2016-2017 World Sevens Series
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Wow Joubert is a pretty average ref these days eh. Every breakdown he's screaming "hands off black" and even penalising NZ for not releasing the tackled player at one ruck when all they did was counter ruck. Of course after he's given US a penalty for the NZ player not releasing the ball when they didn't release him.
Edit: oh it's not Joubert it's some Welsh newby.
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@KiwiMurph yeah that was a shit house display. I guess the very first play of the match should've signalled what was going to happen. Spin it wide to Ravouvou immediately without even looking up and watch him give it back.
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@Bones said in 2016-2017 World Sevens Series:
Spin it wide to Ravouvou immediately without even looking up and watch him give it back.
He was good last week but had two genuine shockers this week (the first pool match and the QF). Three times he has run straight towards touch and then thrown a no look pass. Idiotic.
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Just watched the other NZ matches v Kenya and SA. Most concerning thing is the defence.
When we were consistently winning the series we conceded a few tries per tournament, now it is a few a match. Maybe that is my rose tinted memory.Nice to get a win over SA for the first time in a year though.
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@Chris-B. when rugby got announced as an Olympic sport they increased the earning potential of the 7s players, was about $180k or so for the top guys wasnt it? Not sure what esle they can do??
Awful lot of travel though, so that would be a drawback.
One of my colleagues nephew is in the team and she said he is loving it, but he aspires to be an AB, so maybe that is always a draw if a super contract comes knocking?
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@Bones said in 2016-2017 World Sevens Series:
As an aside, am I right in thinking that the last 2 or 3 tournaments our only loss has been against the eventual winner?
Just to go back to that - Canada were our only loss in Singapore and they went on to win it.
Not sure if that is clutching at straws or looking at the positive.
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@Snowy Straws. They barely look coached.
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@Snowy yeah, Scooter is a mate and i hate to say it but the coaching looks off.
The defence is outright odd, they hardly even advance off set piece and seem to have this system where they'll stand back and soak, then decide to send a rush defender up on random occasions...Who is ineffective and gets beaten, leaving shitloads of space.
On attack...No creativity. Although with our main tactic being give it to Ravouvou and his main tactic being give it to the opposition, we don't get a lot of time to create.
Why isn't Koroi starting? What's the point in bringing him on with 30 seconds to go? The selection is way off too.
