NZ reign in George
New Zealand beat Fiji 21-12 in the cup final at the George Sevens on Saturday while the Boks faltered.
New Zealand controlled most of the first half and went into a 7-0 lead at the break.
The Fijians did well to get back into the game in the second half, but the Kiwis’ three tries to Fiji’s two sealed the win and secured the main prize.
New Zealand now have a healthy lead at the top of the World Series log with 48 points after consecutive cup wins, with Fiji second on 36 points.
Meanwhile, the Boks’ unimpressive World Series title defence continues, as they find themselves eighth on the World Series log on 16 points.
They had a bad opening tournament in Dubai as they finished second in the plate section and suffered the same feat in George.
After recording a 10-7 win against Samoa in a scrappy semi-final, Paul Treu’s men then produced a tired effort against England in the final, losing 21-7.
England had the clear upper hand in the first half as they easily outran a poor Bok defence and scored two converted tries for 14-0 lead at half-time.
The Boks continued to disappoint in the second half as they found themselves 21-0 behind when England scored another seven-pointer against the run of play.
Shaun Venter grabbed a consolation for the home side as he scored a last-minute touch down.
Earlier on day two, the Blitzboks suffered another cup quarterfinal exit as they lost 21-17 against Fiji.
Their inability to secure possesion at the breakdowns and lack of compsure in attack cost the home side as Fiji scored most of their tries thanks to errors from the Boks.
The home side dominated possession in the early exchanges and did well to work themselves into Fiji’s 22, but were unlucky when William Ryder scored against the run of play after an intercept break.
Marius Schoeman brought the home side back into the game with a good run into space, but Fiji extended their lead with another converted try and went into the break 14-5 ahead.
Early in the second stanza, it got worse for the Boks when Fiji broke through down the touchline to cross the chalk after stealing the ball from the set-phase in their own half.
A late brace from MJ Mentz created an intense finish as they Boks trailed by four points with a minute remaining.
South Africa, however, struggled to keep possession and conceded a penalty at a breakdown on the full time mark. Fiji cleared the ball into touch for a hard-fought victory.
The next tournament is the Wellington Sevens in New Zealand on 5 and 6 February.
George Sevens day two final results:
Shield final: Scotland 28 France 19
Bowl final: Wales 14 Russia 5
Plate final: South Africa 7 England 21
Cup semi-final 1: New Zealand 17 Kenya 14
Cup semi-final 2: Fiji 19 Argentina 14
Cup final: New Zealand 21 Fiji 12
For more fixtures and results click here
By Gareth Duncan
December 13th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@skopskiet: Hahahaha, the 2 made the right decisions in every Cup winning game they played this year, fool. What did super Luke do to move a notch above them. I do not mind him being picked for any team, that includes the Springbok team, but he never moved up past this superstars, you like to degrade.
Luke had the chance of his life to pip them in the CC semi final, but he could not get his troops through the last few minutes. Whereas VM did.
December 13th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
keep believing it cab you’re a coward, sorry to have to tell you. You don’t know squat and you too chicken to find out. So keep believing your encrusted dead beat crystallized theory’s of evolution. You poor fool, you have no clue and you aint about to find out in a hurry either. So keep going round and round your mental rosemary bush. Ask your scientists for their dumb founded non evolved realities, see if you can build a scientific model of true understanding around it. Can tell you for a fact you can’t, and never will either. Depends what you truly want. You want medicine in hospitals or rockets whizzing off to the moon. You be my guest maybe you catch a ride on the next sputnik to Mars.
What you and I are after is chalk and cheese, we nowhere nearly on the same page nor on the same wave length you still floundering around with materialist concepts of what comprises reality. Well I can tell you in no uncertain terms, reality is not physical whatsoever, you still got some way to finding out where it actually begins let alone ends. Better you ask your quantum theorists, they starting to ask some the pertinent questions but like all those governed by pure egotism and self centered blindness they have no real clue exactly where to look, so they search on still. You be my guest you search wherever you think you going to find it. But don’t come crying when you run out of rational skeptic scientific physical avenues that all result in dead ends.
You simply don’t have the beginning of any grasp of clear ability at understanding, and I’m simply losing my patience with this dead end exercise. You want truth or reality then seek it, but don’t pretend and lie to yourself thats what you seek when in fact its the furthest thing from your dead end non seeking materially encrusted mind.
December 13th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
what u know about what i or anyone else seeks? how u know i have not started on one of your paths? u know nutting. u know the identity i present to you on here to test what u know and believe.
what i do know is that it is highly unlikely someone knows all, not even your most precious.
December 13th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
@111BIG5:
# 400
The WP team was dead and buried after 20 minutes in that final. Watson lifted them and they fought back against overwhelming odds and half the current Springbok team only to be denied in the last few minutes by a lazy high tackle and a once in a lifetime kick by Steyn.
You cannot hold that against Watson?
December 13th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
@Robzim:
#402
final = semi final = a sad day.
December 13th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
You want medicine, go to a doctor or the hospital. You want to hitch a ride to the moon or planet Mars, go to Nasa and ask them for a ride on the next shuttle mission. You want to find out which atoms or particles collide with each other to disect the God Particle go to Cern and ask the scientists there if they anywhere nearer to discovering who they are or where they come from or what comprises physical reality let alone metaphysical or causal reality that sustains this physical universe.
Million dollar question is wtf do you actually want, 2nd hand second grade physical conclusions about nothing at all in essence or real live illumined understanding of actually wtf its all about. You make the choice for yourself. But if its true reality you seek then go to those that have access to it, not to those dumb blind idiot fools who don’t.
Klaar – fini
December 13th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
actually we probably are like chalk and cheese, but the difference is that i would not hold that against you, its interesting. in fact, your one saving grace imo is your atttitudes towards race and fairness, which i wholly admire, for the rest its just blinded polemic without a rational bone in your body, and thats fine with me, but dont ask to be the same, i dont want to be.
December 14th, 2009 at 12:14 am
no two individuals are the same, no two states of conditioned existence are synonymous with each other. You want to paint anyone with your judgmental brush of what is credible and what isn’t thats your own business and loss.
I don’t hold out who I am as some sort of valuable example for you to aspire to. Who the hell wants to be your model of admiration, certainly not me, I’d much rather you despise me than hold me up as some kind of delusionary model of human credibility.
The issue is most certainly not me here, the issue is simply what the hell do you want from out your life and for yourself and what in true real earnestness is it you sincerely seek. That is the million dollar question, not whether I represent any model of upstanding human value for your estimation of what a credible principled human being comprises.
I simply iterate it once more and hopefully it is the last time I need to. You want truth and reality, go where it is prevalent and can be sought and attested and acknowledged and made manifest. You want any other two bit second grade mind extrapolated bs then continue in your merry go round of confused rationality.
I’m done with this foolhardy exercise in nothingness and I most certainly don’t seek nor ask your ratification or admiration. You’re an inaccurate materialist who has stumbled perhaps on a chink of where reality might be sought, if you are brave or courageous enough to persue it perhaps nature and destiny will lead you in the right direction. I have hinted in vague terms where it is accessible. If your dumb egotist arrogance and pride is too smart and self assuring to acknowledge the simplicity of where it might be at then suffer in your judgmental stupor. I got nothing to do with fools who prefer blindness over sight. You got some mighty pedestals still to climb off, you and all of those that frequent the high and mighty intellectual realms of steeped encrusted self centered delusionary egotism. Such blinded company is simply not appealing to those who seek humility or truth. So you go your way. You follow the dictates of your conditioning and your destiny, I’m done with casting any further pearls along the highway.
Adios Galag mafish
December 14th, 2009 at 12:31 am
i’m obviously getting the wrong end of the stick, since it was you who raised chalk and cheese in the first place.
i thought it was obvious and implicit we were different. Just seems to me that its you who only admits certain types to the inner sanctum, they’er either in or out, invariably they happen to be those that agree with you. well i’m afraid i dont, in many situations, and that doesn’t make me blind or encrusted, it just makes me see things differently to you.
for what its worth i could not give a goddamn about scientists or artists, they both have their place. as for truth seeking, don’t bother yourself about me, concern yourself with yourself.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Another good preformance from the boys. After a shocking 08/09 season its great to see the boys coming back even stronger. Blitzbokke seriously need a name change, must be embarrassing being called the blitzbokke but yet your the one being blitz
December 14th, 2009 at 3:36 am
@Kiwisamoan:
Yeah, similar to being no 1 in the rankings yet taking 3 smacks from the Boks in one year in the 15’s game
December 14th, 2009 at 5:00 am
@whatever: nah not really, there’s never any embarrasment in losing to the world champs. Losing to England in a Plate final and coming away with nothing again and losing to two club teams in one year is embarrassing
December 14th, 2009 at 7:00 am
@Kiwisamoan: Samoa lost to Italy
December 14th, 2009 at 7:01 am
@Kiwisamoan: I would have to agree with you….losing to two club sides or losing to the Irish, a team that NZ have never lost to they have a few things to be embaressed about..
December 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
@Big Hit: Thought this was a 7’s thread?? current 7 standing NZ 1st Samoa 4th slowbokke 8th. Behind OZ, Kenya, argies hahaha