Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments

[Nepia]

@Bovidae Maybe the timing is off? I think it coincides with the final rounds of Super 8. Do some other schools comps play at the same time? I might be too much of a disruption.

[Bovidae]

@Nepia I was thinking of a team of 18 yr olds who had left school and had been identified as potential NZ sevens players. There must be enough of them from the Condors and World Schools Sevens competitions. Some will already be in the NZ sevens programme.

[Stargazer]

Inaugural Rugby Heritage Cup (U15)

Info in this article:

Young Kiwis with 'character' France-bound for new rugby event

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And the teams:

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To win the cup, teams must be good at more than rugby alone:

CelDel

The Tournament

[Stargazer]

Women's 7s tournament on 22-23 and 28-29 September 2023.
Suva, this weekend; and Lautoka, next weekend.
Four teams: NZ, Fiji, Australia and France.

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Results of the first round of games:

Fijiana 7s 5 - 22 Black Ferns 7s
France 28 - 12 Australia

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Results:

Round 2:
Fijiana 7s 29- 7 France
New Zealand 24-14 Australia

Round 3:
Fijiana 7s 34-12 Australia
New Zealand 24-12 France

Round 4:
Fijiana 7s 17-12 France
New Zealand 7-10 Australia

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Oceania Rugby  /  Oct 17, 2023

Teams buzzing ahead of Oceania Rugby Sevens Championship for place at Paris Olympics

[Stargazer]

The Sir Gordon Tietjens 7s tournament was held on the weekend.

I haven't followed the games or tournament, but the winners were:

Open Girls: Manukura Pango team
Open Boys: Fielding High School
U15 Boys: Palmerston North BHS

Open Boys MVP: Mosese Bason (FAHS)
Open Girls MVP: Litia Bulicakau (St Mary's College)

U15 Boys Sir Gordon Tietjens 7's tournament team for 2023:
Nate Werder - New Plymouth BHS
Luke Goodman - New Plymouth BHS
Viliami Rongokea-Tupou - Palmerston North BHS
Will Lovatt - Napier BHS
Triumph Voice - Hastings BHS
Panapa Peia - Hastings BHS
Cayden Pardey - Palmerston North BHS
Teariki-Joseph Maui - Hastings BHS
Jack Hurley - New Plymouth BHS
Eric Miller - Palmerston North BHS

Open Girls Sir Gordon Tietjens 7's tournament team for 2023:
Fono Bason - Feilding HS
Armani Martine - Cullinane College
Bailey Nightingale - St Mary's College
Litia Bulicakau - St Mary's College
Keighley-Rein Araia - Manukura
Patricia Hei Hei - Manukura
Louise Blyde - Sacred Heart Girls' College - New Plymouth
Tiani Kensington - Sacred Heart Girls' College - New Plymouth
Teamaia Sweetman - Manukura
Nia Sutherland - Manukuran

Open Boys Sir Gordon Tietjens 7's tournament team for 2023:
CJ Mienie - Napier BHS
Josh Augustine - Napier BHS
Dan Maisiri - Feilding HS
Mosese Bason - Feilding HS
Brayden Neilson - New Plymouth BHS
Semisi Balenaisa - Feilding HS
Tim O'Leary - Whanganui CS
Raef Robinson - Hastings BHS
Tevita Fakahau - Palmerston North BHS
Cooper Furnell - Palmerston North BHS

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@Stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:

This tournament starts on Friday. I've seen several national squads being named, but no All Blacks 7s or Black Ferns 7s Development teams.

[Stargazer]

By the way, you can watch the Oceania Sevens Championship on Sky Sport 2.

[mikedogz]

Some provincial sevens warm up tournaments start soon. One at Whangamata this weekend.

editor  /  Nov 7, 2023

CMRFU representative sevens squads named - Counties Sports Hub

Counties Manukau Rugby has confirmed a wider men’s and women’s squads that will represent the region at tournaments over the next couple of weekends. Those players will contest the Thames Valley Sevens in Whangamata this Saturday before playing at the Counties Manukau Sevens the following weekend...

[Bovidae]

Dawai is in the Waikato squad. Cody Nordstrom made his name in schoolboy sevens.

[Stargazer]

Squads All Blacks 7s and Black Ferns 7s Development:

[Daffy Jaffy]

Times for NZ games -

Day One – Friday 10 November *times listed in NZDT
3.18pm New Zealand men v Oceania
7.20pm New Zealand Development women v Australia
7.42pm New Zealand men v Fiji

Day Two – Saturday 11 November
4.08pm New Zealand Development women v Australia
4.30pm New Zealand men v Niue
7.04pm New Zealand Development women v Australia
7.26pm New Zealand men v Australia

Day Three – Sunday 12 November
3.18pm Mens Final
4.02pm New Zealand Development women v Australia

Matches will be broadcast on Sky.

[KiwiMurph]

A reminder this is also on Stan for those in Aus

[Bovidae]

NZ are playing now, so those times must be local.

[Stargazer]

Here's the schedule with NZ times:

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Results of day 1:

[Bovidae]

The results for the women are encouraging as from what I saw from game 1, Aust were closer to a full strength team.

[Stargazer]

Interesting to see Lotu Inisi playing for Tonga. You don't see that many SR players playing sevens after the NPC anymore.