2017-18 World Sevens Series

[antipodean]

Be interesting to see what effect the new coach has had with a pre-season under the belt.

[Stargazer]

Black Ferns 7s team for the Dubai Sevens:

1 Ruby Tui
2 Alena Saili
3 Stacey Waaka
4 Niall Williams
5 Sarah Goss (captain)
6 Michaela Blyde
7 Tyla Nathan-Wong
8 Gayle Broughton
9 Kat Whata-Simpkins
10 Theresa Fitzpatrick
11 Portia Woodman
12 Kayla McAlister

So from the travelling squad, Kelly Brazier and Tenika Willison have missed out.

Pool games (in NZT)
Thu, 30 Nov:
10.50pm: v South Africa

Fri, 1 Dec:
1.46am: v France
4.43am: v USA

LIVE on Sky Sport Pop-Up (Ch 56? aka Sky Sport 6) from 1.30am.

[Crucial]

Russia just beat England in the womens pool match.

Deserved win too.

[Stargazer]

@crucial In the women's game, Russia is quite good. Surprised they beat England though. Any more interesting games? Sky isn't broadcasting until 1.30am NZT. Any chance you can give us updates of the Black Ferns game in 20 minutes?

[Crucial]

@stargazer said in 2017-18 World Sevens Series:

@crucial In the women's game, Russia is quite good. Surprised they beat England though. Any more interesting games? Sky isn't broadcasting until 1.30am NZT. Any chance you can give us updates of the Black Ferns game in 20 minutes?

Sure. I can get the feed on the WR site.

France leading USA 12-7 on the last play of the first half

[Crucial]

Stays that scoreline. Kiwis up in next game. Have a strong pool with France, USA and SA

[Crucial]

Final score France beat USA 19-17 but both teams fairly even in ability.

[Crucial]

Blyde in from first play of the game with a 75 metre run. Girl has some pace!

7-0

[Crucial]

Woodman in under the sticks. Should be 14-0

[Crucial]

SA making big errors in defence by sending one player rushing up. It leaves the outside defender with a two on one.
Now Broughton in beside the posts. This is a slaughter so far. 21-0

[Crucial]

Halftime and SA have already resorted to high kicks to try and get a lucky bounce.

21-0

[Crucial]

Waaka mistimes a tackle and takes out a player in the air. YC.

[Crucial]

McAllister just blasts straight through the middle and gasses the rest of the way. Another 7 pointer.

[Crucial]

Now Fitzpatrick in. Love the way the tries are all being scored close to the posts. The mens team could learn from that, too often they rely on 5s instead of 7s

35-0

[Crucial]

Now Waaka in as well. 40-0 kick to come.

Kick off the post. 40-0 final score

[Stargazer]

@crucial Geez, that's going fast. I know the SA women aren't as good as their men's team, not even remotely, but this is a massacre!

[Crucial]

SA started well and I thought they made good ground up the middle but after a couple of turnovers and tries they gave up that path and completely lost their way, going through the basics and providing NZ with a good practice run.

[Stargazer]

[Higgins]

The result in match three must see a lot of coughing and spluttering over their gins at RFU Headquarters after they diverted all their womens 15 professional budget into their 7s. Fancy the Ruskies coming in an spoiling the party.

[Crucial]

@higgins said in 2017-18 World Sevens Series:

The result in match three must see a lot of coughing and spluttering over their gins at RFU Headquarters after they diverted all their womens 15 professional budget into their 7s. Fancy the Ruskies coming in an spoiling the party.

I think they hacked the result. It was a conspiracy.