SA Rugby
The Springbok Sevens team crashed out of contention at Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 after being beaten 24.-14 by Ireland in their quarter-final on Saturday.
They will now face Argentina on Sunday morning in the Championship fifth-place playoffs, while Ireland will join New Zealand, Fiji, and Australia in the Championship semi-finals.
Outgoing coach, Neil Powell said he was not disappointed that they could not get the result, but rather that they were poor in the clinical execution of what they wanted to achieve in the match.
“It is all about momentum which you create by using your opportunities. We did not do that because we did not use those opportunities and then you are going to find it hard to pull that game back like we saw tonight,” said Powell, who also felt his team’s lack of execution cost them."
“The basic errors from players tonight were not expected, like not finding touch, not winning lineouts, throwing passes into touch – those were errors that were not expected from the players, but that happened, unfortunately. They are normally a lot more clinical in the execution of their skill sets.”
The Springbok Women’s Sevens team broke their 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens duck in emphatic fashion when they outplayed Colombia by 27-0 to book their place in the Challenge 13th place playoff against China, on Sunday afternoon.
