Olympics Thread

booboo

Nyahhh. Pooh

Baron Silas Greenback

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Australia are very clear favourites for a good reason, I bet a yellow card costs NZ.
Aus by 20
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This guy was mostly right, Woodman being stoopid was pretty predicable though.

Unco

I'll console myself with the knowledge that the Aussie men's team won't win shit... :(

Stargazer

The best team won, but I think NZ has played well in Rio. Sarah Goss, in particular, was fantastic during the final.
 
Considering the Aussies have been dominating all season, I'm reasonably happy with silver.

No Quarter

NZ coach: "some defining calls that swung the game a bit". Lol.

KiwiMurph

That was a high quality game - some of that one on one defence was oustanding.
 
Well done Australia - best team.
 
Was quite funny watching Mcalister - it seems tucking and running is a family trait.

Chris B.

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Australia are very clear favourites for a good reason, I bet a yellow card costs NZ.
Aus by 20
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Spot on, unfortunately.
 
Lack of discipline very costly - it's a very stupid play in sevens to try to stop a try by knocking the ball down.
 
Goss played very well for NZ. I was wondering when it was 7 on 6 and Woodman's time in the bin was clearly up, whether we should kick it out. We didn't look like we had the weaponry to score at that point.

jegga

Did the Aussies acknowledge us in their post match interviews?

hydro11

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Spot on, unfortunately.
 
Lack of discipline very costly - it's a very stupid play in sevens to try to stop a try by knocking the ball down.
 
Goss played very well for NZ. I was wondering when it was 7 on 6 and Woodman's time in the bin was clearly up, whether we should kick it out. We didn't look like we had the weaponry to score at that point.
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I think they need to look at a rule whereby once the 2 minutes elapses, the sin binned player can automatically return the field from behind the goal line. The difference between being down to 6 players for 2 minutes or 4 minutes is huge.

mariner4life

Well done Aussie womens sevens. Best team going in, best team during, and now winners. Pretty conclusive. Is it churlish of me to dread the crowing of a public who are only going to see Aus beat NZ in rugby, and celebrates it as a "fantastic achievement" which would completely dismiss the work those girls have put in over the last 18 months to be the best side in the world?
 
Going in we would have taken silver wouldn't we? so this was a pretty good result. Go on you ANZACs!
 
 
I saw the equestrian, saw Sir Mark Todd's name, and thought he must be the coach, but there he is, front and centre. Awesome. 
 
 
You know earlier on when we described sports we would get rid of if we ran the IOC? I would like to put forward Water Polo. That's not a sport, that's mates on a saturday arvo mucking around at your house. At the very least they should change the rules so that you have to play with a beer in one hand, and that beer must never be empty. Reserves should be on the sideline cooking on the BBQ.

Chris B.

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I think they need to look at a rule whereby once the 2 minutes elapses, the sin binned player can automatically return the field from behind the goal line. The difference between being down to 6 players for 2 minutes or 4 minutes is huge.
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Probably. 
 
Tactically, I think we should have realised having seven players on the field is more valuable than one possession and kicked for the corner. I'm going to give the coach a black mark for that and also a black mark for not enforcing more discipline - crucial that you don't have someone in the bin in a knockout match. Used to be a major achilles heel of the Fijian men and possibly still is.

Sneakdefreak

A two minute yellow card turns into four? Please....
 
 
Rugby (probably both 7s and 15) needs to follow the likes of ice hockey (and I think rugby league) where once the time is up the player is allowed onto the field straight away regardless of play.

jegga

Speaking of Mark Todd he must one of the oldest Olympians ever surely? And to be in the hunt for a medal too, legend

Chris B.

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Going in we would have taken silver wouldn't we? so this was a pretty good result. Go on you ANZACs!
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No!
 
If we could collect the silver or replay the tournament I'd go for the replay and not even think about it.

Bovidae

NZ benefitted with YCs in the SF so swings and roundabouts.
 
The problem to me had as much to do with selection as we didn't have the same speed as Aust did. Even Woodman wasn't beating players on the outside. 
 
I expected silver but can't but feel disappointed with the result.

Stargazer

antipodean

Australia deserved to win. Pace is the weapon in 7s.

NTA

Fucking tense game up until Caslick scored a try she really shouldn't have - up until that point the Kiwis' front-on defence was the business. For some reason they just held off there, probably fatigue.
 
NZ tackling early was immense, containing the Aussie girls, who looked rattled to me. A bad lineout, a try, and then the yellow card. A real turning point, particularly as it extended out by a couple of minutes and resulted in a try to us at the end of it.
 
Really feel for Woodman and she looked shattered. But silver is nothing to sniff at and I'm sure it will motivate the womens' 7s program as a whole for next season.
 
 
Having said all that: GO YOU FUCKING GOOD THINGS!!!
 
Aussie defence was probably better across the board, particularly in terms of the pace others have mentioned - NZ could make a break but get run down, whereas you felt if Cherry, Green or Caslick got into space, they were gone or had the support runners to capitalise.

booboo

Can i whinge about kicking the ball out of the ruck and the dodgy first try? I don't want to as the better team won. But doesn't help.

barbarian

What a great win, a huge moment for women's rugby in Australia. To have it in morning prime time, with millions watching around the world... incredible. I hope young girls everywhere were watching, and will be looking to pick up a rugby ball and have a run around.
 
So proud of the team, it's been such a good year for them. The ARU have also done a great job, first in the recruitment stage (finding athletes from touch, basketball, league etc) and then making them full-time professionals.
 
Think the rest of the world will catch up by the time Tokyo rolls around though, especially the USA, Russia and China.

The Silver Fern

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