2018-2019 World Sevens Series
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I know he is someone who cops alot of shit here, but I reckon Tevita Li would be excellent in 7s.
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@taniwharugby Fast enough, but too many brain farts.
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All Blacks 7s squad for the London Sevens this weekend:
1 Scott Curry (c)
2 Tim Mikkelson (c)
3 Tone Ng Shiu
4 Jona Nareki
5 Dylan Collier
6 Vilimoni Koroi
7 Scott Gregory
8 Andrew Knewstubb
9 Regan Ware
10 Kurt Baker
11 Joe Webber
12 Sione Molia*Joe Ravouvou is the travelling reserve.
“It’s really encouraging to have most of the guys fit and available, we are really excited by this team we’ve got,” said All Blacks Sevens Coach Clark Laidlaw. Speedstar Joe Ravouvou has been named as 13th man, which Laidlaw says shows the strength of the backline and rewards players like Jona Nareki and Regan Ware who are having breakthrough seasons.Olympic Qualification is also front of mind, the All Blacks Sevens currently sit in third behind USA and Fiji. They are nine and 23 points ahead of South Africa and England respectively and need to produce two solid performances over the coming weekends to cement their position in the top four.Pool games
Saturday, 25 May (NZT)
10.42pm: v ScotlandSunday, 26 May
1.48am: v Ireland
5.16am: v EnglandLIVE on Sky Sport Pop-up 2 (Channel 56)
http://www.allblacks.com/News/34174/all-blacks-sevens-prepared-for-tough-challenge-in-london
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Same again in the quarter-final. Why oh why bring on Ravouvou and take off Mikkelsen? His two errors cost us dearly. Did they think they had it won after Mikkelsen's stunning effort before halftime? Same players making errors again, Gregory, Ravouvou, Nareki and unfortunately not effective at the contact in second half. You can't blame Webber for the final error!
Our aggressive contact work in defence has been the strength of this team - but the penalty counts a killer!
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WTF was that? France beat NZ in the Cup QF thanks to a penalty try in referee's time. Not sure I agree with that decision. Joe Webber was yellow carded for a deliberate knock on, but I'm not really sure it went forward. It looked flat. And also not sure the Frenchman was certain to score the try, although he was in a good position; he wasn't close to the try line yet, I think.
Ah well, another missed opportunity. AB7s were leading 14 - 0 at half time, but let the French back in. Particularly, Nareki and Ravouvou not good enough on defence. Add a high tackle from Gregory, and Ng Shiu not supporting his body weight at the breakdown, and it rained penalties. Some penalties were a bit tough though.
FT: NZ 14 - 19 France
The AB7s will play South Africa (that lost 22 - 29 to Australia) in the 5th place semi-final at 1:04am.
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@Tordah said in 2018-2019 World Sevens Series:
France beat NZ in the quarters after a strong 2nd half by them and a weird penalty try for a deliberate knock back from Webber (that was deemed a knock on but clearly went backwards). Pantsy 2nd half anyways
That was my inititial thoughts too (and I did not get to see any replay of the incident) in that the ball went backwards thus completely and utterly not even remotely meeting the requirements of being deemed to be a knock on much less a penalty and even more bizarely a penalty try.
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@Higgins Yeah watched the 2nd half and had the same thoughts on Webber - actually thought he may have been going for the intercept?
Anyway our (not) rub of the green with Refs/AR's/TMO's continues.....
When I finally stopped saying a lot of naughty words to the telly, my thoughts were still that only in some bizarre parallel universe would that have been a penalty try.....
