SA 7s draw Poms for Kiwi leg
12 Dec 2011
The Springbok Sevens will face England, USA and the Cook Islands at the Wellington Sevens in February.
The Sevens World Series will take a two-month break over the festive season and will resume with the New Zealand leg on the 3rd and 4th February.
Having finished second at the PE Sevens last weekend, South Africa have been drawn into Pool B. They are the group favourites along with England, who are fourth on the World Series log. USA and part-timers the Cook Islands make up the rest of the pool. Likely Cup quarter-final opponents on day two for Paul Treu’s charges will be Fiji or Wales.
PE Sevens Cup winners and hosts New Zealand will battle against Samoa, Scotland and Japan in Pool A.
Wellington Sevens, Pools:
Pool A - New Zealand, Samoa, Scotland, Japan.
Pool B - South Africa, England, USA, Cook Islands
Pool C - Fiji, Wales, Argentina, Tonga
Pool D – France, Australia, Canada, Kenya
28 Comments
12 Dec 2011, 14:05 pm
extra… extra… read all about it…
hot off the press…!!
12 Dec 2011, 14:28 pm
Finally some variation in the group stage. Sick of the Boks playing Aus and France the whole time.
12 Dec 2011, 14:55 pm
why was the PE leg on friday & saturday when the tourney id going to break for 2 months?
12 Dec 2011, 15:29 pm
@Transformation-3: transformer you are alive! Was worried about you, I thought that the CapeSaders may have gotten a hold of you after you said you were not going to take their nonsense ……. man there were about 500 of them at the stadium.
12 Dec 2011, 15:50 pm
@Roar my Lions …. Currie Cup Champions 2011-4: Much more than that.
12 Dec 2011, 16:05 pm
@Gareth-5: 1000?
2000?
how many losers can there be in PE?
12 Dec 2011, 16:06 pm
@Roar my Lions …. Currie Cup Champions 2011-4: dude i was fighting wars there!
12 Dec 2011, 16:09 pm
@rangerman-6: NO, no!
A large majority of those okes were indeed from the Western Cape in places like Saldanha
also another huge bunch were from George they came in a bus.
12 Dec 2011, 16:12 pm
@Transformation-8: OK, ok
no need to shout.
they can support whoever they want imo.
as long as they pay their taxes and dont commit any crimes.
they simply make bok fans more united, like you and me
12 Dec 2011, 16:13 pm
@Transformation-8: did you chirp them at all Transie?
btw, that beenie you were wearing was a bit short imo.
12 Dec 2011, 16:16 pm
@rangerman-6: I’d say about 2000. There were other small groups or pairs of AB lovers.
It was scary that the large group knew every word and action of the Haka when the Kiwis performed it in front of them. I wonder if they know all the words of the SA anthem?
@Transformation-8: Yes, most of these guys took road trips. But there are plenty of AB lovers in PE and in neighbouring towns, like Uitenhage and Despatch.
12 Dec 2011, 16:18 pm
@Gareth-11: ag there are plenty white saffas who support the england football team.
i know some of them.
so what?
12 Dec 2011, 16:41 pm
@Transformation-8:
Those Georgers are the worst.
They like to spit at the Blitzbokke.
Hopefully natural selection will thin them out a bit.
12 Dec 2011, 16:49 pm
@Gareth-11:
They know every action because NZ wins every 7′s tourney in SA.
12 Dec 2011, 16:55 pm
@rangerman-10: you bet!
12 Dec 2011, 16:59 pm
@Gareth-11: i know there are plenty mate in PE & Uitenhage mate. just that the ones in a klomp were out-of-towners…locals only moved around to behind the one pole before the final.
another thing is, 2000 is too big a number. they couldn’t even fill one block behind the poles
12 Dec 2011, 17:00 pm
@NZINCHINA-14: bullshit, they watch youtube on their phones…
12 Dec 2011, 17:16 pm
@Transformation-17:
They support winners, can’t hold that against them.
12 Dec 2011, 18:21 pm
@Transformation-16: That group was most of them, but there were others around the stadium.In total, overall, there were about 2000 AB fans
12 Dec 2011, 20:12 pm
@Gareth-19: you sound like one
13 Dec 2011, 00:47 am
@Gareth-11: Cause a frikkadellie ah freakah?
13 Dec 2011, 06:06 am
@ Tackler. Australians all eat ostriches. Got different news Helen.
14 Dec 2011, 10:29 am
I wish I had enough money to buy each of those wanna be all blacks supporters a one way ticket to new zealand, I actually feel sorry for them because they are still trapped in the apartheids era, who relates the bokke too the white people and they feel they will betray their people if they support the boks , come on apartheid has ended more than 18 years ago.
So if you are one of those wanna be all blacks please f#$k off too new zealand
14 Dec 2011, 10:45 am
@BR-23:
Who long did the Aparthied go for?
I dont really know but to have your family abused and unfairly treated for so long, makes it a bit diffilcult to move on really, especially if a few of them were killed.
Now if you think 18 years is long enough then so be it, everyone is different.
Free speech is another thing that you may have forgotten about or do you think everyone in SA should support SA no matter what?
14 Dec 2011, 12:25 pm
@Hurricane-24:
hmm and silence
14 Dec 2011, 22:08 pm
@Hurricane-25:
And still silence
15 Dec 2011, 09:44 am
@Hurricane-26:
and more silence
15 Dec 2011, 13:48 pm
@Hurricane-24: My only question is why so any many could have moved on (in the most cases they went thru more than the people who can’t move on)and some can’t(most of them the younger generation who are effected by apartheid but didn’t grow up in apartheid).
Regarding your question if you don’t want to support SA go live in the country you want to support, SA will be better with out you!
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