Kiwis crowned in Hong Kong

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.

For all the results, click here.


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  • 1.Kobus Kitty: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 07:34 am

    No one cares.

  • 2.Rage: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 07:35 am

    Desperately unlucky Russian dragons

  • 3.SEEBRIES: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 07:43 am

    @Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)-1:

    Why comment then?

  • 4.TheTackler: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 09:43 am

    The Plate is the booby-prize.

  • 5.KevinRack: Reply to this comment
    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

  • 6.HongKongSlong: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 10:30 am

    Aussie Ref completely ******** the Fijians.

  • 7.TheTackler: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 10:37 am

    There’s an Olympic gold medal up for grabs in Sevens.

  • 8.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 10:47 am

    @KevinRack(KevinRack)-5:

    Paul True to step down…
    Posted on 01 April 2010

    :grin:

    you fell for for an last years April Fools joke …. hahahahahaa

  • 9.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 10:49 am

    7-7 HT

    come on Samoa

  • 10.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 10:59 am

    hard luck Samoa.

    so it is the Poms vs NZ in the final.

  • 11.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 11:01 am

    C’mon we want the triple B/caps, 7′s, Crusaders

  • 12.munkiboi: Reply to this comment
    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….

  • 13.munkiboi: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 11:06 am

    @TheTackler(TheTackler)-7:

    ha ha tackler said booby

  • 14.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 15.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 16.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 11:15 am

    @poppa69(poppa69)-15:

    In a few weeks he won’t care about the Bulls either.

  • 17.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 11:15 am

    @Kobus Kitty(Kobus Kitty)-1:

    says the first post’er

  • 18.cane: Reply to this comment
    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

  • 19.Great White Shark: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 20.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:07 pm

    @poppa69(poppa69)-15:

    “mamparra”.

    Have you been taking Night Classes Popps.

    8)

  • 21.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:17 pm

    Sa vs Aus
    about to kick off.

    Hong Kong is the greatest 7′s Tournament.

  • 22.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:19 pm

    1st blood to SA. Try.

    Slippery under foot.

  • 23.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:21 pm

    The Aussies quickly strike back.

    7-5

    Oz ahead.

  • 24.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:23 pm

    Even more quickly the SA go under the posts.

    12-7
    SA ahead.

  • 25.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 26.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:27 pm

    @cane(cane)-20:

    Pops is the Safa-Whisperer.

  • 27.HongKongSlong: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:27 pm

    Hong Kong 7′s is amazing, wish I was there!

  • 28.cane: Reply to this comment
    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)

  • 29.Great White Shark: Reply to this comment
    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…

  • 30.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:34 pm

    Good game this.

    SA ahead by 7 with 1 minute to go.

  • 31.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:35 pm

    oh no

  • 32.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:36 pm

    :smile:

  • 33.justrugby: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:36 pm

    Sithole , very impressive !!

  • 34.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    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

  • 35.cane: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 36.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:44 pm

    @NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-34:

    Twin Loyalties.

    8)

  • 37.cane: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:46 pm

    Looks like some Our (NZ) best players are on the bench?

  • 38.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    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)

  • 39.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:50 pm

    @cane(cane)-36:

    Ha you got it

  • 40.Puma: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 41.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:51 pm

    How did AfricA go, RL ?

  • 42.Puma: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:52 pm

    Well done to our Blitzboks winning the plate.

  • 43.WO_to_kill_Sir_Elton: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:52 pm

    they should lock Kyle Mills up in a room with Bakkies Botha … Bakkies will sort out the filth!!

  • 44.Puma: Reply to this comment
    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?

  • 45.NZINCHINA: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 12:53 pm

    @Puma(Puma)-40:

    I see the track will be hard and fast tonight at Twickers, you feeling confident?

  • 46.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 47.Puma: Reply to this comment
    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

  • 48.Black Panther: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 49.skopiskoobidoo: Reply to this comment
    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.

  • 50.Roar Loud: Reply to this comment
    27 Mar 2011, 13:00 pm

    5-5 now

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