Bok Sevens off to winning start
5 Mar 2009
South Africa beat a stubborn Japan 26-5 in their opening Pool C game of the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Paul Treu’s men were given a good work out by an impressive Japanese outfit but in the end prevailed by four tries to one, while in the other Pool C game Canada dispatched of Scotland 33-14.
Defending champions Fiji overcame a plucky Georgia side 26-10 in their opening game while 2005 losing finalists New Zealand became the second team on day one to post 40 points as they trounced Italy 42-0.
Earlier in the day both Wales and Kenya got off to perfect starts with emphatic wins over Zimbabwe and Tunisia respectively. England smashed a hapless Hong Kong 42-5 and Samoa also flexed their muscles with a 35-5 win over Ireland.
France recorded the result of the day with a brilliant second-half comeback against one of this year’s IRB Sevens circuit surprise packages the United States. The USA’s cause was not helped by the sin-binning of Lions loose forward Todd Clever.
For a full list of day one results click here.
10 Comments
5 Mar 2009, 13:47 pm
Sevens Dragons
5 Mar 2009, 13:50 pm
Go Portugal. Beat those Ozzies.
5 Mar 2009, 13:56 pm
Aplon better suited for this type of rugby format.
5 Mar 2009, 14:01 pm
Fantastic. We have a very easy pool. We should honestly cruise our pool games, and then be fresh for s good quarter.
Not sure how the Quarters are going to work? Can anyone enlighten me? There are normally 4 pools, making quarters easy (top 2 from each pool), but in this tournament there are 6 pools – so not sure…. Maybe like heineken – the top point scorers?
Enlighten a brother please?
5 Mar 2009, 14:04 pm
Go and click on the rules section it should explain it all for you.
5 Mar 2009, 14:21 pm
#5 Quinntessential: Well done, – winners of the 6 pools go through, and then the two best losers.
That makes 8 teams. 1 Plays 8, 2 plays 7 etc etc
SA could very easilly therefore finish first and play the second best, second place finisher. My guess would be that that would be one of Australia, Tonga, Wales or Kenia.
That assuming the TOP 6 would be:
1. SA
2. Kiwis
3. Fiji
4. England
5. Argentina
6. Samoa
Go the Blits Bokke – especially my Free Staters – Ebersohn, Snyman, Powell and Mapoe.
5 Mar 2009, 14:32 pm
Where is William Ryder?the Fijian maestro was worth the ticket price alone.Sevens and Fiji without him isnt the same.
But still the world cup is going to be a spectacle.Great talent or show.
Kingie from OZ is also one to watch out for.Amazing feet
Paul Treu and the Boys have my support…going to be tough without the talismanic Mzwandile Stick…
5 Mar 2009, 14:52 pm
Too many orks… not enough Hornes… hope they front up…
5 Mar 2009, 15:53 pm
#4 Cheetha Champs: Fresh and untested.
Too easy pools are worse than pools of death.
5 Mar 2009, 16:33 pm
#7 mshiniwami: Agree, Ryder made Sevens. You should type his name in on You Tube and check the number of clips on his tries. My favourite is a sick try he scored from behind his own tryline against Kenya. he was litterally 5 steps faster than ANY other player on the circuit.
#9 Nils: We have had the All Blacks in our past two quarters, England in the last semi, and took a tough route to win Dubai and George. These boys are hard enough. They wont go soft cause of one day of easy rugger.
BOKKE, BOKKE, BOKKE !!
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