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The Barbarians come up trumps against England at Twickenham
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yE126Da_Kok/TeX3ZuEsTSI/AAAAAAAAFVE/ZIlPH2a18Zc/s1600/tim-visser-barbarians.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yE126Da_Kok/TeX3ZuEsTSI/AAAAAAAAFVE/ZIlPH2a18Zc/s400/tim-visser-barbarians.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613164531823693090" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Second-half fight backs appear to be the flavour of the month, and the scriptwriters pulled out another cracker this weekend as a last minute Tim Visser try sealed a 38-32 win for the Barbarians over England at Twickenham./spanbr /br /It may have taken them a while to get going, but a Baa-Baas team that boasting over 500 caps had too much all-round class for an inexperienced England side who could not handle the confrontational visitors.br /br /A try in the first 5 minutes for Henry Trinder following good work from Charlie Hodgson and Captain Luke Narraway got England off to a dream start; but the men in black and white hoops quickly responded through Frenchman Benoit Baby who danced through a defensive hole to cross for a converted score.br /br /Ugo Money grabbed an opportunistic try for the hosts before James Simpson-Daniel scored England’s third score. There were shades of 2002 for Simpson-Daniel, who ran round Jonah Lomu in the same fixture nine years ago, when he stepped inside Ruan Pienaar to finish a spectacular score.br /br /But just as England looked to be pulling away with the lead, Frederick Michalak intercepted Paul Hodgson's sloppy pass and raced away for an easy 5 points.br /br /The second-half saw the Barbarians assert their dominance at the scrum and at the breakdown. Unable to hold on to the ball, England conceded a try to flying-Dutchman Tim Visser who collected Michalak's cross-kick to score. The Baa-Baas drew level when good hands put George Smith and Joe Van Niekerk over for further Barbarian scores.br /br /England regained the lead when Exeter flanker Tom Johnson crossed for a try. But it was the Barbarians who had the last word as a great break from Joe Tekori and a deft offload from Van Niekerk allowed Visser to add a dramatic finish to an fascinating match.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/13OEaa3ahtY?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/13OEaa3ahtY?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span07:06/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-6511797324438010569?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PNoYOzdm24vg8C--9wYKGWyt774/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PNoYOzdm24vg8C--9wYKGWyt774/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PNoYOzdm24vg8C--9wYKGWyt774/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/PNoYOzdm24vg8C--9wYKGWyt774/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=kf0Z3ajh9PA:ku8jaL8V3xQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/kf0Z3ajh9PA" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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