Blitzbokke klap Kiwis
11 Feb 2013
The Springbok Sevens won their second Las Vegas title in three seasons after a record 40-21 win over New Zealand in the Cup final.
South Africa were in stunning form in the final with Branco du Preez, back in the side after missing three tournaments because of injury, putting in a stellar performance, scoring two tries and contributing a haul of 18 points.
The Blitzbokke not only registered their biggest ever Cup final win over New Zealand, but they also reclaimed second position on the Sevens World Series log.
It was the team’s first Cup success in two years after their win in Scotland in 2011.
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11 Feb 2013, 11:45 am
@John Galt-99:
LOL.
11 Feb 2013, 11:47 am
Happy Chinese New Year Caner, the year of the snake and there are plenty around here.
11 Feb 2013, 11:49 am
Well done Blitzbokke.
About time.
Sorry to all my Kiwi mates (who don’t blog here, by the way) – I am sure New Zealand will win another 7s title shortly though!
11 Feb 2013, 11:53 am
Willie has kiwi mates
hahaha.
yeah right.
11 Feb 2013, 11:58 am
@NZINCHINA-102:
And Happy Year to You and Yours NZC.
Let me guess fireworks was it?
LOL.
11 Feb 2013, 11:59 am
@the curse-104: They always say that,don’t they? It’t like saying …I am no racist,I have black friends.
11 Feb 2013, 12:00 pm
@cane-97:
I’m sure they fit in well there.
11 Feb 2013, 12:00 pm
@S_K-106: it’s
11 Feb 2013, 12:02 pm
teaser on news24…
Botha v SBW to be probed
the aliens have landed…!!
11 Feb 2013, 12:03 pm
This from Sir Bob Jones:
Sonny Bill Williams is an “idiot adrift on a float of publicity” and his fight with Francois Botha was like playing tennis against “elderly women and fat chaps”, boxing enthusiast Sir Robert Jones says.
“This sort of thing was quite predictable, and who’s to blame? The media are to blame,” Jones told RadioLive.
“Right from the time that Williams has decided he wanted to take up boxing he has been given an absurd amount of attention, bogus opponents have been set up.”
Jones said everything about Friday’s fight was “seedy and nasty”.
“It’s an invasion of a pure sport … by impure people,” he said.
“I exclude Williams from that.
“He just seems to be an idiot adrift on a float of publicity, but it should never be given this attention and … it wouldn’t once. I mean, what’s going on in the world?”
The event gave boxing a bad image, when it had nothing to do with the sport.
Jones said Williams “seems to be a very unsettled person, changing countries and sport on an annual basis”.
He also said the WBA was a “nonsense” and a “ratbag” organisation, and described South African Botha, 44, as a geriatric in boxing terms who reached his zenith last century and was “knocked out by everybody”.
The championship belt Botha and Williams were supposedly fighting for was “bogus”.
“There’s no such championship,” Jones said.
“Imagine if he [Williams] suddenly decided he wanted to take up tennis, and so he’s matched with elderly women and fat chaps who’ve never held a tennis racket.
“This is the equivalent of what happened with boxing with massive publicity. I mean, it’s absurd.
“Then they dig up some tennis player who’s actually dying of cancer, or something, who won Wimbledon, or who was a Wimbledon player in 1966, or something, and give it all this hype. This is not a bad analogy.”
Jones said genuine boxing was doing well around the world.
“This is the thing that hurts,” he said.
“This sort of stuff is commanding the publicity. That’s probably because we don’t have any prominent boxers here at the moment.
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11 Feb 2013, 12:03 pm
@ufo-109:
Grantie will be called in as an expert witness.
11 Feb 2013, 12:06 pm
dear lord in heaven….when we thought they couldnt get cheesier
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=cYRRAvi3cpw&feature=share
11 Feb 2013, 12:08 pm
@ufo-109: .
That should make Granties day.
11 Feb 2013, 12:09 pm
@cane-94:
because back here a verbal agreement and a handshake is good enough.
11 Feb 2013, 12:14 pm
Don’t miss the beautiful leather journal that’s so easy to make and looks like a million bucks! … Monogrammed Boxer Shorts – BHG; Knit Chunky Sweater – Yarn Forward; Dad Frame – Martha Stewart; Tread Belt – Instructables; Golf Towel … Thank you for providing such an extensive DIY collection of ideas.
and here’s one for the belt…….
In two parts. The whole thing may take a day. the vid. is only about 12 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7R-Igqoe4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDVDKwKCIGM
who needs a Nassar??
11 Feb 2013, 12:14 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-114:
Yeah right.
In NZ they used to say,
” After shaking hands with Dannie Craven, count your fingers, because you’ve just lost something”.
11 Feb 2013, 12:18 pm
@gunther-111:
11 Feb 2013, 12:20 pm
@cane-116: surely sbw can do the same…. seeing he claims to be the vindicated one?
11 Feb 2013, 12:28 pm
“Francois said the way it was done was very unprofessional, nothing was sealed, nothing was done properly. It gets shadier by the moment.”
Goldberg admitted Botha regularly took a sleeping pill on the eve of a fight and used “a lot of supplements” but was surprised Phentermine was detected.
However, Williams’ manager Khoder Nasser insisted the findings were accurate.
Nasser said the WBA required a blood test and Botha volunteered a urine sample.
“The blood test came back clean, the urine came back not clean,” he told Fairfax Media.
Botha claimed on Campbell Live that Nasser’s brother, or a family member, had administered the drug test.
Nasser would not confirm who collected and processed the samples saying it was “the same people that conduct all the tests that we use”. He said it was a “reputable pathology company”.
11 Feb 2013, 12:29 pm
The Australian National Boxing Federation was sceptical about the validity of the tests.
National vice president Alan Moore – one of three judges who scored the bout in the Kiwi’s favour – was mystified as to why Botha would even provide a urine sample when it was not legally required.
Botha arrived in Australia with a chequered medical history – he tested positive for the steroid nandrolone after beating Germany’s Axel Schulz to claim the IBF heavyweight title in 1995. The fight was eventually deemed a no contest and the organisation does not recognise him as a former champion.
Goldberg accompanied Botha to a doctor’s surgery in Brisbane and said: “There are a lot of strange things that happened.
“This has all come out very quickly, it’s bizarre.
“He’s very upset, he doesn’t believe it and wants to be tested in a lab in South Africa to see if it’s bullshit or not.
11 Feb 2013, 12:30 pm
@cane-116:
And you obviously took it literally..probably still trying to count those ten digits…
11 Feb 2013, 12:32 pm
Jaywriter24 minutes ago
SBW is a nice guy – he has got to get away from this Nasser guy. He needs a real manager who is above board and who actually cares about the people who he manages. Nasser had something to do with the testing of Botha’s urine samples?
Shadier by the minute. I think that Botha should be SBW’s manager. He obviously really cares about the boy, seeing as he was offering some much needed advice to him during the fight and was also giving him a spanking for not listening.
11 Feb 2013, 12:35 pm
@cane-91:
Indeed he will have a lot of support from me.
11 Feb 2013, 12:38 pm
Sunni Bin is welcome on my couch.
Anytime
I live near the mosque
No problems
11 Feb 2013, 12:39 pm
Yeesh what a disastrous Monday morning I have had
11 Feb 2013, 12:41 pm
The Bakkies Poeps stoush is longer, sadder, more dubious and ultimately more futile than the SBW Botha affair.
11 Feb 2013, 12:44 pm
Cape Town – New Zealand’s referees will be stepping out in pink in this year’s Super Rugby tournament thanks to a three-year sponsorship deal with Pink® Batts®.
According to the allblacks.com website, the deal means a new strip for referees with their pink socks, shorts and shirt uniform making a debut next weekend in Round 2 of Super Rugby when the Highlanders host the reigning champion Chiefs in Dunedin, and the Hurricanes host the Blues in Wellington.
NZRU High Performance Referees Manager Rod Hill said: “We’re looking forward to raising the visibility of referees to rugby followers and if the colour gets people talking then that’s fantastic. What’s really important is that Pink® Batts®’ support will help increase awareness and interest in what referees do, while helping us to retain the current crop of referees.”
New Zealand referee Chris Pollock said: “If wearing pink means we can encourage more people to be involved in refereeing at all levels of the game, and that more people recognise that refereeing can be great fun, then I’m all for it.”
11 Feb 2013, 12:45 pm
@Dawn-124:
Do you do a good Halaal poitje?
11 Feb 2013, 12:46 pm
@stormer in a teacup-126:
Bakkies is trying to wear down Popps……………………………………….but Popps is still jabbing.
11 Feb 2013, 12:47 pm
@gunther-128:
No but I have a cousin who is a killer Halaal cook
11 Feb 2013, 12:48 pm
@gunther-128:
All Hal will break lose on that couch of hers, if she get SB on it.
11 Feb 2013, 12:49 pm
@cane-129: If only they could shorten it to 10 rounds.
11 Feb 2013, 12:52 pm
@cane-131:
No doubt.
Lets hope they shorten the bout to ten rounds otherwise Dawnies going to be walking like the Duke.
11 Feb 2013, 12:52 pm
@cane-131: Couch, pause , engage. Sonny better watch his tackle.
11 Feb 2013, 12:54 pm
@cane-131:
Twelve rounds, no stopping for breaks
11 Feb 2013, 12:55 pm
Sunni Bin will have staring time first
I will stare at all the muscles
11 Feb 2013, 12:56 pm
@gunther-133:
Ha
As if
He will be walking like The Duke
11 Feb 2013, 12:57 pm
@cane-131:
He’s fly for a kiwi guy
11 Feb 2013, 13:06 pm
@Dawn-137:
Take it easy there pilgrim.
11 Feb 2013, 13:08 pm
the funny thing is popps and bakks are so alike it’s surreal…
they be peas in a pod… mirror images… siamese twins… dance partners…
both tenacious, argumentative and always wanna get in the last word…
this could go on for years…!!
but…
both are also good, stand-up guys…
if you can see passed the whirling dervish of flailing fists, knees to the groin, elbows to the eye and boots in the back… and the kapPOW, WHAM, SMACK, THUD, SCHPROING of their comic-like engagements…
11 Feb 2013, 13:13 pm
@ufo-140:
BubbaGump.
11 Feb 2013, 13:13 pm
@stormer in a teacup-126:
11 Feb 2013, 13:15 pm
@ufo-140:
I think,
you could well be right ufo.
11 Feb 2013, 13:17 pm
@gunther-141:
@cane-143:
but neither will ever admit it…!
11 Feb 2013, 13:18 pm
@cane-129:
he’s tough, Caner
like a bag full of rattlesnakes
@ufo-140:
and the thing is, he’s convinced he’s right
geddafuckouttahere
whad i gotta do
whad i gotta do
11 Feb 2013, 13:20 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-145:
hahaha
11 Feb 2013, 13:22 pm
@ufo-109: They’ve been around some time already……..
See HG and Skop for reference.
11 Feb 2013, 13:26 pm
Well done Blitzies.
We won the Las Vegas tournament in 2011 as well. The venue appears to be a happy hunting ground.
So the moral of the story is “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”.
11 Feb 2013, 13:29 pm
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-147:
hehehe…
come to teach us the errors of our ways…
11 Feb 2013, 13:54 pm
@grant10-127: I love going home to watch the rugby. Watching Sky Sports UK, it’s all telcos and banks and flash ads at half time. In NZ, we have ads for pink bats, tractors and various cow sprays. Very rural and down to earth
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