2023-2024 World Sevens Series

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Yuck. Ireland score another one.

14 - 36 Ireland

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Finally finds an Irish infringement and it's for taking the kick too far in front of the line. Sums it up.

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One last try to NZ scored by McGarvey-Black.

Well-deserved win to Ireland. AB7s were terrible and didn't deserve to go to the Cup semis.

FT: AB7s 21 - 36 Ireland

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The AB7s were so bad that they may miss out on the play-off for 5th place. They don't play semis for those lower ranked places. It's best QF loser v 2nd best QF loser for 5th place and the other two QF losers play for 7th place.

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Canada lost 0 - 33 to Argentina, so that's worse than the AB7s.
We have to hope for the Blitzboks to blitz the Aussies or Fiji/France to do that to their opponent.

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Okay, the Aussies blitzing the Blitzboks works for us as well.
HT: Aussies 14 - 0 RSA (that's not enough yet)

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Another try for the Aussies!

21 - 0 Oz

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And again!

28 - 0 Australia

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Had the world gone mad??

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FT: Australia 28 - 0 South Africa

Both South Africa and Canada suffered bigger losses in their QFs than NZ. So if I've understood the rules correctly, the AB7s will play for 5th place.

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@NTA The Aussies looked very good in that game!

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Fiji were 17 - 0 ahead, but are imploding now.

HT: Fiji 17 - 14 France

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This game is going to extra time! Sudden death.

Fiji 24 - 24 France

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A Frenchy gets yellow ...

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Nah, another yellow for the French. Seems harsh.

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Fiji score and win!

FT: Fiji 29 - 24 France

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Women's Cup SF:
1:34am: BF7s v France

Men's 5th place play-off:
3:52am: AB7s v South Africa

So the rules are different from what I thought, because I expected us to play France for 5th place, but the WR website says we're playing South Africa.

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I see the BF7s lost 12 - 24 to France in the SF, and then beat the USA 19 - 7 to claim bronze.

The AB7s beat South Africa 31 - 7 and finished 5th.

Very disappointing. I hope both teams will improve a lot during the season and come right before the Olympics.

The Aussie women won gold again, beating France 29 - 26 in the Final.
Argentina beat the Aussie men 45 - 12 in the Final, and Fiji took home bronze after defeating Ireland 14 - 7.

[Snowy]

@Bones said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:

Fucking Irish player comes flying over the top off his feet, lands on the wrong side and just ignored.

I think we found our new Rasta

Just prior to the third (I think) Irish try there was a ruck a few meters out from our line, just to the right of the posts. Ireland possession, ruck had formed (a couple of players from each side IIRC) Curry driving Irish player back, ball is beneath Irish in front of his feet so he just reached down and scoops it back with his hand. How is that legal? Ref was about 2m away and it was right in front of him, he was looking at it.

So what am I missing? What interpretation or law allowed him to do that? He couldn't lift leg to ruck it back because Curry was there, in fact he looked like he was tempted to dive on it, but probably would have been carded for cynical play.

Ref penalised for the something very similar in the second half. Was he just a "Rasta" or has my knowledge of the laws been left behind?

It's not unusual for refs to see something differently, but this was so blatant that it must be me.

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@Snowy 7s refs come from the school for the blind. In the same game I twice saw Irish players dive over the ruck and not get penalised.