Happy with the win, obviously we still have some problems but I feel the Wallabies played smart.
Contrary to some of the above posters I thought Hougard was pretty good, the ball was slow at times but usually when the Wallabies were putting work into the breakdown to slow things down, he was certainly valiant in defense and provided flatter and smoother ball than Pienaar does, I really hope he can keep it up in 2011 I really thought he would be our long term solution to FdP's replacement but he's struggled a bit since then.
Pollard was a bit shaky especially defensively but I'm happy with him starting, he's certainly fearless and while his kicking game is a little temperamental at the moment his youth excuses that, I hope he has a fruitful Super Rugby next year. Lambie was surprisingly good, strong with ball in hand, some nice kicks out of hand and I'd say his passing game was probably better than Pollard but there is the big asterix next to his name about his kicking, we can't really have an international fly-half who slots 1/4 kicks, still I'd rather have the options at fly-half and any sort of consistency from him would be welcome.
Serfontein is looking good on attack but slipped a few tackles this week, although to be fair he was up against a rampant Kurindrani.
I thought some posters were hard on Willie, less errors today and he produced some nice passes with good vision, the Wallaby defense for the most part was rock solid, and we didn't get great go forward ball, the gaps just weren't there to be found, but he did his utmost, it's not like Folau set the world alight. I think it will do him some good for us to have other creative options so the focus isn't always on him to make things happen.
Or forwards were ok... Marcel worked like a beast, Vermulen was immense until he got taken off and Schalk looked good when he came on but no-one else really stepped up for me, especially in terms of ball carrying, we really didn't seem that effective.
Anyway it was an imperfect performance and the handling was bad at times but I'm happy with the win, the Wallabies did break down at the end and I'm still impressed with our ability to fight hard until the final whistle (although I would prefer a more solid performance for 80 minutes)!
I still don't think the Wallabies are a better side than us, and it will take me a lot more than these two games in the RC to convince me otherwise.
Is Newlands Stadium the national stadium of RSA Rugby Union? Could you tell me the size of pitch (width, length of field of play, length of ingoals)?
We don't have a national stadium, the big ones that we usually use for tests are Ellis Park, Loftus Versfeld, Newlands, Kings Park, Free State Stadium and Nelson Mandela Bay stadium and they basically just correspond to the biggest cities in South Africa.
