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
195 Comments
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4 Dec 2011, 19:18 pm
well if Huggy Huckleberry Huxtable along with braaiwors Hubby in tow could make the simple succinct successful switch there might even be a faint vague glimmer of humanitarian hope for some these overly educated denial driven derelict pseudo scientists that still believe we are overgrown orangutangs who grew incisors so we could chew the dead decaying sinews of the herbivores we slaughtered instead of the non evolved non conscious non consequent cud.
4 Dec 2011, 19:35 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-51: I’ll take the chimps, not organgies
4 Dec 2011, 19:45 pm
M*nkeys/simians do eat protein, they eat bugs,eggs and little birds from their nests, and that is a undisputed fact. I am with them everyday and see it so its not something just out of a nature documentary.
4 Dec 2011, 19:45 pm
Surprised Ollie Le ROux never blamed John Smit!
4 Dec 2011, 20:07 pm
Vegetarians….********, eating my food’s food.
4 Dec 2011, 20:10 pm
dont forget adolph hitler, another peace-loving humanitarian.
4 Dec 2011, 20:15 pm
@cab(cab)-56: Any relation to Adolf?
4 Dec 2011, 20:19 pm
Ok, so b.stards is censored, but in the recent comments section no censoring.
Keo, you dumb **** ( see RHS for translation)
4 Dec 2011, 20:21 pm
On the menu for supper: Kassler Chops with an apricot glaze.
Didn’t have the energy to make mash, so it’s oven chips tonight.
protein, fruit and veg.
A perfect balance if you will.
With some ice cold hops on the side.
4 Dec 2011, 20:24 pm
@My nr1 nr2 too(trupisero)-57:
yep, trupi, u got me.
big animal-lover, just not so keen on humans.
4 Dec 2011, 20:25 pm
Poor Kasslet
Still at least you gave him a name.
4 Dec 2011, 20:25 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-59:
are you going to be basting a big-arse turkey for xmas with a bit of beef and brussel sprouts covered in piggy bacon?
4 Dec 2011, 20:30 pm
@cab(cab)-62:
Ham at Xmas with turkey, not beef. You need some traditional culinary education Cab.
4 Dec 2011, 20:33 pm
@Gunther(gunther)-61: Well he was a loyal and trusted pig. Somewhere on a farm….
@cab(cab)-62: Not sure yet. Will have a gammon for sure.
The Paterfamilias will have a turkey and stuffing with all the trimmings on Christmas eve, the outlaws will have cold meats on Christmas day.
Win win really…..
4 Dec 2011, 20:38 pm
Big fartpants was adolphus.
Could gas anyone in the room.
Almost took out Eddie Windsor with a moist cauliflower suprise once.
Poor bugger nearly changed sides.
4 Dec 2011, 20:40 pm
@David(David)-63:
oh i see, apparently we are having a veritable selection, maybe there is some ham on the cards.
Are you a vegetarian then?
This is a vitally important question.
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-64:
gammon, yes cant remember gammon being big in SA, but goddamn thats some tasty ****…
4 Dec 2011, 20:41 pm
Eish you guys are bad, Skop is going to blow a gasket.
4 Dec 2011, 20:41 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-59: Lol…too lazy to cook, so some chunky tuna, mayo and fruit salad it is.
4 Dec 2011, 20:43 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-67: skop will blow anything for a pork chop
4 Dec 2011, 20:45 pm
Had some Haggis the other day… Not too bad… A couple of drams afterwards keeps you nice and warm inside…
4 Dec 2011, 20:46 pm
Haggis quite spicy and rich… A very omnivorous meal.
4 Dec 2011, 20:49 pm
I see blaady Pagan Bob the Builder thinks he’s got all the answers because his so called “experience” dictates it to be so…
Farken cud chewing Mombi idjit…
4 Dec 2011, 20:49 pm
@My nr1 nr2 too(trupisero)-69: Think you wrong there, he is jewish
4 Dec 2011, 20:50 pm
Well, my experience tells me that:
BBQ Ribs are best now
BBQ Ribs are best…
4 Dec 2011, 20:50 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-70: Real haggis or the grainy stuff they serve these days?
Had some when I was in Edinburgh a few years ago. Not for me.
The drams most definitely, the haggis not so much.
@My nr1 nr2 too(trupisero)-68: Family to feed. Spent the afternoon in the pool. Temp. gauge hit 37 at one point.
@cab(cab)-66: Indeed it is. Honey and mustard glaze, cherries and pineapple toothpicks, food of the gods.
4 Dec 2011, 20:52 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-75: Real Haggis followed by drams…
4 Dec 2011, 20:52 pm
@cab(cab)-66:
Not at all.
4 Dec 2011, 20:54 pm
@David(David)-63: So no Beef Wellington on your menu for Christmas, hey?
4 Dec 2011, 20:55 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-75: About the average temp here for the last month!@Treehugger(Treehugger)-73: The rabbi threw away the wrong bit
4 Dec 2011, 20:56 pm
@David(David)-77:
u do realise you are a murderous garbage carnivore and there is no redemption for your soul which will burn in the hellfires of eternity?
4 Dec 2011, 20:57 pm
@My nr1 nr2 too(trupisero)-79: Where is that?
4 Dec 2011, 20:58 pm
Xmas another one of these heathens paganism festivals you poor dumb fck cannibals cannot get your teeth into fast enough, goes with the territory, slaughtering of the fatted pigs and calves all in the name of some pseudo pagan barbarians festival that you idiotic dumb fcks confuse with ****** birthday. What a bunch of moronic heathens like fckd up lemmings heading for the precipice in joined at the hip unison.
4 Dec 2011, 20:58 pm
in short, u are fkd.
all of you sinners, need to start picking carrots. granted, its not going to be much of a xmas with your carrot and parsnip dinner, but then xmas is merely a ridiculous ritual in any case. goddamn sinners.
4 Dec 2011, 21:01 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-81: Zambia. Wish we would get a proper rainstorm soon to cool the place down.
4 Dec 2011, 21:03 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-82: You are wrong… You can read whatever books you like that babble on about pagan rituals and sun worship but nothing beats experience and my experience is that Christmas is a birthday celebration of the person whose name you feel too offended to mention.
4 Dec 2011, 21:03 pm
@cab(cab)-80:
I don’t believe in hell, so I’m safe.
4 Dec 2011, 21:04 pm
you can say fucked up to fuckadilly land but you cannot say JC Superstars name out loud here even when his avid disciples implore you to do so in earnest its banned.. shows how fucked in the head these cannibal heathens are who think eating live flesh is the true dietary heritage of man
4 Dec 2011, 21:07 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-87: we don’t eat live flesh bro. We cook, it, saute it, bake it, fry it, you get the picture…..:)
4 Dec 2011, 21:09 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-87: Its not a heritage, it is fact… Humans must eat meat… They are made that way.
If you don’t eat meat your breath becomes smelly and you slowly get farked in the head…
Evidence is there to see, even on this very rugby site, of these adverse consequences of humans trying to pervert their true nature of needing to eat meat to function optimally…
4 Dec 2011, 21:09 pm
@David(David)-86: You’re obviously not married then…..
4 Dec 2011, 21:10 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-85: hey your messiah ***** ****** is a banned and blasphemous word here.. and Xmas was not his birthday not in a thousand billion daydreams you poor self deluded ignoramus schmuck… it was a Roman pagan festival in lieu of the turning of the sun from winter to summer at the solstice and brought about through the Roman festivities from their attachment to a Mithra religious tradition from a time before C’hrist.. which they adopted into Xmas rather than denounce the Mithra festival they simply combined it with C’hrists fake birthday when they suddenly became Christian.. so when did you become Christian.. you barbaric Germanic heathen.. you don’t know this person from a bar of soap and neither do the billions of his fake followers..
4 Dec 2011, 21:10 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-85:
For me, Xmas is a tradition that has very little to do with any religious conotation, christian or pagan. It’s a matter of childhood memories, sustained and passed on.
4 Dec 2011, 21:14 pm
Off to count some sheep. Suppose skop counts soya beans
4 Dec 2011, 21:16 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-91: Well those garbage history books where you read that are absolutely wrong beyond a shadow of doubt… The authors were probably vegan and by the time they wrote that garbage they were probably mad in the head with vitamin B deficiency… They were confused, forgetful and couldn’t concentrate – probably hallucinating – because thats what happens to you if you don’t eat meat.
But my experience also tells me you are wrong, Christmas is the celebration of Ch.rist’s Birthday full stop no matter who else’s birthday was on at the same time… Simple
4 Dec 2011, 21:17 pm
@David(David)-92: Yeah, well good for you… and like Cab, I also eat beef on Chistmas Day… With turkey… and ham… and beer
4 Dec 2011, 21:18 pm
@David(David)-86:
in that case, eat drink and be merry or in the words of spock, live long and prosper.
4 Dec 2011, 21:20 pm
these poor Roman pagan frucked up imbeciles should see JC live they will f’ng crucify him again.. if they can recognize him that is.. just for being vegetarian they will crucify him again… if they don’t trip over him in the street by mistake..
these poor carnivorous pagan idiots who think they are civilized for slaughtering and devouring flesh of conscious creatures in the same breath call themselves the followers of a messiah who would not hurt a fly and would never kill a conscious living creature for his food.. which he did not ever do…
and they wanna kill and maim creatures for their f’ng Xmas paganism festivities which was never C’hrists birthday anyway, and he would turn those pagan carnivorous tables over in your gluttonous faces if ever he visited you while you scoffing that living flesh in memory of his name…
4 Dec 2011, 21:21 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-94:
yes, but u do realise old JC chucked the money-lenders out the temple in outrage?
4 Dec 2011, 21:22 pm
who created the fishes and loaves ek se or do you dispute the Good Book?
4 Dec 2011, 21:23 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-94: shows how decidedly screwed in the head you are with all this traditional pagan garbage you wanna superstitiously attach to a persons birthday who you will never meet and never know from Adam or Peter or Mary or Paul
how f”ng screwed in the head deluded are you.. and you wanna tell me you are scientifically educated and open minded and awake to reality which you decidedly are not !
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