2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo)
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@stargazer said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@crucial I'd expect All Blacks. I think they would have mentioned it if they were former All Blacks 7s players.
Sopoaga has been mentioned but how about Luatua? Tamanivalu? Nonu? Julian Savea?
Angus Ta'avao might be a bit difficult to justify playing sevens but if this is a mechanism to bolster 15s who knows?
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@stargazer said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@crucial Tamanivalu is Fijian. I think Europe based players are more likely than NZ based. I was thinking Vito, but maybe he's too old? Or George Moala?
Isn't Moala Tongan?
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Hmmm, Francis Saili & non-Europe based players like Augustine Pulu and Matt Duffie are possibilities. There are quite a few older players - apart from Vito and Nonu (to name three: Rudi Wulf, Benson Stanley and Isaia Toeava), but I can't imagine it's them.
Matt Duffie is currently in managed isolation, btw.
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@nepia said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
Isn't Moala Tongan?
Well he played for the Tongan Under 20s a fair while back but that does not mean to say he does not carry Samoan ancestry as well (although that is probably not the case).
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@stargazer said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
Hmmm, Francis Saili & non-Europe based players like Augustine Pulu and Matt Duffie are possibilities. There are quite a few older players - apart from Vito and Nonu (to name three: Rudi Wulf, Benson Stanley and Isaia Toeava), but I can't imagine it's them.
Matt Duffie is currently in managed isolation, btw.
I thought Pulu was Tongan too - I seem to remember Aussie Toutai mentioning him as a potential player.
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@nepia Pulu went to Wesley College and that is a Methodist Church School. The Methodist Church is probably the Tongan people's largest church so there is a fair chance that he too is probably Tongan, And this https://www.allblacks.com/news/all-blacks-xv-tongan-descent provides further back up to my assumption!
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@higgins said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@nepia Pulu went to Wesley College and that is a Methodist Church School. The Methodist Church is probably the Tongan people's largest church so there is a fair chance that he too is probably Tongan, And this https://www.allblacks.com/news/all-blacks-xv-tongan-descent provides further back up to my assumption!
That's a decent team they've named.
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@nepia If you look at the number seven in the team listed https://www.allblacks.com/news/all-blacks-xv-tongan-descent you can take some of your mitts of him as well!!!!!!
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@higgins said in 2020 -> 2021 Olympic Sevens (Tokyo):
@nepia If you look at the number seven in the team listed https://www.allblacks.com/news/all-blacks-xv-tongan-descent you can take some of your mitts of him as well!!!!!!
Hahaha, I've never been an ethnicity is zero sum kind of guy (I'm a mongrel myself).
If Gus Leger makes the ABs he'll be awesome for these ethnicity teams.
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George Moala - Wikipedia
