2023-2024 World Sevens Series

[ARHS]

@Tim I really hope that is true!

[Tim]

@ARHS A return to Hamilton was mentioned in the article, which would be nice.

[ARHS]

With a flotilla of Fijians there it really has a great atmosphere.

[Bovidae]

Shiray Kaka has confirmed that she has an ACL injury, so is out of the Olympics. It's her other knee this time.

[Bovidae]

Quite a few recent school leavers in both teams. Cam Church also.

[mikedogz]

worldrugby.org

Gordon Tietjens predicts bright future for Challenger pacesetters China | World Rugby

China currently sit on top of the women’s World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2024 standings with a perfect 40 points and their high-performance consultant has been impressed with what he’s seen.

[Tim]

@Bovidae The Auckland University Club open side flanker and former age grade rep?

[Bovidae]

@Tim Yes, it can only be him. From what I remember of Church, he was quick.

The women's squad contains a couple of recent Black Ferns so the sevens programme must be widening their player pool.

[Tim]

@Bovidae IIRC, he was a bit on the smaller side? Maybe he's better suited to sevens.

[Bovidae]

Unavailable due to injury:
Sione Molia, Fehi Fineanganofo, Payton Spencer, Tim Mikkelson, Kitiona Vai and Amanaki Nicole.
Sarah Hirini and Shiray Kaka.

[Bones]

@Bovidae said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:

Fehi Fineanganofo

Shitballs. At least Ng Shiu is back.

[Bovidae]

The Men’s and Women’s Development teams both won the Howard Hinton Sevens last weekend. No idea who they played but the women did play an AIS team. They play another tournament this weekend.

The times for Madrid are terrible for NZ viewers. Sarah Hirini is in Madrid too.

[Daffy Jaffy]

The Howard Hinton Sevens were live streamed -

[Bovidae]

Did any of you NH folk watch? The NZ men threw away a handy HT lead against Fiji to lose 28-26.

Looking at the results, there have been some upsets in the Qualifier series.

[Duluth]

A couple of tries from the NZ v Fiji game

[Duluth]

NZ v SA is on now

SA winning 10-7 just before HT

[Duluth]

SA down to 4 players temporarily

[Bovidae]

That NZ starting seven lacks any real speed outside of Vai. If they can't win this with 3 SA players in the bin they don't deserve to advance.

[KiwiMurph]

Allowing Boks to score with 5 men is a joke

[antipodean]

Nice from Carter.