Blitzboks blitz Kiwis

Blitzboks blitz Kiwis

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

  • 1.TheTackler: Reply to this comment

    How soon before the Blitzedboks bow out?

  • 2.corporal punishment: Reply to this comment

    It’s only going to get harder for the Bok sevens team as the teams with Olympic gold aspirations start to up their spend on 7′s

  • 3.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    6 min into first half Boks lead 14-0

  • 4.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    make that 19-0

  • 5.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    Half time 19-5

  • 6.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    24-7

  • 7.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    31-7

  • 8.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    31-14

  • 9.Obronie: Reply to this comment

    Well great 1st day to the 7 season, but still only 1st day.

    Well done Bokke, I need some good rugby news.

  • 10.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    final score 31-21 Boks

  • 11.Fern: Reply to this comment

    Not much place to cheat when playing sevens hey you dirty keewees.
    @TheTackler-1:
    Umama gulele msunu wakho.

  • 12.trupisero: Reply to this comment

    that AB jersey looks uber kak.

  • 13.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    Well done BlitzBoks

  • 14.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment

    @Fern-11: Aint it nice being a Sharks supporter?? :wink: :lol:

  • 15.blik: Reply to this comment

    @Fern-11: Cheeeeting keeeeeeweeees

  • 16.trupisero: Reply to this comment

    @TheTackler-1: Nouhoenou pisgevreet?

  • 17.TheTackler: Reply to this comment

    Well, that was a surprise!

  • 18.Loki: Reply to this comment

    Yeah, especially to the Kiwi 7′s team:)

  • 19.RL: Reply to this comment

    And so the AIG 7s lose to the little Blitz 7s.

  • 20.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @Fern-11:
    Nope and no way any of you scummy dirty eye gouging south africans can do their illegal tactics as well.

  • 21.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @blik-15:
    Racist eye gouging South Africans

  • 22.Transformation: Reply to this comment

    en nou Tekkels? what you got to say now :-)

  • 23.gonzo: Reply to this comment

    @Fern-11: No cheating necessary. NZ 10:1 RSA

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRB_Sevens_World_Series#Seasons

  • 24.gonzo: Reply to this comment

    @Hurricane-21: Speaking of gouging, have you seen this blitz on an alleged gouger? Might have cost us the cup but i half wish Richie had reacted this way in the final!

    http://www.rugbydump.com/2012/10/2795/gloucesters-andy-hazell-sees-red-following-alleged-eye-gouge

  • 25.David: Reply to this comment

    Looks like AIG has brought their own karma to the AB shirt.

  • 26.fitz1ella: Reply to this comment

    @David-25: beautiful thing karma.. it is the most beautiful thing ever devised by the architect of this universe.. it sorts all the hell out of separating the wheat from the chaff and the men from the boys.. it never ever fails in its inexorable perfectly functioning absolute knife cutting efficiency

  • 27.Transformation: Reply to this comment

    johan sadie LOANED to the Pumas to kill the Kings…hehehe…

  • 28.trupisero: Reply to this comment

    GO PUMAS!!!!!!!

  • 29.RL: Reply to this comment

    @Transformation-27: why would they – it is not like they stand a chance in hell of beating the states – reinforced with their kwas brothers. :lol:

  • 30.gonzo: Reply to this comment

    @fitz1ella-26: You’re relying on the architect of the universe to reward SA’s good karma with a Bok win?

  • 31.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @gonzo-30:
    lol
    They are hoping for anything really. SA rugby in in trouble so they need a bit of luck or karma are they call it

  • 32.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @gonzo-24:
    lol
    The gouger was hammered.
    Burger should watch this and consider himself lucky.

  • 33.Slappes: Reply to this comment

    The Glru have released the names of 2 of the top teams to contest the Lions Challenge: The Furious Fijian Fish Poachers (from Fiji) ; and the Romanian Rural District Farmers team. Rivetting rugby awaits.

  • 34.poltergeist: Reply to this comment

    Well done Blitzboks… Victory against the Cheats. Good stuff.

    The kiwis will be off to have *** with their family members now to ease the disappointment of this loss… Unless of course they come across some sheep beforehand.

    Filthy people the kiwis… Filthy.

  • 35.poltergeist: Reply to this comment

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2771535/Dad-found-guilty-of-incest-gets-community-work

    Pure filth.

  • 36.the authority: Reply to this comment

    @poltergeist

    True – incest and inbreeding is a national culture in New Zealand. Have you seen this one?

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10830202

  • 37.poltergeist: Reply to this comment

    Apparently incest is on the rise in New Zealand too.

    http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/incest-cases-becoming-more-prevalent-in-nz-5052520

    Scum. Theres no other word to describe them.

  • 38.gonzo: Reply to this comment

    @the authority-36: @poltergeist-35: You two may be on the wrong blog, this one is for rugby fans, not people obsessed with inbreeding. It’s getting kinda weird in here all of a sudden

  • 39.poltergeist: Reply to this comment

    @gonzo

    You kiwis are obsessed with inbreeding and yet you frequent this site do you not?

  • 40.TheTackler: Reply to this comment

    @Transformation-22: see 16.

  • 41.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    poltergeist and the authority

    sick individuals from a sick, rabid, murderous raping society. it’s no wonder you’re both so clued up on incest.

    nothing like the voice of experience huh?

    two gutless Internet wannabes that must be the biggest sore losers ever.

    boks third, only Argentina saving another wooden spoon. 2 wins from 8/9 against Aussie, 1 win from 7 versus the kiwis.

    hahahahahaha. you d.utchman are really stupid.

  • 42.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    poltergeist = Bakkies.

  • 43.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @poltergeist-35: @the authority-36:

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/soweto-incest-horror-exposed-1.1292296

    http://www.3-mob.com/?tag=incest-in-south-africa

    The recent Gert van Rooyen and Joey Haarhof saga has highlighted the growing incidence of sexual abuse in South Africa. However, despite these revelations, the widespread problem of sexual abuse still receives little attention.

    Part of the reason for this is that most incidents of sexual abuse do not take the form of strange men abusing little girls as was the case with Van Rooyen. The Van Rooyen case was atypical for other reasons as well. Most incidents of sexual abuse do not involve abduction and physical violence and are not committed by anti-social personalities or psychopaths.

    The predominant form of sexual abuse in South Africa takes place within the home and is committed by a family member.

    This type of abuse is commonly referred to as incest and comprises 70 to 80 percent of all sexual abuse cases. The problem of incest and sexual abuse in South Africa is not isolated to particular geographic areas. It is a problem not only in the Afrikaans-speaking suburb of Capital Park where Van Rooyen lived, but also in the northern suburb homes of Johannesburg and the overcrowded houses of Soweto.

    70 to 80% are incest related of the multitude of sexual abuse cases?? and you wish to highlight it being a problem in NZ? wtf????

    seriously, how dumb are you two? is it because you cant mention rugby because you guys get schiooled routinely in the subject that you think highlighting a problem in NZ society in some sort of oneupmanship works?

    thanks for pointing it out though, really, how stupid can you be :lol:

  • 44.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    the Authority
    Poltergeist..

    this is fun huh?

    http://www.health24.com/child/Abuse/833-859,14659.asp

    Recent reports indicate that one in two South African children have experienced some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18, says Joan van Niekerk, national coordinator of Childline, an organisation that assists children who have experienced abuse.
    Tragically most cases of abuse go unreported. The full extent of statistics therefore remains unrecorded.
    “Boys significantly under-report sexual abuse as they fear ridicule and also because much of the abuse on boys is male on male, they fear questions about their sexuality,” says Van Niekerk.

    1 in 2? are you fcken serious? filthy scum indeed, you have one sick sick sick sick society

  • 45.poltergeist: Reply to this comment

    And if incest wasnt enough, having *** with sheep and donkeys seems to be the other cultural hallmark of new zealand.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10666166

    Filthy, filthy people.

  • 46.the authority: Reply to this comment

    New Zealand’s national characteristics:

    Incest and inbreeding.
    Beastiality
    Poaching
    Cheating
    Sore losers
    Average wine

    I am The Authority

  • 47.Green is Great...black is evil: Reply to this comment

    @ kiwis

    Sexual abuse and rape takes place in all countries.

    But CONSENTUAL incest is your game. No one elses.

    Filthy people indeed.

  • 48.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @poltergeist-45: @the authority-46: @Green is Great…black is evil-47:

    good to see the idiots have returned..

    with the stats in South Africa, one of you sleeps with your sister, one is a psycopathic rapist and the other sleeps with dead bodies..

    I just wonder which one of you is which..

    still, you do show why SA is the cesspool, or hell on earth, your hatred is a wonderful thing to view…all because of a game?? one your not very good at either by the way

    hahahaha

    keep going, you only highlight why the world hates South Africa…

  • 49.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    The police are investigating a case of incest after a Soweto man allegedly fathered children with his biological daughter.

    In a chilling case reminiscent of the sexual offences of Josef Fritzl – the Austrian man who incarcerated his daughter in his house and fathered seven children with her – the Soweto man has allegedly fathered two children (if not three) with his middle daughter.

    The daughter lives with her father and the children aged 15, two and five months, in his four-room house in the township.

    The identities of the man and his daughter are known to The Star. Their names and the location of the house are being withheld to protect their children.

    The man, in his early sixties, also allegedly attempted to sexually violate his younger and elder daughters, but they both thwarted his evil intentions.

  • 50.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @the authority-46:

    SQA’s national characteristics

    Racist
    Rapists
    Murderers
    TYre burning Necklaces
    Killing people who are protesting for decent wages
    Townships where rats eat babies
    Aids is not a disease, its a lifestyle
    Bring me my machine gun
    Rugby also rans
    Aussies and NZs rugby biyatches
    Apartheid is still seen aws the shining example of SA politics
    Victim mentality due to conspiracy
    Incest was a misdemeanor until 2007
    Carjackers

    and the big one
    Cant win at rugby. because they are too stupid to realise that they are as tough as wet toilet paper..

  • 51.Green is Great...black is evil: Reply to this comment

    Oh go back to having intercourse with your sister poppa.

  • 52.Green is Great...black is evil: Reply to this comment

    Im done with her now anyway

  • 53.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 54.Black Power: Reply to this comment

    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.

  • 55.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    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?

  • 56.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 57.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    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?

  • 58.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @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..

  • 59.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman-57: I better wake up?

    is that a threat Ranger?

  • 60.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @poppa69-59: a threat?

    you feeling feisty?

    what if it was, what would you do poops, challenge me to an internet showdown?

    wake up.

  • 61.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 62.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @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.. :D

  • 63.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @poppa69-59: faaaak you are pathetic :lol:

    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.

  • 64.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @poppa69-62: sa’s psyche has takena battering? :lol:

    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 :lol:

  • 65.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @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?

  • 66.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman-64: hahaha thats the thing with assumptions, they are just that..

    now name calling? losing the battle son are we?

  • 67.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    a theat?

    pffffffffffffffft.

    what a warrior you are :lol:

    sleep tight you big girl.

  • 68.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @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 :lol:

  • 69.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman-67: Im no warrior, Ive taken my fair share of PK’s… and got back up, no dramas here..

  • 70.poppa69: Reply to this comment

    @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..

  • 71.NZRugby: Reply to this comment

    There. Now you w ankers can feel better about yourselves.

    Tell everyone that you beat nz.

  • 72.AiDoc: Reply to this comment

    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.

  • 73.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    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.

  • 74.poltergeist: Reply to this comment

    @Hurricane-73: When you say your “wife”, do you mean your “daughter”?

  • 75.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 76.whatever: Reply to this comment

    @Hurricane-75:

    Internet tough guy………….what a doos!

  • 77.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 78.Slartibartfast: Reply to this comment

    @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…

  • 79.Slartibartfast: Reply to this comment

    @Hurricane-77:

    PS Idiots like that should be removed, pass the details on to keo admin so they can nuke the guy.

  • 80.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @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.
    :-)

  • 81.Slartibartfast: Reply to this comment

    @Hurricane-80:

    Well he does have experience on his side…

  • 82.whatever: Reply to this comment

    @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!

  • 83.whatever: Reply to this comment

    PS do you pull up poppadoos for every idiotic post he makes?

    Thought not, hypoctite…..

  • 84.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 85.Hurricane: Reply to this comment

    @whatever-83:
    Nope i dont, and looks like you dont when a Saffer says something idiotic.
    The hypocrite just called me a hypocrite lol

  • 86.whatever: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 87.whatever: Reply to this comment

    @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.

  • 88.Yellowhairman: Reply to this comment

    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….

Keo.co.za has always promoted uncensored views, but has never tolerated racist or crass outbursts. Come on guys and girls. If you can't moderate yourselves or each other then I am going to be forced to regulate the posts and enforce a registration process for comments. The choice is yours.

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