The game settled down after the frenetic start but New Zealand finished the first half the strongest as they again surged towards the Springboks, with Messam claiming his second try of the match in the final play after the hooter as South Africa were left to rue the decision to run the ball out of their defence.
Poulter had been left to sleep on a 20-footer for birdie at the 15th when the hooter went late on Friday.
I can hear the hooter going- sorry Frankie, that's a clunker, by any standards.
Marshall added the goal, just before the hooter sounded, but that hardly mattered.
Donald tells me that the hooter itself is not of the highest quality.
How can you not love a sport in which, as a hooter signals the start of the game, the public-address system plays the theme from "Jaws," and the two central attackers sprint-crawl for the ball, which bobs gently in the center of the pool?
Maybe Mr. Trudeau's nose is growing until it resembles the pencil-shaped hooter that his main character, Mike Doonesbury, has sticking out of his face.
There were rope-burning contests that sent them scrambling into the woods for tinder, a game called hooter ball that involves knocking down a tennis-ball can with a softball (harder than it sounds), and the creation of team plaques that will forever hang in the dining hall.
O'Gara just pulls a tricky kick as the hooter wails.
The hooter goes and Australia are the World Champions!
Ben Westwood's sublime offload to Roy Asotasi sealed the win, before Kevin Penny, who had already had four tries disallowed by the video referee, intercepted a Luke Walsh pass on the hooter.
