Sevens 2022/23 (World Series etc)

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ yeah, it's a simple enough equation really: thrash HK, beat you guys & rely on Samoa also beating you guys...

Can see two of those things happening but all three seems a stretch.

 

[wamberal]

^ yeah, it's a simple enough equation really: thrash HK, beat you guys & rely on Samoa also beating you guys...

Can see two of those things happening but all three seems a stretch.

The Aussie team looks pretty weak.

 

[qwerty51]

We looked great, granted it was HK but barely made an error.

 

[wamberal]

We looked great, granted it was HK but barely made an error.

A training run.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

The Aussie team looks pretty weak.

I'll reserve judgment until we've played HK & you've played Samoa.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

If Team GB were a racehorse you'd be swabbing it after that result...

OK, redemption time for NZ, gotta win this by at least as much as Aus beat HK last night & probably more given they got nilled by Samoa which Aus probably won't.

 

[Members Section]

If Team GB were a racehorse you'd be swabbing it after that result...

OK, redemption time for NZ, gotta win this by at least as much as Aus beat HK last night & probably more given they got nilled by Samoa which Aus probably won't.

the gb v rsa game was a stinker to watch

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ only caught the tail end after women's RWC SF but, yeah, it didn't look flash.

Based on this & last night I think NZ will be in the Plate but probably won't win it

 

[wamberal]

The Thunderbolts (do we still use that name?) leading Samoa 12-5. I look forward to eating my words.

 

[wamberal]

17-5!!!! Then it all went downhill fast. Samoa 22 - 17.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

That was silly by Turner.

Samoa top the Pool so NZ & Aus PD now irrelevant, straight shootout for QF spot.

 

[qwerty51]

Islanders looking after each other.

 

[Prodigy]

That was silly by Turner.

Samoa top the Pool so NZ & Aus PD now irrelevant, straight shootout for QF spot.

Yep, a very silly mistake that unfortunately may cost them a shot at the Cup.

 

[Members Section]

geez we make things hard for ourselves some times, off to fire up the braai & drink away the nervousness of the next couple of hours

 

[kiap]

The Thunderbolts (do we still use that name?) leading Samoa 12-5. I look forward to eating my words.

The Thunderbolts name was meant to be used for developmental sides (e.g. for an Australian VII team not playing under the name Australia in a minor tournament).

But sections of the media do love a nickname. They started running with it for the national side for a short while until there was clarification of no nickname for the national team. As such, it probably hasn't been written up much after 2016.

(Similar story for the women's team being labelled 'The Pearls'.)

Anyway, they'll need to beat the kiwis now to avoid becoming the Feather Dusters.

 

[wamberal]

Anyway, they'll need to beat the kiwis now to avoid becoming the Feather Dusters.

I rather liked the name. Anyway go the whatevers!!! You can do it!!!

 

[Members Section]

you beauty!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hawko]

Australia 24 - New Zealand 17
That's us into the quarters and NZ to the plate
We play Ireland in the quarters, which is probably the best draw we could get, avoiding Fiji, Samoa and SA.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Just the second time we've failed to make the QF, the other being Toulouse last year

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

NZ bossing the QF for 9th place v once-were-the-next-big-thing Kenya...