Blitzboks to face Fiji in quarters

Blitzboks to face Fiji in quarters

5 Feb 2010

The Springbok Sevens disappointed with a 19-7 defeat against New Zealand in the final match of day one in the Wellington tournament.

Although both sides had already confirmed Cup quarterfinal qualification, South Africa and New Zealand faced each other in a crucial Pool A game. The winners would move on to an easier fixture against Australia, while the losers would meet an in form Fijian outfit.

Considering the Boks lost against Fiji in the last two Cup quarterfinals, it was important for Paul Treu’s charges to top Pool A.

However – not for the first time – the Blitzboks failed to perform when it mattered most as they went down to hosts New Zealand as they conceded two late tries.

South Africa had the upper hand for most of the first stanza, as they kept the Kiwis restricted in their half. However, poor defence from stalwart Mzwandile Stick allowed Sherwin Stowers to slip past for the opening try.

On the half-time mark, a late attack from the Blitzboks saw Ryno Benjamin through and Stick added the conversion to level the scores.

After the break, South Africa stole the early momentum again, but lacked the composure in attack to take the lead.

This cost the World Series champions as New Zealand went ahead two minutes from time through Zar Lawrence.

The result was confirmed when Chris Baker crossed the chalk in the final minute.

Earlier in the day, the Blitzboks impressed with two convincing wins against Wales and Niue.

In their second fixture of the day, Cecil Afrika’s hat-trick helped the Boks down Wales 38-5 to confirm a place in the Cup quarterfinals.

Afrika crossed the whitewash twice and Marius Schoeman scored a try as the Boks surged into a 19-0 half-time lead.

Afrika then completed his hat-trick after the break, while Ryno Benjamin and Hoffman Maritz crossed the line to seal the win. Wales only managed one consolation try through Ifan Evans.

In the Boks’ first match, Western Province speedster Steven Hunt grabbed a brace as they secured a 38-10 against Niue.

South Africa dominated the first half as they scored five tries to take a 31-0 lead at half-time.

Niue, however, produced a better overall performance in the second stanza as the Boks only managed to score one try.

Springboks Sevens results, Day 1:
South Africa 38 Niue 10
South Africa 38 Wales 5
New Zealand 19 South Africa 7

For more results and fixtures click here

By Gareth Duncan


485 Comments

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  • 251.justrugby: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:00 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR):

    You have just embarassed yourself again !!!!!….. have you even got a clue if Ruan is going to play 10, by all accounts he’s not…..anyway as a FH he is more up and down than a freeking yo-yo, Dumont is a plodder and that’s being kind, I will hold out on judgement of Meyer till I have seen more, did nothing to impress at Newlands, but i will give him the benefit at the moment !!!!

    Hell I just realised Dollie is probably your best option……you really have no idea do you ???

  • 252.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:00 pm

    @grant10:

    Where’s Mitchells?

  • 253.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:00 pm

    BH

    I have poms by 5 tomorrow.

    Is my money safe?

  • 254.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:01 pm

    @Dawn: V and A….

  • 255.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:02 pm

    @Dawn: I will call or sms to confirm tonight …

  • 256.justrugby: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:02 pm

    @Dawn:

    well summed up Dawn :)

  • 257.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:04 pm

    @justrugby: Dollie is a good player…creative…and a solid boot.

    I will be happy to have him back, excelled at SA U 21 level…

    Ruan Pienaar dont want the 10 jersey….

  • 258.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:04 pm

    @Dantalian: all games i think, dreading it.

  • 259.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:05 pm

    it is so cool to be on the verge of real rugby again….damn i hate the off season.

  • 260.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:06 pm

    every year the rules of the game change. This just ain’t rugby.Weren’t The Elv’s were suppose to make The tries flow but its not what the idiots at The Irb Wanted. I say keep The rules as it were at The 2007 world cup. These changes to The game is to overwhelming to The average rugby supporter. People dont understand the game thats why they dont attend. Why do you think Soccer has prospered so much, it’s because The rules have been The same since The 1800′s.

  • 261.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:06 pm

    @grant10: safe enough I think, but not helped by the late withdrawal to injury of Flutey

  • 262.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:08 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR): 249 – Not sure Ratel, but BJ is better than JdP. Good to have them all at the Sharks though.

  • 263.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:08 pm

    @Big Hit: 260
    Just saw that! What the hell is happening at those training sessions!!

    A blow that.

  • 264.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:08 pm

    LAST YEAR THIS TIME ALL THE TALK WAS ABOUT THE ELV’S. Where can a guy get some sushi now?

  • 265.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:08 pm

    @Wezwp: 259

    We actually agree on something!

  • 266.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:10 pm

    Wickus Blaauw…T Liebenberg…BJ Botha

    You sharks can get JDV in return??

    Deal??

  • 267.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:11 pm

    @Wezwp: it’s Paddy O’Brien in control of reffing, the Saffers are going to find it tough at the breakdown in the S14.

    @grant10: not sure but I’m pretty angry, how hard can it be not to injure a key player in the week leading up to the big match. frickin idiots.

  • 268.Ratel Brussow : Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:11 pm

    JR you clown. Dollie is a better 10 option than Ruan. You really are a tool. Does any one agree with that statement? Doubtful considering Pienaar is the boks 2nd choice.

  • 269.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:12 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR): 267

    Convince Ruan Pienaar to play at 10….failing which the debate is worthless.

  • 270.Ratel Brussow : Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:13 pm

    Anyway, I’m out of here. JR and Grant10 good chatting to you, always good for the confidence. Puma keep the faith.

  • 271.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:13 pm

    @Wezwp:

    Same ***** different year.

  • 272.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:14 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR): 267

    You seriously need to settle down, take some medication, go to some Anger Management classes? I reckon give Ruan a call, get a group discount at the local kop doktor!

  • 273.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:15 pm

    @Wezwp:

    Only sushi available is shark.

    Take it or leave it.

  • 274.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:15 pm

    @grant10: We will take JdV and still keep BJ :lol:

  • 275.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:16 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR): Sure will do Ratel.

  • 276.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:17 pm

    Clown…tool….

    Jeepers…

    All that rage…

    Just because BJ may rather come to Cape Town?

    Dont be greedy …you got Smit and Jannie Dup….

    We only got Brock and Kritzinger and the Argie…

    Play fair now young lady!

  • 277.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:17 pm

    @Puma: LOL

    Greedy bugger!

  • 278.Big Hit: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:18 pm

    @grant10: it seems when the Saffers do well the Aussies and Kiwis change the rules.

    ’07 – Two SA S14 finalists and SA win World Cup = rule change
    ’08 – SA struggle with rules
    ’09 – SA adapt to rules, SA S14 win and Tri nations dominance = rule change
    2010 – ?

  • 279.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:18 pm

    also feel like some sushi…

    Belugas…Blue Plate special

    26pieces for R99

    Brilliant!

  • 280.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:19 pm

    @grant10: You can have JdP. :D

  • 281.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:19 pm

    OK.

    Here is my Zuma comment. Again.

    I fail to understand how someone who looks like a cross between Sigourney Weaver’s Alien and a monitor lizard can father so many children.

    ——————–

  • 282.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:20 pm

    @Big Hit: 277

    Kissing cousins….bad news….never ever trust them,Aussies in particular….always wanting this open play and 10 trys a game…more and more like league…boring.

  • 283.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:20 pm

    @grant10: Got my confirmation with my tickets to the Portugal/Brazil game. Feel very pleased I got those 4 tickets.

  • 284.Dantalian: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:20 pm

    Probably for the best if BJ goes to WP. At the Sharks he will only be warming the bench behind Smit. :grin:

  • 285.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:21 pm

    @Puma: LOL

    You bloody wheeler dealer.

    We will take Jannie…if kleinboet comes with!

  • 286.justrugby: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:21 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR):

    My statement stands ……..you have no freeking clue !!!!

    I see you are resorting to name calling again….. remove the blinkers and grow a pair of balls !!!!

    Ask youself the question why the Sharks are wanting to recruit Dollie to play FH IN THE S14! ….I don’t coach the freeking side.

  • 287.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:22 pm

    @Dawn: LOL

    Classic…

    okes busy….poor sod….all those nappies and wives telling him what to do….no wonder he ventured elsewhere!

  • 288.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:23 pm

    @Puma: Bloody brilliant Puma….that is 1 of the games of the tournament….superb…well done !

  • 289.Sonito: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:23 pm

    @Dawn:

    Shame Dawn, leave him alone. Its his culture.

  • 290.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:23 pm

    Now thats a great deal Grant. Pick n pay constantia has loads of fresh tuna.

  • 291.Dantalian: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:24 pm

    @Dawn: He doesn’t really take no for an answer does he? :twisted:

  • 292.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:24 pm

    @justrugby: 285

    Chill my man

    You may hurt the grannys feelings…

  • 293.justrugby: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:24 pm

    @Ratel Brussow (MSIUR):

    Doing a runner ??? you need to stick around…….you need to go into damage control mode , your credibity is lost !!!

  • 294.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:25 pm

    @Wezwp: Belugas is magic….in Green Point…take your lady there…

  • 295.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:25 pm

    @Dantalian:

    The Father of the Nation ………………………………..

  • 296.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:25 pm

    @grant10: NO klein boet only JdP :lol:

  • 297.justrugby: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:28 pm

    @Dawn:

    There are obviously lots of people that find someone who looks like a cross between Sigourney Weaver’s Alien and a monitor lizard sexually exciting !! :)

  • 298.grant10: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:28 pm

    @justrugby: 292

    Credibility??

    The granny??

    You cant lose what you never had …..

    That oke is a moron of note….the personality of a rabid Rottweiler…

    The only person who takes that ratel seriously is the poor sod that has to live with it….

    He is a big mouth name caller, actually needs to grow up….

  • 299.Jozi: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:28 pm

    @Black Panther: 147 That is very funny :lol: ……..here’s one I got from my mate…

    “Koos was walking through the veld one day when he spots someone drinking water from a stagnant pool of water.
    He shouts, “Moenie die blerrie water drink nie jou idioot, dis vol k*k en kolera! (Don’t drink the bloody water you idiot, it’s full of **** and cholera)
    The other guy says, “I’m a visiting All Black supporter mate, can you speak English please!”
    Koos replies, “Use bofe hands, you gets more dat way”.

  • 300.Puma: Reply to this comment
    5 Feb 2010, 15:28 pm

    @grant10: 287 – Grant, Think it is one of the best pool games. Really pleased I got those tickets. Will support Brazil. Should be a cracker.

    Can not wait to see the New Stadium. It is looking magnificent. Want to try out that vernicular train that goes over the top, once it is up and running. Should be very soon.

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