Blitzboks down Aussies to top group

Blitzboks down Aussies to top group

25 Nov 2011

The Springbok Sevens recorded an unbeaten run to top Pool B on day one at the Gold Coast Sevens.

Following wins over America and Japan, the Blitzboks sealed a successful opening day at the Australian leg of the 2011-12 World Series with a 21-7 triumph over the hosts. Tries from Mark Richards, Robert Ebersohn and Stephen Hunt proved enough for victory.

Australia held South Africa to a 7-7 scoreline at the break, but Ebersohn and Hunt capitalised on a impressive showing in the second half for the crucial win. The Springbok Sevens will now face France in the Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, Chris Dry scored a hat-trick in the Blitzboks’ 31-7 victory over Japan.

It was a rusty performance in the first stanza by Paul Treu’s charges, as they were held to a 7-7 deadlock at half-time. Japan speedster Lote Tuqiri scored the opening try before Chris Dry leveled matters.

South Africa then scored 24 unanswered points in the second half to seal what was an easy win in the end. Dry grabbed two tries to complete his hat-trick while Bernado Botha and Paul Delport also dotted down.

In the Blitzboks’ first game, they stuttered to a 17-12 victory over the USA.

The Americans capitalised on poor opening play in the first half by South Africa, which saw a brace from speedster Zach Test secure a seven-point advantage for the former. Blitzboks’ wing Richards dotted down to keep his team within reach at the break.

The Springbok Sevens were far more convincing in the second stanza as Boom Prinsloo and Chase Minnaar crossed the chalk to secure a tight win.

Blitzboks’ fixtures and results, day one:
SA 17 USA 12
SA 31 Japan 7
SA 21 Australia 7

Blitzboks’ fixtures, day two:
SA vs France (06:12 k/o)

For all fixtures and results click here


39 Comments

  • 1.whatever: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 03:59 am

    No news yet Dragons……….why bother putting up a thread then?

  • 2.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 04:24 am

    Currently waiting for taxi to airport from Melbourne to the GC for this… by all accounts it’s going to be a mental atmosphere there judging from reports of the already week long rugby festival in this inaugural event…

    Australia vs Boks opener going to be a cracker!

  • 3.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 04:31 am

    @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-2:

    ‘opener’ = ‘concluder’…

  • 4.Brads: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 08:50 am

    Latest results
    ARGENTINA 14 – 31 FRANCE Pool C
    SAMOA 38 – 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA Pool C
    AUSTRALIA 33 – 0 JAPAN Pool B
    SOUTH AFRICA 17 – 12 UNITED STATES Pool B
    FIJI 38 – 0 NIUE Pool A
    NEW ZEALAND 26 – 5 KENYA Pool A
    WALES 24 – 7 TONGA Pool D
    ENGLAND 24 – 5 SCOTLAND Pool D
    ARGENTINA 33 – 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA Pool C
    SAMOA 24 – 14 FRANCE Pool

  • 5.Brads: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 09:13 am

    WALES 14 – 12 SCOTLAND Pool D
    ENGLAND 19 – 0 TONGA Pool D

  • 6.Brads: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 09:35 am

    NEW ZEALAND 38 – 0 NIUE Pool A

    South Africa are up in 15 minutes

  • 7.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 11:29 am

    Japan speedster Lote Tuqiri?? WTE??

  • 8.cane: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 12:50 pm

    25-11-2011 19:36 KENYA 19 – 7 NIUE Pool A.

    What a fabulous sport Rugby is.

    Niue ………..Population 1398 (estimate 2009). (no typing errors so far).
    Get to play with the Big Boys.

  • 9.poppa69: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 12:51 pm

    well done to the blizbokke..

    the opposition must have been soiling their nappies…oh wait…

  • 10.cane: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 13:17 pm

    Now I know the Rugby is slow this time of year so try this:

    I know many of you dim witted Okes have trouble comprehending the Euro-mess.

    I certainly do………………………………………….and I ain’t even an oke.
    .
    .
    .
    ..

    The Eurozone Fix

    It is a slow day in a little Greek village.

    The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

    On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

    The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

    The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pigfarmer.

    The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

    The guy at the Farmers’ Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna.

    The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him “services” on credit.

    The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.

    The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.

    At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

    No one produced anything.

    No one earned anything.

    However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.

    And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.

  • 11.Finfan: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:06 pm

    SA 21 – Aus 7. I don’t have any detail about the game although I can say with 110% certainty that Bryce Lawrence wasn’t the ref.

  • 12.Helen: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:28 pm

    @cane(cane)-10:

    Brilliant!!!!!

  • 13.Finfan: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:32 pm

    @Helen(Helen)-12: An excellent post too. Absolute classic.

  • 14.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:33 pm

    @Finfan(Finfan)-11: lol

  • 15.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:33 pm

    @cane(cane)-10: thank you for explaining that.

  • 16.Sasuke: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:35 pm

    The Blitzbokke is klas!

    Saw some 7′s while in Absa just now. Halai of New Zealand seems like a freak!! Big, strong and very fast.

  • 17.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:36 pm

    Speaking of nappies I sense poep is about to fill his again.

  • 18.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:40 pm

    @bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-2:
    do enjoy it.

    @cane(cane)-10:
    hehe
    you’re as dim witted as the best of us…granted it was a good one.
    :grin:

  • 19.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:40 pm

    @cane(cane)-10: Actually that’s a poor explanation. In this example the money is just zero’ed out.

    Each one cancels the other out in a circular manner.

    No extra money is created.

  • 20.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:45 pm

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-19:

    silly caner.

    give him his dues, he is on his second bottle.

  • 21.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:48 pm

    O vok Stormersboy is here to give us a thesis

  • 22.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:48 pm

    @Gunther(gunther)-20: Yeah. It’s got to be, like 3 am there. No sober person would still be awake.

  • 23.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:50 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-21:

    Dont say that word around him.

    Stellenbosch expelled him because when they asked him to send in his thesis he misheard them and sent them a pile of his faeces instead.

  • 24.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:50 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-21: Nope. :D

    There is a better way to explain it, but my assistant took the afternoon off so i cannot dictate the answer to her and I can’t be arsed to type it myself.

    So you’re safe.

    For now.

    ;)

  • 25.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 14:52 pm

    @Gunther(gunther)-23:

    Just when I was getting a handle on it.

    Boffins come along and obfuscate things to the point of oblivion.

    No sector of any economy should be allowed to speak in tongues that normal people will never understand.

  • 26.bokke baiter: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:21 pm

    Not sure about the name ‘blitzboks’being used to describe the Saffer 7,s side.
    With the word ‘springbok’or even ‘bok’conjuring up images of Saffer lands shameful past and the word ‘blitz’having similar connotations, surely it is appropriate to come up with a more suitable title.
    I have an example that maybe the Saffer people could embrace.The Prancing Proteas.
    The Prancing Proteas as a title,would help improve Saffer lands tarnished image around the world,it is less aggressive and may help change opinions of your country.
    In conclusion Saffers,Think before you title your teams.

  • 27.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:35 pm

    @bokke baiter(bokke baiter)-26:
    you seem to be the product of one very splintered, delusional, multi-personalitied mind… and you guys can all go get ffucked…

  • 28.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:35 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-25:

    Indeed.

    When I come to power such nonsense will be banned.

    And I shall pass a law that says all corrupt government memebers will have to go to work in their onnerbroek.

    They will also have to deliver pizzas to the masses on little mopeds until they have repaid their debt to society.

  • 29.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:36 pm

    @bokke baiter(bokke baiter)-26: PISS OFF!

  • 30.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:39 pm

    well done Blitzbokke!

    this one’s for our saffa hating & aussie d!ck sucking pal, Bryce_in_Oz? :D

    2.bryce_in_oz:
    23 Nov 2011, 18:09 pm
    Paul Delport, Dazel, Richards, Hunt, Africa all between 70-80kgs and Ebersohn @86kgs… these Orks will bow out again… no matter how tough Dry and Horne are…

  • 31.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:39 pm

    @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-27:

    I think our little friend might be more saffer than you would imagine.

  • 32.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:42 pm

    @Gunther(gunther)-28: ja next they’ll be using words like “obfuscate “

  • 33.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:45 pm

    @stormersboy(stormersboy)-32:

    that’s transies favourite word.

    just saying

    :lol:

  • 34.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 15:51 pm

    @Gunther(gunther)-33: :lol:

  • 35.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 16:15 pm

    @Gunther(gunther)-31:

    are you saying that he is in fact a saffa with multiple personality disorder and that one of those personalities is a kiwi troll ‘returning serve’ at the bad saffa’s or maybe it/he has the personalty of an expat saffa who is in hobbitville and hating on the land they left?..
    wow!..
    that is a rather complex instance of this disorder…

  • 36.Gunther: Reply to this comment
    25 Nov 2011, 16:20 pm

    @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-35:

    lets just say he’s more extraball than poops.

  • 37.Heavens Game: Reply to this comment
    26 Nov 2011, 03:05 am

    I see Capo and Cane outdoing themselves… Capo the Mang1ycunt the Stormersader and Cane the Hurricunt…

  • 38.bokke baiter: Reply to this comment
    26 Nov 2011, 08:53 am

    Heavens Gimp….very profound.
    Make sure you have an umberella with you today, the UKs supposed to be getting a bit of rain.
    Ho hum,another Saf wit standing on his high horse on foreign shores.
    No wonder he’s desperate for Saffer clubs to go North,his only chance of seeing his team play. Loser

  • 39.Hurricane: Reply to this comment
    27 Nov 2011, 01:42 am

    @Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-37:
    Ever since the Boks got owned at the RWC you become a complete a$$.
    Sore loser, tosser and a complete ***** of a moaner.
    You have bought nothing to this blog except cry baby complaints.
    You have a world record for the only man to have a period.
    World record for a period that has lasted so far over a month.
    Heavenstwat. Heavensvagina. See we can all make those childish names up.

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