Day 2 of the IRB George Sevens today. There were a few surprises yesterday, with Samoa beating New Zealand and Kenia drawing 12 / 12 with the Springboks. This highlights the closeness or competative nature of Seven’s Rugby, one cannot relax for a second!
Here are the fixtures for today.
New Zealand win the Tournament, beatinfg Fiji in the Final, 21 / 12
Bowl quarterfinals:
Fixtures/results:
Match 25: Zimbabwe 17 / 22 Russia
Match 26: Scotland 10 / 21 United States
Match 27: Wales 33 / 0 Tunisia
Match 28: Portugal 28 / 17 France
Cup quarterfinals:
Fixtures/results:
Match 29: Kenya 24 / 12 Australia
Match 30: England 19 / 22 New Zealand
Match 31: Samoa 19 / 26 Argentina
Match 32: Fiji 21 / 17 South Africa
Shield semifinals:
Fixtures/results:
Match 33: Zimbabwe 12 / 35 Scotland
Match 34: Tunisia 21 / 26 France
Bowl semifinals:
Fixtures/results:
Match 35: Russia 24 / 5 United States
Match 36: Wales 24 / 7 Portugal
Plate semifinals:
Fixtures/results:
Match 37: Australia 5 / 24 England
Match 38: Samoa 7 / 10 South Africa
Cup semifinals:
Fixtures/results:
Match 39: Kenya 14 / 17 New Zealand
Match 40: Argentina 14 / 19 Fiji
Shield Final:
Fixture/result:
Match 41: Scotland 28 / 19 France
Bowl Final:
Fixture/result:
Match 42: Russia 5 / 14 Wales
Plate Final:
Fixture/result:
Match 43: England 21 / 7 South Africa
Cup Final:
Fixture/result:
Match 44: New Zealand 21 / 12 Fiji
90@ JL1 – Hou jy van die Slideshow formaat?
Die groter foto’s is die van Supa, die kleineres is die van Carol
GBS
Slideshow is die way forward
Never saw our game against Fiji was out. Score was close but a loss is a loss. Our Boks 7’s are not doing well at all.
Well done to ABs another win for them. This is where we were last year.
Congrats to England too in beating us. Phew!!! Blitz Bokke need a wake up call.
77 – Carol,
Hope you had a great day yesterday with WRS birthdays are great. Well sort of mine coming up this Wednesday. The years are flying by so quick.
Mind still still feels 30 though 😀
Eina. Bokkies verloor teen die Ingelse.
Ag nee sies man.
94 – Puma, you in line for a birthday as well on 16th December…..Let’s party!! 😉
96 – Hello Carol,
We have a public holiday on the 16th Dec every year. So that is a bonus for me. If it is a nice day will go down to the beach. Or go and see the rugby movie.
Yip, Lets party…..hehehe. Why not 😉 Damn 54 on Wednesday. Years are going too quick.
97
Puma if i miss you, congrats man, you better slow down now i wont catch you , you beat me by 3Y and about 40 days. Enjoy it.
About the Rugby , i never took the 7s serious, did not even mention it in my list of achievements this year. But something is clear the All Black are coming back with vengeance.
Went to see Invictus last night. Must say the rugby parts did not look authentic. First the size of the Bok squad, they were shown running & practicing a number of times. The squad portrayed could not have been more than 15-18 players. The smallest RWC squad on record? All the players looked to have a similar height – what no locks on this team? Matt Damon did not match up to Pienaar physically. I read somewhere that Pienaar was 204 lbs & 6’4″. Damon looked like the height of his wife. One player in the Bok squad I swear looked like a middle aged, out of condition, old chap. Where did they pick up these players? Some of them would perhaps qualify under the term “burly”. Surely there were legitimate Saffa players available to the director. The simulation of matches was poor quality too, everything was very slow. The rucks looked like my high school team, on a bad day. Everyone standing around or leaning on the ruck. Poor old Jonah Lomu (gthe film version) looked over weight except when they showed actual footage of him playing. Anyone know who was advising Clint Eastwood on the rugby aspects of this movie? I’ve seen many films where NFL football is portrayed & they looked much more authentic.
Despite all this I enjoyed the movie. Any comments on how authentic the rest of the movie was? I remember watching the actual final. A great game, the ABs were relentless but the Boks were simply defiant on the day & refused to be beaten. 🙂
Chester Williams was in charge of the rugby for the director.
Say no more!!
98 – Super,
Thanks. So you only 3 years behind me? Boet the years go by so fast before you know it you will be my age. Enjoy everyday to the fullest.
I still feel like 30…hehe.
100 – Jim,
If the rugby parts never looked real then it is disappointing. I kinda knew they would not get it right with Matt Damon being so much smaller than Pienaar.
You are right, we have so many rugby players here they could have filled in for the rugby scenes. Kinda silly of Eastwood not to have done that. Maybe only the rugby playing countries will know. Americans they don’t play much rugby union. Well they do but not to the extent of the rugby playing countries. So most of them wont take too much notice of that part. For us though it will be disappointing for the rugby to look like school boy stuff when it was not. Especially a final played between Boks and ABs.
I do hope they get the accent right. Just about all the movies made in America about SA they never get the accent right. I just cringe when I hear some actors trying to put on our accent and getting it totally wrong. Then I suppose this movie is made for America and what do they know? They probably think the rugby and accent is fine.
I have South African friends living in the States. When they saw the movie Blood Diamond they told me the accent was spot on by LdC. When I went to see the movie thought what the heck!!! He only got the accent right in parts. So even South Africans living away for so long forget the SA accent proper.
Still looking forward to seeing the movie. Going on Wednesday to see it. Public holiday here.
Has anyone seen the NZ version of Invictus ?
I believe that in their version the main story is about Suzie and she is played by either Casper the ghost or Big foot.
Anyone seen it ? Any further information.
🙂
Guess what? Invicus is not released in Britain until 5th February……THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY 2010……
It will be past history by the time I get to see it!! 🙁
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