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, 20:57 pm
@ashampoopaloo-649: Now your’e having us on. So HG could pass as an Aboriginal for his next passport photo?
11 Dec 2011, 20:57 pm
@ashampoopaloo-649:
Great post skop !
11 Dec 2011, 21:00 pm
Or maybe it just Johnny Depp that’s funny
11 Dec 2011, 21:03 pm
@man1a-641:
Hahahaha
@Dawn-644:
You can always check out Die Hard on eTV.
… or That English woman …. about Emily Hobhouse in the AB war.
11 Dec 2011, 21:10 pm
‘S set in Venice. I like Venice.
11 Dec 2011, 21:11 pm
Watching love actually on DVD with Mrs Stormersboy.
A great Christmas movie.
Very funny in places.
11 Dec 2011, 21:16 pm
@ashampoopaloo-649: Is that so… Well please tell the transformation champions that touching farken story… Tell them that melanin concentration, Indians, coloureds, whites, blacks, indigenous blacks and whatever other bullshit classification that they hold onto so dearly is a figment of there imagination… You another fcken ja-broer thats for sure…
11 Dec 2011, 21:16 pm
Excellent SB!!!
Gonna haul out my copy too at some stage this season!
11 Dec 2011, 21:17 pm
@Heavens Game-657: Apologies, there imagination should be their imagination
11 Dec 2011, 21:18 pm
@trupisero-651: anyone who identifies himself with his genetic metabolism first and foremost is setting himself up for a mighty disillusionment and rude awakening soon enough, there is actually no such thing once you strip away the facade of your thinly veiled epidermis you gonna find out the rest of you is just as insignificant as the rest of everyone else… all the self inflicted superiority or inferiority complexities that humans heap upon themselves and each other as a direct consequence of their delusions of grandeur are all big fat fake illusions of bullshit baffles brains bewildered fallacies that an individuals genetically formulated racial metabolism remotely denotes any such thing as a better or worse human being..
11 Dec 2011, 21:22 pm
@Heavens Game-657: it is one fat funk figment of yours and anyone else’s imagination.. you are no better or worse than any other human creature that got cotched up on the face of this planet.. where the fck you think you are either superior or inferior to anyone else?
11 Dec 2011, 21:23 pm
@trupisero-651: Yes… I will just think it and voila! I look just like Thierry Dusautoir…
Or Cecil Afrika…
Or Heaven forbid, Kurtley Beale…
11 Dec 2011, 21:26 pm
@ashampoopaloo-661: Human creature did not get cotched up… They evolved… They are the pinnacle of evolution… the ultimate Apex Predator… And yes I may be at the pinnacle of the Apex… But I will be humble and just stick to describing myself as a blonde blue-eyed son…
11 Dec 2011, 21:27 pm
@ashampoopaloo-660: Tell that to the Ancyl. Maybe then they might believe that they actually own all the farms, control the economy and set sail from Europe to Africa many moons ago.
11 Dec 2011, 21:27 pm
@justrugby-652: You such a weak kneed jabroer… Typical…
11 Dec 2011, 21:29 pm
What’s so wrong with kurtley beale.
Too blaack for you
11 Dec 2011, 21:29 pm
in fact I’d like to know where this Caucasian creature actually originated.. this blue eyed blond haired Aryan is an alien to this planet.. probably come from outa space somewhere.. like the Greek gods that impregnated human women who bore these offspring from a genetically alien chromosome from some other galaxy somewhere
11 Dec 2011, 21:30 pm
@Dawn-666: Like Justfugly… Barndoor Fugly… Get that, Miss Whiplash?
11 Dec 2011, 21:32 pm
@ashampoopaloo-667: You been watching “Ancient Aliens”?
Interesting supposition innit?
11 Dec 2011, 21:33 pm
@stormersboy-669: Sounds like Grant’s cup of tea
11 Dec 2011, 21:34 pm
@ashampoopaloo-667: You the only Annunaki here, fool… Go imagine yourself somewhere far away with some peanuts and lentils to eat, **** and be merry to your hearts content… While you floating in the clouds re-imagining yourself as a vegetarian melanesian I will be grounded on this earth as a real blue eyed blonde viking steak eater…
11 Dec 2011, 21:34 pm
@Heavens Game-663: you seriously are deluded by your fckd up state of superiority complexity… you think your God JC was White? Think again you dumb fck imbecilic ignorant dumbarse delusional fckd up barbarous heathen flesh eating mongrel non evolved bobbe-jan
11 Dec 2011, 21:36 pm
@stormersboy-669:
lol
I watch that Ancient Aliens, it amazing and gives the old mind a bit of a work over.
11 Dec 2011, 21:37 pm
Moer him skop
11 Dec 2011, 21:37 pm
@Heavens Game-671: go ask David Icke who the fck you are because its pretty obvious you don’t have a vague foggy incandescent ignoramus clue
where all these blue eyed alien genetically modified Caucasians suddenly ‘materialize’ on this mixed up genetically bamboozled planet…
11 Dec 2011, 21:38 pm
Finally! A sensible kiwi.
11 Dec 2011, 21:38 pm
@ashampoopaloo-672: And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
I heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
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.
As I said before…Even Bob sings about the likes of me… Viking Valhalla Vanilla…
11 Dec 2011, 21:39 pm
@Hurricane-673: Does doesn’t it?
11 Dec 2011, 21:40 pm
@ashampoopaloo-675: and you, my son are the “clown who cried in the alley”….
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.
11 Dec 2011, 21:41 pm
Right. Onto the Killing of John Lennon.
11 Dec 2011, 21:43 pm
@Heavens Game-677: Dylan or Harrison?
11 Dec 2011, 21:44 pm
@Dawn-680: The Killing of John Lennon… I reckon that maybe his shooter did everyone a favour… One less unnatural vegetarian, smelly breathed soppy loony trying to mess up the natural order of this world….
“Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world”
Absolutely ridiculous fool…
11 Dec 2011, 21:46 pm
@stormersboy-681: Only one Bob Dylan… My posts are nearly as masterful…
11 Dec 2011, 21:46 pm
You talking kuk.
Shut up.
11 Dec 2011, 21:48 pm
Bob’s half Caucasian and half Semitic same as me.. but Bob knows that race is one fat funk figment of everyone’s imagination and soon as you die you gonna find that much out.. Go ask JC about what counts.. the color of a man’s skin or the color of his heart.. epidermis delusions of genetically modified grandeur means absolutely sweet fanny fokkol when pushing up daisies is all its gonna be good for when push comes to shove…
11 Dec 2011, 21:49 pm
talking of dylan..
my wife and i were having fun last night playing music while preparing dinner…
compared “all along the watchtower” – hendrix first, then dylan.
was quite hard to place a favourite.
hendrix won – eventually – because we’d both had a glass on wine…
and the guitar riffs did it for us.
11 Dec 2011, 21:49 pm
@Dawn-684: If you talking to me then press the arrow above the relevant post… Simple.
What you do is the equivalent of trying to speak with your mouth full…
Manners, my dear…
11 Dec 2011, 21:50 pm
@Dawn-676:
11 Dec 2011, 21:51 pm
Hard Rains a gonna fall is one hundred percent pure Zimmerman mastery and genius.. ain’t nobody else remotely close in the 20th century.. only Byron, Keats, Blake and Shakespeare could be classified as worthy compatriots or competitors but unfortunately they’re all dead…
11 Dec 2011, 21:51 pm
Typical. You would murder someone for their beliefs.
11 Dec 2011, 21:51 pm
@annunaki ashampoopaloo-685: Nope, Bob Dylan is a blonde and blue eyed as me… I can imagine it so, no? “Figment of my imagination” and all that…
Wake up fckface… You’re as inconsistent as a Cape Town breeze…
11 Dec 2011, 21:52 pm
@Heavens Game-682:
hmmm he was one of the best song writers ever with an amazing voice.
Who really cares what he ate.
11 Dec 2011, 21:53 pm
@charo-686: Hendrix is overrated… Never has there been a more overrated artist in history…
Knopfler is better…
Hell, even Richie Sambora is better…
11 Dec 2011, 21:53 pm
Feck you and your right arrows
11 Dec 2011, 21:53 pm
@Hurricane-692: Ag, shutup sheepshagger…
11 Dec 2011, 21:54 pm
Herr Gwat you trying vainly to get a handle on your poor debilitated inhumane insecurities only problem is you are flying solo out on a limb and you about to come crashing hard
11 Dec 2011, 21:56 pm
Hendrix too black for you?
11 Dec 2011, 21:57 pm
@Annunaki ashampoopaloo-696: I’m not the one insecure here… On the contrary I am very secure as a blond, blue eyed apex yuman being…
I think you need to re-examine yourself and your beliefs… Very shakey… Very wobbly…
All fall down wobbly…
11 Dec 2011, 21:58 pm
@Heavens Game-693:
You dont play guitar do you.
3 different styles you have just mentioned out of those 3 people.
Cant compare. I have played guitar for 25 years, so know a we bit when it comes to guitars
11 Dec 2011, 21:59 pm
@Heavens Game-695:
Look lets just leave the dumb a$$ coments out and have a good ole debate or discussion, what do you think?
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