Baby Boks finish in style
26 Jun 2011
The SA U20s ended their 2011 Junior World Champs campaign with an emphatic 104-17 win over Fiji in the 5th-place play-off in Treviso on Sunday.
It was the second time the Baby Boks crossed the century mark in the tournament’s history, with the first occasion happening against USA in 2008. The SA U20s ran riot as they scored 16 tries, with seven of them coming in the first half for a 43-17 lead at the break. Dawie Theron’s men then completed their final match with a convincing second-half display, scoring 61 unanswered points for the win.
Skipper Arno Botha was the star for the Baby Boks as he grabbed a hat-trick. Outside centre Jaco Taute, scrumhalf Pieter Rademan and wing Tshotsho Mbovane also scored doubles in the try-scoring feast while wing Wandile Mjekevu, flanker Nizaam Carr, inside centre Francois Venter and replacement wing Courtnall Skosan, centre Paul Jordaan and flanker Francois Kleinhans finished the rout.
The victory, however, won’t cover the disappointment of a 5th-place finish. This strong Baby Boks side was touted as favourites for the title, but they crashed out of the championship race with a poor 26-20 defeat to England in their final group fixture. This saw them miss out on a semi-final place because of an inferior points difference.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand U20s claimed their fourth consecutive title with a 33-22 triumph over England in the final. Australia finished third as they beat France 30-17 in the 3rd/4th-place play-off.
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27 Jun 2011, 01:16 am
@gunther is nazi-loving german rent-boy(Valkyrie)-96: Troll of the highest order?
“enjoy it while you still can but when the wheels of the real economic revolution starts rolling you pompous white *** gonna have two choices,either get out of the way or be prepared to be crushed underneath it.”
Good luck with creating another Zimbabwe…as this sounds less like economic growth/revolution and more like reclamation of an already running economy. If you cant create it then it cannot be maintained.
The answer is in growing the economy, and this can only happen if the poor step up and start creating, inventing and taking responsibility for the communities that they live in. That’s where it starts.
27 Jun 2011, 01:29 am
@Is not on the Sadie bandwagon(Sasori)-101: /this isn’t asia! so you will not see these people really change the country for the best. thats sad facts. no african country has taken over from its colonial rulers and succeeded and they have nobody to blame but themselves. there are no exceptions to this so you can not criticize what i say. i wished so much that things would be different here in south africa but it just ends up the same way. i still keep hoping that i will be proven wrong. but every time i read a newspaper on go online and read comments i am faced with reality that this country is going down the drain. the comment you quoted is the reason why.
27 Jun 2011, 01:44 am
the forces of the real economic revolution will not rest until we cleansed this great country of the stench of white economic oppression.the lame-duck presidencies of mandela and mbeki settled for bee instead of real and fundemental economic policies to fulfill the aspirations of black people.the nationalist party nazi-lovers of 1948 immediately took control of the economy but mandela and mbeki resorted to bulshitting black aspirations.enough is enough!forward to black economic emancipation!
27 Jun 2011, 04:21 am
It should read… “Quota Boks finish in 5th place ‘African’ style”!
27 Jun 2011, 05:19 am
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-94:
It is quite amusing that you need to address yourself on matters you are clearly limited on and substantially irrelevant to, at someone like me. Every time you do so you reveal greater ignorance again and again and again.
Direct the silly question/s to your drink or rugby mates or at best to those who have anguished you enough for you to stupidly ask them.
The ANC is not and has never been the “liberation movement” but it is doubtful whether you will ever profoundly understand that. It is just the decadent component thereof and unfortunately is in power.
The ‘Bosberade’ sell-out and Bee and more belongs to the ANC.
I have never been a member of, nor have I ever voted for (and will never) any organisation which has no intention of solving the problems of the indigent of the country. Why then must I address your lame question/s that need/s to be directed at them?
Where I choose to academically advance myself is absolutely not your business, so that seemingly compromising issue is once again irrelevant.
My home stands in Cape Town until such time as I am ready to occupy it permanently. can you do anything about that?
I travel with the only passport I ever will travel(no doubles or triples) with and that is a S.A. passport which has just been renewed (I wonder why).
A green card is merely a specific visa(upgrade from an H1/F1) and even though I am qualified to seek U.S residency I will not do so.
Do you feel foolish enough now?
As for the rest it is all immature emotionalism unconnected to my facts and questions of post #81 except to say that the real rugby taunt to Cab seems to have got up your nostrils.
Let see how long this form of non-racism is going to last before the next blast.
You probably not even aware of the point being made here.
27 Jun 2011, 08:00 am
NZ have not only won 4 titles back to back, but in all that time they haven’t lost one single match!
27 Jun 2011, 08:30 am
You try reach quota targets and turn them into real rugby players….then try and win on top of all that. Not easy.
27 Jun 2011, 08:53 am
There is no honour in finishing 5th.
Poor performance.
27 Jun 2011, 09:00 am
Well done Baby Blacks, bloo dy good stuff and really setting the precedent
P iss poor Baby Boks……..why bother?
Tackler, I see you still having on-line wan ks?
27 Jun 2011, 09:55 am
Eric Sauls must be laughing his arse off. At least he managed 3rd
27 Jun 2011, 11:39 am
Ok, so Dawie Theron should get the boot right?
How do guys like Dawie Theron/Naka Drotske and before he got the Bulls job Frans Ludeke keep their jobs and get opportunity after opportunity. Yet Allistair Coetzee takes a powderpuff Stormers team and turns them into a mongrel, has a junior champions/tri-nations and world cup medal and is still seen as inadequate. All the racists on this site can talk about quotas all they want but seriously!
When Pieter de Villiers took over the bok team everybody said he took over a winning team from Jake White but when Frans Ludeke took over the Bulls team he was suddently seen as a master coach??
27 Jun 2011, 11:44 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-104:
Quota Boks?? Have you actually had a look at the team that played the tournament? You are a dom peos and don’t have your facts straight. Please tell me how many of those guys were quotas?
P.S. The coach was white.
27 Jun 2011, 11:46 am
Maybe SARU should make all teams 70% black, then when they lose at least they can be blamed for something that actually happened.
27 Jun 2011, 14:42 pm
@RugbyStudent(RugbyStudent)-111:
Clearly you have your ‘student’ tag from the ‘new RSA’ module…
SARU selected the U20 squad 3 months before they elected Dawie Theron… he was appointed and had to make the most of that squad in 6 weeks… typical African logic…
You have a go at Ludeke… is this the same guy that in two years won title in the most difficult comp in the world?
You have a go at Drotske… a guy that has taken a ‘raped’ team racked with injury from bottom of the log to increasing their position in 3 consecutive seasons to now playing arguably the most exciting rugby in RSA?
Clearly you have your ‘student’ education in the ‘new’ RSA and exactly why your diploma counts for fokal in the real world… study up old chap… you’re going to need it!
27 Jun 2011, 14:58 pm
hoskins appeased the white nazi-loving afrikaner community with their own afrikaner p@ssy and he subsequently coached the baby boks to their worst showing.
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