Comments on: Blitzboks settle for bronze

By: Slartibartfast

Slartibartfast — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:56:37 +0000

@Yellowhairman-31: Well for starters, George is about 330km from the stadium so I think a little unfair to blame them...

By: Yellowhairman

Yellowhairman — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:19:16 +0000

The Blitzbokke more like the Phizzbokke – and yet I agree with some of the comments – SA rugby still wants to bulldoze and run over players, crash/tackle lose the ball and it happened a number of times. NZ were just too clever for them in the semi’s and then blew away the French in the final.

As to moving it – not sure what was wrong with George, but for a world tournament the crowd was pathetic. BUT – to have a swipe at the many many coloureds “SA term” who support NZ and always have and always will is a cheap shot.

By: lepel

lepel — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:10:13 +0000

This is all just indicative of the problem in South African rugby. We are still convinced that running into people is the way to play. Even in a game like sevens where exploiting space is the most important thing one can do, we run into people.

We coach our boys to do this from a very young age. Every primary school coach loves getting that one big kid who can run over everyone. That kid develops into the star player and everyone else looks up to him, until everyone catches up to him as well. Problem is… they still think running into each other is the best way to get to the try line.

Stupid stupid stupid rugby.

Treu has to be the worst coach in the sevens game that he still cannot see this. The Boks are they only team who kick for field position, who take crash balls etc. We’re too thick to understand that there could just be an alternative.

By: Dusky

Dusky — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:54:41 +0000

Eish marra….I kant belief….

By: Doughnut

Doughnut — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:26:01 +0000

Sevens team is ****, reckon they should start again like the Oz. I saw them in Dubai and frankly they are closer to football players than rugger players. The teams like Spain, Argentina, Portugal, Scotland all work harder and play a better tactic than the B(F)oks … ))

By: suffer_guy

suffer_guy — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:44:12 +0000

2 many quotas in the team.. ANCYL would love this team..all that they need is Juan de jongh

By: Rage

Rage — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:16:52 +0000

the try that Baker scored courtesy of Mikkelson’s football skills…ladies and gents, that was just marvelous to behold.

By: Slartibartfast

Slartibartfast — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:18:08 +0000

@Big Jack-24: Travel the world, stay in nice hotels...

By: Big Jack

Big Jack — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:54:48 +0000

Paul Treu has the best job in the world: good pay, job security, no effort needed, …..

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:55:17 +0000

Totally different from 15 mate. Training is orientated around sprint work and burst type sessions. I guess one could compare the work with a black role only soldier(commandos) to a SAS soldier both extremely fit but it’s either one or the other. Can’t have hybrid athletes anymore. Sevens is becoming too professional for that. Gordo and Forbes are bloody legends too. As long as their knowledge is there we will always have the upper hand. See Aussie has started a sevens academy with the sole purpose of getting an extra gold in Brazil. Don’t waste your money men haha.

By: SjamBok

SjamBok — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:36:10 +0000

No I cannot move on while watching teh Kiwis dominate the game. Perhaps if we had a better focus on it, it would affect the backline skills of our S15 players too.

By: CoachPete

CoachPete — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:59:34 +0000

@Angostura-20: And a new Olympic sport so its becoming popular world wide where as the top 10 rugby countries in 15 man game are still too strong for rest of the world I agree we need to contest the rucks and breakdown more aggressively and ad some bigger stronger fast players like Samoa

By: Angostura

Angostura — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:44:49 +0000

@Slumtown-16:

The Blitzbokke did well – only lost one game this tournament (so did NZ).
And that loss was imo principally attributable to our boys being rucked off their own ball a couple of times. (So rucking & counter-rucking need attention more than anything else – we don’t need an influx of Super15 & Bok stars into 7s – that’s retrogressive).

Besides 7s (same as T20) – not the real thing; just superficial ******* derivatives of their respective serious underlying sporting disciplines – pop sport.

Just ‘light-hearted’ entertainment – no need for us to take frivolity so damn seriously…. have fun & move on.

By: CoachPete

CoachPete — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:34:50 +0000

Seems to me we need to add so top class players like Slumtown mentioned
and ad some beef too
And yes let them play this in Kimberly or some where hard for visiting teams

By: silent_shadow

silent_shadow — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:27:40 +0000

@silent_shadow-17: *about

By: silent_shadow

silent_shadow — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:25:48 +0000

To be honest I’m more excited ahbout seeing that provincial sevens tournament next week.

By: Slumtown

Slumtown — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:03:36 +0000

Sevens is just plain lame and frustrating. If they want to compete they need to put a team together that has Super Rugby experience. Guys like –
Kanko, Ebersohn, Rhule, Basson, Jongi Nokwe, Kabamba Floors, Brussouw, Willie Le Roux, Sarel Pretorius, Juan de Jongh, Joe Pietersen, Aplon, Koster, Kolisi, Houghaard, Paul Jordaan, etc etc They should have some clause that each franchise should give a player per Sevens season from each of the 5 Super franchises. Might develop our backline play a bit.

By: Liewe Luiperd

Liewe Luiperd — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:59:32 +0000

The international commentators were at a complete loss as to why NZ are so successful at the SA 7s…

It’s practically a home tournament for them.

The experiment of PE has failed dismally. Move the tournament out of the Cape and as far away as possible from the huge coloured traitor support base and you may find the tables starting to turn back in SA’s favour.

By: uhuru

uhuru — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:09:45 +0000

@TooMuchRugby-12: To my understanding, pools are determined from results in the previous tournament.

By: David

David — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:49:50 +0000

@TooMuchRugby-12: Didn't Portugal beat us and England the last round?