2012 end-of-year rugby union internationals

Matches

20 October

Beale (1/2) 50'

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• James Hanson made his international debut for Australia in this match.
• Keven Mealamu won his 100th cap for the All Blacks, he became the 22nd international player and 3rd All Black to reach the landmark.
• Piri Weepu equalled the record held by Ollie le Roux for most international caps from the bench with his 43rd substitute appearance from his 66 caps.
• Tony Woodcock equalled the All Black record held by Kees Meeuws for most yellow cards in a career with his third yellow card.
• The draw ended New Zealand's 16-match winning streak, also ending their chances of surpassing Lithuania's record streak of 18 wins.
• This match ended New Zealand's sequence of 105 consecutive matches of scoring a try in a match, it was the first match the All Blacks didn't score a try since 2004. The run of 105 consecutive matches of scoring a try in a match remains an international rugby record.

4 November

Lamont Garbuzov Temnov Simplikevich (2)

10/11 November

(In Romanian) Penalty try 73' c Penalty try 70' c Onozawa 71' c

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Ghiraldini 39' c Penalty Try 63' c Vainikolo 67' c

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Penalty Try 35' c Monye 40' m Johnson 47 c Tuilagi 68' m, 75' c Farrell (1/1) 76' Kalou 79' c

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Camacho 59' c Sánchez (1/3) 71'

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• Argentina's victory came exactly 11 years after their last win over Wales at the Millennium Stadium.

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• Michael Bent, Iain Henderson, Dave Kilcoyne and Richardt Strauss (all Ireland) made their full international debuts.
• The starting hookers, Adriaan (South Africa) and Richardt Strauss (Ireland), are cousins, the latter qualifying on residency grounds.
• Ronan O'Gara (Ireland) earned his 127th international cap (125 with Ireland and 2 with the British and Irish Lions) and overtook Brian O'Driscoll as the sole second most-capped player in rugby union history behind Australia's George Gregan (139).

Fofana 54' c Penalty try 63' c Parra (1/1) 75'

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• Yannick Forestier, Jocelino Suta, Sébastien Vahaamahina (all France) and Paddy Ryan (Australia) made their international debuts.
• This match ended Australia's seven-year winning streak against France, France's previous victory against Australia dating back to 5 November 2005 (26–16).
• The French came within one point of their largest ever victory against Australia (34–6 in 1976).

Cross 40' c Savea 29' c, 62' c Jane 33' c Hore 37' c Smith 75' c

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• Henry Pyrgos (Scotland), Dane Coles and Tawera Kerr-Barlow (both New Zealand) made their international debuts.
• Scotland became the first team to score three tries against New Zealand since New Zealand's loss to Australia in August 2011.

Penalty Try 25' c Mieres 61' c Uva 38' c Le Roux 65' c Gonçalo Foro 70' c

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13 November

Thompstone 29' c Bateman 39' c Ngatai 63' c

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• The Tigers returned to using their traditional lettered-flocked jerseys for this non-test match. They last used this system when they hosted Australia in 2010.

Penalty try 55' c, 62' c Britton 74' c Matanavou 32' c Votu 44' m

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Penalty try 57' c Wilson 65' c Helu 77' m

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16/17 November

G. Pisi 46' m Leota 77' m

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Crane 78' c Sharp (1/1) 79' Baker 28' c Elliot 33' c Renata 53' c Dixon 56' m Wilson 63' c Graham 72' c Willison 75' m Renata (1/1) 54'

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Nonu 49' c Jane 67' c Savea 73' m, 75' c

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McFadden 20' c, 43' c Cronin 21' c Cave 30' m Marshall 78' m

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• This was a non-capped match for Ireland, but was a fully capped match for Fiji. The IRB gave this match a no-test status, which means rankings would not change regardless of the outcome but will be part of the new scheme to increase competitiveness in Tier 2 teams ahead of the next World Cup.

Nyanga 33' c

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Valderrama (4/5) 24', 37', 45', 56'

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21 November

Potgieter (1/1) 66'

23/24/25 November

Ngatai 79' c

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Goneva 18' m

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Sexton 15' c, 50' c Strauss 21' m Zebo 32' m Bowe 46' m, 72' c O'Gara (1/1) 73' Fernández Lobbe 80' m

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Beale (2/2) 27', 29'

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Emerick 24' m Wyles 40' c, 45' m Ngwenya 64' c

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Farrell (3/4) 61', 72', 78'

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Vainikolo 65' m

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• This result was Tonga's first ever win over Scotland.
• This defeat was Scotland's first at Aberdeen's Pittodrie Stadium.

Michalak (4/4) 56', 60', 71', 78' Tekori 41' c

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Cuthbert 76' m Woodcock 38' c Romano 48'

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1 December

Ashton 58' m Tuilagi 62' c Burns (2/2) 66', 72' Read 51' c Cruden (1/1) 76'

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Notes:

• Freddie Burns (England) made his international debut.
• England claimed the Hillary Shield for the first time.
• This was England's biggest win over New Zealand, the most points they have ever scored against them, and their first win against them in 10 years.
• This was also New Zealand's joint second-largest defeat; at the time only Australia had beaten them by more.
• This was New Zealand's first defeat since they became world champions, and their first in 22 matches.

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• Australia captain Nathan Sharpe kicked for the conversion to end his career in the Australian squad.
• No replacement was made when Halfpenny was taken off due to injury.

2012 International Rugby Series

For more details on this topic, see: 2012 International Rugby Series

L'Estrange 17' c Doyle 36' c Wyles 46' c Shaw 50' m, 58' c Temnov (2) 61' m, 71' c

Braid 74' c Lilomaiava (4) 16' m, 21' c, 41' c, 66' c

Lilo 59' c Piukala 75' c

Paris 42' c Blevins 44' m

Effect on 2015 Rugby World Cup seeding

Much like the 2008 end of year series, the final IRB rankings at the end of the international window will play a massive part towards the seeding of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Like the 2011 tournament, the IRB rankings will play a pivotal role in proceedings with the top four placed sides at the end of the international window set to be kept apart in the draw. All 12 of the automatic qualifiers will be seeded based on their ranking and then split three bands of four teams.

• Band 1 will be made up of the top 4 automatic qualifiers
• Band 2 will be made up of the next 4 automatic qualifiers (5–8)
• Band 3 will be made up of the next 4 automatic qualifiers (9–12)
• Band 4 will be made up of the remaining due to qualify places (Oceania 1, Europe 1, Asia 1 and Americas 1)
• Band 5 will include the remaining possible nations (Africa 1,Europe 2, Americas 2 and repechage Winner)

Following the final matches on 1 December 2012, the 12 teams automatically qualified were seeded thus:

:Pot 1 | | | | :Pot 2 | | | | :Pot 3 | | | | :Pot 4

• Americas 1
• Asia 1
• Europe 1
• Oceania 1 :Pot 5
• Africa 1
• Americas 2
• Europe 2
• Repechage Winner

References

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