• Wales 24-22 South Africa
• Wales escape embarrassment after buckling under to Springboks onslaughtThe last word in the autumn internationals went to Leigh Halfpenny,his penalty settling a reasonably entertaining game between two weakened sides just when South Africa had overturned what was at one stage an 18-point deficit. Halfpenny’s kick would only have been a leveller had Handré Pollard not hit a post after scoring his sides second try, but Wales could select more out of the game than the Springboks, or who often played as whether they had been lobotomised.
One of the game’s superpowers have become mind-numbingly ordinary,having to battle back from two early sucker punches. For all the advantage of persisting with players based at domestic to try to contain an exodus to Europe and Japan, their game is already so denuded that what used to be one of the game’s surest foundations now resembles a sandcastle.
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Source: guardian.co.uk