Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments
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Damon Murphy, Jordan Way and Amy Perrett were all officiating in Townsville and are meant to be the ref and ARs for the AB test against Tonga this Sat. With current Covid restrictions none of them can leave Qld unless the travel pause is lifted tomorrow night.
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@bovidae said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
Damon Murphy, Jordan Way and Amy Perrett were all officiating in Townsville and are meant to be the ref and ARs for the AB test against Tonga this Sat. With current Covid restrictions none of them can leave Qld unless the travel pause is lifted tomorrow night.
That's a good thing because the first two are fucking useless.
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@bovidae Cody Vai is the brother of Melani Nanai. Looked dangerous for the Samoa Barbarians U18s team on the weekend. Although he's a centre, he plays so much like Melani.
I'm pretty sure Xavier Tito-Harris and Francis Manuleleua are both signed by the Warriors. Manuleleua has been training with the Warriors during pre-season.
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I know Covid has interfered but this 'World Schools Sevens' tournament is nothing of the sort and from what I can tell never has been.
It is a bunch of invitational teams with invites and team construction coming from coaches. The only team of 'merit selection' seems to be the Condor one which I assume is a best of from that tournament?
Anyway, one the women's side at least it is one of the few chances players have to get games and experience given that there are very few schools that can put together a complete side that doesn't have filler and rely on one or two players.
In other words don't read anything into selections or who is/isn't playing. What will be interesting is anyone that stands out. -
@crucial Agree. I'm not sure where "NZ Asian Barabarians" comes from. I read that the Warriors U18s will now also be fielding a team (coached by DJ Forbes and Tony Iro) as a replacement for another team. They will be interesting to watch.
BTW, there was no Condors tournament last year so the team has been selected on reputation rather than performance.
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@crucial We used to reply on @stargazer to keep us abreast of things like this but I see he has not logged in since December 5. Hopefully he is just taking a sabbatical and will be coming back all nicely refreshed prior to the start of the Super season.
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@bovidae said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
@crucial You will be happy that the Central Storm upset the NZ Condors girls 17-15 in Rd 1.
Even happier in the second game.
That should have them in the cup round, hopefully as top qualifier
Condor Girls woke up in second round
