Olympic Sevens 2024

[MiketheSnow]

Superb defence from SA

NZ went looking for the walls not the doors

[sparky]

The gaps were there, but laboured passing and poor hands let them down.

[sparky]

@KiwiMurph said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

Deserve to get knocked out here

Yes, no arguments, just disappointment.

[Bovidae]

SA got the rub of the green in this game, as NZ did when we played them in the pool game.

That game summed up the current NZ team. They were lucky to beat Ireland, and made too many errors in this game. Time for the veterans to retire and inject more youth, and importantly speed.

[sparky]

I couldn't give a shit what happens in the men's tournament now.

[MiketheSnow]

France have been keeping their powder dry

Stuffing the Argies

[Brandon]

Sorry guys. Good Bok defense but you could / should have put us away. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. No worries...the real stuff happens 31 August. See you then

[Machpants]

@sparky said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

NZ 13/2

LOL. Cama's team has been so inconsistent - I am in no way surprised they were knocked out by a team they had previsoulsy comfortably beaten. Cama is a legend of the game but his coaching and select (esp) have been weird - like end of his era Titch.
Bring on full reset for next season

[MiketheSnow]

Cracking match

Great comeback from the Argies

Then Dupont sees France home

[MiketheSnow]

Ireland leading Fiji 10-7 at the half

[MiketheSnow]

Ireland up 15-7

[MiketheSnow]

Fiji back in a flash

Fiji up 17-15

[Bovidae]

If Fiji loses all three medalists from Tokyo would be out in the QF.

[MiketheSnow]

Ireland fucked that up

Was like watching the 2023 RWC

Out at the QF

Nothing if not consistent

[nzzp]

@Bovidae said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

If Fiji loses all three medalists from Tokyo would be out in the QF.

Once sports hit the Olympics, major countries pump money into them. Money talks. We would see the same in XV if it was a global sport - whole programmes to develop athletes.

[KiwiMurph]

@nzzp said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

Once sports hit the Olympics, major countries pump money into them. Money talks.

Really? Great Britain aren't there. USA got smashed by Fiji. Australia parachuted in Marky Mark and Corey Toole

[taniwharugby]

IMO, this highlights the absurdity of the scheduling, plenty of athletes are out of the Olympics before they have even started, 'officially'.

[nzzp]

@taniwharugby said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

IMO, this highlights the absurdity of the scheduling, plenty of athletes are out of the Olympics before they have even started, 'officially'.

So they spend 2 weeks in the village partying?

[nzzp]

@KiwiMurph said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

@nzzp said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

Once sports hit the Olympics, major countries pump money into them. Money talks.

Really? Great Britain aren't there. USA got smashed by Fiji. Australia parachuted in Marky Mark and Corey Toole

USA and Canada are ahead of Fiji in the circuit at the moment.

I watch from afar, but it seemed to me a bunch of countries suddenly invested in tehir development programmes as soon as it made full olympic status

[KiwiPie]

I know the football has to start early to fit in the whole comp with enough gaps between games. But is the Sevens starting early just because of other events coming up in the stadium?