South Africa’s Cornal Hendricks is tackled by England’s Marcus Watson, but both teams failed to finish in the top two of their group. Jake Badger for The National
South Africa’s Cornal Hendricks is tackled by England’s Marcus Watson, but both teams failed to finish in the top two of their group. Jake Badger for The National
South Africa’s Cornal Hendricks is tackled by England’s Marcus Watson, but both teams failed to finish in the top two of their group. Jake Badger for The National
South Africa’s Cornal Hendricks is tackled by England’s Marcus Watson, but both teams failed to finish in the top two of their group. Jake Badger for The National

Big three washed away on first day of internationals


Paul Radley
  • English
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DUBAI // Rain in Dubai, New Zealand warning of the threat of Portugal in rugby, and South Africa, Australia and England all demoted to the second strata of international competition. The rugby world has finally gone mad.

On a day when the established elite of the sevens world series handled the deluge about as well as Dubai's roads, giant-killers from Portugal and Canada earned their moment in the big time.

A Portuguese side including a raft of teenagers - two who have just turned 18 - emerged from the pool of death after beating two of the most successful nations in the recent history of this tournament, England and South Africa.

Perhaps their mission has been accomplished already: they have earned the respect of New Zealand's multiple world-series winning coach Gordon Tietjens.

"Portugal are the big killers at the moment, they have upset everyone," said Tietjens, whose undefeated New Zealand side face Portugal in the quarter-finals today.

"I saw all of their games. They played very well against South Africa, only just lost to Samoa, and beat England.

"They are good rugby players, they all represent Portugal in XVs and a lot of them have been to a World Cup, so they know how to handle pressure. It is going to be tough."

With South Africa, Australia and England all crashing out, the draw looks to have opened up for New Zealand and Fiji.

For all of Tietjen's magnanimity, the All Blacks sevens side should have enough fire power to advance to the business stages, especially with Kurt Baker immediately back on song after his return to the fold.

Baker has only just arrived back in the abbreviated format, after touring the UK with the New Zealand Maori XVs team, and has a point to prove having been overlooked by Super rugby.

"I have always loved the Sevens side of things, I am looking forward to the World Series especially here in Dubai," Baker said.

"We are not as pleased as we would like to be at the end of Day 1 but we are through to the top side of the draw so hopefully we can lift our game."

The absence of South Africa from the knock-out stages of the cup competition is significant for those with a relatively long memory of Dubai Rugby Sevens.

The last time the tournament suffered such a torrent of rain as arrived yesterday, the Blitz Bokke were the winners, back at the old Exiles ground in Al Awir in 2006.

Paul Treu, the South Africa coach, admitted he had fleetingly revisited that memory at the start of the competition, but the day ended as miserably for them as the prevailing weather.

"You always think about positive memories and try and draw on them, but even from the start in the first game we weren't as clinical as I'd have liked," Treu said.

"There is nothing you can say after a disappointing day like that.

"We weren't at our best, we just have to go back and see how many positive points we can take from Day 2 to take to our tournament next week in Port Elizabeth. It is going to be difficult with England and Australia in there, too."

Although Fiji, who meet France in the next phase, and New Zealand stand out among the sides who are left standing, a new name could yet be inscribed on the Emirates International Trophy.

Samoa meet Wales in a repeat of the 2009 Sevens World Cup final here. In the other encounter in the last eight, a Kenya side revitalised under the leadership of new coach Mike Friday meet Canada.

"It is really special, we haven't had too many of these so we will cherish it and look forward to Day 2," said Nanyak Dala, the Canada captain.

"Now that we are back as a core team we are working hard to show what we can do when we get a chance to get on the circuit.

"We are going to be giving it a go on Day 2, playing hard and hopefully upsetting a lot more teams."

Lightning strikes twice for England

England’s woeful start to the 2012/13 World Series continued yesterday as indiscipline, serious injury, and even the weather conspired against them as they surrendered the Emirates International Trophy.

As a spectacular lightning storm approached the Sevens, England were knocked out of the main competition when they lost 22-21 to Portugal.

It was a miserable day for the defending champions.

First Rob Vickerman, their captain, was suspended for three games for a high tackle in their morning defeat to South Africa.

Then Tom Mitchell suffered a broken leg in the second match against Samoa, before Portugal confirmed their demise with a controversial penalty kick, awarded for foul play by Dan Norton.

It was the second tournament in succession where England have failed to make the quarter-finals of the top-tier competition.

“We should have started better and we can’t blame anyone else,” said Ben Ryan, the England coach.

“It is not a refereeing decision, or a yellow card, it is a collective 14 minutes where Portugal got too many points that we gave them.”

England still had chances to win even after Pedro Leal had given Portugal a one-point lead just before the final hooter sounded.

Despite being down to six men, they opted to run a centrally positioned penalty of their own rather than take a shot at goal.

“The players make decisions, I’m not a robot coach,” Ryan said. “If the [kicker, Dan Bibby] was looking up and asking what to do, you think he is probably not confident of knocking it over.

“We had chances after that, the penalty move worked well. I could be smiling and saying, with a man down we scored in the corner to win it. It is a game of inches.”

Tomaz Morais, the Portugal coach, said two wins from the “pool of death” was due reward for their hard work over the past six weeks.

“We know every game is very competitive in the world series now,” said Morais, whose side had earlier beaten South Africa, meaning the unheralded European side defeated the two most recent winners of the Sevens.

“We were not happy with our performance in Australia, so we worked very hard and we knew we would stay competitive in every game here.

“Sometimes the game goes your way and that was what happened for us.”

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Oman, UAE, Namibia

Al Amerat, Muscat

 

Results

Oman beat UAE by five wickets

UAE beat Namibia by eight runs

 

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Thursday January 9 – Oman v UAE

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FA Cup fifth round draw

Sheffield Wednesday v Manchester City
Reading/Cardiff City v Sheffield United
Chelsea v Shrewsbury Town/Liverpool
West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United/Oxford United
Leicester City v Coventry City/Birmingham City
Northampton Town/Derby County v Manchester United
Southampton/Tottenham Hotspur v Norwich City
Portsmouth v Arsenal 

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ESSENTIALS

The flights 
Emirates, Etihad and Swiss fly direct from the UAE to Zurich from Dh2,855 return, including taxes.
 

The chalet
Chalet N is currently open in winter only, between now and April 21. During the ski season, starting on December 11, a week’s rental costs from €210,000 (Dh898,431) per week for the whole property, which has 22 beds in total, across six suites, three double rooms and a children’s suite. The price includes all scheduled meals, a week’s ski pass, Wi-Fi, parking, transfers between Munich, Innsbruck or Zurich airports and one 50-minute massage per person. Private ski lessons cost from €360 (Dh1,541) per day. Halal food is available on request.

Analysis

Members of Syria's Alawite minority community face threat in their heartland after one of the deadliest days in country’s recent history. Read more

'The Batman'

Stars:Robert Pattinson

Director:Matt Reeves

Rating: 5/5

WOMAN AND CHILD

Director: Saeed Roustaee

Starring: Parinaz Izadyar, Payman Maadi

Rating: 4/5

Landfill in numbers

• Landfill gas is composed of 50 per cent methane

• Methane is 28 times more harmful than Co2 in terms of global warming

• 11 million total tonnes of waste are being generated annually in Abu Dhabi

• 18,000 tonnes per year of hazardous and medical waste is produced in Abu Dhabi emirate per year

• 20,000 litres of cooking oil produced in Abu Dhabi’s cafeterias and restaurants every day is thrown away

• 50 per cent of Abu Dhabi’s waste is from construction and demolition

How being social media savvy can improve your well being

Next time when procastinating online remember that you can save thousands on paying for a personal trainer and a gym membership simply by watching YouTube videos and keeping up with the latest health tips and trends.

As social media apps are becoming more and more consumed by health experts and nutritionists who are using it to awareness and encourage patients to engage in physical activity.

Elizabeth Watson, a personal trainer from Stay Fit gym in Abu Dhabi suggests that “individuals can use social media as a means of keeping fit, there are a lot of great exercises you can do and train from experts at home just by watching videos on YouTube”.

Norlyn Torrena, a clinical nutritionist from Burjeel Hospital advises her clients to be more technologically active “most of my clients are so engaged with their phones that I advise them to download applications that offer health related services”.

Torrena said that “most people believe that dieting and keeping fit is boring”.

However, by using social media apps keeping fit means that people are “modern and are kept up to date with the latest heath tips and trends”.

“It can be a guide to a healthy lifestyle and exercise if used in the correct way, so I really encourage my clients to download health applications” said Mrs Torrena.

People can also connect with each other and exchange “tips and notes, it’s extremely healthy and fun”.

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The Now Now 

What is a robo-adviser?

Robo-advisers use an online sign-up process to gauge an investor’s risk tolerance by feeding information such as their age, income, saving goals and investment history into an algorithm, which then assigns them an investment portfolio, ranging from more conservative to higher risk ones.

These portfolios are made up of exchange traded funds (ETFs) with exposure to indices such as US and global equities, fixed-income products like bonds, though exposure to real estate, commodity ETFs or gold is also possible.

Investing in ETFs allows robo-advisers to offer fees far lower than traditional investments, such as actively managed mutual funds bought through a bank or broker. Investors can buy ETFs directly via a brokerage, but with robo-advisers they benefit from investment portfolios matched to their risk tolerance as well as being user friendly.

Many robo-advisers charge what are called wrap fees, meaning there are no additional fees such as subscription or withdrawal fees, success fees or fees for rebalancing.

Our legal consultants

Name: Hassan Mohsen Elhais

Position: legal consultant with Al Rowaad Advocates and Legal Consultants.