Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments
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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
All Blacks 7s v Cook Islands: 36 - 0 -
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.
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The AB 7s beat Australia 31 to nil.
Due to the weather, there's more than 2 hours delay of all games.
The Black Ferns 7s will play Australia in the women's Final and the All Blacks 7s will play Fiji in the men's Final. Not sure at what time, but I think it will be after 8.30pm, unless they scratch a few games (something I don't think they'll do).
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