Blitzbokke storm into semis
10 Feb 2013
The Springbok Sevens will play Samoa in the Cup semi-finals at Las Vegas after beating Wales 26-0 in the quarter-finals.
Earlier in the day, the Blitzbokke beat Kenya 15-5 to finish top of Pool B.
The other Cup semi-final will be between New Zealand and Fiji after New Zealand beat Canada 17-0 and Fiji edged the USA 21-19.
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Cup semi-finals:
New Zealand vs Fiji, 9:32pm (SA time)
South Africa vs Samoa, 9:54pm (SA time)
27 Comments
10 Feb 2013, 08:36 am
go boys!
10 Feb 2013, 09:18 am
RT @keocoza: Blitzbokke storm into semis: The Springbok Sevens will play Samoa in the Cup semi-finals at Las Vegas after b… http://t.c …
10 Feb 2013, 18:04 pm
Good luck. It would be great to see an RSA v NZL final but Samoa v Fiji would be cool also.
I am sitting here watching the Oilyish v Opium Pushing Slave Traders, and the French referee is such a Drongo bullied by a Welsh get who is decidedly incompetent. If an AB or Bokke had been playing against either of these two teams and done the nonsense we have seen there would have been two red cards and two yellow. It is only half time!!!! NO cards.
10 Feb 2013, 18:08 pm
The Oilyish also have an Oz coach so are they going to be drug tested?
10 Feb 2013, 19:03 pm
Half time Bb 12 – 0 Fiji
10 Feb 2013, 19:04 pm
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11 Feb 2013, 00:42 am
SA 28-0 Kiwis…. Come on BLitzbokke
11 Feb 2013, 00:45 am
Gonna be tough to come back from this. Maybe the parachuter’s plane will land on the field and they’ll have to call it a draw
11 Feb 2013, 00:47 am
Damn big performance from SA here
11 Feb 2013, 00:53 am
Cheap shot Kiwi’s. Always resort to dirty tactics when things dont go their way. Well done Bokke.
11 Feb 2013, 00:55 am
Well done to the bokke. I almost never watch 7s and well, I tune in to what must almost be the first time you’ve beaten us in the final. Wasn’t even close!
11 Feb 2013, 00:58 am
S.A. win 40-21 to take the cup how’s that for a turnaround and everyone wanted Tree’s head last week
11 Feb 2013, 01:09 am
Wow that was nice to watch, well done Blitzbokke.
11 Feb 2013, 01:26 am
7s Rankings
1. New Zealand
2. South Africa
How things should be.
11 Feb 2013, 01:28 am
Now lets hope this win doean’t stay in Vegas. Lets win Hong Kong too
11 Feb 2013, 01:29 am
Nice win for the bok sevens.
Suppose to coach is ok now?
11 Feb 2013, 01:37 am
@Hurricane-16:
Such bizarre results in the 7′s this year, if I did not know better I would have sworn the bookies got involved…
11 Feb 2013, 02:36 am
@Slartibartfast-17:
Boxing now 7′s …. who knows.
11 Feb 2013, 02:42 am
Blitz bokke were great The best team at Vegas
At last they were aggressive on defense and really challenged at the breakdown
The guys beat a tough Canada and Kenya in pool games fairly easy and had to be favorites Samoa in semis
Then outplayed ABs in Final
Well done guys
11 Feb 2013, 02:46 am
@Hurricane-18:
Ja Kiwis even beat SA in cricket
…
But jokes aside, I did not see any of the 7′s this weekend but did watch last weekend, the Boks could hardly pass a ball, let alone catch it and tackling was like open gates. How does a team turn it around in one short week to lead the ABs’ 35 zip at half time?
11 Feb 2013, 03:17 am
@Slartibartfast-20:
hmmm i asked for a look into the one dayers where the kiwis beat the proteas…. thats not right….surely corruption played a part in it
Yeah but back to the 7′s, the Boks just found the groove. Not much any team could do by the looks of it. Are the boks 7′s equivilent to the french 15′s
11 Feb 2013, 03:22 am
@Hurricane-21:
I suspect Ritchie had a hand in the cricket result…
Maybe that is it, brilliant but only when they feel like it…I see the hot favorites France now lost 2 in a row saving their best for…well, we will have to wait and see.
11 Feb 2013, 06:44 am
@skopdiekan-12: wait for Bryce_in_Oz to insult our players & call them “Orks” or HendrikP to give your his “expert” conmentary on what Treu did right
11 Feb 2013, 07:06 am
(sorry… I put this in another thread because I thought this was only about the semis…)
congratulations to the Las Blitzies…!!
first tournament of the season where they actually played to their potential…
well done…!
11 Feb 2013, 08:12 am
Well done SA for picking up the Vegas title.
This result just shows how competitive this competition has become, with any of half a dozen or more teams capable of clicking and running over the opposition.
It’s anyones guess what will evolve by the time the Olympics roll around.
For sure though, NZ wont want to go through the choker cycle at the Olympics like we have done this season, winning only one of the 4 finals the team has appeared in this season..
That said, the ways points awarded over this competition means NZ has steadily increased it lead over the opposition even though we haven’t run out the winner.
So we could potentially retain the title without winning another tournament this season. That seems wrong somehow!
11 Feb 2013, 08:18 am
@Brads-25:
Nah Brads, it give the honors to the team who has performed consistantly over the whole tournament, nothing wrong with that. If the AB wheels suddenly comes off and they don’t make the 1/4 or 1/2 in one or two of the remaining tournaments then and only then will their #1 spot be in trouble.
11 Feb 2013, 08:22 am
@Slartibartfast-26:
Okay, fair enough.
Got to say though, they have come pretty close to missing the second days main draw fixtures.
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