All Blacks v South Africa, House of Pain
Carisbrook, Dunedin
9 August, 2003

Match Report

All Blacks 19, South Africa 11

What a weekend.

A great victory by the New Zealand All Blacks to secure the Tri-Nations Trophy, even if not the most spectacular of matches. Smokin' Joe 'Rocket man' Rokocoko continued his amazing try-scoring run with an opening try early in the game which set up the All Blacks win.

Ralph's bottom
Richard Bands, the bulking Springbok prop, not only provided the moment of the match with his 48m burst to the try line, but also will go down as a legendary try. You just don't see the fatties running that far for tries. Onya Richard. Mind you I wouldn't be saying that if the ABs lost.

The unofficial curtain raiser to the Carisbrook match - the Nude Touch Rugby International was held at the 'Beach of Pain', St Kilda. A closely fought match between the Bottom Bus Barbarians and the Kiwi Experience selection saw the naked Baa Baas win 7-0 much to the delight of the hundreds of spectators and the referee as well!

The media flocked to the game with TV1, Sky TV, TV3, local papers and even someone from L'equipe - a French paper covering it.

Check out this link for what the Sydney Morning Herald had to report.

all smiles

House of Pain
Other winners from the weekend with our competitions were as follows;

Pick the score
Tim Leslie - All Black replica jersey for picking 22-13

Face paint
Darren Burns and Mike Pearson win an AJH Bungy jump

First try-scorers
Claire Burns, Rhian, Jeremy Katz, Jennifer McBride
Won a variety of prize packs including AJ Hackett t-shirts, Bottom
Bus gear, caps, Speights kit and bits n bobs.

To those of you, who joined in on our trips, thanks. Apart from a few sore heads on Sunday everyone was in fine spirits and we all enjoyed your contribution to what is a special weekend in the Dunedin calendar.

Test Weekend, gotta love it. Yours in Speights.

See you next year...?