Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens
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@Stargazer said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@ARHS Knewstubb has done his ACL (quite badly, I heard), so he'll be unavailable for a while.
I watched the Oceania sevens and he was interviewed and can confirm this.
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Changes to the NZR sevens accounts on social media:
The allblacks7s handles have been discontinued. There were no separate blackferns7s accounts.
On Facebook and Instagram the new handle is @nzsevens.The result of the change is that finally all NZ sevens news - men's and women's - are posted by one single account.
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@Dice said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
The men definitely got put in the toughest pool.
Barring the usual Sevens boilovers this should end up as Fiji v NZ/SA for the gold in the mens.
There's no quarters in the women so NZ should make semis easily where they should play either Aus or the fast improving Fiji.
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@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@Dice said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
The men definitely got put in the toughest pool.
Barring the usual Sevens boilovers this should end up as Fiji v NZ/SA for the gold.
I haven't been following sevens recently but I'd be very happy if we medal honestly.
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@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@Dice said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
The men definitely got put in the toughest pool.
Barring the usual Sevens boilovers this should end up as Fiji v NZ/SA for the gold in the mens.
Australia should be in the conversation.
Samoa is a dark horse. Had 9 or 10 debutants in the 7s series this year and made 3 semifinals in 4 tournaments.
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Not related to the CGs, but an interesting story about the BF7s extra-time SF win over Fiji in Tokyo. Let's hope for a repeat performance...
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Jebus. Easy to forget how good things used to be.
https://www.allblacks.com/news/remembering-the-1998-gold-medalists/
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@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
Jebus. Easy to forget how good things used to be.
https://www.allblacks.com/news/remembering-the-1998-gold-medalists/
Shit soon we'll sound like Wales, harking back to bygone era
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@Bones said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - Sevens:
@canefan that's a pretty unbelievable team when you look back on it. Missing a Masoe/Akira type though but hey can't have everything.
It was an amazing team. 24 years ago, sheesh we are all old!
The way we used the likes of Lomu, Vidiri and even Randle meant we didn’t need a Messam/Masoe/Akira type to still dominate. We had prime Cullen, Reihana and a very young Rico. Add Valence and we actually bought it together to beat what was a superb Fiji team that had Vunibaka and Serevi just to name a couple.
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@ACT-Crusader Valence is up there as one of my faves. Masoe and Muliaina were absolute guns when they came along too.
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@Bones Valence could do it all out there. Agree on Masoe. The guy that really impressed me in 7s was Josh Blackie, when we won the Comm Games gold in 06 in Melbourne.
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