Kenya kill off Kiwis and Boks
2 Feb 2013
Kenya stunned the Sevens All Blacks on the same day they edged South Africa. But they just failed in the final against England.
Kenya were a second away from a historic first series tournament win but England turned the ball over with time up on the clock and scored to level 19-all. The heartbreak was evident and the Kenyans folded in the first minute of extra time when England scored to take the win and the title 24-19.
Kenya led 19-12 at the break and controlled the second half and seemed to have done enough for a glorious result but two sin-binnings in the last three minutes proved costly, as did confusion about the time left. The televisions clock showed time up but the stadium clock showed 25 seconds. It was in those 25 seconds that Kenya coughed up the ball and England took full advantage.
Hosts New Zealand lead Kenya 14-0 at half-time, but the most popular team at the tournament were stunning in their comeback to score after the hooter to tie it up 14-all.
And then the more physical and desperate Kenyans scored within a minute in the sudden death to win 21-14.
Earlier Kenya won the quarter-final 21-20 against a Bok team that scored four tries but failed to land a kick.
On day one the Boks only won one match in three but went through on points difference. In the quarter-final four tries would usually be enough for victory but Philip Snyman had an awful day with the boot and couldn’t find his radar.
New Zealand, beaten in the semi-final, were too good for Australia 24-5 in the quarter-final. The Kiwis produced their best tournament performance in the third and fourth play-off, beating Samoa 17-7.
Samoa and England, the two most impressive teams, met in the semi-final and England won 21-19.
Corne Hendricks (two) and Stephan Dippenaar gave the Boks a 15-7 lead at the break before Willy Ambaka reduced the lead to just one point. Chris Dry stretched the Boks lead to six points but with two minutes to Ambaka scored his second and Biko Adema added the two points for a famous African win.
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2 Feb 2013, 23:05 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-99: its a stereotype bakkies, one you guys seem to dislike when I generalise about Saffas…
sure NZ has alcohol problems, but so does SA… who knows which countries is worse, but Id hazard a guess many crimes in BOTH countries related to alcohol go unreported..
but like I said, Im happy to continue to post crime stats about SA, if thats what floats your boat, so feel free to continue
2 Feb 2013, 23:07 pm
@the curse-98:
You keep on posting SA crime stories from our local press.
We read it aswell so it is no epihany.
Your schadenfraude is amazing.
You need help,you have been acting up lately.
Why are you still up at this hour?
Rhetorical question.
2 Feb 2013, 23:09 pm
@the curse-101
You are happy to post crime reports
Sad
Says it all.
2 Feb 2013, 23:11 pm
@the curse-101:
So reading it makes you happy because you can repost it here…
Reading about someone brutally murdered makes you happy because you can repost…
2 Feb 2013, 23:11 pm
@Fern-103: youre happy to continually go on about NZs alcohol problems, whats the difference?
is it because youve been so emasculated by your countries complete and utter failure to do anything wirthwhile on a rugby pitch for years that you have to make yourself feel somewhat better by taking pot shots at a country thats better at the game then yours?
hypocrite much?
2 Feb 2013, 23:12 pm
@Fern-104: whats that, you dont like me posting SA’s crime problems?
do you think we like you continuously posting NZs problems?
cmon Lazarus, open your eyes
2 Feb 2013, 23:14 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-99:
i take the auckland assault = i take the auckland assault back
2 Feb 2013, 23:16 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-107: until the next thread when you’ll post another non-related NZ crime story..
I know the routine bakkies..
2 Feb 2013, 23:17 pm
@the curse-101:
It is also not about returning serve.
Seems you so not have the manna to be the better man,you stoop to the level of people you seem inferior to you.
2 Feb 2013, 23:23 pm
@Fern-109: no Fern, I just dont like braggarts like yourself who remain blind to the many social ills in their own country yet can and do with monotonous regularity revel in another countries crime problems..
Have a look at your posts on this thread, you celebrated kenyas wonderful tournament with two posts, then the rest of however many you made are all on Alcohol problems in NZ..
its you who needs help, not I.
I was just amazed there were no mentions of all your wonderful conquests while you were in NZ, seems rather strange that, especially when you keep telling us you plan on visiting the country again..
NZ has social problems, like SA does, but the way you and others continuously go on about NZ youd think SA was a crime free Utopia..
so like I said, Im happy to remind you all that your country isnt free of its own problems either, like I know my country has serious issues too..
I realise youll fail to see the point though..
2 Feb 2013, 23:30 pm
@the curse-101:
ok, so you dont think NZ is a little worse than SA in this regard?
personally i think it is, but its neither here nor there.
just my opinion.
@the curse-108:
point taken, i will endeavour to stay on point.
i hope you will try to do the same.
on a related note, your thoughts on the ‘deer velvet’ supplements case?
2 Feb 2013, 23:31 pm
@the curse-106:
I have made comments.
I have never searched for articles and reposted them here.
But hey each to his own.
Gotta roll.
2 Feb 2013, 23:34 pm
@the curse-110:
Hahaha
I work in townships 2 days a week and has been vocally critical about non delivery of service and crime.
You painted yourself in a corner.
See ya.
2 Feb 2013, 23:39 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-111: I personally have never been to SA, so cant comment on the misuse of Alcohol in relation to NZs own misuse of alcohol… Ive seen first hand how bad it is in NZ, and it appalls me that people can treat other people that way.. Alcohol is far worse then a lot of other drugs in its overall effect on a community..
I dont know about the deer supplement case, i rarely read the news these days, its not a good advertisement for our species..
2 Feb 2013, 23:41 pm
@Fern-113: oh you humanitarian you, so you see it first hand in your country yet still feel it necessary to mock another country for it?
strange logic
2 Feb 2013, 23:56 pm
@the curse-114:
amen to that, i find it shameful when grown men lose control the way they do when drunk. i have a few basic rules that applies in life, whether drunk or sober, and i stick by them.
regarding a the deer velvet supplements, i would be interested to know the extent of its use in NZ rugby, and no its not about scoring cheap points.
3 Feb 2013, 00:03 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-116: like I said I havent read the story, seen your post about it in relation to Bob Charles on the Hore thread
seriously, I think they should just allow doping and be done with it, in every sport, its use will never stop and the testing for such is always reactive…
how many of the gold medals at the olympics, percentage wise, may have been won by people whose chemist is one step ahead of the “authorities”?
fame, wealth, immortality are strong elixirs that can and do push people to gain an unfair advantage..
I imagine it is rife in every sport, sadly..
3 Feb 2013, 00:05 am
@the curse-115:
We have contracts in townships and get paid,nothing humanatarian about it.
3 Feb 2013, 00:07 am
@Fern-118: so you just ignore the crime and alcohol problems in these areas?
yet will continuously point to NZs similar problems?
again, strange logic fern
if it helps you sleep at night then please continue..
3 Feb 2013, 00:11 am
@the curse-117:
well i can agree with you on this.
not the ‘everyone should dope and be done with it part’ but on the fact its sadly probably a lot more widespread than we would like to admit.
the Americans involvement as a whole in the Olympics especially, i do not consider in any good regard.
3 Feb 2013, 00:21 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-120: the pharmacology world in general is an abomination..
its easier to give someone a pill then to address the underlying issues, kids with ADHD for example, lets medicate them and not worry about the detrimental effect it has on them..
just sad..
3 Feb 2013, 21:17 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-95:
Two faced a$$hole.
Thread was all about sevens and then you bring up assaults in a different part of NZ…. You are a trouble maker then you have Ranger that thought it was not right for me to bring up something the other day that was not part of the thread but allows you to post garbage….very odd indeed.
3 Feb 2013, 22:50 pm
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander…………..if you dish out cheap shots, don’t cry when it comes back to bloody your noses
3 Feb 2013, 23:45 pm
@whatthe-123:
what would you know?
You’re about as one eyed as a trouser snake.
4 Feb 2013, 00:15 am
@Hurricane-124:
A least I got one you whinging girl!
4 Feb 2013, 00:41 am
hahahaha. whatever trying to somehow indicate he’s a man by highlighting his insecurity in having to assert on a rugby blog that he has a one eyed trouser snake?
hahaha
isn’t recess over and don’t you have to get back to licking the windows?
his other reasoning is he’s SA and things about NZ don’t effect hiim, so fck everyone else. it’s the same attitude many white Saffas had during apartheid. yet he gets upset when we say stuff about SA
as I’ve always said, he is the biggest girly hypocrite on this blog
whatadick indeed.
4 Feb 2013, 03:55 am
@whatthe-125:
Whats above your shoulders does not count.
4 Feb 2013, 06:39 am
@the curse-119:
South Africans don’t have a drinking problem. if there was any other way of getting all that alcohol into their body, they would give up in a second…
4 Feb 2013, 06:54 am
@Hurricane-122:
wow, that is quite a mouth you have on you.
those are terrible words you have used there and certainly is no way to speak to people, Hurri.
i’m going to give you time to cool down and hope i will receive an apology when you’re feeling better.
4 Feb 2013, 09:31 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-129:
Waiting for an apology??
Never apologise to someone thats scans NZ papers for assaults etc to try and rub in our faces…. you need to look at how you come across and really apologise to yourself…..
4 Feb 2013, 10:26 am
Well done Kenya , I long said that SA super teams should look to africa for some wings , especially the Stormers. They have some potentially awesome backline players !
4 Feb 2013, 15:00 pm
Treu is a spent force. Enough said.
6 Feb 2013, 07:14 am
@Hurricane-130:
i’m going to give you a chance to get it together, Hurri.
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