Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens
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@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@Dice said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
The men definitely got put in the toughest pool.
Barring the usual Sevens boilovers this should end up as Fiji v NZ/SA for the gold in the mens.
Australia should be in the conversation.
Samoa is a dark horse. Had 9 or 10 debutants in the 7s series this year and made 3 semifinals in 4 tournaments.
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Not related to the CGs, but an interesting story about the BF7s extra-time SF win over Fiji in Tokyo. Let's hope for a repeat performance...
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Jebus. Easy to forget how good things used to be.
Remembering the 1998 Gold medalists
With Rugby Sevens set to take centre stage at the Birmingham Games in late July, we recall the first New Zealand team to compete at the Commonwealth Games back in 1998.
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@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
Jebus. Easy to forget how good things used to be.
Remembering the 1998 Gold medalists
With Rugby Sevens set to take centre stage at the Birmingham Games in late July, we recall the first New Zealand team to compete at the Commonwealth Games back in 1998.
Shit soon we'll sound like Wales, harking back to bygone era
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@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.
It was an amazing team. 24 years ago, sheesh we are all old!
The way we used the likes of Lomu, Vidiri and even Randle meant we didn’t need a Messam/Masoe/Akira type to still dominate. We had prime Cullen, Reihana and a very young Rico. Add Valence and we actually bought it together to beat what was a superb Fiji team that had Vunibaka and Serevi just to name a couple.
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@ACT-Crusader Valence is up there as one of my faves. Masoe and Muliaina were absolute guns when they came along too.
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@Frye said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.
Dallas Seymour was a Messam type at the time.
More Forbes than Messam for mine!
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@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
That team was super awesome even if they did include a carthorse
The mere idea these days of a sevens team including Cully, Lomu and Vidiri is dream team stuff.
He wasn't cart horsed until he moved to Chch, before that he was all flair.
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@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@Frye said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.
Dallas Seymour was a Messam type at the time.
More Forbes than Messam for mine!
Sure both played 7 for C-M but don't forget Dallas was an All Black!
Seriously though he was crucial at dealing with the Fijian physicality at the breakdown back then. Something NZ is almost incapable of doing these days.
