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, 22:00 pm
@Hurricane-699: Richie plays with a double neck… So, twice as good as Hendrix.
Simple.
11 Dec 2011, 22:02 pm
@Heavens Game-693:
sting and a few others rated him big time…
but then again, having read sting’s book “broken music” he is a very egotistical individual.
nope, to me hendrix took guitar playing to another level – sometimes a bit over the top – but explored all the boundaries.
knopfler was good, sure, but his claim to fame was a new sound only
11 Dec 2011, 22:02 pm
Hendrix is too black for him. Mark Chapman thinks exactly the same way as this HG.
It’s uncanny.
11 Dec 2011, 22:02 pm
@Hurricane-700: Okay… Maybe… Let me think about it… May get back to you
11 Dec 2011, 22:03 pm
@Heavens Game-698: you one fucked up moron but reality of the equation is you don’t even know it… yet… poor dumbfck imbecile
Hendrix idolized Dylan.. and every other Brit rock guitarist idolized hendrix.. so this Gwat arsed imbecilic runtcunt moron still don’t know fckall from nothing when it comes to either music.. or guitar.. or poetry.. .. or life…
11 Dec 2011, 22:04 pm
@Heavens Game-701:
lol ok.
Steve Vai played with a guitar that has 5 necks.
Jimmy Page played with an Gibson SG twin neck 6 and 12 string.
A dream guitar i must say
11 Dec 2011, 22:05 pm
@charo-702: Sting… The legal alien…? What the fck does he know about guitars…
Another overrated muso, if ever there was one… even if he was blonde…
Another guitarist miles better than Hendrix is Uli Jon Roth… Fark, he invented the Sky Guitar… Miles better…
11 Dec 2011, 22:05 pm
Hendrix was, in my opinion, one of the greatest ever.
Sambora is technically very good.
Knoffler is also a genius, a unique style that is unmistakable.
But to say that Hendrix is overrated is a little contrarian, even for you HG.
11 Dec 2011, 22:07 pm
@Hurricane-706: So did/does Slash. Also one I enjoy listening too.
Lots of style over substance but that’s Rock and Roll sometimes.
have you seen “It might get loud”?
11 Dec 2011, 22:08 pm
@ashampoopaloo-705: Brit rock guitarists were just paying lip service… Truth is most believe Hendrix was overrated… Simple… The fool just made a hideous farken din… A squall… Aural Bulldust baffles brains equivalent…
11 Dec 2011, 22:09 pm
@stormersboy-709:
No i havnt seen that Stormers.
Is it an music doco vid or a song
11 Dec 2011, 22:09 pm
@Heavens Game-710: Clapton thought he was the business.
And that’s good enough for me.
11 Dec 2011, 22:10 pm
@Hurricane-706: Satriani and Santana also better than the excuse for noise that came out of Hendrix amp-beaten excuse for an instrument…
11 Dec 2011, 22:10 pm
Herr Gwat do you know ANYTHING about guitar playing.. I mean would you by chance know the difference between your E string .. you D string … and your G string???
Dumbfck ignoramus dunce pretending to know – it – all about sweet fanny fckall…
And then the dumb fck ignoramus Aryan Viking still dunno whether he hails from Jupiter or Mars… or Pluto..
11 Dec 2011, 22:11 pm
@Heavens Game-710:
have you heard Little wing by Hendrix?
One of my favourite hendrix songs.
Look for th studio/record version.
He was alot of the time to stoned live
11 Dec 2011, 22:11 pm
@stormersboy-712: Clapton also overrated… “Slow hand” farken ridiculous…
11 Dec 2011, 22:12 pm
@Hurricane-711: It’s a documentary with Jimmy Page, Jack White and Edge.
They talk about their influences, playing styles and then sit together and jam, and shoot the breeze.
Great movie. Definitely one for the collection
11 Dec 2011, 22:14 pm
@Heavens Game-713:
Satriani is good.
Check this out, its a bit of me jamming a Satriani song, look at the jersey as well, always a wellingtonion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcpsIbJ-8RI&feature=g-upl
11 Dec 2011, 22:15 pm
@annunaki ashampoopaloo-714: Of course… At the Apex, I know everything… But even if I didn’t I wouldn’t need to know diddlly squat about a fret, whammy bar or archtop to tell you that Hendrix music is a squalling, rattling, over distorted metal jungle din…
11 Dec 2011, 22:18 pm
Gents… My favourite guitarist… and IMO the very best… is King Carlos Santana… his guitar was/is his voice … while for the other guitar gods you mention it was there instrument…
But they’re all great and resonate with my being depending on my mood…
11 Dec 2011, 22:18 pm
@Heavens Game-716: Overrated by whom?
Not by many.
If you stuck a bunch of the “greats” next to the technical wizards like Satriani, Vai, Morse, Petrucci not many of them would stack up on a “riff off”
But that’s not what their contribution is about.
It’s about the ground breaking work that they did, the songs the wrote and performed (particularly in Hendrix’s case as “live” was what he was all about.)
The icons they are.
There are many of them, and they are subject to constant scrutiny, in fact Rolling Stone just released their all time greatest list of guitarists.
You should read what Pete Townsend writes about Jimmi Hendrix. It sums it up the best.
At the end it’s just opinion, such as it is.
11 Dec 2011, 22:19 pm
@Hurricane-718: lol… Mellow…You’re even better than Hendrix
Dig the pooch…
Cool, man.
11 Dec 2011, 22:20 pm
@stormersboy-717:
@Hurricane-718:
@Heavens Game-719:
What do you guys think of Joe Bonamassa?
Check this clip- the best comes near the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqJQxKFACI&feature=related
11 Dec 2011, 22:20 pm
@stormersboy-717:
What do you think of Jimmy Page.
I think he was way ahead of his time.
He used so many alternate tunning, so impressive.
11 Dec 2011, 22:20 pm
@Hurricane-718: Gibson SG
Nice.
I will give it a good listen to later.
Well played.
11 Dec 2011, 22:21 pm
the Ultimate anti Vietnam war protest song of ALL time came from a solo guitar with a stack of Marshall amps on a Woodstock set playing Star Spangled Banner in and amongst Napalm bombs… lone bugler calls… ambulance sirens.. dive bombers.. and devastation.. thrown against the back drop of the feint melodic strains of the American National Anthem.. all played by ONE solo instrument.. by ONE solo musician… ALONE.. and this dumb fck ignoramus dunce reckons the genius was overrated… while Beck,.. Page.. Knoppfler.., Richards.. Townshend.. Moore.. Harrison… Clapton… and the rest hail the genius… bow down in reverence and obeisance to his absolute legendary mastery.. and some imbecilic fartarse outa sorts outa place alien Caucasian displaced Viking reckons the maestro is overrated…. Go F’ng Figure…
11 Dec 2011, 22:21 pm
@stormersboy-721: Yes, “expert”… But I didn’t ask for a lesson…
I just disagree… There.
11 Dec 2011, 22:22 pm
@Heavens Game-722:
yeah, hes me dog, quite a funny chap. Always hangs around when i muck around on the guitar, he is worse when its food time
11 Dec 2011, 22:22 pm
@Robzim-723: I have quite a bit of his stuff. Great Blues.
11 Dec 2011, 22:23 pm
@Hurricane-718:
impressive!
pity you left the tv on in the background.
must say, i now have a totally different view of “hurricane”
11 Dec 2011, 22:24 pm
@ashampoopaloo-726: Farkoff…Boston did that 10 times better… Tom Scholz… Now that’s a guitar man…
11 Dec 2011, 22:24 pm
@Robzim-723:
damn thats blusey as.
Never been able to get the groove of playing the blues.
I love it but just cant play it good.
11 Dec 2011, 22:25 pm
@Hurricane-724: Great player. One of the pioneers. Has an amazing feel too.
You should watch the DVD. It will confirm what you’ve just said.
@Heavens Game-727: Well consider yourself schooled.
But it’s just an opinion, mind you.
11 Dec 2011, 22:25 pm
@Robzim-723:
This one is easier and shorter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UFXQVSnKs&feature=related
11 Dec 2011, 22:26 pm
@Robzim-723: He’s okay…
A bit Claptonny for my liking…
11 Dec 2011, 22:26 pm
@Robzim-723:
hi rob,
walter trout to me is better is you like that genre.
never heard of him until jinx introduced me
11 Dec 2011, 22:27 pm
@stormersboy-725:
I picked that guitar up in a second hand shop for $310.00 NZ dollars. My dad owned a the second hand place a few years ago now.
The seller didnt quite know what it was worth and wanted money quickly.
1965 SG, got it priced a few years ago, lets say my insurance asked me to serparate it from my house contents.
11 Dec 2011, 22:27 pm
@Hurricane-732:
Dont worry, I never got further than strumming “Proud Mary”,” Bad moon Rising” , and “House of the rising sun” lol.
11 Dec 2011, 22:27 pm
@Heavens Game-731: Now there i actually agree with you. He was a great guitarist and innovator.
And a vegetarian.
11 Dec 2011, 22:28 pm
At least someone else knows Little Wing
11 Dec 2011, 22:28 pm
wow, the first of our summer thunderstorms has just moved in.
luuuuuv it!
11 Dec 2011, 22:29 pm
@Hurricane-737: ’65??
Still original?
Jeeperz Creeperz.
It;s got to be worth a pretty penny.
11 Dec 2011, 22:29 pm
@Hurricane-728: lol… Get him “singing” along. Very good – so Hurricane is multi talented… not just a Haka/Macarena fanboy…
11 Dec 2011, 22:30 pm
@Dawn-740: Which version?
11 Dec 2011, 22:30 pm
@charo-736:
I know Jinx preferred W.Trout. – we had quite a discussion about it a few years ago- he even managed to get 4Man to buy himself some Trout stuff for Christmas instead of Bonamassa.
11 Dec 2011, 22:31 pm
@charo-730:
Yeah TV did get in the way a bit.
But thats where i go to relax out, my guitar,TV and computer all in that little room.
Lets says the wife knows where i am so she does not mind.
11 Dec 2011, 22:32 pm
the Great guitarists of the generation are
Hendrix
McLaughlan
De Lucia
…
Randy Rhoads
Van Halen
Di Meola
Steve Vai
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Santana
….
….
Moore
Page
Knopfler
Beck
….
….
Harrison
Clapton
Richards
Osborne
Townshend etc.. etc… etc…
11 Dec 2011, 22:32 pm
@Heavens Game-743:
hmm i cant really do the Haka that good
11 Dec 2011, 22:32 pm
@stormersboy-739: A vegetarian… Oh fark… Let me go burn my Boston CD’s… Will only listen to Deep Purple from now on… Tom Scholz out, Ritchie Blackmore in….
11 Dec 2011, 22:33 pm
@Robzim-745:
yep, jinx sold me too.
have stuff from both at home.
wt to me is a bit more “earthy”
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