Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens
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Haha - fucking awesome.
We win what, I think, are the last two golds of the Games and against the odds.
Fijians never really fired shots and we were pretty dominant. Could easily have won by an additional 10 points.
Might be the making of that men's team. Playing smart footy.
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@steven-harris said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Awesome..!,if you have asked me at the beginning of the day on our chances of both teams,I would have said our ladies were about a 95% chance and our men with this squad,maybe 65% or 70%..great double..!
Really?
You're certainly a glass half full person SH. The Blues must be a constant disappointment to you.
I would have said Women 40%. Men 20%.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
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@bones said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
You're kidding right?
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@bones said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
You're kidding right?
Come on. Walk down the street and most people couldn't name a Fijian 7's player.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@bones said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
You're kidding right?
What? I can't think of the top players missing, that's not far off our strongest squad.
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And then only if they took a year off to practise 7s, it's far too specialised now for ABs 15 players to make a positive impact of a few weeks training. That's an 'amateur' era idea. 7s needs to be centralized and full time - NZ is finally getting the idea
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@canefan said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Sounds like that ex Warriors kid had a big impact
He went of in the first half after getting illegally smahed, Regan Ware (despite hsi dropsy) most amazing on attack - defence was a team effort
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@machpants said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
And then only if they took a year off to practise 7s, it's far too specialised now for ABs 15 players to make a positive impact of a few weeks training. That's an 'amateur' era idea. 7s needs to be centralized and full time - NZ is finally getting the idea
That was one of the flaws in our thinking for the Olympics. Pick the best team from the player pool available and develop them
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@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
When’s the last time DMac played 7s?
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@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
What?
There's no-one in that sevens squad who is in the top 150 rugby players in NZ.
Trael Joass isn't a first choice starter for the Mako$ and Knewstubb doesn't even make last season's squad.
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@chris-b said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
What?
There's no-one in that sevens squad who is in the top 150 rugby players in NZ.
Trael Joass isn't a first choice starter for the Mako$ and Knewstubb doesn't even make last season's squad.
Don’t need the top rugby players. Just need the top 7s players
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@chris-b said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
What?
There's no-one in that sevens squad who is in the top 150 rugby players in NZ.
Trael Joass isn't a first choice starter for the Mako$ and Knewstubb doesn't even make last season's squad.
What you've just said makes no sense at all... Unless you're talking about the Mako$ Sevens squad.
