Wales 15 v 20 RSA - the scoreline says it all! We just couldn't quite do it. The first game of the Autumn Internationals and the Six Nations Champions v the World Champions and a great game it was too. Rugby always manages to make me come alive and I was more interested in this game than I have been in anything for some time.
It started poorly, 10 points down in the first 10 minutes and the word "Route" was beginning to flash before my eyes, but he held firm, like those brave few at Rorkes Drift we held back the might of South Africa (humming Men of Harlech under our breath no doubt!!).
Our two new caps Andy Powell (much deserved Man of the Match - see pic) and Lee Halfpenny both had brilliant debuts and I can even find it in my heart to forgive Hook Bach for gifting a intercepted try to the Boks. The last ten minutes were incredibly exciting and if we could have only taken advantage of the last line-out who knows, we might have won. I understand Warren and Sean gave the boys a good talking to in the dressing room afterwards which no doubt contained a few choice expletives, lets just hope they listen and we come back fighting against the All Blacks and the Aussies.
I am in work tonight which I am not happy about as it is Adrian's 50th Birthday tomorrow and Noel has gone out to dinner with him and Rose, Phil and Karen and some other friends of Adrians. The weather is atrocious and the drive to work was a nightmare. I could only manage 10 mph down Hamilton Terrace because of the driving rain. It appears that it is going to be a quiet night in more ways than one. I shall just sit back and savour the silence!!
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