Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments
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@stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
It looks like Chile's win over the NZ 7s Dev team is not coincidence. They're also smashing the Tongan team at the moment. Great to see a team from outside the core nations doing well, even if it's a tourney without the strongest senior teams.
I agree with your sentiments but surely the NZ B team should be expected to roll a rugby powerhouse like Chile but about thirty or forty. Can you remind us who comprised the appointment panel that decided who would take over from Sir Gordon Teitjens, questions must be asked. Hell I'd even back Mr. C. Philpott to get a better result against Chile than that.
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NZ7s Dev team lose 12 - 24 to the USA. So many work-ons, but let's start with tackling.
To their defence, a lot of the NZ players have only come out of Mitre 10 Cup a few weeks ago, so haven't had much time together as a team and haven't trained much 7s. -
After a good break from Houston, Hyland scores just before the hooter goes. Full time: 34-0 to NZ.
Commentator refers to NZ and Tonga as the "South Sea Islands".
Thanks to New Zealand's positive points differential, they are still going through to the Cup Quarter Finals, despite two losses. A bit weird, but hopefully they'll play better tomorrow.
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@stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
NZ destroyed by Australia. Not sure whether this is a full strenght Aussie team, but losing 40 - 7 is embarrassing.
After another loss to Fiji (15-26), the AB7s Dev team went on to beat Japan 26 - 5 to finish 7th overall. Yuck!
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@stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
The Oceania Sevens wil be held next weekend. The All Blacks 7s and Black Ferns 7s (senior) teams will participate.
Both squads have been named for this tournament.
All Blacks 7s:
Scott Curry - Bay of Plenty
Tim Mikkelson - Waikato
Tone Ng Shiu - Ta$man
Teddy Stanaway - Bay of Plenty
Dylan Collier - Waikato
Bailey Simonsson - Bay of Plenty
Joe Ravouvou - Auckland
Isaac Te Tamaki - Waikato
Regan Ware - Bay of Plenty
Andrew Knewstubb - Ta$man
Joe Webber - Bay of Plenty
Sione Molia - Counties ManukauBay of Plenty fullback Bailey Simonsson is the only debutant.
All Black 7s draw for day 1 (Friday, 10 November) of the Oceania Sevens:
4.20pm: v Nauru
7.20pm: v Cook IslandsBlack Ferns 7s
Portia Woodman - Counties Manukau
Tenika Willison - Waikato
Stacey Waaka - Waikato
Ruby Tui - Canterbury
Terina Te Tamaki - Waikato
Alena Saili - Otago
Tyla Nathan-Wong - Auckland
Kayla McAlister - Auckland
Sarah Goss - Manawatu
Theresa Fitzpatrick - Auckland
Gayle Broughton - Taranaki
Michaeala Blyde - Bay of PlentyBlack Ferns 7s draw for day 1 (Friday, 10 November) of the Oceania Sevens:
11.20am: v Tahiti
2.20pm: v Cook Islands
5.20pm: v Papua New GuineaThe Oceania 7s will feature both New Zealand's senior teams. Hopefully they'll do better.
At least, there won't be a need to search for a livestream, because Sky will be broadcasting the tournament. Hopefully, not just the men's games. -
Half time: 42-0 to the Black Ferns 7s.
It's great that so many Pacific nations participate in this tournament, including teams that are far from the level of the World Series' core nations. They get the chance to play against the best and no doubt will learn from it. But for NZ, Australia and also Fiji, these games are just opposed training runs.
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The Black Ferns 7s just beat Cook Islands 26 to 5. The Cook Islands offered much better opposition and defended well. They kept the Ferns at 5-5 at half time. Sarah Goss was immense and made a lot of turnovers. Woodman, of course, scored a few of the NZ tries. Still several work-ons for the Kiwis, but it looks promising. One more pool game to go, before they'll be really tested in the finals tomorrow.
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Wasn't able to watch the remaining NZ games of the Oceania Sevens.
These were all today's results:
Black Ferns 7s v Tahiti: 70 - 0
Black Ferns 7s v Cook Islands: 26 - 5
Black Ferns 7s v PNG: 15 - 0
All Blacks 7s v Nauru: 46 - 0
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The All Blacks 7s have beaten American Samoa in the Quarter Finals: 58 - 0. Another easy win against a weak opponent. They will meet Australia in the semis at 3.00pm, so that should be more of a challenge! Allthough ... the Aussies only just beat PNG (22-21).
The Black Ferns 7s will play their semi-final against Fiji at 1.20pm.
It's again LIVE on Sky Sports Pop-up 4 (ch 58) in NZ. There's a livestream for viewers outside NZ and Fiji: https://livestream.com/accounts/19514369/oceania7s
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Shame about the weather. Typical really - Fiji, especially in the West, are desperately in need of rain yet over in Suva it is raining enough to make things unpleasant for everyone involved in the 7s. Tonga v Cook Islands ladies match on now. Tonga trying something new for sevens - looks like they are going for the power game.
