2018 Sevens RWC
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Finally, the allblacks website is back on.
Unavailable due to injury: Joe Webber, Amanaki Nicole, Sam Dickson, Etene Nanai-Seturo and Ngarohi McGarvey-Black. All Blacks Sevens coach Clark Laidlaw said the unique nature of the knock out competition contributed to it being a difficult squad to select. “Getting the balance of the squad right was the main thing. It’s a different tournament in that its four games instead of six and we can only take 12 players, so we were looking to have flexibility in the 12 in terms of the positions they cover.Black Ferns Sevens coach Allan Bunting said this was the most challenging squad he has ever had to name. “It was definitely hard but that’s exactly where we want to be. In our trials there was so much motivation, excitement and skill set; we know we have selected the right team. “We have had a good year, but this group is strict on themselves, we think we have room to improve and those last bits we need to get right are the toughest.First games
The All Blacks Sevens will play the winner of Russia v Hong Kong in their first match on Saturday, 21 July at 3.31pm NZT.The Black Ferns Sevens face Mexico in their opening match of the World Cup on Saturday, 21 July at 6.50am NZT.
Broadcast
Rugby World Cup Sevens will be broadcast live on DUKE (Freeview channel 13 and channel 23 on Sky).Saturday 21 July
Women’s qualifiers - Men’s qualifiers
Coverage begins 4.55amSunday 22 July
Women’s play offs – Men’s play offs – Women’s finals
Coverage begins 4.25amMonday 23 July
Men’s play offs – Men’s finals
Coverage begins 3.55am.
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Late edit 11/7, because NZR has changed this sentence in the article (added Koroi and removed "due to injury"):
Unavailable for selection: Joe Webber, Vilimoni Koroi, Amanaki Nicole, Sam Dickson, Etene Nanai-Seturo and Ngarohi McGarvey-Black. -
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@bovidae I just noticed they changed that sentence in the article on the AB website (see my edit in my post with the line-up). Initially it said "unavailable due to injury". Could it have to do with his Mitre 10 Cup commitments to Otago? Would be weird though, if that would prevail over playing for the national sevens team during a World Cup.
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@stargazer particularly as the 7s contracts are worth quite a bit more than your M10 ones...?
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Quite staggering regarding Koroi, considering our issues in replacing him in recent events. I would have thought this would be a pinnacle event for him. Did he attend all the sevens training camps outside what he had to miss due to NZ Under 20's?
The way the article was altered the next day makes one wonder if he made himself unavailable because he knew he would not be selected for some reason. I just couldn't believe that his non-selection was left completely out of the article.
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@Daffy-Jaffy @Stargazer Cheers heaps guys! I'll give it a bash.
