Blitzboks falter in Dubai
3 Dec 2011
The Springboks Sevens conceded a last-minute try in their 17-14 Plate final defeat to Australia while England lifted the Cup on day two of the Dubai Sevens.
England downed France 29-12 in the title decider, which confirmed their second consecutive Dubai Cup success. But for the Blitzboks, it was a disappointing end to their campaign in Dubai after a impressive run on day one, which saw them top Pool B and record a famous win over defending World Series champions New Zealand. It was the Blitzboks’ worst tournament finish since their run at the Wellington leg in 2010, where they lost 26-12 to Fiji in the Plate final.
Against Australia, South Africa started strongly and claimed a converted try from the first attacking move. Chris Dry was the scorer, after playing a key role in winning possession from the kickoff. Aussie youngster Lewis Holland levelled matters before Branco du Preez capitalised on a Boom Prinsloo break to secure a 14-5 lead at half-time.
But the Blitzboks were errant in the second stanza, and the Aussies won the ascendancy and scored two tries through Hamish Angus and Holland. The latter score was a runaway try from the Aussies’ 22m area as South Africa slipped two tackles in the final movement of the match.
Earlier in the day, the Springboks Sevens beat Wales 22-7 in the Plate semi-final.
It was an easy win over the 2009 World Cup winners. It was a Grey College connection that secured a 12-0 half-time lead as Boom Prinsloo set up Robert Ebersohn for the first try before putting through William Small-Smith moments later.
Renfred Dazel and Branco du Preez both dived in at the right corner to complete the victory, while Wales managed to grab a late try through Owen Williams.
In their first match of the day, the Springbok Sevens’ title run came to an abrupt end with a 19-5 Cup quarter-final defeat to France.
France scored all the points in the first stanza, with Manoel Dall crossing the line shortly before the break. Renaud Delmas and Terry Bouhraoua sealed the match with second half tries as South Africa could only dot down for a consolation score via Bernado Botha.
Blitbzoks’ fixtures and results, day two:
Cup quarter-final: South Africa 5 France 19
Plate semi-final: South Africa 22 Wales 7
Plate final: South Africa 14 Australia 17
Click here for all fixtures and results
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4 Dec 2011, 23:06 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-148:
and a hunger for western women
4 Dec 2011, 23:13 pm
nothing wrong with Joe Cocker.. he made Mc Cartney’s ‘With a little help from my friends’ an ALL time classic and did it better than anyone else could have done it with far more soul and feeling and passion than Lennon – McCartney could have done in a thousand million years…
4 Dec 2011, 23:15 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-150:
holy moly another dylan fan, yessus this oke must have had some sort of cult following in the USA and the RSA, was there some sort of surfer tripartite exchange program between california, durbs and the cape? pretentious crud. no hell there been far better music to come out of the states, the way it should be played with the gut, by the black r&b musos well before pseuds like bob.
4 Dec 2011, 23:19 pm
went to go watch a few bands the other night, but alot of them reverting back to this fok music solo songwriter poetry ****, give me the energy of the band any day, the working class fellas still the best, but also still wear that chip on their sleeves.
4 Dec 2011, 23:24 pm
Dylan is a genius.. the modern version of a Blake or Shakespeare.. that’s how close to genius that mad muther faker is… so much so that even those that were hailed as the forefront vanguard of political inter fusion between the lefty folk movement like Pete Seger and Joan Baez and Ginsberg and the rest looked up to this scrawny little 21 year old kid as their new found savior during the height of the M. Luther King black consciousness movement .. which he participated in initially then denounced and walked away from.. because he knew that was not him…
4 Dec 2011, 23:25 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-152: Springsteen would have done “With a little help from my friends” ten times better… His version of Pretty Flamingo makes Manfred Mann’s redundant…
4 Dec 2011, 23:28 pm
u gotta be out of your tree and seeing genius where there aint any…i;m with the pomegranites in the know that see it as rot mostly, but then again there was some prof of english over here who reckon he some kind of modern willie wiegelspies of iets. but that whole beat generation just stream of consciousness rubbish, mind as well be singing about his pet canary.
4 Dec 2011, 23:32 pm
@cab(cab)-153: The Master is no pseud… at all… His lyrics have more truth and power than many pagan vegan new age crystalgazing books put together… But yeah granted he couldn’t and can’t sing for shy.te.
Heck, the Byrds became a great band just by virtue of the fact that they did his songs justice when they performed them…
Nothing beats their version of Mr Tambourine Man… Nothing.
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you.
4 Dec 2011, 23:36 pm
you obviously cannot recognize genius when it stares you in the face…
I met Richie Havens in Cape Town a few years back.. his favorite all time song is Hard Rain is a gonna fall .. that is perhaps one the most poignant all time classic folk / protest songs of all time with far more moving deep seated truth and compunction than ANY garbage upstart little Liverpudlian dockland group could come up with in a thousand lifetimes of song writing… and they knew it.. that why they bow at the maestro’s feet when it comes down to genius stakes…
Same as all the Brit guitarists bowed at Hendrix feet.. Clapton, Page, Beck, Richards, Townshend all bowed at Hendrix feet.. so did Lennon – McCartney, and the rest of the Brit rock generation bow at the master Dylan feet in song writing hierarchy…
4 Dec 2011, 23:38 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-158:
And Turn turn Turn ageless
4 Dec 2011, 23:39 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-156:
the Woodstock version of With Little Help from my Friends by Cocker was a master performance out of this planet and Springsteen would never come close to replicating or putting that much soul or feeling into that song as Cocker did that day… go watch it again on u-tube if you can find it your backbone flesh gonna crawl.. and if it don’t then you no music fundi…
4 Dec 2011, 23:42 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-158:
Dylan can sing.. its just you pagan barbarians that got no f’ng ears… all you got are heathenish mouths that guzzle left over carrion from last nights BBQ
and Dylan is a veggie himself.. I betcha Springsteen might even be.. ain’t that gonna blow your cotton picking barbarous socks right off your stinky little piggy trotter feet ?
4 Dec 2011, 23:43 pm
yeah the beatles werent my cup of tea, mccartney too much of a happy-go-lucky pansie, but john lennon was brilliant, he’s songs were also far more understated than the self-involved pseudo-intellectual black turtleneck dylan. its true tho lennon did pay homage to dylan at one stage, tho thats when they started getting more mainstream and touring to the states. oasis probably the equivalent with the gallagher bros, pure genius, but probably too new for you.
4 Dec 2011, 23:46 pm
@CoachPete(CoachPete)-160: Jeez, but you got to laugh when you see videos of them performing… High as kites…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqAvgN6Tyw
4 Dec 2011, 23:52 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-161: Cocker is a soppy gravel voice softcock… Not even in the league of John Fogerty a true gravelly voiced talent….
You talking absolute fairy tales if you think Dylan is a vegetarian… absolutely no chance… Neither Springsteen either… For that level of creativity and truth in their songs they need all the Vitamin B12 they can only get from copious amounts of red meat…
Yup, I would go to the extent of stating beyond a doubt that without eating red meat Dylan would never have been able to write the songs he does or has done… Categorically.
4 Dec 2011, 23:52 pm
ddint know lennon was a food nazi, thats enough to put one of his music alone, must have been when he started making all that dosh and giving peace a chance in yokos fanjita and all, but cant imagine too many veggies running around the merseyside docks in the 60s.
4 Dec 2011, 23:53 pm
@cab(cab)-163: Oasis…? WTF? They’re not even in the same league… Only Wonderwall is a song of note…
4 Dec 2011, 23:58 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-167: wonderwall is one of the best songs of all-time, hands down, no matter if they became slightly mainstream or whatever, that truly was a moment of genius.
5 Dec 2011, 00:00 am
@cab(cab)-166: Yeah, Lennon was screwy… Went vegetarian with Yoko and then started thinking he was messianic singing his off in the clouds Imagine… Bonkers. Went mad… Thats what happens if you think lentils are the same as a nice big steak.
5 Dec 2011, 00:03 am
Oasis Aussie pseudo rock and rollers.. no way near to the genius of Dylan.. all the Brit song writers bow to Dylan’s genius.. check how many songs and how many words he penned in a legendary career that has spanned more than half a century and still writing.. though he don’t have the depth now that he had at the time of his fresh brilliant genius as a 21 year old protege…
Half racked prejudice leaped forth put down all hate I screamed
Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
There’s no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there’s only up and down and down is very close to the ground.
a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man
Oh where have you been my blue eyed son, where have you been my darling young one
I been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all the people can’t be all right all the time.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.
Come ye Masters of war
once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’.
All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.
I ain’t looking for you to feel like me, see like me, or be like me.
Oh God said to Abraham, Kill me a son.
Abe says, Man, you must be puttin’ me on.
The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken.
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison
Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun.
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you.
Oh, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time…
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.
There’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all.
She knows too much to argue or to judge.
She’s got everything she needs, she’s an artist, she don’t look back.
She could take the dark out the nighttime and paint the daytime black.
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am
But everybody wants you
To be just like them
Johnny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
5 Dec 2011, 00:04 am
@cab(cab)-168: Fark that… Was offered hospitality to one of two concerts: Oasis or Take That, at Wembley Stadium… I am even ashamed to say I ended up going to Take That – that is how much I “rate” Oasis…
5 Dec 2011, 00:04 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-169:
imagine was a fantastic album. he was far better than mcartney. the best stuff is the british sound, like their comedy its untouchable, but the yank bands coming back with a vengeance and probaby copied it too better effect with bands like the strokes, the white stripes and the killers – even that vampire weekend stuff ok.
5 Dec 2011, 00:07 am
Lennon was veggie long before Yoko.. George was veggie full on Hare Krishna devotee and they all went to visit Maharishi the founder of TM way back in around 66 or 67 long before Yoko..
Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Madism, Dragism, Shagism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
ism ism ism
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
its goin’ great
Everybody’s talkin’ bout’ministers,
sinisters, banisters and canisters,
bishops and fishops and rabbis and pop eyes,
and byebye, byebyes
all we are saying is give peace a chance,
all we are saying is give peace a chance,
5 Dec 2011, 00:09 am
u need to open your mind and your ears, there was life before and after the 60s, tho not as you know it. oasis bladdy good band, but not much one for analysing the words and poetry, u just feel the words and music together, and that band is damn good.
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-171:
holy ****, you are completely berserk, take that is pure crud.
5 Dec 2011, 00:09 am
And I guess I lost my way
there were oh so many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying
or even how much I owed
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin’
and my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin’
And oh the wonder
We felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder
Towering waves
Will crash across your southern capes
Massive storms
Will reach your eastern shores
Fields of green
Will tumble through your summer days
By design
In your time
THE Detroit Master Songwriter….
5 Dec 2011, 00:10 am
Lennon was a soapy softy goody two shoes copy cat compared to Dylan.. Imagine is nowhere near to any of Dylan’s early stuff from 61 through to 67 Dylan was Master of all Masters in the song writing hierarchy of song writers..
You can’t compare the two in terms of depth and punch
5 Dec 2011, 00:10 am
lol, ou doosie is back in the 60s…
5 Dec 2011, 00:12 am
bullshit, dylan was a total goody 2shoes who decided it was a time to rebel, lennon came from a totally different background, u smoking your pipe again and blowing smoke holes out your ***.
5 Dec 2011, 00:13 am
@cab(cab)-172: Fark the rest… Killers are good… along with Gaslight Anthem and KOL…
Killers have some very good material already…. Excellent… Haven’t been to a concert of theirs yet…
Seen a video of them performing at Royal Albert Hall… Dustland Fairy Tale, Mr Brightside and When You Were Young nearly collapsed the building…
5 Dec 2011, 00:15 am
you just a Pom through and through .. that why you ain’t ever gonna understand Dylan.. nor anything remotely true to the heart.. its all pseudo punk rock Brit pom pom flat as a pannekoek bland bam bam bangers and mash – thats how much you can appreciate true soul music from the land of the free…
5 Dec 2011, 00:16 am
Lennon was farked in the head with his vegan hallucinations and Yoko… Totally overrated… McCartney was much better, even Harrison…
5 Dec 2011, 00:16 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-179:
killers the most mainstream of that lot, but they very good, tho their modern stuff is getting poor, didnt like human. that concert at the RAH must have been pretty fkn amazing, those are three fantastic songs.
5 Dec 2011, 00:18 am
i aint no pomegranite, but if you cant give credit where its due, you need your head read and got zero taste. music, comedy and pubs cannot be beat anywhere. the brits and african-american sounds is rock music at its pinnacle, the rest are footnotes.
5 Dec 2011, 00:18 am
time out
whenever you wanna know the answer to the universe go knock on somebody’s door who knows… and you won’t find it in any garbage riddled good book of bullshit baffling brainlessness either
5 Dec 2011, 00:20 am
next thing he going to come up with elvis ek se, even the blesbok was far superior…
5 Dec 2011, 00:22 am
@cab(cab)-182: Human is one of their best songs actually… Inspired by Hunter S Thompson… They broke the mould with that song… confused a lot of people with the doof duff wiggle wiggle… But very good lyrics.
5 Dec 2011, 00:22 am
Am out now but I leave with lyrics:
Well, I wonder which song they’re gonna play when we go.
I hope it’s something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow.
When we float out into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms,
I hope we don’t hear Marley’s chains we forged in life.
‘Cause the chains I been hearing now for most of my life,
The chains I been hearing now for most of my life.
Did you hear the ’59 Sound coming through on grandmother’s radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?
5 Dec 2011, 00:24 am
Mc Cartney is a f’ng ponce deluxe and Lennon made that band without Lennon there was never gonna be a Beatles.. you could do away with McCartney and Harrison and Starsky but Lennon was the back bone of the Beatles.. and they all knew it…
Lennon had balls and a heart.. McCartney is one pseudo little moddly coddly Brit pop idol .. Harrison had depth and feeling but not the guts of Lennon..
But Dylan was and is streaks ahead of them by a few light years in comparison… Lennon the only one that ever came anywhere remotely close…
5 Dec 2011, 00:25 am
night night
5 Dec 2011, 06:02 am
for these poor contrary Constantinople type Xmas pagan ritual worshiping half baked so called christian soldiers who wanna continue befuddling their befuddled bewildered bewitched brains about who’s a veggie eating genius and who’s not, Robert Allen Zimmerman alias Bob Dylan is a vegetarian, its clearly stated in his biographical notes, and if you still can’t fathom truth from fallacy like you wanna pretend JC cooked cows and calves for his food which he did and could not do being brought up and educated in the strict Nasorean – Essene sect of non flesh eating Judaism along with his mentor and cousin – friend John the Baptist who was beheaded for his forthright unashamed telling of the truth, as Ch’rist was crucified for doing the same, then go google it all up on your new age information biblical pontifical reference Wikipedia if you can’t fathom fact from fiction.
While you confirming that Dylan is one go google how many other ‘famous vegetarians’ like Einstein and how many more there were/are, or google J’sus the Nasorean or the Essene Gospels for some wide awake re education you so patently and obnoxiously are in direct dire need of before you cook your fatted Xmas goose or gobble up your gobbledegook gobble wobble Xmas turkey pudding
5 Dec 2011, 08:34 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-190: There is sense in the midst of your ramblings. You are of course correct that ***** was in all likelihood a veggie and most certainly right that early Christianity co-opted many pagan festivals into its own calendar, Christmas being one of the end results (the latter established beyond all responable doubt by the very scholars over the years at universities who you seek to deride; how ironic).
As for the syuff re Dylan, the Beattles, etc. Who cares, people! Enjoy the music!
5 Dec 2011, 08:35 am
The ***** is J-es-us
5 Dec 2011, 08:52 am
@Michael(mikeybrass)-191: Fact is, everyone who isn’t totally ignorant knows all of this, but enjoys the festival aspect of the holidays, including Easter, which is possibly the biggest “amalgamation” of all the pagan festivals with Christian ones.
Still fun, particularly with the kids.
5 Dec 2011, 09:01 am
Party on, dude!
(Showing my age:-) )
5 Dec 2011, 09:03 am
@Michael(mikeybrass)-194: party on Wayne.
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