2018 Sevens RWC

[Bones]

No Dickson and Koroi is gonna hurt. Rokolisoa is a good player, very good team player and very much in the Cama mould.

[Bovidae]

Koroi is listed as unavailable for selection. Is he injured or rested after a big workload so far?

[Stargazer]

@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.

[taniwharugby]

@stargazer particularly as the 7s contracts are worth quite a bit more than your M10 ones...?

[ARHS]

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.

[KiwiMurph]

Koroi did get pulled from the final couple of Sevens tournaments in 2017 due to commitments for the Otago Mitre 10 Cup team.

[mikedogz]

[Bones]

So I now find out that this isn't being shown live in UK, with just an hour long highlights package for each day. Hoping they show a few games live on the WR website. Anyone know where it is being shown free-to-air that I could try a vpn for?

[Daffy Jaffy]

@bones It is free to air in NZ on TVNZ's 'Duke' channel if that helps

[Stargazer]

@bones In NZ, on Duke: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/livetv/tvnz-duke

[Bones]

@Daffy-Jaffy @Stargazer Cheers heaps guys! I'll give it a bash.

[Stargazer]

@bones It's geo-blocked in NZ, but I understand it's streamed on World Rugby's YouTube channel.

[Stargazer]

Thus far, these are the results in the women's tournament:

Fiji 12 - 19 Spain
France 33 - 7 Japan
Russia 24 - 14 South Africa
Canada 43 - 19 Brazil
Australia 34 - 5 PNG

Now the Black Ferns v Mexico.

[Stargazer]

Great try from Woodman! 5 - 0 NZ

[Stargazer]

Too easy, try Blyde. 10 - 0 NZ

[Stargazer]

Ha, Goss with a little fend and she's through the Mexican defence. Converted by Nathan-Wong.

17 - 0 NZ

[Stargazer]

Blyde, too fast. Another converted try.

Half time: New Zealand 24 - 0 Mexico

[Stargazer]

This is a massacre. Try Woodman.

31 - 0 NZ

[Stargazer]

Tui with the line-out steal, and Brazier scores the next try. The conversion is good.

38 - 0 NZ

[Stargazer]

This is going even faster than in the 1st half. Now Waaka scoring a try.

45 - 0 NZ