Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens

[canefan]

@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

[Bones]

@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.

[OomPB]

The Blitzboks had the opportunity to select the experienced midgets like Ruhan Nel, Senatla, Manie Libbok who play 15s in the URC but decided against it.

[ACT Crusader]

@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.

[Bones]

@ACT-Crusader Valence is up there as one of my faves. Masoe and Muliaina were absolute guns when they came along too.

[ACT Crusader]

@Bones Valence could do it all out there. Agree on Masoe. The guy that really impressed me in 7s was Josh Blackie, when we won the Comm Games gold in 06 in Melbourne.

[Tim]

Young Barrett, DMac, and Mo'unga would all have been guns at sevens. Wonder how Fakatava would go?

[Bones]

@Tim good call. Think Weber and Christie would be pretty handy too. As would the saders Christie!

[Stargazer]

@Tim If Mo'unga would be capped by the ABs 7s, that would be his third team (of a different rugby variant) in black. He has represented NZ in touch, too.

[Nepia]

I had no idea the Commonwealth Games were on this week until clicking on this thread.

[canefan]

@Nepia said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

I had no idea the Commonwealth Games were on this week until clicking on this thread.

Wait what? When does it start?

[Frye]

@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.

[Crucial]

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.

[Bones]

@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!

[Stargazer]

[Nepia]

@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.

[Frye]

@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.

[Stargazer]

No pressure.

[Bones]

I've just sat down in front of this opening ceremony for the past 5 minutes. What an absurdity. Could be a scene out of Zoolander.

Shithouse

[gibbon rib]

@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:

I've just sat down in front of this opening ceremony for the past 5 minutes. What an absurdity. Could be a scene out of Zoolander.

Shithouse

Didn't see it, but it sounds great. Hoping it's the one with the gasoline fight.