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.
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A full report will be posted at the end of the day.
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7 Dec 2008, 19:43 pm
#598 Mr. Mistoffelees: You know I have a very small brain but thanks for trying to educate it! See you…..
7 Dec 2008, 19:46 pm
#590 grootblousmile: Hey we have got sheep dog trails on TV at the moment……….”Come bye, down…” have you got any idea what I am talking about?
7 Dec 2008, 19:47 pm
#599 carol: Sorry Karlien, AB just phoned me…. back here again, both of us….. you have my undevided attention….. well, you and the computers……..
7 Dec 2008, 19:49 pm
# carol: Yeah… have seen those dogs herding sheep into pens and such….
7 Dec 2008, 19:49 pm
#598 Mr. Mistoffelees: Cheers!#599 carol: Correct wrt politicians, only one mould was ever designed for them, just look at Bush! S14 only gets exciting after a season or two of watching, same as Heineken Cup if you are not familiar with the players and environments. But universally exciting!
Just spoke to GBS on the phone, all I can say to him “Count your blessings brother!”
7 Dec 2008, 19:51 pm
#597 carol: hot, hot and damn hot – could do with a bit of the english winter for about a day – not that I miss it that much..
7 Dec 2008, 19:52 pm
Hello everyone. Just a quick visit tonight. How you all?
7 Dec 2008, 19:52 pm
#602 grootblousmile: How are the bruises today? Should be reaching their peak of purple soon……I bet you have got a web cam, having said that I do not!! So I cannot check them out!
7 Dec 2008, 19:52 pm
#603 grootblousmile: It is not riviting TV but our collie is barking at it! I may have to turn over!
7 Dec 2008, 19:54 pm
#604 AB: I don’t even know all the super 14 teams yet. all will become clear I am sure….
7 Dec 2008, 19:54 pm
#605 gunther: Which bit did you experience and where?
7 Dec 2008, 19:55 pm
#603 grootblousmile: How you doing gbs hope those bruises are getting better. Where is junior gbs?
7 Dec 2008, 19:55 pm
Mzwandile Stick, a name that rings nicely on the ear, what an exceptional player, did you guys see that dropgoal last week in the semis?
7 Dec 2008, 19:55 pm
#606 Puma: Hi There Puma, twice in two days, you ok?
7 Dec 2008, 19:55 pm
#609 carol: Carol as long as you know the SA S14 teams then that is fine. Just have to learn 5 names. Never mind the rest. lol.
7 Dec 2008, 19:56 pm
#606 Puma: Howzit!
7 Dec 2008, 19:57 pm
#613 carol: Fine and you Carol? Just been very hot here but another thunderstorm to cool it down late this afternoon.
#612 AB: Yes I saw that. It was a cracker of a way to finish and this week he got that try in the end aswell.
7 Dec 2008, 19:57 pm
#615 AB: Great mate and you?
7 Dec 2008, 19:58 pm
#597 carol: hot, damn hot, almost enough to make me miss an english winter!
7 Dec 2008, 20:00 pm
#607 carol:
#611 Puma:
Bruises are turning into some fabulous colours……. hehehe
I have very little discomfort though……..
BonzaiGBS is in Pretoria for a couple of days….. to visit his mom and some Pretoria buddies….
The 2 of us have golfing plans though for later in the week.
7 Dec 2008, 20:01 pm
#618 gunther: lol. Saw in some places in England its going to be -4. Now thats freezing for us down here.
7 Dec 2008, 20:01 pm
#614 Puma: Are the 5 The Lions, Bulls, Stormers, Sharks and Cheetas then? Have I got the right ones?
7 Dec 2008, 20:02 pm
#617 Puma: Missioning these last few days, then I am off to the farm for some exceptional quality time! Should be all charged up come Jan 2009!!!
7 Dec 2008, 20:03 pm
#619 grootblousmile: Good to hear you are fine boeta. Pta was really very hot today. I live about 15min away. But we had a storm again to cool it down. Did you watch any of the Golf at Sun City? Yesterday and the day before some huge storms there that stopped play. Good that you are going to play golf with BonzaiGBS. How long is he here on holiday? Must be good to have your son home boet.
7 Dec 2008, 20:03 pm
#616 Puma: Just open the door here and a cold draught would freeze your……NO AIR CON, just cold air!
7 Dec 2008, 20:05 pm
#610 carol: sorry technical glitch…I went to school in England, lived on a farm near godalming in surrey…nearest I got to your part of the world was a “mixer” at cheltenham ladies college!
7 Dec 2008, 20:06 pm
#619 grootblousmile: Enjoy the golf, I really can’t be doing with that sport……..can’t get past the gaudy v neck jumpers and shirts tucked into shorts thing …..
7 Dec 2008, 20:07 pm
#622 AB: Good to hear. Getting away to a farm is just great. Nice and quiet and relaxing way to spend some time. Enjoy it.
7 Dec 2008, 20:07 pm
Lol, skopskiet (aka Mr Mistofelees) has been banging on about race and prejudice today. Now there’s a big surprise.
I see he has a new word these days too – “colonialism”.
He’s a funny guy, highly entertaining to read, in a funny not to be taken seriously sort of way.
7 Dec 2008, 20:07 pm
#622 AB: Can I ask what Missioning is?
7 Dec 2008, 20:10 pm
#619 grootblousmile: Golf? It reminds me of a very religious guys that said: “God listens to me anywhere and any time,,,, except on the golf course!”
7 Dec 2008, 20:10 pm
#628 wooden spoon: Hi there spooner. Tell me do you think there is a big adjustment going from 7′s to the 15′s to play rugga? How old is Stick the 7′s 10?
7 Dec 2008, 20:10 pm
#625 gunther: You were presented to the lovely “Gel’s” at Cheltenham Ladies College were you?
Man eaters the ones I have met, did you escape unscathered?
7 Dec 2008, 20:11 pm
#628 wooden spoon: Did you “achive” yesterday? Was your metropolis heaving?
7 Dec 2008, 20:12 pm
#629 carol: My way of saying Im working hectically to tie up all the odds and ends before I head my little car in a North Easterly direction!
7 Dec 2008, 20:13 pm
#630 AB: I always say, Golf is the only thing which keeps me humble…..
7 Dec 2008, 20:13 pm
#627 Puma: Puma, farm life is great until you see people here are baking in the sun or basking on the beach then you think………time for a change!
7 Dec 2008, 20:16 pm
#635 grootblousmile: I have decided to pack it up after my last disasterous game, much easier and more sociable to have a pint with the boys whilst watching rugby than walk after a little white ball.
7 Dec 2008, 20:16 pm
#631 Puma: Hi Puma. Mzwandile Stick played right wing for the Sharks for a season, about 3 years ago.
Yes, I would think it is a big adjustment. Less space, more regimented, greater emphasis on defence in 15′s. Now there hasn’t been any coverage of the 7′s here so I haven’t seen how well the team has played lately. How many of the NZ 7′s players make it into the 15 side? I don’t really know, don’t really see too much 7′s…
#633 carol: Hi Carol – “achive”? What word is this?
It was hectic, but I “survived”! Did some shopping today too, got some nice stuff for the siblings! Have you got family over for xmas?
7 Dec 2008, 20:18 pm
#636 carol: lol. I had a uncle that had a farm when I was growing up. Used to be some of the best holidays I ever had. We are lucky here with our weather Carol but it can get very hot and sometimes just uncomfortable. Saying that I would rather have the heat than the cold you have over there.
7 Dec 2008, 20:20 pm
#559 Harry the beach walker: I think you’ll find Harry that the NP ran South Africa like a police state and with any oppressive regime, speaking out against apartheid lead to excommunication from your community, intimidation by the police and mechanisms of the state, accussations of being a communist and in some cases exile! This is not to say that white didn’t vote for the NP but elections can also be rigged when you have such an iron grip on power. White people who did not agree with apartheid probably felt afraid to speak out, for fear of bringing misery to their family. Take Rusty Bernstein for example, the lawyer who defended Mandela and the ANC leadership in the treason trial, he made huge personal sacrifices to act for what he believed in and payed the price. He spent the rest of his life alienated from his afrikaans community as a result. However, you act like all white people in South Africa are inherently evil racists!
To visit all this white guilt on people does nothing but cause division, it is counterproductive! What do you expect to achieve by mentioning blood river other than pissing people off? Are we as white people supposed to feel guilty and take personal responsibility for something that happened over a 100 years ago?! In that case by your reckoning as white people we should feel guilty for all of the atrocities committed since time fcking began! Absolute absurdity! It is important to recognise the wrongs of the past but to feel guilty about something which you had nothing to do with is just irrational!
And am I certainly not defending apartheid, my family lost a lot due to apartheid and the conflict it stirred up. I was taken out of SA as a kid because my parents were scared civil war was inevitable. Luckily that never transpired but now as an expat Saffer I am an outsider in my own country and I despise apartheid for the division it created!
But to visit all this white guilt on people is simply a diversion and a way to avoid accepting the realities that for all the glory of the ANC triumphing over apartheid, they are failing South Africa miserably!
7 Dec 2008, 20:20 pm
#638 wooden spoon: I don’t even remember him!! Just wondered though who would sit on the bench for Ruan when the Lions tour here next year. It cant be Steyn as we saw he is no 10. Just wondered about Stick maybe being a 10 on the bench for Ruan. Its just a wild idea at the moment. I think though he wants to play in the 7′s as he gets a regular spot and is the captain.
7 Dec 2008, 20:21 pm
#634 AB: I was hoping you were going to tell me you were a Missionary!! Now that would be interesting……North East to?
7 Dec 2008, 20:23 pm
#563 Harry the beach walker: you can’t make a point without insulting me…is it deliberate or are you so unimaginative and insecure that you feel the need to insult people to assert your so-called superior intellect?
7 Dec 2008, 20:24 pm
#640 JayDaFiveOh: Well constructed logical post but lets leave it there, we do not want the same arguing starting again now do we?
7 Dec 2008, 20:25 pm
#638 wooden spoon: Opps, spelling….When do siblings arrive? Are the plans all in place?
We are going to WRS brothers place not far from you, near Charlecote Park, Stratford upon Avon direction.
Last Christmas was here at the farm, lovely until we had a big chimney fire!
7 Dec 2008, 20:26 pm
#642 carol: He he he, no I dont live off other peoples guilt offerings. North East to my farm near Pilgrims Rest.
7 Dec 2008, 20:27 pm
#642 carol: AB has a farm near Origstad…… which is a little town in Mpumalanga Province (Old Eastern Transvaal). The towns near it include Lydenburg, Graskop, Burgersfort… and it’s near the Gateway to the Lowveld Bushveld… being the Strydom road tunnel… through a “window” in the Eastern Escarpment (Part of the Drakensberg Range).
Beautiful area of our country.
7 Dec 2008, 20:27 pm
#646 AB: Pilgrims Rest wonderful name, see you are a missionary!
7 Dec 2008, 20:28 pm
#575 Mr. Mistoffelees: ***** ******! You’re a complete and utter racist for assuming that all white people think they are superior to every other race and it appears this comment is borne out of your own personal hatred for white people as opposed to any credible evidence that this is the case!
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