Commonwealth Games Sevens- Glasgow July 26/27

[Highlander35]

In all the excitement, we seem to not have a match thread!

Results so far:

New Zealand 39- 0 Canada
Australia 62- 7 Sri Lanka
Kenya 28 - 0 Cook Islands
Samoa 33 - 14 PNG
Wales 52 - 0 Malaysia
South Africa 36 - 0 Trinidad and Tabago
Canada 66 -5 Barbados

Live Stream for those in Aus is here: http://tenplay.com.au/sport/commonwealth-games/glasgow-3

Pools are:

New Zealand
Canada
Scotland
Barbados

South Africa
Kenya
Cook Islands
Trinidad and Tobago

Samoa
Wales
PNG
Malaysia

England
Australia
Sri Lanka
Uganda

Pools A & B cross on Day 2, as do pools C&D.

Carn Scots and Aussies!

 

[Sully]

19-0 as v uganda


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[Highlander35]

24-0 now, Jeladouv has a hat trick. Slicing through the Ugandan defence, albeit not unexpectedly.

Half time.

England v Sri Lanka to follow, then New Zealand v Scots.

 

[Highlander35]

Final score 43 - 5, 7 tries to 1, fabulous kick offs, Jeladouv ended up having 4 meat pies.

 

[Highlander35]

England beat Sri Lanka 57 - 0.

17-0 to the Kiwis at Half time of the NZ/Scotland Match.

Looks like a silly team out there for the Scots really. 1 Sevens specialist in the starting side, the rest converted 15s, albiet Jones and Wight are moving into full time Sevens roles.

Need to improve on this to beat Canada, consistently offside.

 

[Highlander35]

Extremely Unlucky from Scotland, scored a couple of good tries, forced a pair of yellow cards, and arguably should have had a third.

While its unlikely to come down to points difference, 17-14 is a much better result than the Canadians 39 point shellacking

 

[Braveheart81]

Is Australia's second match soon?

 

[qwerty51]

Is Australia's second match soon?

It's done. 43-5 against Uganda. Their 3rd match is only a short 8 hours later, at 9pm local after they got up at 5am for their 1st match. A joke of a schedule.

 

[Highlander35]

Games take about a 3 hour break. Not for any REAL reason, just to sell 4 separate ticket allocations rather than 2.

Australia have won their first 2 games, they've only got the England one to go.

The "big 4" matches: Scotland v Canada, South Africa v Kenya, England v Australia and Samoa v Wales start at about 6am AET, I plan to emerge from my Slumber for them.

 

[Braveheart81]

So next Aussie game is at 6.48am against England if I've worked things out correctly.

 

[qwerty51]

Yep, I believe they've even gone back to their hotel and are taking a nap to be refreshed for the game. It's certainly not ideal

 

[badabing59]

Jonathon Davies commentating. Whining negative chappy that he is. All we need is Austin Healey and my night is ruined.

 

[badabing59]

Yep, I believe they've even gone back to their hotel and are taking a nap to be refreshed for the game. It's certainly not ideal

Canada and NZ napping too. Not ideal agreed, but FA anyone can do about it. Kiwis and Canadians had early game too, but respective coaches not moaning about it.

I would have thought you'd have an advantage over the kippers as there isn't that much time between their matches against Uganda and OZ.

 

[badabing59]

Games take about a 3 hour break. Not for any REAL reason, just to sell 4 separate ticket allocations rather than 2.

Exactly. Pure unadulterated revenue grab.

Great crowd, would it have been even better with a theme?

 

[badabing59]

Well done OZ, completely throttled the poms, despite the 15-7 scoreline.

 

[Sully]

Yes! Australia got up 15-7. Defeating England 3 tries to 1.

 

[badabing59]

Day 1 done. Tantalising matches tomorrow

ABs v Kenya
Saffers v Scotland
Oz v Wales
Samoa v England

 

[wamberal]

That was a great performance. I was a bit despondent when we were only 10 - 7 up after scoring two tries, but the Dodgers were just never ever in it after half-time.


The Thunderbolts looked far more composed and organised in both attack and defense. Was it the Dodgers' ineptitude, or are we are a better team under Geraint Jones? Having Stannard back does make a big difference, admittedly.

 

[RugbyReg]

I got to talk to Michael O'Connor last week and he talked up the new physicality we'd have with McMahon, Cusak and Gill. Which I think we've seen.

He also said with those 3 we'd focus on attacking kick offs, which we haven't been able to do for a while. He said McMahon in particular was the best attacking restart player in 7s.

 

[Highlander35]