France tour - Brisbane, 5 July 2008, 20:05 local, 10:05 GMT
Australia (26) 40 - 10 (3) France (FT)

Match coverage:  Report

Timeline

Time Australia  Score  France
0 start of first half start of first half
3 Giteau - penalty goal 3 - 0
6 Hynes - try 8 - 0
7 Giteau - conversion 10 - 0
15 Giteau - penalty goal 13 - 0
23 Giteau - penalty goal
Burgess - sub off
Cordingley - sub on
16 - 0
25 Harinordoquy - sub off
Picamoles - sub on
28 Giteau - penalty goal 19 - 0
36 Horwill - try
Giteau - conversion
26 - 0
39 Horwill - sub off
McMeniman - sub on
Picamoles - sub off
Harinordoquy - sub on
40+5 end of first half 26 - 3 Trinh-Duc - penalty goal
end of first half
40+12
40 start of second half start of second half
41 Boyet - sub on
Mermoz - sub off
43 Cordingley - sub off
Burgess - sub on
50 Hoiles - sub off
Smith - sub on
Correia - sub off
Lecouls - sub on
52 Cross - sub on
Barnes - sub off
56 Peyras-Loustalet - sub on
Lacroix - sub off
57 Cross - try 31 - 3
58 Giteau - conversion 33 - 3
61 Alexander - sub on
Robinson - sub off
Picamoles - sub on
Ouedraogo - sub off
62 Kayser - sub on
Bruno - sub off
65 Boyet - yellow card
67 Cross - try 38 - 3
68 Giteau - conversion 40 - 3
72 Shepherd - sub on
Mortlock - sub off
73 Freier - sub on
Moore - sub off
Cordingley - sub on
Burgess - sub off
75 Caballero - sub on
Chabal - sub off
79 end of second half
end of half
Yachvili - sub on
Tillous-Borde - sub off
end of second half
end of half
80+3 40 - 10 Trinh-Duc - try
Yachvili - conversion
0
79 Yachvili - sub on
Tillous-Borde - sub off
83 40 - 10 Trinh-Duc - try
Yachvili - conversion

Notes

 
Result Australia won by a margin of 30 points
 
Ground name Lang Park, Brisbane
Attendance 49542
 
Referee PG Honiss (New Zealand)
 
Australia Test debuts LD Turner
France Test debuts Y Caballero, P Correia, M Mermoz, JB Peyras-Loustalet

Teams

Australia France
Tries Hynes (6), Horwill (36), Cross (57, 67) Tries Trinh-Duc (80)
Cons Giteau (7, 36, 58, 68) Cons Yachvili (80)
Pens Giteau (3, 15, 23, 28) Pens Trinh-Duc (40)

Match stats

Australia   France
4 Tries 1
4 from 4 Conversion goals 1 from 1
4 from 4 Penalty goals 1 from 2
100.0% Kick at goal success 66.7%
0 Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
23 Kicks from hand 26
0 Passes 0
58 Runs 95
366 Metres run with ball 323
Attacking
7 Clean breaks 2
11 Defenders beaten 6
1 Offloads 4
43 from 45 (95.6%) Rucks won 76 from 79 (96.2%)
3 from 4 (75.0%) Mauls won 3 from 4 (75.0%)
16 Turnovers conceded 11
Defensive
116/6 Tackles made/missed 55/12
95.1% Tackling success rate 82.1%
Set pieces
6 won, 2 lost (75.0%) Scrums on own feed 13 won, 2 lost (86.7%)
10 won, 1 lost (90.9%) Lineouts on own throw 9 won, 2 lost (81.8%)
Discipline
7 Penalties conceded 10
0/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Aust stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Ashley-Cooper 0/0 0 2/0/3 18 0 2 0 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Hynes 1/0 5 3/0/7 60 1 1 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Mortlock 0/0 0 1/0/4 21 0 0 0 1 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Barnes 0/0 0 4/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Turner 0/0 0 2/0/7 27 0 0 0 3 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Giteau 0/4 20 7/0/2 21 1 1 1 0 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
SH Burgess 0/0 0 1/0/5 87 2 3 0 2 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Robinson 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Moore 0/0 0 0/0/3 0 0 0 0 0 8/1 0/0 1 0/0
P Baxter 0/0 0 0/0/2 20 1 0 0 0 10/1 0/0 2 0/0
L Horwill 1/0 5 0/0/2 17 0 1 0 0 1/0 2/1 0 0/0
L Mumm 0/0 0 0/0/1 2 0 0 0 0 8/1 1/0 0 0/0
F Elsom 0/0 0 0/0/5 22 0 2 0 2 9/1 4/0 0 0/0
F Waugh 0/0 0 0/0/3 4 0 0 0 0 14/0 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Hoiles 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 3 13/0 0/0 1 0/0
(H) Freier 0/0 0 0/0/2 15 1 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Alexander 0/0 0 0/0/2 2 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) McMeniman 0/0 0 0/0/3 3 0 0 0 0 6/0 3/0 0 0/0
(N8) Smith 0/0 0 0/0/1 4 0 0 0 1 11/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Cordingley 0/0 0 0/0/1 2 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Cross 2/0 10 0/0/2 31 1 1 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Shepherd 0/0 0 0/0/1 10 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Fra stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Thiery 0/1 0 0/0/7 76 1 2 1 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Palisson 0/0 0 0/0/5 21 0 0 1 1 1/1 0/0 1 0/0
C Mermoz 0/0 0 1/0/2 0 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Lacroix 0/0 0 1/0/4 4 0 1 1 1 2/1 0/0 1 0/0
W Janin 0/0 0 1/0/5 46 0 1 0 0 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Trinh-Duc 1/0 8 10/0/4 24 0 0 0 1 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
SH Tillous-Borde 0/0 0 7/0/9 29 0 0 0 4 7/1 1/0 1 0/0
P Correia 0/0 0 0/0/2 4 0 0 0 0 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
H Bruno 0/0 0 0/0/8 4 0 0 0 0 0/1 1/0 0 0/0
P Boyoud 0/0 0 0/0/3 0 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Chabal 0/0 0 0/0/6 18 0 0 0 2 2/0 1/0 1 0/0
L Nallet 0/0 0 1/0/6 2 0 0 0 0 4/1 1/0 1 0/0
F Lievremont 0/0 0 0/0/3 1 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
F Ouedraogo 0/0 0 0/0/6 21 0 0 0 0 3/0 2/0 2 0/0
N8 Harinordoquy 0/0 0 1/0/14 27 0 0 1 1 5/1 4/0 1 0/0
(H) Kayser 0/0 0 0/0/1 2 0 0 0 0 1/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Lecouls 0/0 0 0/0/1 3 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Boyet 0/0 0 2/0/2 13 1 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 1/0
(N8) Picamoles 0/0 0 0/0/5 28 0 1 0 0 2/0 0/0 1 0/0
(L) Caballero 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Yachvili 0/0 2 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FB) Peyras-Loustalet 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/1 0/0 0 0/0
Key T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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