RUGBY Live

Congratulations to South Africa. What a superb match.­ I'm proud of the British and Irish Lions, despite­ their defeat. It was a fantastic match. It's good­ to see England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland pulling­ together as one. Ronan O'Gara is a great rugby­ player, and anyone can have a bad day at the office. On­ another note, I would say that anyone, regardless of­ country of origin, who uses sport as an excuse to­ exercise intolerance towards another country is a mere­ blockhead. Having read these posts, I can't see any­ evidence of "whinging Brits", just some­ genuinely disappointed ones. I would say that perhaps­ the nations of the British Isles and the island of­ Ireland are better at engaging their critical faculties­ post-match, and that perhaps this is often­ misinterpreted by others as "whinging?"

go boks well done

O'Gara lost his head, simple as that. The match was­ a classic, can't say better team won, or that­ better team lost, they seemed pretty evenly matched.­ Why the BIL's were kicking the ball in those last­ few minutes at all is beyond me - needed to score but­ were kicking the ball away! Plonkers. If anything, they­ deserved to lose for such stupidity - especially from­ O'Gara - what was he thinking??

It is amazing when I look at some of the comments. Why­ are you guys in Brittan such bad loosers ? You lost so­ take it like men. If you were better, why the score­ board reads 2 - 0 for the Springboks ? The Lions played­ a not committed Springbok team and still could not win.­ The Lions will also loose the last test in Jhb. So stop­ to moan please, grow up, except the hiding or do not­ play the game. The world is sick of you Brits.

Lions in command, SA frustrated and could not react to­ the Lions pressure, but game changed after the removal­ of both PROPS. Thus game played into the hands of­ wingers (more open running).

lions were robbed :(:(:(:(:(

If the Kiwis hate the springcocks so much (and rightly­ so), how come a Kiwi ref handed you last weeks game?­ Lions better side in both games.

John B....you got it right eventually ! The Ref is a­ Frenchman (Berdos) but the 2 assistant refs were from­ NZ, not exactly partial to their historical Trinations­ SA opponents !! Not surprising that the assistant would­ favour discounting a Bok score !!

So the Tri-Nations beat the Six Nations today...­ Aussies beat the French, the Kiwis beat the Italians,­ and the Bokke beat the rest...

who wants a tissue ? thats right u brits need a tissue,­ no excuses !LOSERS the lions lost their roar in the end­ and finished with a meaow, uk need excuses for­ everything that goes wrong, 3-0 lol, no roar left in­ the lions,south africa 2 games together, lions 7 games­ together, arrrrrghahahahahaha cocky @#$% welcome to the­ real world of rugby

Furthermore, the 'icon; Brian O'Driscol should­ have been red-carded for leading with the head in a­ tackle on Danie Rossouw that he did not even attempt to­ use his arms, and Jannes Labuschagne was red-carded for­ a tackle in the air on the holy Johnnie a couple of­ years ago, which was not any different from the tackle­ by O'Gara on Du Preez. So, the Whining about the­ ref must please stop... SA has even more reason to­ complain than the poms.

The game works like this: in nature the Lions chase the­ Springboks......for food, and win in the end.
In­ rugby the Lions also chase the­ Springboks............but this time for points, they­ catch up but just NEVER get there!
Well done BOKKE!!! ­ U are the champs!!!!

I was at the game, and I have to agree - the ref was­ appaling. He never blew up the BIL for lying off their­ feet on the wrong side of the rucks and mauls, he­ missed a number of blatant high tackles, BIL stole the­ ball on the ground with hands in the rucks.. appalling.­ It said a lot for the Boks that they missed 14 points­ that Ruan would have usually landed with his eyes­ closed, and still managed to win. If he had landed them­ it would have been a 42-25 scoreline. 3 tries to one­ says it all. 2 world cups and a 3rd place in 4 world­ cups says even more...
BIL supporters at the game­ agreed they were well beaten on the day by a better­ side. Sour grapes makes @#$% whine...

Obviously didn't teach you to spell properly in­ South Africa. Perhaps you should've stayed longer­ in the UK and got a decent education.

I am English born......South African raised till I was­ 20 and moved back to England..............BUT OMG the­ poms certainly find an excuse if they loose. They are­ the worst loosers eva. Well done the Bokke long live­ the Bokke. I will support them foreva. My daughter­ was born there and so supports them all the way!

I blame the ref as he was not strong enough to send off­ the cheating scum bag who tried to gouge out the eye­ of a Lions player...you think thats fair play? So, you­ should have played 78 minutes with 14 men. On top of­ that the ref didn't listen to his lines man when­ he tried in vain to tell him that there was a foot in­ touch. He tried 3 times to tell him it wasn't a try­ and since the replays were inconclusive he­ should've listened to his lines man.

I said the­ ref was french in answer to an earlier SA idiot who­ said he was an aussie. Happier to have a northern hem­ ref as they seem to understand the game better than­ southern hem refs. Just needed one with a back bone­ today and you boks would be crying and bleating all the­ way back to what ever bar you are working in.

reading through these comments i take it that no one­ watches the super 14 league. Morne steyn has had a­ brilliant year for the bulls. He can kick from­ anywhere, as soon as the ref blew for o'gara's­ mistake(and that is what it was ) i knew we lost. if­ steyn was on from the start we wouldn't of got a­ look in. So what if the ref was french, you would of­ moaned if the ref was an aussie or a kiwi. Well done­ the boks,and i can't wait for next super 14 season

SA are simply the best GO BOKKE you have done it again­ what can i say

why blame the ref? o'gara is the idiot.

Luifer just stay in jockland and as for the french­ banning the burkha because it make people feel inferior­ perhaps we should ban the Scotland shirt for the same­ reason !!!