NZ reign in George
12 Dec 2009
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
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13 Dec 2009, 18:56 pm
@skopskiet: Some wise words there Skop.
I stand by my culture statement. I really do not care about colour.
Actually i have a thing for Coloured women. Some real ******* out there.Mooi bly mooi.
Research also found that they are the most tempered drivers.The least agressive behind the wheel.
So anybody is free to call me a racist.I however know who i am.
13 Dec 2009, 19:56 pm
Morning guys.
Well went to Invictus last night with family.
Its a good movie. Facts are accurate and generally gave everyone a good feeling about the situation and rugby in SA at the time
Ye US audience applauded at the end
For me I think it did more for rugby in USA in one weekend than over the past 40 years
13 Dec 2009, 19:56 pm
Christmas time is here again.
Guess not.
13 Dec 2009, 20:00 pm
@CoachPete: Hi Coach, Jim T has just given us his review of ‘Invictus’ on Rugby-Talk, he was not convinced that Clint had really taken much advice on the rugby scenes but overall he enjoyed the film.
I can’t wait to go…..
13 Dec 2009, 20:01 pm
some real knock out stukkies on Tv 3 miss Sa pageant competition, beats rugby any day hands down.
Woman, whoever dreamed up this goddess creature knew just how to punch the correct buttons.
13 Dec 2009, 20:02 pm
Blimey, who got out of bed the wrong side today……
Bad tempered, grouchy lot!!
Is it rugby withdrawal……
13 Dec 2009, 20:04 pm
@skopskiet: You surprise me everyday, so you are human after all
Beautiful beauties, just sound so good.
13 Dec 2009, 20:04 pm
@skopskiet: Degrading cattle market competitions…are the ‘girls’ parading in swimwear yet?
So much for equality……when is the Mr. S.A Pageant?
13 Dec 2009, 20:05 pm
@111BIG5: Good to know Skop is a mere mortal like the rest of us!!
13 Dec 2009, 20:11 pm
@carol:
Good to see you
HI Carol How things
Yes rememeber here they dont know what a try is bu tnow they do.
There was no need to conveyed rugby and its rules too much, otherewise the US audience would have got bored.
I thought he kept the rugby shot simple and it worked
13 Dec 2009, 20:13 pm
@skopskiet:
Hey Skop growing us on Clifton eveyday was a beauty pageant
13 Dec 2009, 20:14 pm
should be “up”
13 Dec 2009, 20:16 pm
@carol: Jeeez there was fighting going on here
Wonder where is Pietman, his name was mentioned quite a lot here.
13 Dec 2009, 20:18 pm
@CoachPete: Well it is entertainment and the armchair critics would be furious if it were perfect!!
How are the accents? Love it when Americans try to do English, Renee Zelwegger as Bridget Jones is possibly the best!!
Was Matt Damon a convincing (if small) Saffa?
Did it make you a bit homesick?
13 Dec 2009, 20:20 pm
you just jealous Carol, these girls are knock out beautiful. Every last one of them. Though I must say the young African princesses knock spots off the little blonde poppies, no contest when it comes down to real unconditional unadulterated beauty, simply natural is always way better than the put on pretentiousness. Cattle market se voet .
13 Dec 2009, 20:22 pm
@111BIG5: Mmmm, some bitter stuff being thrown about….
13 Dec 2009, 20:23 pm
@carol:
Morgan Freeman was excellent
Matt was small but the other player were too so that solved that
Accents were good for most part, a lot of SA actors were used.
Clint had a small story going on with the security detail.
They addressed the springbok log and green an gold well
Carol I played against the bok manager of the team Morne.
And yes itwas a fairy tale in some ways but for US audience even if they thought it was fiction they loved it
It was a positive feel good movie.
Yes I teared up in one part Carol
13 Dec 2009, 20:24 pm
@skopskiet: Yep very jealous, would love to parade about infront of slavering men in an itsy bitsy teeney weeney thong bikini!!
As you well know, I am no pin up…..!!
13 Dec 2009, 20:24 pm
without beauty where would this world be? You have to have some angelic feminine goddess like beauty to counter all the gross crass negativity like we get on this thread day in and day and night out.
13 Dec 2009, 20:30 pm
@CoachPete: I saw a brief clip and Morgan Freeman looks to be the man for the job….
When you say you played against the Bok manager of the team was this the guy on the film or in real life?
I will be very EMO if I go, lots of memories of my summer trip (Lions Tour) will come flooding back and the great time I had with GBS, Grant10, Justrugby, Skop, Tassies, K9, Trupi and the rest!!
Hankie at the ready…
13 Dec 2009, 20:30 pm
you talk nonsense there are more females in the audience than men and these girls are not exposing their bodies like some two penny glamour bimbo event, these are the last 12 beauty finalists in the country and go on to be ambassadors for their country. The beauty expressed is quite unique and innocent, so I reckon you gotta be just jealous.
13 Dec 2009, 20:31 pm
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know – keats
seems a bit discriminatory to the ugly folk. oh well there’s always beer goggles.
13 Dec 2009, 20:31 pm
Bitter stuff it is Carol and funny it will never end. All are to stubborn , we needed 1 million NM,s and 5 more years of his rule and way off thinking. But that is all i have to say , end of it.
13 Dec 2009, 20:32 pm
@skopskiet: Well you will have to make do with this blonde on here for now Skop!
No sultry beauty, but I scrub up ok I am told!
13 Dec 2009, 20:34 pm
@carol:
Carol I played against the real bok manager and ex bok captain Morne Dup so not the guy who playe dhis part.
Yeah Its a good movie not great but good positive entertaining movie.
13 Dec 2009, 20:36 pm
@carol:
There is both inner and outer beauty Carol and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I believe you have both
13 Dec 2009, 20:38 pm
5 finalists, 2 African princesses vs 3 poppies, bet one of the poppies take it, though if I were judge they wouldn’t stand a chance.
13 Dec 2009, 20:40 pm
@111BIG5: Things change, keep positive…..!!
13 Dec 2009, 20:43 pm
Keats was right, always listen to the poets and mystics and musicians, they always know best. Cause they can see and hear with the pure senses of open perception, they don’t need any beer goggles to peer through or microscopes or telescopes or stethascopes, they use the pure faculties of sight and hearing that nature bestowed on them from source.
13 Dec 2009, 20:43 pm
@CoachPete: Well Coach, if you look on Rugby-Talk the Baabaas thread that is me!
No secret….!!
I am not the blow up sheep by the way!!
13 Dec 2009, 20:44 pm
@carol: that’s a good post… what are you lot talking about though?
13 Dec 2009, 20:45 pm
but beauty is transient, its gone in a heart beat, and all you left with is saggy baps and the artists hankering over their next under-age muse, all in the name of beauty.
13 Dec 2009, 20:47 pm
@SpringbokSarah: We are on the new Invictus film and Skop is enjoying the beauty pageant on TV and giving us a very amusing running commentary.
I understand all the girls want to “Travel the world and meet people”!!
Well they always used to say that anyway!!
Have you seen the movie yet btw?
13 Dec 2009, 20:48 pm
@carol:
The Kiwis love their blow up sheep
Oh when NZ prime minister asked Mandela to make a wager on the world cup final he said “all our sheep for all your gold” Yeah right
Mandela’s response I was thinking more like a case of wine.
13 Dec 2009, 20:48 pm
@skopskiet: That man irritates me… him and his paradoxes… and who in their right man addresses an urn?
13 Dec 2009, 20:49 pm
@cab: LOL ‘Saggy Baps’!! It was Bridget Bardot that really freaked me out!!
Yikes….It is best to start plain then it can’t go so horribly wrong!!
13 Dec 2009, 20:51 pm
@carol: I did first thing Friday morning! Adored it! So I went again today! Brilliant! Made me cry 3 times
13 Dec 2009, 20:53 pm
Skop leave Miss SA, Luke got man of the match
13 Dec 2009, 20:54 pm
@CoachPete: The Blow Up sheep were being escorted by Baabaas fans on this occasion!
Bet Mandela wished he had gone for the sheep option when the final whistle blew!!
13 Dec 2009, 20:55 pm
@SpringbokSarah: Good grief, are you telling me that Bath won a match!! Great scott!
13 Dec 2009, 20:56 pm
well they just went through the 5 finalists last questions close up, and sorry to say but if the two black beauties don’t come 1st and 2nd without even a close comparison then these judges either got eyes and ears somewhere else or this pageant is still run on old Sa style broeder bond principles, because there’s simply no contest, African is streaks ahead of Scandanavian or this washed out European beauty, simply knocks spots off it any day.
13 Dec 2009, 20:56 pm
@carol:
true ever Carol lots of sheep in SA too but fok all gold in NZ
13 Dec 2009, 20:56 pm
@carol: THEY DID! It went right down to the wire! I was walking up and down for the last 2 minutes during which Edinburgh were camped 1 cm away from Bath’s try line!
13 Dec 2009, 20:57 pm
@springbokvel. Point taken.To get back to the sevens…congrats NZ! Treu got his work cut out for him now.
13 Dec 2009, 20:58 pm
@SpringbokSarah:
drama queen
Luke is Miss SA
13 Dec 2009, 20:58 pm
@skopskiet: ugh seriously? What’s the point of these things?
13 Dec 2009, 20:59 pm
@carol:
hehe..yeah whenever skoppie waxes lyrical – its good to inject some coarseness to test this great purveyor of beauty and all.
13 Dec 2009, 21:00 pm
@skopskiet: is this the start of another “blame apartheid” story, let me go and sleep.
13 Dec 2009, 21:00 pm
@CoachPete: who scored 11 tries in the Currie Cup, won 5 awards, scored a try on debut for Bath and just collected his first of many man of the match awards up North…
13 Dec 2009, 21:01 pm
yeah all physical beauty is transient. Its the beauty of the soul that exists forever, though without soul beauty no physical beauty is possible.
Beauty is the gift of nature and is gone in the wink of an eye. Like everything else born of flesh its here today gone tomorrow. Switch onto that which is permanent, thats the secret of this little exercise on planet earth.
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