Brilliant Boks break drought
6 Dec 2008
The Springboks won the George Sevens for the first time ever when they downed New Zealand 12-7 at a packed Outeniqua Park.
The Boks also broke the drought by winning back-to-back tournaments after Dubai last week and fittingly captain Mzwandile Stick crashed over for the crucial score. Before that Gio Aplon was adjudged to have knocked the ball over the line after a cross-kick, but from the scrum the Boks forced a tighthead and Stick did the rest.
DJ Forbe’s opened the scoring for the Kiwis, but a try late in the opening half by Renfred Deyzel brought the hosts back at 5-7. Stick then scored with three minutes to go and added the conversion.
“It’s awesome to win here, we’ve struggled in the past in George due to the pressure,” said Stick. ”The support from the crowd was amazing and this was a very special one – our blood is green.”
Springboks - Tries: Renfred Deyzel, Mzwandile Stick. Conversion: Stick.
The Boks reached the final via a convincing 21-7 win over Fiji.
The hosts dominated possession in the opening half and three tries was the result – to Ryno Benjamin (2) and Mpho Mbiyozo who barged over.
The Fijians scored a consolation score with a minute to go but the result was beyond doubt.
Springboks - Tries: Mpho Mbiyozo, Ryno Benjamin (2). Conversions: Stick (3).
Meanwhile in the qaurters, Man of the Tournament Robert Ebersohn was instrumental in the Boks’ 17-12 victory over England.
Ebersohn scored the first try and set up the extra couple of scores. Ebersohn’s offload inbetween two tacklers inside his own 22 was instrumental in the second score, while his 40m break set up captain Mzwandile Stick for the try that sealed the win.
The Boks led 19-5 and a late try from the English was mere consolation.
Springboks - Tries: Robert Ebersohn, Ryno Benjamin, Mzwandile Stick. Conversion: Stick.
Click here for score updates.
A full report will be posted at the end of the day.
831 Comments
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7 Dec 2008, 16:49 pm
GBS @ 549 – it would have helped if you hadn’t fcuked the country up for so long. I am definately not “relatively intelligent”. People often think i am though, but then i surprise them.
7 Dec 2008, 17:21 pm
skopskiet is glad nie beindruk en definitief nie n student van enige iemand op die blog, spesifiek glad nie van enige dom doos einaardige rug draaiers van die land van hul geboorte.
En die van julle wat probeer julle onnoselike haat volle dom doos gif uit spoeg op die van wie jy glad nie eers ken, jy vermors net jou eie gladde wit baba gesiggie se vel en niemand anders sin nie.
7 Dec 2008, 17:28 pm
#550 Harry the beach walker: Harry are you laying the blame for SA’s current problems at the feet of white people? Or is GBS solely responsible for voicing his opinion about the South Africa of today?
Jeez you make me sick with your white guilt nonsense! Are you sure you’re not Puke Watson?
7 Dec 2008, 18:00 pm
#551 Mr. Mistoffelees: Stoffelneus aka Skopbevokdoooooooooos……
Jy kan nie Engels praat nie, maar Afrikaans is nog ‘n groter struikelblok vir jou.
Hoe dom kan een fokkkkerrrrrrr wees ??
7 Dec 2008, 18:00 pm
JayDaFiveOh – no, fcukstick, if you read what i wrote and what went before, GBS was having a go at “inverse discrimination”. My answer was that we need affirmative action today to make up for 300 years of discrimination. We can’t be unequal for 300 years and then suddenly the slate is wiped clean. The imbalances had to be addressed by “inverse discrimination” (GBS’s term). i think you should stick to picking your “dream XV” or arguing who is better between Spies and kanko. Leave the socio political debates to the groot kinders, ne.
7 Dec 2008, 18:01 pm
GBS @ 553 – is hy so dom soos ek, of is ek dommer?
7 Dec 2008, 18:28 pm
#554 Harry the beach walker: you are such a dooooos!!! Is that what you call having an intelligent political debate calling random people on the internet fcukstick? LOL you’re got a serious chip on your shoulder!
Arguing for affirmative action is one thing but laying down the whole white guilt thing, saying that all white people are responsible for the fcked state of SA is plain pathetic! Its been 14 years since the end of apartheid and little has changed and little will change until the corruption in the government stops and ministers stopped syphoning off public funds to further their own personal gratification! That is not what the ANC fought for. In 14 years huge strides could’ve been made but the opportunities are not being taken. There comes a point in time where you can no longer blame apartheid for the lack of progress and to face up to the reality that this government is not pulling its weight in any respect!
Affirmative action works in theory but its downfall will be in its execution if you’re putting people in jobs who are simply not qualified enough just so you can show that black people now have opportunities. A phased approach to AA is the most effective way but that means still giving people jobs based on merit and not the colour of their skins.
Still by coming out with such ridiculous generalisations such as all white people are to blame illustrates your political immaturity! Clearly politics isn’t your bag and you should stick to joining your buddy Puke Watson in campaigning for abolishing of the Springbok!
7 Dec 2008, 18:32 pm
#555 Harry the beach walker: Hy is dommer as jy….. net-net………. hehehe
Man, 2 wrongs don’t make a right…….. discrimination of ANY KIND is abhorent… to have equal rights means exactly that……… EQUAL RIGHTS…. not one group is more equal than the next…
Democracy and equality was what was fought for and strived for, that was the overriding and burning quest, not true ??
Tell me honestly, my son who is 15… born just months before the new dispensation in SA, why must he or my daughter of 19, for that matter be discriminated against in the workplace and other sectors ?
Why must the New “Black Elite”, favoured by the new order be more equal than me ?
Why must the masses still remain in the despair that they were before 1994….
No my man, you either have FULL DEMOCRACY or an abhorent government…. there’s no room for both !
I choose free and full democracy !
7 Dec 2008, 18:37 pm
#557 grootblousmile:
your government was abhorrent and created the imbalances to begin with so what transpires now is exactly the equal retribution to the abhorrence you and your government created, no more and no less, suck it up, you reap exactly that which you sow.
7 Dec 2008, 18:41 pm
Jay @ 556 – why is it that white people were very content when it was the corruption of a white government and white ministers syphoning off public funds? Now suddenly it is such a terrible thing. It also happens everywhere else in the world even in the most sophisticated democracies.
All white people who did nothing (Ie participate in the struggle) are responsible, even by their silence. Who kept voting the Nats into power?
7 Dec 2008, 18:43 pm
#558 Mr. Mistoffelees: MY Government ??
The one I DID NOT VOTE FOR ??
Hahaha
So you believe in Selective Democracy PLUS Selective retribution…. in stead of Democracy ??
Pray tell, what makes that better than Apartheid ??
7 Dec 2008, 18:45 pm
GBS @ 557 – because you can raise your children on the ill gotten gains of apartheid my friend. Black people dont have money to send their kids to decent schools or university. AA gives them and their children a chance. I know your will use the BEE fatcats as a stick to beat me with now, but they exist becuase AA has been incorrectly applied. We are arguing about teh principle of it, not its incorrect implementation in SA. And even if it is incorrectly applied, in some instances, it is correctly applied and that is where you find the SA success story.
7 Dec 2008, 18:45 pm
these very same discriminators crying foul about discrimination, how pitiful the irony of it all.
Perhaps they should all go join the new breed first world colonists that gather together in throngs of fair skinned colonies where aboriginal natives have been conveniently eliminated from their consciousnesses, where they sing their enlightened tunes of advanced fair fortunes in unison for all, as long as they have as little pigmentation in their skin as they do.
7 Dec 2008, 18:47 pm
Jay @ 556 – you cant make a point every time by misquoting me. Is it deliberate or do you have a 2 digit IQ?
7 Dec 2008, 18:48 pm
Mr Mistoffelfees @ 562 – the universe is not without a deliciously wicked sense of irony. I am a firm beliver in reaping what you sow. Reap the whirlwind now.
7 Dec 2008, 18:53 pm
#561 Harry the beach walker: Try to convince somebody of lesser intelligence about the “CORRECTNESS” of a discriminatory system, I’m not interested or impressed !
7 Dec 2008, 18:53 pm
#560 grootblousmile:
what this country is practicing now is a damn far closer to democracy than that farce it was practicing for the last three and a half centuries of colonialist minority rule before it.
And if you must know the legacies of that indoctrinated discrimination is what is still the fundamental cancer that breeds within our societies and in our collective divisive consciousnesses.
7 Dec 2008, 18:54 pm
GBS @ 560 – what make sit better than apartheid?? WELL, that the cops now dont drive into white suburbs massacreing white school children? Or not dehumanising the white adults by making them use separate toilets. Or not forcing white children to take all their subjects in zulu. I can go on and on. You lucky you havent been subjected to proper victors’ justice. Now tell me again how what you have now is the same as what black people had under apartheid.
You are delusional. think how lucky you are.
7 Dec 2008, 18:55 pm
I see the old topics are well and alive amongst the Sunday afternoon bloggers! Forget the f politics, lets make money!
7 Dec 2008, 18:57 pm
#564 Harry the beach walker:
whirlwinds can sometimes be fun, if one has the stomach for the ride, lets see these distributors of discrimination stomach the same broth they so lavishly dished up in reverse
7 Dec 2008, 18:57 pm
#566 Mr. Mistoffelees: Go preach your retributive views to somebody who cares….. and agrees…..
Go and practise your divisive practices in seclusion somewhere…… I’ll practise equality in my surrounds……
Now piss off !
7 Dec 2008, 18:58 pm
GBS @ 565 – that’s why its called positive discrimination. White people who moan about it are the thick / stupid ones who worked on teh railways and in government admin in the past. All intelligent white people have proper jobs and are doing just nicely. If you’re not and you keep complaining abt AA, thats only an indication that you are of the poor white, inbred, railway working variety who needs government intervention to get a proper job. You really do make out my argument for me.
7 Dec 2008, 18:59 pm
Better still lets talk rugby!! What do you guys say??
7 Dec 2008, 19:03 pm
Mr @ 569 – i am amazed at the white man’s lack of stomach for some adversity these days. Is this the same people who trekked north, taming the hinterland, who fought off teh zulus at blood river when their God lifted the mist and who stiffled a revolution by a majority for decades??? You okes have gone soft, unless you always were and we just hardened the **** up. I would love to have seen a white man tell me what beach i couldnt go to. I’d bomb his house.
7 Dec 2008, 19:05 pm
#570 grootblousmile:
you are a weakling, only you do not even know how weak you actually are, idiot fool that you are, you cannot even collect your own heritage when it smacks you square in the face can you just?
7 Dec 2008, 19:12 pm
#573 Harry the beach walker:
the thing is essentially there is absolutely zero difference from one man to the next, the pitiful fallacy of the entire ring around the rosemary bush melodrama is that some people firmly BELIEVE themselves to be either superior in intellect or in some other form of God given virtue to the next man, and it goes around discrimination through dire distasteful bigotry based purely on racial practices, in simple terms around skin color and nothing whatsoever else.
when these illustrious Caucasian descendants eventually learn the fundamental lesson of humanity that they are in absolutely NO way superior in any form or reason from ANY man whatsoever on this planet, then and only then will there be some form of enlightened progression towards true tenants of democratic principles, whether it be in this country or anywhere else on this forlorn and divided planet of ours.
7 Dec 2008, 19:13 pm
#571 Harry the beach walker: Let’s look at AA in the workplace for a moment and take a practical example….
At a big media organisation, like Media 24, there are Publications for all sectors of society in SA, black and white, Afrikaans, English, Zulu and so forth….
It however appears now that Afrikaans News papers and magazines, who cater for the Afrikaans community has to also employ AA in all it’s intensity…. but there is a problem….. the AA candidates mostly do not speak or understand Afrikaans, so cannot contribute in equal value to the Publications (Not because of anything else but a Language and Cultural factor)……… yet they have to make up more than 60% of the Senior Management and even more of the actual work force for those Publications…..
Does that make any kind of economic or business sense…… the answer is a clear NOOOOOOOO !
This is but one example…… but it affects 6000 jobs in that organisation alone !
It is wrong for that organisation.
It is also wrong in many other instances.
AA & BEE inevitably leads to “puppeting” and more importantly leads to the massive brain drain in South Africa…….. as we have clearly experienced in Escom and most other sectors.
Does the answer not lie in MASSIVE INVESTMENT in the Education of our youth, investment on a grand scale in increasing Educational Excellence in our schools and Institutions of Learning accross the board……… giving opportunity to the youth to lead in a new South Africa ??
7 Dec 2008, 19:16 pm
Oh no, I’ve come to the wrong place………scuse me..
7 Dec 2008, 19:18 pm
#574 Mr. Mistoffelees: Weaklings are people who need hand outs, who need an edge over others….. as is currently the case with AA & BEE.
I’m an antrepeneur, a businessman who flourishes on Capitalism… and always will…….
7 Dec 2008, 19:19 pm
#577 carol: I have been throwing the “rugby bait” but these fishes prefer another diet! lol
7 Dec 2008, 19:20 pm
#577 carol: Hi Karlien…….. please stay…. I’d rather be chatting to you, than the downtrodden and retributive population.
How are you this fine day ?
7 Dec 2008, 19:21 pm
#579 AB: Naand AB…. I’ll converse in English, so as not to exclude Karlien !
7 Dec 2008, 19:23 pm
#581 grootblousmile:Naand ou maat! What the f is happening to you guys? That topic will never be answered to everybodies satisfaction anywhere in the world, yet we keep going there?
7 Dec 2008, 19:23 pm
#579 AB: Good tactic….I see Munster have been beaten in the Heineken Cup rounds by Cleremont!
Butch has performed today as well.
7 Dec 2008, 19:25 pm
#580 grootblousmile: Hoe gaan dit gbs?
7 Dec 2008, 19:26 pm
#580 grootblousmile: A very frosty but bright and beautiful day in the Cotswolds. Family time today and a good friend has just left us so time to play!
7 Dec 2008, 19:27 pm
#570 grootblousmile:
And what is more you are the dividers of this nation, you that seek protective custody over your own minority standards, when you become big enough for the equality you so firmly espouse, then we will see who is truly non racist and who is not, your lip service to equality carries absolutely no water whatsoever, you seek protection, as #571 Harry the beach walker: is suggesting, once the protective mechanisms of minority rule standards are removed, the playing field simply becomes far too competitive or exacting for those now found wanting outside of their discriminatory protective comfort zones.
Keep pushing for minority equality, it dos not exist, never has and never will, only when there is equal and fair representation throughout society as in our sporting codes as elsewhere, only then will this nation become rid of its indoctrinated disease ridden discrimination in all spheres, and this ‘equality’ you so easily bandy about may someday become a reality, only when you and your kind remove the discriminatory superiority deluded blinkers from your racist minds.
7 Dec 2008, 19:27 pm
#582 AB: Nothing has happened to me….. except maybe a slight re-arrangement of neurons during my accident on Thursday…….
Haha
You obviously have not heard what happened to me….. give me a ring and I’ll tell you…. not in the mood to type out the whole story.
7 Dec 2008, 19:29 pm
#583 carol: Yip, at least we can follow that and the Sevens now for a while, otherwise what would we do???? Thank God for these mercies. Oh and then there is the upcoming SA/Aus cricket tests, cant wait, must say I think the Aussies are not as bad as our press makes them out to be!
7 Dec 2008, 19:29 pm
#582 AB: You would think the human race could sort itself out a bit……….we do create havoc in this world!!
7 Dec 2008, 19:30 pm
#585 carol: I’m well thanks…as always…
Busy fixing some compuers at the moment…. whilst watching 5th Gear on BBC Knowledge….
7 Dec 2008, 19:32 pm
#588 AB: I enjoy the Heineken Cup rounds and I know the guys here think our Rugby is as dull as ditchwater but it is our ditchwater and we are used to it!!
Make the most of what you have got! However I am not in the mood for cricket YET!!
7 Dec 2008, 19:34 pm
AB you must hear the GBS story! He is actually made of titanium that man!! Amazed he is here to chat to us.
7 Dec 2008, 19:35 pm
#591 carol: I only half-watched some of the Heineken Cup matches…. cannot get myself too excited about them though… guess in a few weeks I will watch it with more interest whilst starving from good old Southern Hemisphere ruggas….
7 Dec 2008, 19:36 pm
#571 Harry the beach walker: positive discrimination..who ever thought we would see those two words together..what a strange world..
7 Dec 2008, 19:37 pm
#589 carol: I say keep away from politics and mind for youself in a hostile world, nobody ows me a favour, and that way life seems a breeze!
#591 carol: Heineken Cup is exciting, the only reason it gets critique is because people do not know the players over there as well as they do their own.
7 Dec 2008, 19:37 pm
#593 grootblousmile: Beggars can’t be choosers. But you have got some Boks to follow so that will make it more interesting.
I loved it when Percy was with Perpignan dragged WRS to some matches to watch him……WRS was delighted!! LOL
7 Dec 2008, 19:38 pm
#594 gunther: Hi Gunther, how is it with you?
7 Dec 2008, 19:39 pm
And AB is quite correct,
this little hoo-hah shenanigan of discriminatory denominational dissemination will most certainly not be absolved or resolved right here on this rugby blog,
it cannot even be removed from retributive or discriminatory minds, so how it could ever be thought to be obliterated from the consciousnesses of the frail deluded and in some cases limited psyches of the average rugby enthusiast, well that is probably one bridge way too far for even some saint to try and address.
and with that it is probably best I take my leave
good night
7 Dec 2008, 19:41 pm
#595 AB: The only politicians I have met have been fairly unimportant ones and I was struck at just how dim some of them were!!
As for the Heineken you are right it would be easier to follow if folks were more informed. Super 14 is a mystery but I am hoping it will unfold for me in the next few months here.
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