Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments

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@Bovidae One more from Hastings Boys: Andrew Hayward. So only two in total. I hoped to see Hoera Stephenson in the NZ Maori team, too.

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MacEwan and Hilton are both from Hamilton BHS. Cashmore is from Tauranga BC I think.

I am wondering if players from the upper NI are favoured purely due to the ease of getting them to Auckland. I did read that it is the coaches that choose their teams, not the organisers, who have been getting some criticism about team selection.

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

MacEwan and Hilton are both from Hamilton BHS. Cashmore is from Tauranga BC I think.

I am wondering if players from the upper NI are favoured purely due to the ease of getting them to Auckland. I did read that it is the coaches that choose their teams, not the organisers, who have been getting some criticism about team selection.

The timing of this being straight after Condor was possibly to keep some players up there. Even so the slow announcements seem to indicate that coaches and managers were struggling to complete squads in some cases and the longer it went on the harder it got. Some players may have had preferences of teams and had to wait for one before going to another.
Difficult situation I guess but they seem to have got something anyway so that’s good for the kids. Just wish that the organisers would stop trying to make out that these are totally merit based/representative selections.

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Last few teams

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Livestream for the Field 2 games:

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Arrgghh, Ken Laban getting the names wrong, again.

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Are the commentators paying to be there?

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Round 1 results - girls

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Round 1 results - boys

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Round 2 results - girls:

NZ Fijian Barbarians 10 - 7 NZ Cavaliers (the Tribes app now says 17 - 7, but not so sure that's correct).

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Round 2 results - boys:

NZ Condors 17 - 10 NZ Niue
Tongan Barbarians 28 - 12 NZ Barbarians
NZ Fijians 10 - 14 Samoan Barbarians
NZ Māori 12 - 12 Cook Islands

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Round 3 results - girls:

NZ Condors 36 - 10 Cook Islands
Niue Fiti Pua 5 - 39 NZ Barbarians
NZ Māori 31 - 15 NZ Fijian Barbarians
Samoan Barbarians 17 - 19 Cavaliers

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Round 3 results - boys:

NZ Condor 15 - 22 Tonga Barbarians
NZ Niue 12 - 26 NZ Barbarians
Cook Islands 14 - 31 Samoan Barbarians
NZ Fijian Barbarians 24 - 0 NZ Māori Boys

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Girls Cup QFs at 12.50pm

NZ Condors v NZ Maori (Sky Sport 1)
Cook Islands v Samoan Barbarians (Sky Sport Next)

Huge jersey clash in that first game, with both teams playing in black.

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Girls Cup QFs results:

NZ Condors 34 - 5 NZ Maori
Cook Islands 26 - 10 Samoan Barbarians

Girls Cup QFs at approx. 1.12pm

NZ Fijians v Niue Fiti Pua (Sky Sport 1)
NZ Cavaliers v NZ Barbarians (Sky Sport Next)

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Girls Cup QFs results:

NZ Fijians 22 - 15 Niue Fiti Pua (Sky Sport 1)
NZ Cavaliers 31 - 24 NZ Barbarians

Boys Cup QFs at approx. 1.30pm:

Tonga Barbarians v Cook Islands (Sky Sport 1)
NZ Condors v NZ Māori (Sky Sport Next)

Boys Cup QFs at approx 1.47pm:

Samoan Barbarians v NZ Niue (Sky Sport 1)
NZ Fijians v NZ Barbarians (Sky Sport Next)

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Results Boys Cup QFs:

Tonga Barbarians 28 - 0 Cook Islands
NZ Condors 40 - 5 NZ Māori

Girls Cup SF (Sky Sport 1)

at approx. 2.07pm: NZ Condors v NZ Cavaliers
at approx. 2.24pm: Samoan Barbarians v NZ Fijians

Grils Bowl SF (Sky Sport Next)

at approx. 2.10pm: NZ Māori v NZ Barbarians
at approx. 2.30pm: Cook Islands v Niue Fiti Pua

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Results Boys Cup QFs:

Samoan Barbarians 19 - 12 NZ Niue
NZ Fijians 21 - 24 NZ Barbarians