortnight ago. I have gone on record saying that I think that the Australians will win in Paris.
I am getting the adult beverages and snacks ready for Sunday afternoon. I can hardly wait!
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