Wales lost the game by being turned over too many­ times, and making basic errors (dropping high balls­ etc). Areas of concern though is their lineout, and­ the speed of ball from the base of the scrum and­ breakdown. Extra seconds gained by solid passing can­ make all the difference at International level. These­ are areas though that can be sorted, they have plenty­ of skill and flare to be world beaters - Other than­ those highlighted areas, it was a solid performance.

Apologies for stating Stephen Jones’ pass to Tom Prydie­ when, as I originally thought it was Hook but thought I­ was wrong when reading the Yahoo report on the­ game.
I’m beginning to sound like the Welsh coaching­ staff and players with lame excuses.

I WAS AT THE GAME YESTERDAY AND THE PLAYERS LOOKED­ EXHAUSTED IS IT THE SAME OLD STORY TO MUCH RUGBY? ALSO­ WHEN IS THE COACHING STAFF GOING TO ADMIT THAT PAUL­ JAMES CANNOT SCRUMAGE HE CANT KEEP LOOKING AT THE­ LINESMAN HOPING FOR PENALTIES WHEN IT IS HIM COLLAPSING­ THE SCRUM BECAUSE HE IS UNABLE TO HOLD IT UP.

South Africa beat Wales with a B team put together in­ only 5 days. Yes we're definitely in reverse!

Was there yesterday, what a great game to watch! Both­ teams from the start wanted to run the ball. This soon­ stopped though and both teams were guilty of just going­ through the phases from one side of the pitch to the­ other! A Welsh win stolen from us by a very very poor­ and gutless ref! Why oh why were the boks not down to­ 14 men i will never know!? Right under the sticks, hand­ in ruck, save the try, we took the three points! Lewis­ you are a disgrace to the refs of this world!

The same old problem I'm afraid.Wales looked world­ class with ball in hand but their tactical kicking was­ dreadful, merely handing hard won possesssion to the­ opposition.Gatland needs to try out Biggar ; this was a­ good opportunity. The bench was not well used in this­ game
­ ­ ­ Kean

At Health and Performance we have rehabilitated many­ pro athletes. Some of the rugby players.
We can only­ say that this was a great game of rugby and most people­ don't
understand the pressure that pro athletesare­ under today.
While SA didn't have all their top­ players Wales have playe well.
If you look at the­ ststs both teams were efficient with the ball.
If­ athletes do more of the functional rehab we have shown­ then prepear
for one of the best RWC ever seen.

comment 19, what are you babbling about, grand slam `05­ & `08, current world champions 7`s!

Wow! n.haig123 has come up with a REALLY original joke­ about the Welsh and sheep. I've never heard that­ one before, I can't sit down for laughing!

Get a­ life saddo, stick to valid rugby comments

all i can say teddy is'puerile' comment......­ and the sad thing is you will have to get your junior­ dictionary out to look that word up, wan ker.

Sorry , i am a complete welsh fan but afer 20 mins we­ were shapeless , at his best mike phillips is world­ class , today he should have been subbed after 30 mins­ as his service was pathetic , the management need to­ make changes when needed and not cing onto hope

To put things in perspective the first observation is­ that this was no second string South African team.
They­ were world class in every position and played 15 man­ rugby that would give any international side a hard­ time.
The second observation was that when Wales opened­ up with supporting runners they had this great S.A.­ team in turmoil and scored two great tries in this­ manner. Stephen Jones’ pass for the Tom Prydie try and­ the Sam Warburton, A.W. Jones connection were a classic­ diet of Welsh flare and skill at pace.

The third­ observation is filled with woes of, “if only”, of which­ there are too many. Sufficient to say it was like a­ rugby sandwich good beginning, good ending but nothing­ in the middle.

Theres a lot running the welsh side down.But if that­ South Africa team played Scotland Ireland or England i­ think the outcome would have been the same as it was­ against Wales a win for South Africa

How frustrating are Wales, no one can doubt their­ attacking brilliance as statistics speak for­ themselves. Wales can now defend well against top class­ opposition but how many more times will we give away­ games?
If South Africa were fantastic and just too hot­ to handle fair enough but they were not, the simple­ plain facts are that we once again gave away the game­ because we got the bare basics wrong again. How many­ times do we lose our own line outs especially within 10­ -20 metres of the opposition try line? Forget about the­ Boks killing the ball 10 metres out and no card and all­ the rest of their unfair tactics we cannot complain­ about these because we know what to expect and in any­ case we lost the game again,they did not win it ,we­ gave it to them. We have such good quality at the­ moment but if only they could get the basics right and­ steady the ship when they have to and stop giving away­ hard fought ground. This was not the strongest and or­ most experienced Bok side either!So frustrating!

This was today? Damnnnnnnnn!

Hey Spaz. (10) I wold worry about your own team - not­ exactly world-beaters are they?

Give Wales a chance. Good score and I think they can­ hold their head up. give them a break!

I'm living in Australia and the game wasn't­ shown here so I can't comment on the game. However­ I will say that SA are the strongest team in the world­ at the moment. If you look at the super 14 competition­ it was dominated by SA teams, the final was played­ beteween to SA teams.

I've always been a supporter­ of NZ rugby but I think the current team is one of the­ weakest i've ever seen. Saying that, I still think­ that they will come good by the time the world cup­ comes around.

The Aussies will also be a good team by­ the time the world cup comes around, they tried a few­ new faces in the back line today and looked good. When­ the full back line is together they will be very good