Blitzboks fall at last hurdle
10 Dec 2011
GARETH DUNCAN, reporting from the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, watched the Blitzboks concede a last-minute try in a 31-26 Cup final defeat to New Zealand on day two of the PE Sevens.
The inaugural PE Sevens finished in 20 minutes of madness.
Ahead and during this fixture, the crowd created a magical atmosphere – something that was missing throughout the weekend’s festivities. The St Georges band arrived late during the day and their presence ignited an electric mood around the park, especially with the large All Blacks club who sat themselves in the seats below them. It was a fitting stage for the Blitzboks and New Zealand, who were clearly the two best teams at the tournament.
For New Zealand, it was their eighth consecutive Cup final appearance while it was only the hosts’ third in their history, having previously won one and lost one – both to the former. And on this occasion, the Kiwis went on to win their ninth South African leg Cup title thanks to Tomasi Cama, who scored and converted a try in the last move of the game.
It was a close contest in the first half, which ended 17-14 at the break in the Kiwis’ favour. DJ Forbes led from the front and powered over for the opening try, which was cancelled out by Bernado Botha’s finish. The hosts were then dealt a blow when Boom Prinsloo was yellow-carded for a professional foul at the breakdown.
From a defending scrum, the Blitzboks crumbled and Cama capitalized to dive over for his first five-pointer. Once South Africa returned to seven men, Botha went on to score his fourth try of the tournament – but New Zealand held a slender half-time lead after Frank Halai crossed the chalk.
The Blitzboks dominated the early parts of the second half, surging into a 26-17 lead with Steven Hunt and Cecil Afrika running over from close range. But defensive lapses at the death saw Halai and Cama complete their braces, the latter score a controversial one as a few South African players believed they were tripped during the final play. But Australian referee Anthony Moyes waved play on as Cama broke South African hearts.
The day’s results sees Fiji and New Zealand share the World Series table lead with 51 log points each. The Fijians performed badly on day two, which ended with a 48-0 thrashing from Wales in the Plate final. The Blitzboks find themselves third on the table with 48 log points while England (47) and France (38) trail closely behind.
Earlier in the day, the Springbok Sevens downed Samoa 12-7 in the Cup semi-final.
It was a physical clash and one the hosts handled well as they kept the game tight and capitalised on favourable field position. They spent most of the first half in Samoa’s 22m area, and they finished two scoring opportunities to take a 12-0 half-time lead. A Branco du Preez side step and break opened the scoring while Botha showed great power out wide to finish in the corner. Samoa ended the half with six men when Afa Aiono was sin-binned for striking Kyle Brown with the forearm.
After the second stanza restart, South Africa placed a greater emphasis on restricting the Pacific Islanders – which they did to great effect. Samoa struggled to break into the hosts’ red zone but managed to score a late try through Paul Perez. The Blitzboks, however, still did enough for a place in the Cup final
In their first match of the day, Cecil Afrika scored two crucial tries in the Springbok Sevens’ 26-12 win over France in the Cup quarter-final.
Coming off a 19-5 Cup defeat to the French in the same fixture at the Dubai Sevens last weekend, the Blitzboks ended on top on this occasion thanks to their hometown playmaker. But it didn’t come easy, as an attacking error saw Terry Bouhraoua put the opposition 5-0 ahead.
An Afrika run set up Boom Prinsloo minutes later while the former also dotted down after sniping a gap. But Renaud Delmas finished off a late attack, which capitalised on the hosts’ shaky rearguard. The half-time score read 12-12.
The Blitzboks produced a strong second half showing to seal their place in the top four. Brilliant stepping from Afrika saw the speedster grab his 70th World Series try while Botha finished off proceedings after chasing down a Du Preez chip.
Blitzboks’ fixtures, day two:
Cup quarter-final: South Africa 26 France 12
Cup semi-final: South Africa 12 Samoa 0
Cup final: South Africa 26 New Zealand 31
Click here for all day two fixtures and results
1,234 Comments
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11 Dec 2011, 14:15 pm
hey GI joe Happy Goemans you should try invoke all that goody goody gumdrops pro Christendom goodwill to all mankind approach this season to be jolly jumping all over the paganist ritualism Xmas tree is supposed to be bringing out of you, or is your goody two shoes turn the other cheek principle of Xmas goodwill only reserved for bloody Sunday roasts?
11 Dec 2011, 14:19 pm
Just a few points on these South African born, All Black jersey wearing scum of the earth…
- They do not wear the jersey out of admiration for AB rugby or NZ.
- They do not wear this jersey out of any family tradition- never let them bulldust you about this.
- Plainly they wear the AB jersey out of white hate
- Plainly they wear the AB jersey out of self hate…
It would be understandable if these scum supported Fiji… or Kenya… Supporting teams made up of entirely black players… Teams that showcase black athleticism… Nothing wrong with admiration with a positive slant…
But no… They choose to support the AB’s out of the need to express their hate…
Farkem… I call them out for what they are….! HATERS!
11 Dec 2011, 14:20 pm
@ashampoopaloo-501: I am telling you – don’t be a hypocrite!
LISTEN!
And
LEARN!
11 Dec 2011, 14:47 pm
only fckd up hypocrite here is you, you moronic imbecile heathenish impregnable barbarous dimwitted ignoramus dunce, go wiggle your white willy Sch’long around your fakearse Xmas tree like the blood lusting barbarous heathen you are then come sing your good king Wencelas Xmas fairy tale goody gumdrop goodness gracious cheer to all mankind you imbecilic morose mongrel moegoe neanderthal JC jolly jumping moron
11 Dec 2011, 14:51 pm
@ashampoopaloo-504: I won’t tell you again… Last warning…
Else bring it on…
Bring your best game, chump.
11 Dec 2011, 15:00 pm
Just a few points on yesterday’s 7′s.
- Well done PE for staging a good tournament yesterday…
- A very good atmosphere…
- A good crowd…
- In future it needs to be staged on Sat and Sun…
- Not quite the level of Hong Kong or Dubai but easily as good as anything else on the circuit and it will get better…
Go you Good Thing, PE 7s
11 Dec 2011, 15:32 pm
@Heavens Game-506:
Great summary I’m sure everyone agrees, your opinion and thoughts are so well respected around here, what did your other Aryan mates think?
11 Dec 2011, 15:36 pm
You should change you nic to HG the Aryan, what a farken clown have you sobered up yet.
11 Dec 2011, 15:36 pm
@NZINCHINA-507: Keo Box Office… Thats me… HG
Long threads
High Hitrates
Car Crash blogging at its very finest… You know you maybe shouldn’t but you look and read anyway….
11 Dec 2011, 15:37 pm
@Heavens Game-509:
Are there many other Aryans living in your neigbourhood?
11 Dec 2011, 15:40 pm
@NZINCHINA-508: Even Bobby D sings about blue-eyed chaps like me:
Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
Its a hard to be Blue-eyed, Blonde and sooooo superieur….
11 Dec 2011, 15:44 pm
@Heavens Game-511:
Get some help.
11 Dec 2011, 15:47 pm
@NZINCHINA-512: Unlike your nation of naturally cowardly curs, I don’t need help on this blog… I take you all on and give you the blogshagging of your miserable shake rattle and roll lives…
I am off the Richter scale for you Kiwi fools…
11 Dec 2011, 16:05 pm
Sorry to change to another topic to guys, but hopefully it will elicit a united and meaningful response from all here at KEO.
Can SARU, the Super franchises and the Boks not do something really significant to bring to the attention of the world the horrific vilolence and rape suffered by South Africa’s women and children. It seems to be gettting worse and frighteningly, women are not even safe from South Africa’s police officers as per this article:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/double-rape-horror-1.1195972
What about armbands for each player and a minutes silence before EVERY match for the whole 2012 season. Here rugby has the potential to be a powerful force for good, for a cause far more more important than rugby.
It is trully a shocking and desperate situation when women are not even safe from agents of the state, the same agents who are meant to protect from criminals.
11 Dec 2011, 16:25 pm
@itsamyth-514:
noble gesture.
getting saru to highlight this disgrace will hardly make a dent in the number of incidences.
the problem is the perpetrators don’t watch rugby – they are typically football fans.
perhaps bafana can do something.
11 Dec 2011, 16:50 pm
@Heavens Game-502: In the spirit of Xmas.
Father forgive him ’cause he knows not what he says.
Have you ever spend time with one of the AB supporting South Africans and talk to him about his “misplaced loyalty?”
11 Dec 2011, 16:55 pm
@charo-515:
That must be one of the most disgusting comments made, you are a dipshi t of the highest order
Your knowledge of rape and abuse of women and children is obviously non existent, and your comment is an insult to people who watch football .
Farken crazy man and I get the racist undertone of your comment, you just to much of a coward to say it as it is……………….that is your way.
Never mind the people who watch rugby, many players themselves have been found guilty of and attempted rape.
Think before you write ……..wally !!!
11 Dec 2011, 17:04 pm
@justrugby-517:
cool your jets big boy…
domestic abuse and rape is most prevalent in the underprivileged part of our society (who prefer soccer).
or do you reckon that it is more common in bishopscourt?
and there is nothing racist about my comments – just your prejudice shining through.
11 Dec 2011, 17:12 pm
Read an interesting article in Rapport last week.
In it the writer that a long time ago there was something in SA politics called “Boerehaat.”
“It was a reference to Afrikaners in general and that was apparently how liberal English people saw the dumber, fairly uncultivated, racist and unmistakenly Afrikaans backbone of the NP.” (my translation)
This “Boerehaat” has now been replaced by what he terms “Bantoehaat.”
It is just that this new “hate” isn’t confined to just politics but to every sphere of life, it seems.
11 Dec 2011, 17:15 pm
@nama1-519: What a load of tosh…Well it doesn’t apply to me at all… Maybe I got a dose of skaapnaaierhaat though…
11 Dec 2011, 17:23 pm
@charo-518:
Charo, you did not need to say that, really.
Would like to see your evidence on domestic abuse. Lot’s of abuse going on behind close doors in your upper market areas.
11 Dec 2011, 17:26 pm
@charo-515: Go join HG in the d oosss corner….
Racist twit
11 Dec 2011, 17:27 pm
@charo-518:
I won’t say anything more on this except that when you next meet with UFO (hope I am not out of line here UFO) chat to him about this issue you will come away more informed !!
11 Dec 2011, 17:28 pm
@Heavens Game-520:
…and you say it is tosh exactly why?
Do you deny that English people saw the Afrikaner as “stupid”, “racist” and uncultivated?”
11 Dec 2011, 17:34 pm
@nama1-521:
just going by what one reads in the press.
of course the so called educated class are not exempt – never said that.
@grant10-522:
aaah gwantie joins his soulmate in the jacuzzi
@justrugby-523:
you wonderful example of righteousness you
11 Dec 2011, 17:37 pm
@charo-525: you will never change…..
its too ingrained.
I pity your type
11 Dec 2011, 17:58 pm
@nama1-524: Who are “English people” numbnuts?
And no I don’t and have never seen Afrikaners as “stupid”, “racist” and uncultivated?”
How can they be labelled as stupid – a people who enabled the only country outside the “superpowers” and developed countries to have nuclear power and nuclear weapons long before India and Pakistan got theirs too… Not to mention the G5 cannon, Rooivalk, 1st Heart transplant…
Definitely no more racist as a people than those farken Cape Crusader ****… and uncultivated…? Thats a difficult one – “uncultivated” is subjective as a term and yes, there ain’t no Afrikaans Killers, or KOL… But there is more to culture than rock music…
So I reckon you’re really barking up the wrong tree, fool….
11 Dec 2011, 17:58 pm
@grant10-526:
there is a big difference between being a claimed non-racist on a blog….
and actually doing something for your fellow citizens.
what have you done?
11 Dec 2011, 17:59 pm
What is going on here today
11 Dec 2011, 17:59 pm
@grant10-522: The doo ss corner…? That where you and Justfugly hang out… Farken any way the wind blows jabroers, both of you…
11 Dec 2011, 18:02 pm
@nama1-521: Hellsteeth, cant Charo have an opinion, huh?
Or is this typical lilly-livered self defined liberal though police censorship…?
Farken hellsteeth, man!!!
11 Dec 2011, 18:03 pm
@Dawn-529: Huzzit Miss Whiplash… Got rid of the Banshee… Her strap on mattress is now ready to be brandished by someone else… Any offers?
11 Dec 2011, 18:04 pm
Yay
Hellsteeth is my word
Stop abusing it
11 Dec 2011, 18:05 pm
@Heavens Game-531: “though” should be “thought”…
11 Dec 2011, 18:05 pm
@Dawn-533: Nope… its mine… the original… always has been… The rest are facsimiles…
11 Dec 2011, 18:10 pm
@Heavens Game-531:
Kak man !!!!
It was not an opinion it was a statement……………………………….. big diffrence !!!
Perhaps you should show the same tolerance to kiwi bloggers ???
11 Dec 2011, 18:13 pm
@justrugby-536: You poor dumb pipsqueak… it was a statement of opinion… Wake up man!
And what farken parallel has that got to do with righteous abuse of yellow by nature, cowardly sheepshaggers…?
You such a jabroer its unreal…. Hows that for a statement of FACT!
11 Dec 2011, 18:15 pm
This brawling is so … I have no words
11 Dec 2011, 18:15 pm
Anway going to watch some football, going on Charos assessment there’s a good chance that I will beat up my wife and kids after the game, according to him that’s what people who watch football are proned to do …………………………. they had better hope Spurs win !!!
11 Dec 2011, 18:18 pm
@Heavens Game-537:
And you are simply a cnut ……………………… now that we both fully understand each other ……………………………cheers (2 finger salute )
11 Dec 2011, 18:18 pm
@Dawn-538: No offers…? You missing out… Am farken good looking if I may say so myself… A bit of moolah in the back pocket… a few assets here or there… Like a stimela when I get going – no viagra or cialis required, at all….
Forget about Tacitus… HG is the one for you maybe…. if you play your cards right.
11 Dec 2011, 18:21 pm
@justrugby-540: I am not your wife… so do yourself a favour and don’t speak to me as if I am… And no I will not allow you to mo.er me… I mo.er back guaranteed…
Go watch your poefball… Camps bay mofgat
11 Dec 2011, 18:28 pm
There is no way in hell
11 Dec 2011, 18:29 pm
@Heavens Game-542:
You have a farken big mouth , look me up next time you in CT, fark you won’t have time to hit back, maybe pi ss your pants but thats about it !!!
I thrive on putting grootbekke like you away !!!
11 Dec 2011, 18:29 pm
@ HG, if you’re so farken good looking then why don’t you go fark yourself
11 Dec 2011, 18:40 pm
Good point.
11 Dec 2011, 18:40 pm
@justrugby-544:
you sound like one of those ous from reservoir hills….
“i’ll give you one running slapkick…when you wake up your clothes are out of fashion.”
and about as brave as well.
11 Dec 2011, 18:44 pm
@justrugby-544: I won’t need to hit… You would be too easy…
I would just give you a wedgy in my own time and then one good bogwash… But from the looks of things and the mofgat you are you would probably love the bogwash and beg for more…
After that you will be calling me Meneer HG forever and a day…
11 Dec 2011, 18:45 pm
@charo-547:
mmmmmm…………come find out ,anytime !!!!!!
But hey your Durbs gabba says you entitled to an opinion ………………..however kak it might be !!!
11 Dec 2011, 18:46 pm
@NoRugbyGuru_0_-545: I don’t need to… They queue up for me… Ask Prawny…
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