Blitzboks blitz Kiwis
13 Oct 2012
The Springbok Sevens eased to a 31-21 victory over New Zealand to secure an unbeaten run on day one of the Gold Coast Sevens.
In the Pool A decider, Paul Treu’s men excelled against the World Series defending champions.
After a disappointing campaign last season, which saw South Africa fail to secure a tournament victory, the Blitzboks displayed an all-round improvement and maturity.
Where there was once panic and hesitancy on attack, the Springbok Sevens were slick and with ball in hand. Their once shaky guard has been replaced with an effective defensive system. And while the New Zealanders were superior in size, South Africa’s intelligence and tactics in general play allowed them to hold the ascendancy.
Former IRB Sevens Player of the Year Cecil Afrika played a big part on attack and showed why he’s regarded as one of the top stars on the circuit. He was well supported by veterans Paul Delport, Branco du Preez, Frankie Horne, Steven Hunt and Chris Dry, while newbies Cornal Hendricks, Stephen Dippenaar and Ruwellyn Isbel also made impressive contributions.
This saw the Blitzbok camp inside the Kiwi’s red zone in the first stanza, with Hendricks, Delport and Horne scoring tries. New Zealand crossed the chalk after the half-time hooter as wing Tim Mikkelson raced to the corner from a free-kick tap.
South Africa led 19-7 at the break.
In the second stanza, Delport and Dippenaar sealed the win as they dotted down. New Zealand grabbed consolation tries via Iopu Iopu and Rhys Llewellyn.
The Springbok Sevens will meet France in the Cup quarter-finals on day two.
Earlier in the day, the Blitzboks claimed back-to-back group wins as they downed USA 33-5.
Matt Hawkins put the Americans into an early lead, but it was all South Africa thereafter. Tshotsho Mbovane hit back for Paul Treu’s charges, and Du Preez’s conversion secured a 7-5 half-time lead.
Tries from Du Preez, Dry, Kyle Brown and Delport in the second stanza sealed an easy triumph.
In their first match, the Springbok Sevens cruised to a 38-0 win over Canada.
Hendricks starred for the victors, grabbing a hat-trick. Hunt, Mbovane and Dry also crossed the chalk as South Africa scored six tries in the one-sided contest.
Blitzboks’ fixtures (day one):
South Africa 38 Canada 0
South Africa 33 USA 5
South Africa 31 New Zealand 21
Click here for all fixtures and results
By Gareth Duncan
88 Comments
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13 Oct 2012, 23:53 pm
Oh go back to having intercourse with your sister poppa.
13 Oct 2012, 23:55 pm
Im done with her now anyway
14 Oct 2012, 00:00 am
@poppa69-50: these people own you poops you do realise that dont you?
you should rather honour your family and heritage by being rational.
but you cant can you.
14 Oct 2012, 00:01 am
KEO it is time you got rid of poltergeist on these blogs, he is an insult to this blog and true Kiwi and south African rugby supporters. The guy comes from the gutter.
14 Oct 2012, 00:03 am
huys this whole incest thing is a bit offsides.
seriously.
poppa is a pr ic k but that doesnt make all kiwis pr i cks.
they are insular but they are generally good people so lets try and be cool ok?
14 Oct 2012, 00:06 am
@Black Power-54: and poops?
retaliation is punished too buddy.
btw, you also like a bit of a wind up so cool your jets sonny.
we are watching you.
14 Oct 2012, 00:09 am
sanctimonious kiwi.
you better wake up,
p.s. i also support leeds from time to time so you can address me as “400 years of white power”.
ok sonny?
14 Oct 2012, 00:17 am
@rangerman-56: hey, if youre comfortable with your countrymen spouting rubbish that I have countered with facts, so be it..
do you all have this insatiable bloodlust evident when you google SA and crime?
it is shocking the levels it exists in your country, but seeing as they are so quick to highlight NZs own social ills, I will counter with stats that makes NZs miniscule in comparison..
14 Oct 2012, 00:18 am
@rangerman-57: I better wake up?
is that a threat Ranger?
14 Oct 2012, 00:23 am
@poppa69-59: a threat?
you feeling feisty?
what if it was, what would you do poops, challenge me to an internet showdown?
wake up.
14 Oct 2012, 00:25 am
@poppa69-58: what insatiable bloodlust are you talking about you dumb as s?
i have never attacked family members or your county on the basis of murder or crime or rape or aids or any otherhuman trafedy or condition.
you have,
thats why i think you are a pig,
oink oink poopsie.
14 Oct 2012, 00:28 am
@rangerman-60: why? because its a SA website ?
if people want to highlight problems others have while being completely ambivalent to their own backyard, I will remind them of it..
\but hey, even SA’s I talk to on other sites realise that this one is contains the lowest denominator of SA society, as evidenced by the 3 retards who have posted earlier..
I understand that the fragile SA psyche has taken a real battering over the last twenty years because of your couintries inability to play rugby, so I guess the backlash should be expected from those who have had violence as a means to an end for all of their lives..
SA is like Siberia, everyone knows where it is but no one wants to go there..
14 Oct 2012, 00:29 am
@poppa69-59: faaaak you are pathetic
you must be a blessing to those who have to be around you, i can just imagine “you talkin to me…huh?,,,,,,i am a tough guy you better agree”
i have met with and dalt with your kind, thankfully not too often.
14 Oct 2012, 00:32 am
@poppa69-62: sa’s psyche has takena battering?
you useless fat loser.
i imagine you couldnt run 50m without collapsing poops and yet you think the all bleaks validate you personally.
its really kinda pathetic son
14 Oct 2012, 00:34 am
@rangerman-63: Am I? I see youve spent a lot of time chastising me, but one paltry sentence to those who started this?
hypocrite
speaks volumes Ranger, speaks volumes..
now whose talking tough on the interwbz?
14 Oct 2012, 00:36 am
@rangerman-64: hahaha thats the thing with assumptions, they are just that..
now name calling? losing the battle son are we?
14 Oct 2012, 00:37 am
a theat?
pffffffffffffffft.
what a warrior you are
sleep tight you big girl.
14 Oct 2012, 00:39 am
@poppa69-65: 5.rangerman: Reply to this comment
14 Oct 2012, 00:03 am
huys this whole incest thing is a bit offsides.
seriously.
poppa is a pr ic k but that doesnt make all kiwis pr i cks.
they are insular but they are generally good people so lets try and be cool ok?
nighty night you loser
14 Oct 2012, 00:40 am
@rangerman-67: Im no warrior, Ive taken my fair share of PK’s… and got back up, no dramas here..
14 Oct 2012, 00:42 am
@rangerman-68: like I said, one sentence..
yet to me its been 8 posts, who owns who Ranger?
strange, all i edid was “return serve”..
yet youve felt compelled to respond 8 or 9 times..
such irony
classic
night night Ranger, best to hide the illegal fauna you have, so as not to get caught..
14 Oct 2012, 00:46 am
There. Now you w ankers can feel better about yourselves.
Tell everyone that you beat nz.
14 Oct 2012, 01:36 am
There is something to be said for breast feeding. Clearly some contributors were removed from the breast before they were ready to face the world.
14 Oct 2012, 03:26 am
I see a few are making up other log in names so they can vent their true feelings.
We all know most the Keo bloggers can tolerate us Kiwis, and understand some frustrations as we are an odd bunch
But going out making new user names then start putting up silly links to what happens in NZ shows how much of clue some of you have. Its so much easier for us kiwis to find the dirt and the filth that happens in South Africa as we all know its common place.
Poltergeist, the authority need to be shown a bit of respect. These guys hide behind the computer, bad mouthing another country out of pure hatred and jelousy.
If any of you two visited NZ, you might actually enjoy it. For a start i would know not one of you would badmouth us in front of faces as you guys are cowards. You would be put in your place so fast here in NZ and you girls know it.
Now if any of you two live in South Africa,it is a beautiful country. I saw a doco on SA about 8 months and i never realised how much scenery and landscape that is so impressive actually existed in South Africa, this is the reason why me and my wife are thinking of visiting SA.
You guys needs to live a bit instead of being angry at another country cos….well we have a better rugby team is what the problem really is.
Being angry at someone better than yourselves is common but once you two grow up the better.
14 Oct 2012, 05:10 am
@Hurricane-73: When you say your “wife”, do you mean your “daughter”?
14 Oct 2012, 07:18 am
@poltergeist-74:
If you said that to my face i would clean you up so quickly.
Again, you are a coward and to think about people daughters like that suggests you have a problem.
15 Oct 2012, 03:59 am
@Hurricane-75:
Internet tough guy………….what a doos!
15 Oct 2012, 05:04 am
@whatever-76:
Look at this.
I see you agree with child abuse etc as poltergeist has posted.
You said nothing about his post.
Name calling seems to me that you are a weak person.
Are you a weak person whatever?
By the way i am no tough person, when you grow up and become a big boy and have kids, you will see what happens when someone starts on your family when they have no right to.
15 Oct 2012, 05:06 am
@Hurricane-73:
I feel like a PDivvie-ism reply…
Sometimes you the pigeon, sometimes you the statue but that does not mean you should drink every cup of tea as some people like green tea and some like black tea. At the end of the day the tea may just be to bitter and you should leave it till it has cooled down!
Apologies to PDivvie, I know I don’t hold a candle to him…
15 Oct 2012, 05:09 am
@Hurricane-77:
PS Idiots like that should be removed, pass the details on to keo admin so they can nuke the guy.
15 Oct 2012, 05:10 am
@Slartibartfast-78:
hahaha
mate that was awesome…….an excellent try i must say.
But PDV was a natural…..i believe you are trying too hard.
15 Oct 2012, 05:15 am
@Hurricane-80:
Well he does have experience on his side…
15 Oct 2012, 05:23 am
@Hurricane-77:
How on earth do you deduce that I support child abuse from my post??? Are you f uking retarded? You basically pulled doos move by actually trying to be a big boy and say you could take someone out on the internet…….that was all I was commenting on, simple!
Try let that sink in awhile, maybe read it twice and see if it helps!
15 Oct 2012, 05:29 am
PS do you pull up poppadoos for every idiotic post he makes?
Thought not, hypoctite…..
15 Oct 2012, 05:31 am
@whatever-82:
Do you ever realise that you pull up the Kiwis but never your own?
I reacted the way i did as my family is out of bounds, especially my girls.
You have a problem with that?
Yet you missed the point. I said if he said it to my face…..how the **** can he do that on the internet. Read it again.
15 Oct 2012, 05:42 am
@whatever-83:
Nope i dont, and looks like you dont when a Saffer says something idiotic.
The hypocrite just called me a hypocrite lol
15 Oct 2012, 05:58 am
@Hurricane-84:
Mate you used to be a level headed blogger, what happenned? You have a beer with poppadoos and catch a bug?
I just find it real funny with blokes on the internet threaterning others with physical violence……….no matter what the reason (And I’m not condoning anything here). In real life you’d probably run a mile. It’s just pathetic.
15 Oct 2012, 06:00 am
@Hurricane-85:
If I (or anyone else) on this site had to pick out people for every idiotic comment posted, we’d be doing so every second comment.
16 Oct 2012, 00:53 am
OMG I came on to read about rugby and end up with rabid festering BS. Where did all of that other nonsense come from…this is a rugby blog people…great the Boks7 won all of their first round games, but NZ and Fiji played in the final…that’s all that needed to be said, instead we have idiots like ‘the authority’ et al spouting out their vile posts…what a sham, what a sour bunch you are….
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