a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TVKmXmBP7PI/AAAAAAAAE_w/R8fM4r5nM_c/s1600/seremaia-burotu-spear-red.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TVKmXmBP7PI/AAAAAAAAE_w/R8fM4r5nM_c/s400/seremaia-burotu-spear-red.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571698613283712242" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"You saw the highlights of the final of the fantastic Wellington Sevens yesterday, so here’s another clip from the tournament, this time of a huge hit that unfortunately ended in a red card for Fiji’s Seremaia Burotu. /spanbr /br /Fiji and Samoa met in the Cup quarter final, with Samoa coming out 12-5 eventual winners, helped in some respects by the sending off of Burotu, their leading try scorer.br /br /The hit on Afa Aiono, who had actually scored both of Samoa’s first half tries, went wrong after initially being a good, solid tackle. The lifting and tipping motion ended things for him though, with referee Stuart Berry having little option but to red card the Fijian vice captain.br /br /He missed the subsequent plate semifinal and final, and picked up a three match suspension when later sitting through a disciplinary hearing. That was reduced to two after an appeal, and the fact that he’s missed the two games already means that he’s free to appear at this weekend’s Las Vegas Sevens, the USA leg of the World Series.br /br /"The 7s team management sat with the International Rugby Board Judicial where he was dished a two-match ban. This, he has already served so he should be able to play this weekend," said Fijian staff member Talemo Waqa.br /br /Unfortunately this type of hit is dangerous and while initially it was an impressive show of timing, technique, and strength, you just can't get away with that these days.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y67Yju5zKKY?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y67Yju5zKKY?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-zealand-beat-england-to-win.html"New Zealand beat England to win the Wellington Sevens/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/02/classic-encounter-wellington-sevens.html"Classic Encounter - Wellington Sevens Final 2008/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/02/fantastic-party-atmosphere-at.html"Fantastic party atmosphere at the Wellington Sevens/abr //span/divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span01:44/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-6542459956167988987?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MQVaWFL7eQGuqUi4Kk9lq1VPuOk/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MQVaWFL7eQGuqUi4Kk9lq1VPuOk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MQVaWFL7eQGuqUi4Kk9lq1VPuOk/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/MQVaWFL7eQGuqUi4Kk9lq1VPuOk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=NFwDiDY28qw:8xVH8IYdP5I:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/NFwDiDY28qw" height="1" width="1"/ More...