Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens
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@steven-harris said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Awesome..!,if you have asked me at the beginning of the day on our chances of both teams,I would have said our ladies were about a 95% chance and our men with this squad,maybe 65% or 70%..great double..!
Really?
You're certainly a glass half full person SH. The Blues must be a constant disappointment to you.
I would have said Women 40%. Men 20%.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
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@bones said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
You're kidding right?
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@bones said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
You're kidding right?
Come on. Walk down the street and most people couldn't name a Fijian 7's player.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@bones said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Gee Fiji were utter shit. Good for us for them to bring that in the gold medal game.
Not a big fan of 7s, particularly without the top players, but I enjoyed that.
What top players were missing?
You're kidding right?
What? I can't think of the top players missing, that's not far off our strongest squad.
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And then only if they took a year off to practise 7s, it's far too specialised now for ABs 15 players to make a positive impact of a few weeks training. That's an 'amateur' era idea. 7s needs to be centralized and full time - NZ is finally getting the idea
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@canefan said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Sounds like that ex Warriors kid had a big impact
He went of in the first half after getting illegally smahed, Regan Ware (despite hsi dropsy) most amazing on attack - defence was a team effort
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@machpants said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
And then only if they took a year off to practise 7s, it's far too specialised now for ABs 15 players to make a positive impact of a few weeks training. That's an 'amateur' era idea. 7s needs to be centralized and full time - NZ is finally getting the idea
That was one of the flaws in our thinking for the Olympics. Pick the best team from the player pool available and develop them
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@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
When’s the last time DMac played 7s?
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@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
What?
There's no-one in that sevens squad who is in the top 150 rugby players in NZ.
Trael Joass isn't a first choice starter for the Mako$ and Knewstubb doesn't even make last season's squad.
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@chris-b said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
What?
There's no-one in that sevens squad who is in the top 150 rugby players in NZ.
Trael Joass isn't a first choice starter for the Mako$ and Knewstubb doesn't even make last season's squad.
Don’t need the top rugby players. Just need the top 7s players
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@chris-b said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
@tim said in Commonwealth Games - Rugby Sevens:
Even if you included XVs players then Damien McKenzie and Rieko Ioane would probably be the only certainties.
What?
There's no-one in that sevens squad who is in the top 150 rugby players in NZ.
Trael Joass isn't a first choice starter for the Mako$ and Knewstubb doesn't even make last season's squad.
What you've just said makes no sense at all... Unless you're talking about the Mako$ Sevens squad.
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When we were most dominant I wouldn’t have had DJ Forbes, Mikkelson, Cama etc anywhere near a top XVs team. But man could they play 7s together.