Olympics Thread
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Baron Silas Greenback" data-cid="604124" data-time="1470693218">
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<p>Australia are very clear favourites for a good reason, I bet a yellow card costs NZ.</p>
<p>Aus by 20</p>
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<p>Spot on, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Lack of discipline very costly - it's a very stupid play in sevens to try to stop a try by knocking the ball down.</p>
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<p>Goss played very well for NZ. I was wondering when it was 7 on 6 and Woodman's time in the bin was clearly up, whether we should kick it out. We didn't look like we had the weaponry to score at that point.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Chris B." data-cid="604163" data-time="1470696156">
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<p>Spot on, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Lack of discipline very costly - it's a very stupid play in sevens to try to stop a try by knocking the ball down.</p>
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<p>Goss played very well for NZ. I was wondering when it was 7 on 6 and Woodman's time in the bin was clearly up, whether we should kick it out. We didn't look like we had the weaponry to score at that point.</p>
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<p>I think they need to look at a rule whereby once the 2 minutes elapses, the sin binned player can automatically return the field from behind the goal line. The difference between being down to 6 players for 2 minutes or 4 minutes is huge.</p> -
<p>Well done Aussie womens sevens. Best team going in, best team during, and now winners. Pretty conclusive. Is it churlish of me to dread the crowing of a public who are only going to see Aus beat NZ in rugby, and celebrates it as a "fantastic achievement" which would completely dismiss the work those girls have put in over the last 18 months to be the best side in the world?</p>
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<p>Going in we would have taken silver wouldn't we? so this was a pretty good result. Go on you ANZACs!</p>
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<p>I saw the equestrian, saw Sir Mark Todd's name, and thought he must be the coach, but there he is, front and centre. Awesome. </p>
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<p>You know earlier on when we described sports we would get rid of if we ran the IOC? I would like to put forward Water Polo. That's not a sport, that's mates on a saturday arvo mucking around at your house. At the very least they should change the rules so that you have to play with a beer in one hand, and that beer must never be empty. Reserves should be on the sideline cooking on the BBQ. </p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="hydro11" data-cid="604169" data-time="1470696529">
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<p>I think they need to look at a rule whereby once the 2 minutes elapses, the sin binned player can automatically return the field from behind the goal line. The difference between being down to 6 players for 2 minutes or 4 minutes is huge.</p>
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<p>Probably. </p>
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<p>Tactically, I think we should have realised having seven players on the field is more valuable than one possession and kicked for the corner. I'm going to give the coach a black mark for that and also a black mark for not enforcing more discipline - crucial that you don't have someone in the bin in a knockout match. Used to be a major achilles heel of the Fijian men and possibly still is.</p> -
<p>A two minute yellow card turns into four? Please....</p>
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<p>Rugby (probably both 7s and 15) needs to follow the likes of ice hockey (and I think rugby league) where once the time is up the player is allowed onto the field straight away regardless of play.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="604171" data-time="1470696770">
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<p>Going in we would have taken silver wouldn't we? so this was a pretty good result. Go on you ANZACs!</p>
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<p>No!</p>
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<p>NZ benefitted with YCs in the SF so swings and roundabouts.</p>
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<p>The problem to me had as much to do with selection as we didn't have the same speed as Aust did. Even Woodman wasn't beating players on the outside. </p>
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Australia deserved to win. Pace is the weapon in 7s.
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<p>Fucking tense game up until Caslick scored a try she really shouldn't have - up until that point the Kiwis' front-on defence was the business. For some reason they just held off there, probably fatigue.</p>
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<p>NZ tackling early was immense, containing the Aussie girls, who looked rattled to me. A bad lineout, a try, and then the yellow card. A real turning point, particularly as it extended out by a couple of minutes and resulted in a try to us at the end of it.</p>
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<p>Really feel for Woodman and she looked shattered. But silver is nothing to sniff at and I'm sure it will motivate the womens' 7s program as a whole for next season.</p>
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<p>Having said all that: GO YOU FUCKING GOOD THINGS!!!</p>
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<p>Aussie defence was probably better across the board, particularly in terms of the pace others have mentioned - NZ could make a break but get run down, whereas you felt if Cherry, Green or Caslick got into space, they were gone or had the support runners to capitalise.</p> -
Can i whinge about kicking the ball out of the ruck and the dodgy first try? I don't want to as the better team won. But doesn't help.
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<p>What a great win, a huge moment for women's rugby in Australia. To have it in morning prime time, with millions watching around the world... incredible. I hope young girls everywhere were watching, and will be looking to pick up a rugby ball and have a run around.</p>
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<p>So proud of the team, it's been such a good year for them. The ARU have also done a great job, first in the recruitment stage (finding athletes from touch, basketball, league etc) and then making them full-time professionals.</p>
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<p>Think the rest of the world will catch up by the time Tokyo rolls around though, especially the USA, Russia and China. </p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="booboo" data-cid="604186" data-time="1470698853">
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<p>Can i whinge about kicking the ball out of the ruck and the dodgy first try? I don't want to as the better team won. But doesn't help. :(</p>
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<p>Welcome to life as a Wallabies fan - wanting to whinge about the ref, but fully knowing the best side on the day won...</p> -
<p>Well done Aussie. Clearly the better team. Great ball movement, whereas we tended to take the contact too much.</p>
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<p>This sounds fucking ridiculous and 20:20 hindsighty, but we'd have been better off at 5-10 and 6 vs 7 and on attack to have kicked the ball into touch, got Woodman back, and then game on with Aussie having a defensive lineout.</p>
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<p>Instead, turnover, try and skull fucked. Woodman spent about 4 minutes of game time in the bin.</p> -
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<p>You know earlier on when we described sports we would get rid of if we ran the IOC? I would like to put forward Water Polo. That's not a sport, that's mates on a saturday arvo mucking around at your house. At the very least they should change the rules so that you have to play with a beer in one hand, and that beer must never be empty. Reserves should be on the sideline cooking on the BBQ. </p>
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<p>Spoken like a man who wouldn't last 30 seconds in a game of real waterpolo :)</p>
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<p>I've always been a swimmer and took up waterpolo a few years back as a kind of social sport, first game we played the police team. In my first 20 seconds in the pool I had a bloody nose and had been punched so hard in the ribs I could hardly breathe</p> -
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<p>Spoken like a man who wouldn't last 30 seconds in a game of real waterpolo :)</p>
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<p>I've always been a swimmer and took up waterpolo a few years back as a kind of social sport, first game we played the police team. In my first 20 seconds in the pool I had a bloody nose and had been punched so hard in the ribs I could hardly breathe</p>
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<p>Someone punching you underwater in the ribs so hard it made your nose bleed ? who was on the other team ? George Fucken Foreman ?</p>
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<p>It's all personal opinion though, there's heaps of sports that don't float my boat, Water Polo amongst them but like anything it still requires skill/fitness and all of that. Each to their own, I'm sure it has it's following.</p>
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<p>Someone punching you underwater in the ribs so hard it made your nose bleed ? who was on the other team ? George Fucken Foreman ?</p>
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<p> 2 separate incidents, I thought it was pretty clear</p>
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<p>an elbow to the nose and a punch to the ribs.</p>
