Kiwis crowned in Hong Kong
27 Mar 2011
New Zealand swept to a Sevens Cup title while South Africa beat Australia in the Plate final in Hong Kong.
South African-born Mat Turner scored for England in the first half of the final, but the Kiwis added further tries before and after the break. New Zealand continued to apply the pressure after that, and completed what was ultimately a comfortable 29-17 win. The result sees New Zealand taking pole position in the Sevens championship.
In the Plate final, South Africa hung on for a narrow 26-19 win thanks to some terrific defence. Paul Treu’s charges were knocked out of the Cup competition earlier in the event when they lost 24-19 to Fiji.
Canada claimed the Bowl title by thumping Japan 33-12 while Kenya edged Spain 17-12 in the Shield final.
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97 Comments
27 Mar 2011, 07:34 am
No one cares.
27 Mar 2011, 07:35 am
Desperately unlucky Russian dragons
27 Mar 2011, 07:43 am
@Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)-1:
Why comment then?
27 Mar 2011, 09:43 am
The Plate is the booby-prize.
27 Mar 2011, 10:03 am
Why 7s’ matters: A great training ground for players to learn how to use space.
Oh so unlucky! Those fijian are giants but watching a guy like Cecil makes me a proud supporter. David versus Goliath.
The new guy Sithole is pretty big and strong, I think we will see him in S15 in now time.
True to step down: http://www.blitzbokke.com/?p=3519
27 Mar 2011, 10:30 am
Aussie Ref completely ******** the Fijians.
27 Mar 2011, 10:37 am
There’s an Olympic gold medal up for grabs in Sevens.
27 Mar 2011, 10:47 am
@KevinRack(KevinRack)-5:
Paul True to step down…
Posted on 01 April 2010
you fell for for an last years April Fools joke …. hahahahahaa
27 Mar 2011, 10:49 am
7-7 HT
come on Samoa
27 Mar 2011, 10:59 am
hard luck Samoa.
so it is the Poms vs NZ in the final.
27 Mar 2011, 11:01 am
C’mon we want the triple B/caps, 7′s, Crusaders
27 Mar 2011, 11:05 am
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-11:
good win knocking out the proteas, and as much as I’d love to see the black caps win, I think you’re being a bit hopeful there….
27 Mar 2011, 11:06 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-7:
ha ha tackler said booby
27 Mar 2011, 11:10 am
@munkiboi(munkiboi)-12:
I was meaning the win over the Proteas, we have got further than expected so anything from here is a bonus.
27 Mar 2011, 11:13 am
kittykat
funny. when the blitzedbok won the 7s you were crying like the prize rooster (****) on the farm.
now you don’t care.?
what a mamparra.
27 Mar 2011, 11:15 am
@poppa69(poppa69)-15:
In a few weeks he won’t care about the Bulls either.
27 Mar 2011, 11:15 am
@Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)-1:
says the first post’er
27 Mar 2011, 12:04 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-11:
The Triple.5
We drew a Soccer International in Wuhan, against The Peoples Republic of China.
1-1
27 Mar 2011, 12:06 pm
Very disappointing. Looks like a shite weekend of sport and one to forget and move on.
Lets hope The Sharks can salavage some pride.
27 Mar 2011, 12:07 pm
@poppa69(poppa69)-15:
“mamparra”.
Have you been taking Night Classes Popps.
8)
27 Mar 2011, 12:17 pm
Sa vs Aus
about to kick off.
Hong Kong is the greatest 7′s Tournament.
27 Mar 2011, 12:19 pm
1st blood to SA. Try.
Slippery under foot.
27 Mar 2011, 12:21 pm
The Aussies quickly strike back.
7-5
Oz ahead.
27 Mar 2011, 12:23 pm
Even more quickly the SA go under the posts.
12-7
SA ahead.
27 Mar 2011, 12:25 pm
I wonder if the Saders would choose Hong Kong to host the Super rugby final later this year … or Soccer city.
27 Mar 2011, 12:27 pm
@cane(cane)-20:
Pops is the Safa-Whisperer.
27 Mar 2011, 12:27 pm
Hong Kong 7′s is amazing, wish I was there!
27 Mar 2011, 12:28 pm
Great go forward momentum by SA gives them their 3rd try to end the half.
19-7
Would take a CHOKE to lose from here.
Surely not twice on the same weekend.
8)
27 Mar 2011, 12:31 pm
@cane(cane)-28:
Still wondering which of our cricketers was taking bribes from the Indian bookies to take a fall in that game. It would make sense then…
27 Mar 2011, 12:34 pm
Good game this.
SA ahead by 7 with 1 minute to go.
27 Mar 2011, 12:35 pm
oh no
27 Mar 2011, 12:36 pm
27 Mar 2011, 12:36 pm
Sithole , very impressive !!
27 Mar 2011, 12:40 pm
@cane(cane)-18:
I have a foot in both camps so that one doesn’t count for me lol
27 Mar 2011, 12:41 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-29:
Earlier in the week Predawn, I heard a NZ Cricketing “Personality” say the winning the toss would be crucial.
He indictated that it was EVERYTHING.
We won the Toss.
Don’t be too hard on your boys. They are a great Team.
27 Mar 2011, 12:44 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-34:
Twin Loyalties.
8)
27 Mar 2011, 12:46 pm
Looks like some Our (NZ) best players are on the bench?
27 Mar 2011, 12:47 pm
here we go folks
the cup final
the Poms vs Fiji A Samoa A and Tonga A (aka NZ)
27 Mar 2011, 12:50 pm
@cane(cane)-36:
Ha you got it
27 Mar 2011, 12:50 pm
@cane(cane)-35: Very much so Cane. I said it in one of my posts here on Friday. A day/night game means sometimes who gets to bat first will have the better of the conditions. Just the way it goes. Think for world cups they really should have day games. That way it is almost equal for both teams the conditions.
Anyhow good luck to your Black Caps against Sri Lanka. I will support your team in that game. But if India get to the final will be supporting India. Cause of the huge community of Indians living in Durbs.
27 Mar 2011, 12:51 pm
How did AfricA go, RL ?
27 Mar 2011, 12:52 pm
Well done to our Blitzboks winning the plate.
27 Mar 2011, 12:52 pm
they should lock Kyle Mills up in a room with Bakkies Botha … Bakkies will sort out the filth!!
27 Mar 2011, 12:53 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-41: See the National Anthems will be sung today at Twickers. You think the Saders will do the haka?
27 Mar 2011, 12:53 pm
@Puma(Puma)-40:
I see the track will be hard and fast tonight at Twickers, you feeling confident?
27 Mar 2011, 12:55 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-41: Cecil was at his usual best … kept the convicts busy, scored a good try setup a few other and kicked some conversions.
27 Mar 2011, 12:55 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-45: No not really….hehehehe. Just looking at a photo on back page of our sports section of the paper and there is a photo of Robbie Freuan. Man he is HUGE. How we gonna stop him and SBW? Jeepers Saders midfield are awesome
27 Mar 2011, 12:57 pm
Mills and BoonXXies
could be quite a love story for the modern age.
Wasn’t a good look, has to be said. What is it about SA that gets them so beefy, I seem to remember the otherwise phlegmatic Fleming giving Biff a few choice words too.
27 Mar 2011, 12:59 pm
well we came 5th
for a bunch of little guys it ain’t so bad
7′s is a good sport and when you see countries like Russia stepping it up then its on the right track to making it global, unlike skittle sticks which is still a remnant of the last bastion outposts of British colonialism. And the colonies busy stuffing up the colonizers at least that shows something came out of colonization.
I mean when the last 4 standing are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand, then it surely shows that the last white hopes have already been totally banished from the playground… hip hip hooray. Just like boxing or sprinting, or middle distance or long distance running for that matter, no more great white hopes standing, anywhere.
BTW Sri Lanka also batted second, England won the toss and batted first, now how did SL’s run chase pan out in contrast to ours?… 231/0.. that’s how.
27 Mar 2011, 13:00 pm
5-5 now
27 Mar 2011, 13:02 pm
12-5 to the colony
27 Mar 2011, 13:04 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-45: Actually read the paper wrong this morning. Man I laughed soooooooooooooo much.
Thought I read. Cause this is a Saders “home” fixture they have been permitted to provide off-field entertainment, which includes the national anthem to be sung by kiwi Geoff Sewell. And the South Africans can sell their broerewors rolls……..hahahahaha. Man I laughed so much almost chocked on my sandwich I was eating. Thought WHAAAAAAAAAAT? They allowed sing the Anthem and we get to sell boerie rolls, what the heck………..hahahahahahaha. Had to have another read and saw I missed the ‘S’ ….
So it actually said Anthems. So think the anthems will be sung before the game. Wonder now if Saders will do the haka?
RFU have got into the spirit of the southern invasion and permitted stands selling boerewors rolls and NZ meat pies..
27 Mar 2011, 13:04 pm
Up the colonies, fckup the landlords
27 Mar 2011, 13:05 pm
who is that big Fijian without a jersey number … damn good player he is.
27 Mar 2011, 13:06 pm
@Puma(Puma)-52: meant – choked
27 Mar 2011, 13:07 pm
South Sea Islands 12 – The Old Mother Hubbard 5, now we heading for reality at last, maybe they get too cook them and eat them when its all over. Choice rewards.
27 Mar 2011, 13:07 pm
@Puma(Puma)-52:
Thats superb that the Poms have come to the party.
27 Mar 2011, 13:08 pm
now the colonisers are getting it handed to them
22-5
27 Mar 2011, 13:08 pm
@Roar Loud(RL)-54:
Fiji are not playing RL
27 Mar 2011, 13:09 pm
SSI 17 – OMH 5
Still on track for that mighty feast
27 Mar 2011, 13:10 pm
@cane(cane)-59: oh okay
27 Mar 2011, 13:10 pm
and another ooh la la 22 SSI – OMH 5
big pot brewing nicely waiting for pakeha stew.
27 Mar 2011, 13:11 pm
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-57: They sure have. Good on em.
BUT the anthems? Jeepers they making this a big thing hey!
That will be a first for a Super game.
27 Mar 2011, 13:13 pm
2 terrible ref decisions going to make it too tough for England.
27 Mar 2011, 13:14 pm
27-5 to the colony
27 Mar 2011, 13:15 pm
29-12
27 Mar 2011, 13:15 pm
England will lose this game,
But they are a very very good team.
Good to see Mickleson get a try.
he is a workaholic.
27 Mar 2011, 13:15 pm
Kiwis work as a team at the breakdown pretty incredible.
27 Mar 2011, 13:16 pm
Congratulations Kiwis, winning the HK 7′s
27 Mar 2011, 13:18 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-49:
Unfortunately for you Mugabe your blonde haired blue eyed masters are going to be around for a loooooong time….and I have personally contributed another to that tally.
27 Mar 2011, 13:18 pm
since when is 5th place good enough?? get rid of paul true!!!
27 Mar 2011, 13:18 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-62:
“pakeha”.
Oooooh, …………………………………………………………………………………I’m impressed.
27 Mar 2011, 13:20 pm
Congrats NZ on winning the HK 7′s
27 Mar 2011, 13:21 pm
@Puma(Puma)-63:
I was at the games when The Sharks took on Harlequins at The Stoop a few years ago and the atmosphere was incredible.
Braai smoke all around the stadium, beers flowing…it was like being at Kings Park except for the bitter cold.
27 Mar 2011, 13:22 pm
Do me a favor Cane chuck Predawn and his entourage into that boiling pot of yours or send him home to the ‘home’ country, he’s outa place here.
27 Mar 2011, 13:24 pm
the big white arselick reckons he’s still superior for some dumbfuck ignoramus reasoning
27 Mar 2011, 13:25 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-75:
…and you’re simply out of your mind…
27 Mar 2011, 13:26 pm
No One does 7′s like Hong Kong.
And they have been doing it for 30 years. (at least)
Long, long, long, before the IRB got in on the act.
27 Mar 2011, 13:26 pm
you still carrying that sawn off bazooka around with you that gives you all that false supremacy status creeping out your dumbfuck gat?
27 Mar 2011, 13:27 pm
‘…dumbfuck ignoramus….’
You should not copy and paste so often…it has become very very tedious.
27 Mar 2011, 13:36 pm
Easy Guys,
You will frighten off potential new posters.
8)
27 Mar 2011, 13:38 pm
Just having a bit of fun
27 Mar 2011, 13:43 pm
@cane(cane)-81: nah nothing scares away people like Keo tv … it is true.
27 Mar 2011, 13:50 pm
LOL
I love Keo’s latest tv episode … he says ‘even if you are a Shark and you think ooooh my team could lose, bet on them to lose and you can still make money’
27 Mar 2011, 13:54 pm
‘tedious’ .. that’s a nice big English word they taught you while rounding you up in their colonialist school
Lord Kitchener taught you and your ilk well while shacking you up in his colonizing concentration camps, not so boertjie boytjie
27 Mar 2011, 13:59 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-85:
Aaactoooalllly oold boy…I am part Blighty, part Frog, part Fritz and part Hollands.
27 Mar 2011, 14:07 pm
so you a mix of all those witsblitz colonizers all rolled into one, that makes you the ultimate last of the great white hope warriors… aah ha so that explains all this false sense of supremacy ******** up that antiquated witsblitz kopff of yours.
You should join the WWE wrestling circus they could use another antiquated Rambo specimen such as you, then you can take out all those antiquated frustrations on those you still falsely think you are master of.
Unless they go taking theirs out on you.
27 Mar 2011, 14:08 pm
screw’ng is a verbotten woord here .. the g’damn huns are taking over the place
27 Mar 2011, 14:19 pm
Yaaas yaaaas what what.
27 Mar 2011, 14:34 pm
Worst SA players in Super rugby 2011 : Elton Jantjies, Bryan Habana, Maku, Spies!!!!
27 Mar 2011, 14:50 pm
FdP, Matfield, Olivier, Kirchner all coming a close second
Bok team for WC on promise
Aplon / Taute
JPP / Aplon
Fourie / JdJ
JdV (c) / F. Steyn
Grant / M. Steyn
Mvovo / Basson
Duvenhage / Hougaard
Vermeulen / Alberts
Alberts / Elstadt / Burger / Deysel / Louw
Brussow / Burger / Louw / Deysel / Daniel
Bekker / Matfield
Flip / Elstadt / D. Roussow
JdP / CJ
Bismark / Chili
Beast / Gurthro / CJ
13 backs
18 forwards = 31
If party is allowed 32 then one more back
If party only allowed 30 reduce by one loose forward
27 Mar 2011, 15:01 pm
Francois Louw after Brussouw the second best fetcher we have.
FACT
27 Mar 2011, 15:04 pm
i like JDV = cpt!!
27 Mar 2011, 15:07 pm
@WO_to_kill_Sir_Elton(WO_to_kill_Sir_Elton)-90: Add Olivier and Jaco Pretorius to that list. Glad to see Jaco vd Westhuizen had a good game. I will pick the following team for the Bulls against the Hurricanes:
15. vd Westhuizen
14. vd Heever
13. Kirchner
12. Olivier
11. Basson
10. Steyn
9. FdP
8. Potgieter
7. J Kruger
6. Stegmann
5. Matfield
4. Bakkies
3. W Kruger
2. Botha
1. Greyling
If JvdW has a shocker. Bring on Hougaard and shift vd Heever to fullback. I am really looking forward to vd Heever’s progress at fulback. He’s got a good boot and could provide the Bulls with some options from 15. He also transformed one of his weaknesses (defense) into a strength.
27 Mar 2011, 15:11 pm
@WO_to_kill_Sir_Elton(WO_to_kill_Sir_Elton)-93:
Lol enjoy what you have china, after this year your Bull empire will slowly crumble to sh.i.t
27 Mar 2011, 15:27 pm
wp booi …. i support the Stormers
28 Mar 2011, 10:42 am
@Puma(Puma)-52:
Puma, there was even a rendition of ’10 guitars’, a NZ clubroom classic if ever there was one.
Great atmosphere at HQ yest, sensational.
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