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Commonwealth Games Rugby 7s

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Tom Lawton (22)
Australia's anticipated path to the final against Samoa. Time of games: Darwin is half an hour behind EST. Aussie game against Tahiti will commence at 6.06 pm EST

Day 2 Schedule:

Match A Samoa v Vanuatu 4:30pm
Match B PNG v Cook Islands 4:52pm
Match C Niue v Tonga Austar Rugby Park 5:14pm
Match D Tahiti v Australia 5:36pm
Match E Northern Territory team v Northern Territory team 5:58pm

Round 3
Match F Loser Match A v Loser Loser Match D 6:42pm
Match H Winner Match A v Winner Match B 7:04pm
Match I Winner Match C v Winner Match D 7:26pm
Match J Northern Territory RU team v Northern Territory RU team 7:48pm

Finals
7th/8th Playoff Loser Match F v Loser Match G 8:10pm
5th/6th Playoff Winner Match F v Winner Match G 8:32pm
3rd/4th Playoff Loser Match H v Loser Match I 8:54pm

FINAL Winner Match H v Winner Match I 9:16pm
 
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Tom Lawton (22)
Aussies win 34-12. Good luck in Delhi boys. GOLD GOLD GOLD

Luke Morahan was named player of the tournament. I'm reliably informed Jesse Parahi played a great game in the final - making plenty of big hits on the Samoans.

The victory all the more sweeter as Kimani Situati, Bernard Foley, Lachie Turner, Liam Gill and Nick Cummins did not play.

Final – Australia 34 (Parahi 2, Morahan 2, Jenkins, Foley tries, Stannard 2 con) bt Samoa 12 (Apelu Faaigua, Paul Chan Tung tries, Faaigua con)
 
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Steve Williams (59)
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Mark Ella (57)
Australia looked good. Morahan was brilliant and recieved player of the tournament. Turner did not play in the final and was all iced up. I don't know what the story is there or if it as just precautionary. To be fair, Samoa looked flat in the final and I would not use that as measure of where they are at.

The third vs fourth play off was an absolute ball tearer. PNG and Tonga were locked until Tonga stole it with three seconds to spare. The winner quallified for Hong Kong. Bad luck PNG and so bloody close.

All the teams not in the final did a lap of honor and shook hands with the crowd. Congratulations for this as it was a great jesture and they were all embraced by the Darwin people. Good news is the rain stayed away which I thought would not happen. The time table was a sham with all the games starting later than timed. Aparantly somebody bitched about the afternoon heat.
 
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Tom Lawton (22)
Ruggo, some people were concerned about the scrum and lineout but my information is we didn't struggle in that area. What are your thoughts?
 
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Mark Ella (57)
Lineout looked fine. Scrum was ok but not domminant. What impressed me was when the ball was tied up, we hit the ruck with good intensity. We drifted in attack which on occasions ate up the space of our outside men and we were bundled into touch.
 
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Rocky Elsom (76)
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The Wizards of Fiji and the 7 horsemen of the Darkness must be the big threats as they always are.

Is there a draw out? Presumably the pools are structured to get The Darkness, The Men in Gold, The Wizards, and The Unwashed into the Semis.

Any one of the above can be substituted by The Coal Miners, Kenyans, Saffers, and Samoans depending on the bounce of the ball on the day.

Team lists anyone?

Would really love to see the Kenyans in the Gold/Silver game.
 
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Tom Lawton (22)
Ruggo said:
Turner did not play in the final and was all iced up. I don't know what the story is there or if it as just precautionary.QUOTE]

I heard he was hanging for a werris while warming up. In the process of finding a tree and being extra discreet he tripped over a branch and hurt his ankle. Nothing serious though - just a precaution.
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Rocky Elsom (76)
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Of course. Silly me. Politics interfering with Sport - how unusual?

As if the internal running of a country is going to be changed by not allowing them to play sport with us.

Others may disagree, and I stand to be corrected, but the sporting isolation of the Safferland did not do much to put an end to the unjust apartheid regime.

Wise heads and a well orchestrated political campaign primarily from within SA (ably assisted with selective economic measures and international diplomatic tut tutting) contributed more than not playing rugtby and cricket with them.


It just made the Saffers really angry with a point to prove when they were welcomed back to join the rest of the world.

I don't think Fiji's isolation from the Commonwealth of Nations is worrying Mr Bainimarama awake at night.
 
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Tom Lawton (22)
Yes, it's a terrible shame they are not attending but the players and Fiji people would be hurting. They are still part of the IRB sevens world series though and we will see their form in Dubai in December.
 
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Mark Ella (57)
Not sure Groucho but the NT ABC might have somthing. They cover a lot of rugby up here.
 
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