2016-2017 World Sevens Series
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Eight silver medal winning sevens players re-commit to NZ Rugby:
Captain Sarah Goss, 2015 World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year Portia Woodman, Gayle Broughton, Kelly Brazier, Kayla McAlister, Ruby Tui, Terina te Tamaki and Niall Williams.No news about a men's and women's coach, yet.
http://allblacks.com/News/29979/silver-medal-winning-sevens-players-re-commit-to-nz-rugby
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Allan Bunting, assistant coach of the Black Ferns Sevens team since 2012, has been promoted to the team's Head Coach role.
http://www.allblacks.com/News/30063/allan-bunting-appointed-head-coach-of-black-ferns-sevens
No news yet about who the next men's head coach is going to be.
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Clark Laidlaw is the new NZ men's coach, but ...
Laidlaw will take up his new role from 1 June 2017Our priority was getting the right coach with the long-term vision to win Olympic gold. So while we would have loved Clark to start straight away, we are happy to wait until next year because he is the best person for the job to build a winning sevens team over the long term.New Zealand Rugby has also announced that experienced sevens coaches and former All Blacks Sevens players Scott Waldrom and Tomasi Cama will form the coaching team for the upcoming World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments starting in Dubai in December.http://www.allblacks.com/News/30122/clark-laidlaw-appointed-head-coach-of-all-blacks-sevens
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@Crucial you'd hope there will be a lot of communication between them to ensure that transition is smooth and everyone is on the same page....that said, it is the people side of things, you can be hugely technical and be a genius but if you suck at people skills, aint gonna help much
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I really hope the Olympics doesn't become the whole point of Sevens as it is way too random a format to spend 4 years building towards. The point should be to win the world series as that is measure over a number of events and kind of smoothes out the random nature.
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@KiwiPie said in 2016-2017 World Sevens Series:
I really hope the Olympics doesn't become the whole point of Sevens as it is way too random a format to spend 4 years building towards. The point should be to win the world series as that is measure over a number of events and kind of smoothes out the random nature.
I agree with you, although there are also the RWC Sevens and the Common Wealth Games, which both take place in 2018.
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@KiwiPie said in 2016-2017 World Sevens Series:
I really hope the Olympics doesn't become the whole point of Sevens as it is way too random a format to spend 4 years building towards. The point should be to win the world series as that is measure over a number of events and kind of smoothes out the random nature.
This. Even when we dominated 7's we didn't win every tournament.
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First All Blacks Sevens squad named for the 2016-17 season (Dubai Sevens (2-3 December 2016) and Cape Town (10-11 December 2016)):
Scott Curry (Captain)
Tim Mikkelson
Antonio Kiri Kiri
DJ Forbes
Dylan Collier
Beaudin Waaka
Iopu Iopu-Aso
Rocky Khan
Sherwin Stowers
Jonathan Ruru (new cap)
Isaac Te Tamaki
Sione Moliahttp://www.allblacks.com/News/30150/one-new-cap-in-all-blacks-sevens-squad
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This selection seems to confirm my suspicion that Kaka may no longer be available for 7s (unless he's injured). There was some talk a while back that he was considering a return to XVs, although he has been playing several sevens tournaments in Asia the last few months. It will be interesting to see whether he's going to play club rugby to work his way back into the Magpies squad, or whether he'll re-appear in the sevens squad for Wellington and Sydney.
Apart from Kaka, also missing are Joe Webber (who has re-signed with the sevens squad), Teddy Stanaway, Lewis Ormond, and Regan Ware ....
I had hoped for a few more new names and not so many Olympic rejects, but awesome to see Ruru in the squad, who had a really good Mitre 10 Cup season with Otago.
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@Stargazer Any juice on Ruru? What position?
Noted absence of Dickson, is he injured?
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@Bones said in 2016-2017 World Sevens Series:
@Stargazer Any juice on Ruru? What position?
Noted absence of Dickson, is he injured?
Ruru plays halfback in XVs. I wonder whether he's replacing Kaka, but unsure. I can't remember what position he played for the Hawke's Bay team that won the Central Region Qualifier last year.
You're right, Dickson not in the squad either. No idea whether he's injured, but I guess he must be as he's also one of the players who has re-signed.
