Montgomery added a second penalty goal and De Villiers intercepted Larkham's pass to sprint 55 metres into the corner. Percy Montgomery misjudged Larkham's kick to the corner, allowing Lote Tuqiri to snatch it and score. There was a creativity and cunning to the Australian game that the South Africans have yet to acquire.Despite their dire start, it was Australia who scored the first try of the game. Indeed, to score six tries in a week against New Zealand and Australia without a win is the height of frustration for the Springboks.But truth to tell, they just aren't yet good enough to close down a game and grind out a win. At 16-7 after more than half an hour, they had the launchpad to ruin Wallaby skipper George Gregan's 100th Test celebrations. But the Springbok forwards struggled after half-time and their line-out imploded, as they lost eight of their own throws.

Worse still, Wallaby fly-half Stephen Larkham rebuilt his confidence after his atrocious performance against the All Blacks in Wellington, steering his side home with a man-of-the-match display.The attacking angles the Wallaby backs cut in open play were something their South African counterparts could only dream of. Alas, the anguish of a rugby team's growing pains. For the second week running, South Africa's new side performed well early on, led at half-time but declined alarmingly in the second half, losing this Tri-Nations match before a 42,500 crowd at Perth's Subiaco Oval Alas, the anguish of a rugby team's growing pains. Jake White's Springboks left a saddened, frustrated but wiser crew after an enervating four weeks in New Zealand and Australia. This was a match of surprising twists and turns - defences were paramount yet seven tries were scored.

Many of his tries come not from gliding around opponents like the Leeds stand-off, but trampling over them.Vainikolo will be in action for the Bulls at Hull today, in a match that they must win if they are to sustain their hopes of finishing in the top two.. Mind you, he is not even guaranteed to be Super League's leading try scorer.For Bradford's Lesley Vainikolo has already scored 25 and can be relied upon to pursue McGuire to the end. If McGuire is the sniper then Vainikolo is the heavy artillery, his pace allied to his size and power. So potent has been the form of Leeds' Danny McGuire so far this season that it would be a major surprise if he did not break one of Super League's longer established records this afternoon. It was in 1996, the first year of the summer competition that St Helens' Paul Newlove scored 28 tries over the season. McGuire's hat-trick against Saints last week equalled that tally and he still has eight matches to go, starting with today's meeting with Wakefield at Headingley.This season has seen the fresh-faced young half-back develop from highly promising to being just about the most dangerous player in the British game. If his pace remains his outstanding attribute, he is starting to play with more cunning and with more all-round effect.Last week, after the 70-0 thrashing of Saints, there were suggestions that he might be disappointed to have only scored three tries, but they were quickly jumped upon by his coach, Tony Smith, who pointed out the work he had done to enable others to score. "If he wasn't a team player, he probably wouldn't be in the team,'' he said.In truth, McGuire will always be more effective as a scorer of tries than a creator of them.