The Second Tournament of the HSBC Sevens World Series 2011, known as the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens tournament played on 2 and 3 December 2011.
This time the the times are’nt at ‘unusual hours’ in South African terms, like was the case last week, starting at 07:20 SA Time. We’ll only have a lively general Discussion Article and not a Live Article with Score Updates as the games proceed.
This is exactly that, the Discussion Article, here you will find all the scores, from time to time.
England wins the Cup Final against France, with the big guns of New Zealand, South Africa and Fiji all stumbling and having ordinary tournaments by their standards.
Here are the Results:
Results – Day 1 |
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1 | 07:20 | WALES | 14 – 7 | SCOTLAND | Pool D | ||
2 | 07:42 | AUSTRALIA | 40 – 7 | CANADA | Pool D | ||
3 | 08:04 | FIJI | 40 – 7 | ARGENTINA | Pool A | ||
4 | 08:26 | SAMOA | 55 – 12 | U.A.E. | Pool A | ||
5 | 08:48 | NEW ZEALAND | 40 – 0 | UNITED STATES | Pool B | ||
6 | 09:10 | SOUTH AFRICA | 17 – 5 | PORTUGAL | Pool B | ||
7 | 09:32 | FRANCE | 27 – 5 | KENYA | Pool C | ||
8 | 09:54 | ENGLAND | 43 – 0 | ZIMBABWE | Pool C | ||
9 | 11:02 | WALES | 15 – 12 | CANADA | Pool D | ||
10 | 11:24 | AUSTRALIA | 24 – 12 | SCOTLAND | Pool D | ||
11 | 11:46 | FIJI | 43 – 0 | U.A.E. | Pool A | ||
12 | 12:08 | SAMOA | 28 – 28 | ARGENTINA | Pool A | ||
13 | 12:32 | NEW ZEALAND | 31 – 7 | PORTUGAL | Pool B | ||
14 | 12:54 | SOUTH AFRICA | 36 – 7 | UNITED STATES | Pool B | ||
15 | 13:16 | FRANCE | 26 – 0 | ZIMBABWE | Pool C | ||
16 | 13:38 | ENGLAND | 19 – 12 | KENYA | Pool C | ||
17 | 14:46 | SCOTLAND | 19 – 14 | CANADA | Pool D | ||
18 | 15:08 | ARGENTINA | 73 – 7 | U.A.E. | Pool A | ||
19 | 15:30 | UNITED STATES | 10 – 12 | PORTUGAL | Pool B | ||
20 | 16:23 | KENYA | 5 – 21 | ZIMBABWE | Pool C | ||
21 | 16:44 | WALES | 33 – 14 | AUSTRALIA | Pool D | ||
22 | 17:06 | FIJI | 31 – 14 | SAMOA | Pool A | ||
23 | 17:30 | NEW ZEALAND | 5 – 21 | SOUTH AFRICA | Pool B | ||
24 | 17:52 | FRANCE | 12 – 29 | ENGLAND | Pool C |
Results – Day 2 |
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25 | 07:40 | SAMOA | 17 – 26 | CANADA | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
26 | 08:02 | ZIMBABWE | 7 – 41 | UNITED STATES | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
27 | 08:24 | SCOTLAND | 40 – 5 | UAE | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
28 | 08:46 | PORTUGAL | 24 – 12 | KENYA | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
29 | 09:08 | FIJI | 34 – 7 | AUSTRALIA | 1/4 final Cup | ||
30 | 09:32 | ENGLAND | 10 – 7 | NEW ZEALAND | 1/4 final Cup | ||
31 | 09:54 | WALES | 5 – 7 | ARGENTINA | 1/4 final Cup | ||
32 | 10:16 | SOUTH AFRICA | 5 – 19 | FRANCE | 1/4 final Cup | ||
33 | 10:38 | SAMOA | 21 – 12 | ZIMBABWE | SF Shield | ||
34 | 11:00 | UAE | 5 – 35 | KENYA | SF Shield | ||
35 | 11:24 | CANADA | 17 – 33 | UNITED STATES | SF Bowl | ||
36 | 11:46 | SCOTLAND | 19 – 17 | PORTUGAL | SF Bowl | ||
37 | 12:08 | AUSTRALIA | 26 – 12 | NEW ZEALAND | SF Plate | ||
38 | 12:30 | WALES | 7 – 22 | SOUTH AFRICA | SF Plate | ||
39 | 15:02 | FIJI | 12 – 19 | ENGLAND | SF Cup | ||
40 | 15:24 | ARGENTINA | 5 – 24 | FRANCE | SF Cup | ||
41 | 15:48 | SAMOA | 31 – 17 | KENYA | Final Shield | ||
42 | 16:18 | UNITED STATES | 0 – 26 | SCOTLAND | Final Bowl | ||
43 | 16:48 | AUSTRALIA | 17 – 14 | SOUTH AFRICA | Final Plate | ||
44 | 17:48 | FIJI | 26 – 21 | ARGENTINA | |||
45 | 18:18 | ENGLAND | 29 – 12 | FRANCE | Final Cup |
The Log standings after 2 Rounds of the Sevens Season, now stands as follows:
Team | AUS | DUB | RSA | NZL | USA | HKG | JAP | SCO | ENG | Pts | ||
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1 | FIJI | 22 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | |
2 | ENGLAND | 10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | |
3 | FRANCE | 10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | |
NEW ZEALAND | 19 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | ||
SOUTH AFRICA | 17 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | ||
6 | AUSTRALIA | 15 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |
7 | ARGENTINA | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
WALES | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | ||
9 | SAMOA | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
SCOTLAND | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||
11 | UNITED STATES | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
12 | CANADA | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
PORTUGAL | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
TONGA | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
15 | KENYA | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
17 | JAPAN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
18 | NIUE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
UAE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
ZIMBABWE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
On DAY 2 we’ve now had 3 games:
Samoa 17 / 26 Canada
Zimbabwe 7 / 41 USA
Scotland 41 / 5 UAE
Portugal 24 / 12 Kenya
Fiji 34 / 7 Australia
England 10 / 7 New Zealand
Morning gbs,
Now for our game. Hope we beat France then we into the semi. Whether we win the semi or not we probably go ahead of NZ on the log.
Go BlitzBokke.. 🙂
My last post took 5min to go through! Taking far too long.
Anyhow if we beat France in the quarter we face either Wales or Arg in the semi.
Hope we beat France cause I think we could beat either of those teams in the semi and should make the final.
Whether we beat Fiji in the final, that is another thing. We still will pick up plenty points for this tourney.
34 @ Puma:
Hello Puma.
Don’t know what’s wrong your side…
I’m going to post 5 times hereafter, check the time stamp on all of them, see how quickly mine goes through.
1st One
2nd One
3rd One
4th One
5th One
35 – 40 @ grootblousmile:
ALL of them in the space of a minute…. and I was really taking my time with them!
Still taking 5min for posts to go through. Just way too long to wait and post.
France get a try.
Come on Blitzbokke need to win this one.
Freegin hell, Blitzbokke need to get their act together here… New Zealand is already out of the running
41@ grootblousmile:Gbs, I only have a problem on your site boeta. Not sure why but I do. When I post on keo and Sharksworld my posts go through straight away, here I battle as well to log on. Took me more than 5 min to get onto this site this morning. Just frustrating and then I head off and post on keo.
Will see how long this post takes to go through.
Just hope we win this game, jeez we should be beating France. We lose would have been a great chance for us to get into the final gone begging.
Oh shit, another French try
44 @ Puma:
Your Browser Cache is probably very full. Do you use Internet Explorer or on of the other browsers like Google Chrome or Firefox?
Seems we will lose to France. What a pity we only would have had to face Arg in the semi.
Anyhow going to log off now. Posts taking way, way too long to go through.
Catch up later gbs.
Yet another French try… that is us done and dusted
France 19 / 0 Blitzbokke
Bernardo Botha scores a consolation try
Final Score France 19 / 5 Blitzbokke
46 @ grootblousmile:Yes use Inter Explorer. I clear the Browser Cache all the time though. What else is causing posts here to take so slow? Only on your site boet.
I do have Google Chrome as well. Probably should just be using Google Chrome.
Okay cleared everything and that post took 3 min to go through. Still way too long gbs.
Think I will just use Google Chrome from now.
Why do you think my posts only take about 20 seconds to go through on keo and sharksworld? And here 5 min? What else is causing my posts to take so long? Just makes me frustrated to blog here boet and I enjoy blogging here but if it takes me so long to wait to log in and posts to go through then I log off.
53 @ Puma:
Try Chrome… let’s see what happens.
I personally use Firefox, it is the quickest and best browser. Do not like Chrome much. So it’s either Internet Explorer 9 or Firefox for me.
I’m out for a while, go to go to freegin Springs to a specific shop… hate Springs!
Now that post took 5 min to go through again.
Anyhow before I log off. So disappointed in us losing to France. We missed a great opportunity to make the Dubi finals. We have beaten France so many times and to lose to them here is just disappointing.
Really hope PE put on a great show next week. Looking forward to seeing the 7’s there. Hope they bring out the big band that they normally do for the crici and the band play all day long. Should be a far better atmosphere there than we had in George.
Okay not out of here now. Cheers gbs. Catch up during the week or for next weeks PE 7’s.
54@ grootblousmile:Will try Firefox then.
Last post correction Dubi = Dubai.
Okay out of here too.
Morning all, was hoping to see the blitzbokke top the log today, but I see that they’ve already stuffed that one up – wow what a great opportunity they’ve let slip. Oh well, we’ll just have to enjoy the rest
Farkit, New Zealand goes and loses again… that is they’ve lost 2 today only, 1 yesterday as well as the final last week!
Lemoenetyd in the game between the Blitzbokke & Australia.
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