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, 19:24 pm
well what can one do, if you born with a critical nature like I am you ain’t gonna change it at this late stage of proceedings, but celebrating losses is not part of the program, venting my dissatisfied disappointment at the abject dumb stupidity is though.
England getting out of jail two weeks in succession, lucky pom poms just like manure, they keep thawing their way to the surface of their hopeful fluke results through the ice and snow.
11 Feb 2012, 19:25 pm
@Mr Black-97:
@TASSIES-100:
Please do Mr Black as this is one game and a very average english team just fighting for its first few breaths of life after coming out her Magestys woomb!
11 Feb 2012, 19:27 pm
Uuurrgh!
11 Feb 2012, 19:30 pm
11 Feb 2012, 19:31 pm
Can see the snow still falling on the field.. Around -2 now..
11 Feb 2012, 19:31 pm
Italy looking much better than last year.
11 Feb 2012, 19:32 pm
Mr Black, without referring to Google, list the 15 England players on the park. I know I cant get past 7. To me that suggests a brand new team. How can the new man suddenly be adjudged a better prospect than Mallett. I’m always interested in a different view but this one has me baffled.
11 Feb 2012, 19:33 pm
Terrible kick..
11 Feb 2012, 19:34 pm
that was a kak pot a goal by the ex Saffa. Blame it on the snow.
11 Feb 2012, 19:34 pm
15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Brad Barritt, 12 Owen Farrell, 11 David Strettle, 10 Charlie Hodgson, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Phil Dowson, 7 Chris Robshaw (captain), 6 Tom Croft, 5 Tom Palmer, 4 Mouritz Botha, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Alex Corbisiero.
11 Feb 2012, 19:37 pm
I’m still struggling with identifying with a ‘Botha’ in the second row(of an England team). Bakkies will be mortified.
11 Feb 2012, 19:37 pm
Looks like a “new” team indeed.
11 Feb 2012, 19:38 pm
Try Botes for Italy.
11 Feb 2012, 19:38 pm
Stormers without the overrated Schalk Burger a thousand times a more cohesive coordinated outfit, same as Boks and Bulls without overrated Smit or Spies or FdP, simple deductions – no one needs to be a rocket scientist to work such simple solutions out. Unless you’re AC or Rassie or Pdv of course.
11 Feb 2012, 19:39 pm
I hope not you guys are suggesting that England would be better with their old players.
The opposite is being said about the boks! :huh:
11 Feb 2012, 19:41 pm
What a pitty Italy could have been 2 point ahead with 5min to go if they got those last two..
11 Feb 2012, 19:42 pm
@ashampoopaloo-114:
Surprised you left Meyer out your list there..
11 Feb 2012, 19:42 pm
@Mr Black-110: I did suggest that the assistance of Google would not be impressive. You have the team perfectly listed right down to the spelling of Mr Corbisiero at loosehead. Now you would have us believe that you have this team in your head, letter perfect. Give me a break.
11 Feb 2012, 19:44 pm
@TASSIES-118:
Did you miss the smiley?
WTF!
11 Feb 2012, 19:44 pm
Italy took their damn kicker off at precisely the wrong time.
11 Feb 2012, 19:45 pm
@ashampoopaloo-114:
Skop @ 83
“But I do not celebrate their losses in spite of me watching the train wreck unfolding due to the consistent clinging to the one dimensional patterns they have tried year on year for the past how many, continuing to make the same stupendous stupid decisions yet expecting different results, a sure sign of insanity in any ones language.”
which is this useless team you speak of…?
the team you’re denigrating in this paragraph was the top saffa side in the s15 in for the last two years…
but you will not celebrate the stormers (moderate) success… you’d rather dig and delve and look reasons to denigrate everything about them….
not my assumptions…
your own words…
11 Feb 2012, 19:46 pm
@Mr Black-115: nobody’s suggesting this. However, a new team, regardless of the age of the players, would take time to settle. This applies especially to the combinations and the centre pairing in particular. Barritt has been in this England side for five minutes. Good player but he’s not exactly setting the world alight in this Test, unsurprisingly.
11 Feb 2012, 19:47 pm
@Mr Black-119: I did. Muchas apologies.
11 Feb 2012, 19:47 pm
@ufo-121:
Explain how the Stormers was the TOP SA side for the last 2 Years?
11 Feb 2012, 19:49 pm
Charlie Hodgeson deserves an MBE saving England ignominious losses two weeks in a row, the luck of the pompous poms you might say, 2 charge down tries, two get out of jail wins twice in a row.
11 Feb 2012, 19:49 pm
Another crappy english win. Oh well at least they can say a win is a win.
11 Feb 2012, 19:51 pm
@Mr Black-124:
Mr Black before you wet your panties… read the whole post… you look less silly that way…
i said… “top saffa side in the s15”
explain how this is not the case…?
11 Feb 2012, 19:53 pm
@ufo-127:
Who won the S15 2 years ago when the stormers dominated in SA?
11 Feb 2012, 19:53 pm
Italian Saffa knocks forward to Pom Saffa who boots the pill into touch for a narrow victory for England. My-my… but rugby playing talent must be developing into one of our biggest exports.
11 Feb 2012, 19:54 pm
Agreed Guns
11 Feb 2012, 19:54 pm
@Dawn-120:
Exactly Dawn – Their Coach took the kicker off at the worst time..
11 Feb 2012, 19:59 pm
@Mr Black-128:
you continue to be silly…
you pulled me up for a statement i never made… can’t admit you are wrong… and now go off on a tangent…
squirm all you like… fact remains…
the stormers were still the top placed saffa side in the s15
my statement was correct…
explain how it was not…?
11 Feb 2012, 20:00 pm
I think it is safe to say that Rassie took the Stormers to a new level in recent times. They won nothing but they certainly improved and one has to look at the key changes to the staff which would have most likely affected change. Rassie would have headed that list IMHO.
11 Feb 2012, 20:02 pm
@ufo-132:
Do you watch Rugby?
The bulls topped the log 2 years ago and won the competition.
And don’t forget that they got into the semis by default because the bulls played their B team against them.
So how did they dominate 2 years ago?
11 Feb 2012, 20:05 pm
And don’t forget that they got into the semis by default because the bulls played their B team against them.
“Refering to Stormers here.”
11 Feb 2012, 20:07 pm
@Mr Black-134:
how silly are you…?
you’re speaking of 3 years ago…
the stormers have topped the sa side of the log for the last 2 years… as per my statement…
11 Feb 2012, 20:07 pm
it is an extremely open book in predicting the chances of the Saffa franchises in this years S15 comp. None stick out at potential front-runners. The Bulls do not look like that team. Neither do the Guppies. Stormers lack a FH and little in the form of form backup. That will cost. Which leaves the Lions and the Cheats. Both good teams and I enjoy both. BUT both have not track record of success in this particular comp and it gets tricky when travelling to the islands. So I’m not building my expectations to any lofty heights this year sadly. AND I pride myself as being an optimist at the best of times. Change my mind.
11 Feb 2012, 20:10 pm
2011 – Reds – 1 year ago
2010 – Bulls – 2 Years ago
2009 – Bulls
2008 – Crusaders
2007 – Bulls
Apology accepted.
11 Feb 2012, 20:13 pm
@Mr Black-138:
how silly am i…
and apologies given…
11 Feb 2012, 20:14 pm
@Mr Black-135: can’t recall that. As far as my p brain can recall, the Stormers finished ahead of the Bulls these past two years.
But my brain cell’s not getting any younger so I stand to be corrected.
11 Feb 2012, 20:15 pm
@ufo-139:
Don’t worry about it.
11 Feb 2012, 20:16 pm
@TASSIES-140:
as did and do i…
11 Feb 2012, 20:18 pm
@Mr Black-138: how time flies. Apologies.
11 Feb 2012, 20:18 pm
@TASSIES-140:
Actually the bulls was so far ahead on the log that they send a B team to Stormers cause result would not have mattered.
Remember the Waratahs was quite pi ssed off about that.
11 Feb 2012, 20:19 pm
But Stormers was best SA team in super rugby last year. I’ll give you that
11 Feb 2012, 20:22 pm
Fact remains, the Stormers improved under Rassie and last year(as corrected by Mr Black) this franchise made the semis. The Stormers have improved in recent years under the guidance of Mr Erasmus. I’m quitely hoping he’ll be joining the astute Heineke in developing a winning Bok outfit in the not too distant future.
11 Feb 2012, 20:24 pm
@Mr Black-145:
hehehe…
Cool…
now i’ll quit while i’m behind…
cheers
11 Feb 2012, 20:24 pm
well,after this weekends’ rugby ,i can safely say that the sharks are the overwhelming favourites to win the saffa conference and super title.
11 Feb 2012, 20:25 pm
@TASSIES-146:
Agree 100% with this post.
11 Feb 2012, 20:25 pm
@Mr Black-144: yes I recall. Can’t argue with those tactics. I suspect they’d have lost regardless of which side they selected. But that’s just my parochialism seeping into the equation.
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