We've broken Megan out of hospital! So whatever happens in the next 80 minutes of footy is a bonus.
Our wonderful friends Paul and Mary live a stone's throw from the maternity ward, and they're feeding us Toad in the Hole while we watch this evening's rugby feast.
If you've read my Quadter Final Prediction you'll know I think the Australians will win this match. So much so that I've gone double or quits with a winning bet from last night's French victory on the Wallabies today.
The conditions are absolutely perfect at the Cake Tin. The first 10 minutes of the half are all Bokke. They are attempting to monster the Wallabies aside. But the Aussies are hanging in there. I think they'll try and absorb the initial Springbok pressure and not try to leak too many points, then strike like a viper in their own time.
Ha Ha! After 10 minutes under the pump. The Wallabies get great field position from a Quade Cooper kick, and their back-line pounced on the surprised Boks. Magnificent skipper James Halwell busts over for the try. Bieber (James O'Connor) fluffs his conversion though. 5-0 Australia after 13 minutes.
From the restart Kurtley Beale goes through the South Africans like a dose of salts. He breaks through to the Springbok twenty two, passes to a fatty who spills it. The Wallabies look red hot. Their pressure is rewarded by a penalty. This time Bieber pops it over. 8-0 Wallabies after 17 minutes.
The Springboks are too organised a side to give up though and they put the heat back on the Wallabies. Quade Cooper is possibly one of the finest rugby players in the world but he's definitely the most unpredictable. He tries to run the ball from his right hand corner and gets nowhere.
The Boks put the blowtorch on the Australians but their hearts must sink as Henrich Brussow limps off the field. He's been their best player thus far at the cup and he's gone for the duration. Kiwi ref Bryce Lawrence does them no favours either as he misses some Wallaby hands in a ruck under their own posts. The Aussies survive yet again!
Morne Steyn misses a 52 metre penalty on 28 minutes. His namesake Francois would probably have nailed that. If the Springboks had played this way in any other game thus far they'd have a comfortable advantage by now. But the Wallabies are not an ordinary opposition, with players named Kurtley, Digby and Quade you can't expect predictable.
My favourite Springbok Bryan Habana is the next South African in the wars. He takes a huge knock to the scone and looks like he is in cloud cuckoo land. His team are playing with great enterprise and 100% commitment, but they simply don't have the final 5% of brilliance to bust the Australian defence.
They've turned the ball over 12 times in the first 35 minutes, and you can't do that and beat a world class opposition.
A replay shows that Radike Samo put a cheap-shot shoulder charge into Habana's head in a tackle. I'm currently cheering for Gold but that will change if they keep on like that. Morne slots a penalty on the 39th minute. Then he has another awarded for the last play of the half. It is a huge 55 metre plus effort which he understandably misses. The score is 8-3 at half time.
The South Africans have tried everything and not cracked the Aussies yet - they will need to keep it up in the next half. I think that if the Wallabies can score first in the next 40 they might be able to hold them out, but they cant afford to switch off at any stage.
The first ten minutes of the second spell are more of the same. The South Africans are big and strong in the set piece. The Wallabies are scrambling in defence and dangerous in the counter attack. The Springboks bust the Wallaby line at 45 minutes and look to score a try, but the vital final pass was correctly adjudged forward by Lawrence.
Habana is showing the pride of a lion. He's had some sickening blows to his cranium, but he has stayed on the park by virtue of sheer courage alone. Sadly he and his skipper Smit are subbed out after 50 minutes of play.
The Wallabies are in real trouble at scrum time. It is in the set piece where the Bokke have a clear advantage, but they are unable to find gaps to capitalise on this superiority. But the Wallabies are losing discipline and have coughed up a kickable penalty - that is meat and drink to Steyn. 8-6 to the Wallabies after 55 minutes.
The Springboks don't need tries to win anymore. 3 points will do it. They'll aim to camp in the Australian half and wait for mistakes. The Wallabies surely need a try or they won't hold the South Africans out.
The Springboks take the lead with a Morne drop goal bang on the 60 minute mark. The Wallabies need to play some footy now. 9-8 RSA. Morne is controlling the game, and his opposite Quade Cooper looks seriously rattled - he needs to find his mojo or his team will not get back nto this match. He has a shocking brain explosion at 63 minutes as he kicks valuable possession out on the full with an ill-timed and terrible kick.
Should Deans take him off? Should the Wallabies have Matt Giteau in the reserves? 15 minutes left to find out.
The difference in the game right now is hunger. None of the Australian game breakers; Samo, Genia, Cooper, Beale or Ioane seem to want to do the damage themselves. They need to tough it out and get some hard yards. Patrick Lambie misses a drop kick on 68 minutes. The Aussies need a team talk or something.
Berrick Barnes looks like he wants to be "that guy" for Oz. His kicking is gaining the Aussies some momentum, but they don't have the skills in the set piece to make advantage of the easy yards... UNTIL the Boks have an unusual lapse of discipline and concede a tough but kickable penalty. "Oh Baby Baby Baby!" O'Connor puts the Wallabies back in front. 11-9 Australia with 8 minutes to go.
If the Springboks can score again - anything - a penalty, a drop or a try I'm sure they'll win. But that is a big "if". They throw everything at the Wallabies in the last minutes, but can't do it.
We will have a new World Champion from this tournament - the Springboks are gone. Not from lack of effort, but possibly from lack of enterprise. The team who scored the only try wins the game. I love it when that happens.
Final Score Australia 11 - 9 South Africa
43 Games 251 Trues
Tweet of the Match - "Can hear Waltzing Matilda being sung at the stadium from up at our place" @bbqbevo (He lives in Ngaio, some 4 km from the Stadium!)
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