The Blitzboks are a team that are best when they have ball in hand and that showed a week ago when they triumphed in Dubai, but disappointingly for Springbok Sevens supporters, they could not do the same this weekend in Cape Town, and paid the price.
The Blitzboks lost 14-12 to Ireland in their final match on day one of the Cape Town SVNS but still made it safely through to the quarter-finals after earlier victories over Great Britain and USA.
When the Springbok Sevens team won the Dubai Sevens last Sunday, many of the Blitzboks found themselves overwhelmed by emotion for different reasons.
The Blitzboks and Springbok Women's Sevens will kick off their HSBC SVNS Cape Town campaigns with two tricky matches before 11h00 on Saturday morning at the DHL Stadium.
Blitzbok Masande Mtshali is finally on the scoreboard following a successful weekend in Dubai for the Springbok Sevens squad.
The two South African Sevens teams will both face the USA on the opening day of the HSBC SVNS Cape Town next Saturday.