Blitzboks off to winning start
11 Feb 2012
The Blitzboks beat Uruguay and Wales in their first two matches on day one of the Las Vegas Sevens.
In their 29-12 win over Wales, the Springbok Sevens found themselves behind early in the game as Lee Williams scored a try. However, skipper Kyle Brown and IRB Sevens Player of the Year Cecil Afrika gave South Africa a 12-7 half-time advantage with scores before the break.
Afrika starred in the second half, completing his hat-trick while Frankie Horne also dived over to seal the win. Rhys Sellard grabbed Wales’ second try three minutes after the restart.
Earlier in the day, the Springbok Sevens thrashed Uruguay 35-0.
It was an easy outing for Paul Treu’s charges as they cruised to victory with five tries. Afrika grabbed a brace while Cornal Hendricks, Horne and Bernado Botha finished off the one-sided contest.
South Africa and France will face off in the Pool C decider later tonight.
Blitzboks’ fixtures:
South Africa 35 Uruguay 0
South Africa 29 Wales 12
South Africa vs France (23:05 k/o)
For all tournament fixtures click here
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11 Feb 2012, 20:26 pm
@ufo-147:
Cheers buddy.
11 Feb 2012, 20:27 pm
@TASSIES-146:
absolutely… and the point i was trying to make…
outta here
11 Feb 2012, 20:29 pm
@clm-148: bit premature I’d think. The critical centre pairing still needs testing at the highest level. No centre pairing… no success afraid.
11 Feb 2012, 20:33 pm
@Mr Black-151: yeah, I’m outta here too. Good chatting with you guys. Not on here often enough lately but so be it. Some of us have to keep the economy ticking over. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
11 Feb 2012, 20:37 pm
@TASSIES-154:
Chhers Tassies, also going, don’t want to be alone with clm.
11 Feb 2012, 21:07 pm
some you people give Rassie way too much credit, it is the self same Rassie Erasmus who kept playing Stormers back row out of position, continuing with the ball carrying first receiver Burger at open side when it was the coordination of Bekker, Francois Louw with Vermeulen and Pieter Louw who did most of the real work on the deck and around the park.
Stormers should have cleaned up all of Sharks in CC final in 010 and Lions in CC semi 011 as well as Bulls in S14 final in 010 had it been with a real strategically sound thinking captain on the field in all those encounters which was easy to identify with Jean De Villiers and / or Van Zyl or even Bekker or F. Louw all far more astute and capable in a leadership prospect than the captain who succeeded in capitulation of all those possibilities.
Rassie is the one who played Koster, Watson, Burger, Louw, Vermeulen all out of position, also the one who lost prodigious talents the likes of Sadie and Engelbrecht to Bulls while hanging on to overrated over aged past heroes in Habana and Fourie who neither have returned the favor.
So all this extensively out of place eulogy towards Rassie Erasmus is far fetched and way out of kilter relevant to where Stormers potential should have returned in the past two – three years of trying where they ultimately failed at the final hurdle instead of succeeding had the correct leadership and strategics been installed in place.
11 Feb 2012, 21:21 pm
also the self same Rassie Erasmus who endorsed the most pathetically stupefied policy as technical analyst with Boks at RWC 2011 who allowed and condoned the insane idea of starting the big games with Smit as captain and starting hooker over Bismark du Plessis, and Burger as focal point pivotal ball carry operative, as well as Spies ahead of Alberts and FdP ahead of Hougaard which strategics specifically what lost the Boks the quarter final vs Australia. Yet this self same Rassie Erasmus is the hallowed hero who don’t know squat about winning the real games which actually count.
Like losses to all Aussie sides in 2010 S14, losses to Crusaders and Reds at home and losses to Bulls and Chiefs in 2011, amongst others and losses to Australia at WC 2011.
If Rassie Erasmus was this great far thinking strategist who won the encounters that mattered I could consider sharing in all this far fetched eulogy, but fact of the matter is Rassie got far too many strategies wrong when he actually lost the games he should have won.
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11 Feb 2012, 21:22 pm
@ashampoopaloo-156:
“”Stormers should have cleaned up all of Sharks in CC final in 010 and Lions in CC semi 011 as well as Bulls in S14 final in 010 “”
That is your jenious opinion.
11 Feb 2012, 21:23 pm
@ashampoopaloo-157:
Had that game against Auz been refed in a different situation with completely neutral intention the boks most likely would have won that game.
11 Feb 2012, 21:52 pm
if Boks had started Bismark, Alberts, Hougaard ahead of Smit; Spies, FdP, and had not played Burger as the first receiver which directly resulted in Aussie try against run of play, and had Boks used Aplon off bench for Habana, and had they started Louw ahead of ineffective injured Brussow, then Boks would have annihilated Aussie in the quarter, Bryce Lawrence or no Bryce Lawrence, and also likely have gone on to win the competition.
The insanity of playing Smit over Bismark, and to lesser degree Spies and FdP ahead of Alberts and Hougaard, plus not using De Jongh or Aplon as impact off bench for out of sorts Habana, as well as the hopeless strategy of Burger as non effective gain line pivot and main ineffective ball carrier, besides starting an injured non contributing Brussow over a far more robust and fit Louw, is what cost the Boks the WC…
So where was Rassie’s astute rugby strategic thinking in all these brainless poor and bad loss creating decisions?
11 Feb 2012, 21:53 pm
Good grief why is this game starting so late
11 Feb 2012, 21:56 pm
The frogs need time to digest their escargots.
11 Feb 2012, 22:03 pm
@ashampoopaloo-160:
I agree with some of your comments but to say that was Rassies decision is lude, even to apply it as you just have, inface the fact that flow was there would have been down to Rassie.
John Smit, FDP, Spies etc starting is all down to P’Diddy & the Fat boyz club end off..
11 Feb 2012, 22:03 pm
game called off……what a bloody disgrace.
11 Feb 2012, 22:04 pm
@Dawn-161:
So they can all freeze and get injured.. Who knows..
11 Feb 2012, 22:05 pm
stadium packed to the rafters.shocking
11 Feb 2012, 22:12 pm
75 000 unhappy bunnies at stade de france
11 Feb 2012, 22:13 pm
Why did they call it off
11 Feb 2012, 22:22 pm
the took the covers off two hours before the start of the game and the pitch simply just froze over.the temp was about -5 at that time.no underground heating as well.
11 Feb 2012, 22:53 pm
@clm-164:
It’s called winter!!
12 Feb 2012, 00:15 am
I see Blitzies are 26-5 up on French
should go to knockouts at least semi’s contenders…
12 Feb 2012, 00:16 am
Frogs got deep fried.
12 Feb 2012, 00:19 am
33 – 5 final score winners pool C.. probably meet Canada in 1/4′s
Semi’s or better this time around..
12 Feb 2012, 00:24 am
Kiwis taking strain against Samoa.
12 Feb 2012, 00:26 am
Forbes makes it 5-5 at the end of the first half.
12 Feb 2012, 00:28 am
Go Samoa.. fok dem fokkers stukkend..
12 Feb 2012, 00:31 am
12-5 to Kiwis after breakaway try.
12 Feb 2012, 00:33 am
kak sien ek ook
12 Feb 2012, 00:36 am
Kiwis hold out to win.
12 Feb 2012, 00:37 am
@ashampoopaloo-178: Ja, well – others may be interested …
12 Feb 2012, 03:28 am
Paul Treu has done many good things in his decade at the helm… but he’s reached his peak…
The game has moved on and the players far bigger and stronger with no loss of skills…
The Blitz-Bokke will never consistently make the finals playing so many Orks!
Seems some are happy with the now regular ‘Plate’ final!
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