26-6-17 RUGBY SUMMER INTERNATIONALS
RUGBY
FRIDAY
SAMOA 17-19 WALES
EVENS SHOWS HE HAS
POWER
Alapati Leiua's try gave Samoa the lead but three Sam Davies
penalties brought Wales within a point at the break.
Wing Evans' first international try put Wales ahead after 42
minutes, only for Manu Leiataua to restore Samoa's lead.
Wales rallied and Evans' second try eight minutes from the
end clinched the victory on a slippery pitch in Apia.
It was Robin McBryde's team's second win on the two-Test
tour, which saw them start without 12 players on British and Irish Lions duty
in New Zealand and saw a further four called up by Warren Gatland before the
Samoa game
MY
OPINION
This is a win that Wales
definitely does not want what with the injuries they got from the match and the
players moving off to the lions this would make things very difficult for the
Welsh manager to defend when the players move back to their clubs.
SATURDAY
NEW ZEALAND 30—15 BRITISH
AND IRISH LIONS
IOANE DOUBLE CHANGES
EVERYTHING
A breathless match had been poised at 13-8 at half-time,
Codie Taylor's brilliant pick-up bringing the All Blacks' opening try before
the Lions struck back with a wonderful length-of-field effort begun by Liam
Williams deep in his own 22 and finished by Sean O'Brien.
But after the Lions had gone close early in the second
period, the home side struck again through Rieko Ioane's try in the corner
after more quick thinking and fast hands.
And the home side took control as the Lions' much-vaunted
replacements struggled to make any impact, Ioane feasting off an error to race
away for his second.
MY
OPINION
This was definitely a disappointment
for the lions not because of the fact that they lost but that they lost by so
much and there are questions now that need to be asked. For the lions they must
use the match on Tuesday to see what went wrong and fix it as they have that. I
would not be surprised with a similar result next week as during the tour the Lon’s
have blown hot and cold.
FIJI 27-22 SCOTLAND
YATO MAKES
DIFFERENCE FOR FIJI
The hosts were inspired, scoring memorable tries through
Peceli Yato and Henry Seniloli, with Ben Volavola kicking 17 points.
Ross Ford, Ruaridh Jackson and Fraser Brown all crossed the
whitewash for Scotland, but it was not enough to overcome the swashbuckling
Fijians.
MY
OPINION
Scotland does seem to be in a
little bit of trouble but this summer is Townsend learns about his squad and
what they can do. I think that Scotland need to improve quickly and Townsend
needs to know who to lean on.
AUSTRILIA 40--27 ITALY
JAPAN 13-35 IRELAND
COULD RINGROSE BE
THE NEW O DRISCOL
Garry Ringrose, Josh van der Flier, Kieran Marmion, Rhys
Ruddock and Sean Reidy scored Ireland's tries in Tokyo.
Centre Kotaro Matsushima and winger Akihito Yamada touched
down for Japan.
Joe Schmidt's side scored four tries inside the opening 31
minutes in a match that was closer than their seven-try win a week earlier.
MY
OPINION
Ireland have got out of this
tour what they need which is a very important thing for them but there stars
were not in this tour so they tried to use it as a development tour for the World
Cup in 2019. As for Japan they will now know how tough their challenge will be.
SOUTH AFRICA 35-12
FRANCE
KRIEL EARLY TRY
KEEPS SOUTH AFRICA IN CONTROL
Elton Jantjies, who had succeeded with 11 of 12 kicks at
goal during the previous two Tests, put the home team ahead with a sixth-minute
penalty
Within two minutes that lead had stretched to 10 ponts as
French winger Virimi Vakatawa was dispossessed and prop Ruan Dreyer sent centre
Jesse Kriel over in the corner.
Jantjies converted, but France trimmed the deficit to four
points as recalled fly-half Jules Plisson slotted two penalties.
It took 27 minutes for the first scrum, which had to be
reset, in keeping with a trend of the series, before the work of new cap Dreyer
won South Africa a penalty.
A battle of the boots continued until half-time with
Jantjies kicking two more penalties and Plisson one to leave South Africa 16-9
ahead at the break.
South Africa scored a second try just two minutes into the
second half after inside centre Jan Serfontein won a line-out and Etzebeth barged
over for an unconverted try.
Plisson missed his first penalty attempt of the match after
53 minutes of a stop-start match with too many penalties.
The French fly-half succeeded with another penalty only for
South Africa to go 28-12 ahead just past the hour when hooker Malcolm Marx drove
over and Jantjies converted.
Substitute scrum-half Rudy Paige rubbed salt into French
wounds with a try five minutes from time which Jantjies converted.
MY
OPINION
After what has happened in
recent seasons we know that South Africa are back on fire and will be a hard
team to beat. As for France they are not showing what they are capable of as a
team and we know that they must improve as this was bad.
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