Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens

[Nepia]

I had no idea the Commonwealth Games were on this week until clicking on this thread.

[canefan]

@Nepia said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

I had no idea the Commonwealth Games were on this week until clicking on this thread.

Wait what? When does it start?

[Frye]

@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.

Dallas Seymour was a Messam type at the time.

[Crucial]

That team was super awesome even if they did include a carthorse

The mere idea these days of a sevens team including Cully, Lomu and Vidiri is dream team stuff.

[Bones]

@Frye said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.

Dallas Seymour was a Messam type at the time.

More Forbes than Messam for mine!

[Stargazer]

[Nepia]

@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

That team was super awesome even if they did include a carthorse

The mere idea these days of a sevens team including Cully, Lomu and Vidiri is dream team stuff.

He wasn't cart horsed until he moved to Chch, before that he was all flair.

[Frye]

@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

@Frye said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.

Dallas Seymour was a Messam type at the time.

More Forbes than Messam for mine!

Sure both played 7 for C-M but don't forget Dallas was an All Black!

Seriously though he was crucial at dealing with the Fijian physicality at the breakdown back then. Something NZ is almost incapable of doing these days.

[Stargazer]

No pressure.

[Bones]

I've just sat down in front of this opening ceremony for the past 5 minutes. What an absurdity. Could be a scene out of Zoolander.

Shithouse

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@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

I've just sat down in front of this opening ceremony for the past 5 minutes. What an absurdity. Could be a scene out of Zoolander.

Shithouse

Didn't see it, but it sounds great. Hoping it's the one with the gasoline fight.

[Bones]

@gibbon-rib Duran Duran piece might have saved it.

[Crucial]

@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

I've just sat down in front of this opening ceremony for the past 5 minutes. What an absurdity. Could be a scene out of Zoolander.

Shithouse

It's like they rounded up every Am-dram and community dance group they could get a bus ticket for an threw them some dress-ups.
Painfully cringy.

[Bones]

@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

Painfully cringy.

Watching a gymnast wobble about climbing "human stairs" and then them thinking up a way to make Denise bloody Lewis look silly was something else.

[Stargazer]

Fijiana looking good. Smashing Scotland.

[Stargazer]

By the way, the first game was on by the Aussie women, who beat South Africa 38 - 0.

The best way to stay up-to-date with the sevens tournament is the fixture list on the WR website: https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/fixtures-results

[Stargazer]

I guess participation is awesome for the non-rugby nations, despite being absolutely crushed like Sri Lanka at the moment?

[Stargazer]

Time for Black Ferns 7s v Canada!

[Stargazer]

Great turnover from Blyde.

[Stargazer]

Oops. Deliberate knock down by one of the Canadians. Yellow card.