HSBC 7's: R 7 - Hong Kong

[waiopehu oldboy]

NZ 28-10 Samoa.

Straya v USA!USA!USA! up soon & I'm sensing an upset..............

 

[wamberal]

NZ 28-10 Samoa.

Straya v USA!USA!USA! up soon & I'm sensing an upset......

You think we will win????

 

[galumay]

I'm sensing an upset......

Looking that way!

 

[Forcefield]

Boned.

 

[qwerty51]

I didn't see the game but it appears we tanked that to play England in the quarters rather than SA?

 

[USARugger]

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Cup QF:

New Zealand v Wales
USA v South Africa
Fiji v Kenya
England v Australia

Bowl QF:

France v Korea
Argentina v Russia
Canada v Samoa
Scotland v Portugal

 

[qwerty51]

Given the draw I'm 90% certain we tanked to get a better draw and avoid NZ/SA.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Qualifying Tournament SF:

Hong Kong v Germany
Zimbabwe v Japan

Japan have to be favs & are yet to concede a point:

36-0 v Brazil
45-0 v Morocco
31-0 v Tonga
33-0 v Tonga (QF)

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Coverage from 0900 on 507. Women currently live on 502.

 

[TOCC]

Australia vs England is at 2:04 AEST

Lewis Holland(foot) and Nick 'Sumo Badger' Cummins(ankle) have both been ruled out for up to a month with injury.

Add them to the list of other inured players: Pama Fou (shoulder), Tom Cusack (wrist), Tom Lucas (knee), Pat McCutcheon (hamstring), Nick Malouf (knee), Simon Kennewell (ankle), Greg Jeloudev (foot) and Henry Speight (eye).

 

[Strewthcobber]

Australia vs England is at 2:04 AEST

Lewis Holland(foot) and Nick 'Sumo Badger' Cummins(ankle) have both been ruled out for up to a month with injury.

Add them to the list of other inured players: Pama Fou (shoulder), Tom Cusack (wrist), Tom Lucas (knee), Pat McCutcheon (hamstring), Nick Malouf (knee), Simon Kennewell (ankle), Greg Jeloudev (foot) and Henry Speight (eye).

How many of them were 7s injuries?

That's carnage

 

[kiap]

Given the draw I'm 90% certain we tanked to get a better draw and avoid NZ/SA.

Suspicious minds, but y'never know.

But what's the story with these fixtures?

The last match in Pool B was South Africa vs Scotland. Why wasn't it South Africa vs England? ... which were presumably the two sides on higher standing at the time of the scheduling.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^^^^^ Draw is based on results at preceding tournament, not standings after it. England had a shocker in Vancouver, Scotland had their best result in several years so:

Pool A: New Zealand, Samoa, France, Kenya
Pool B: South Africa, Scotland, England, Russia
Pool C: Australia, USA, Argentina, Portugal
Pool D: Fiji, Wales, Canada, Korea

Pretty sure that in each Pool it was 1 v 2 in the final round.

 

[Highlander35]

Pools mostly seem to go:

1v3 & 2v4
1v4 & 2v3
1v2 & 3v4

Which makes it difficult for teams in the bottom half of the previous tournament to break out, unless you luck out and get an Argentina, or a France or a Scotland.

EDIT: And while it was our best result this season WOB, we only missed out on the quarters in Gold Coast, Vegas and Hong Kong last season, and finished 4th in Glasgow and Wellington.

 

[kiap]

Pretty sure that in each Pool it was 1 v 2 in the final round.

Yeah, in this case I think Australia got the benefit of this quirk in the method for the draw, which didn't reflect the true strength of the teams.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Honkers Stadium starting to look like a giant slip & slide, should make for an interesting afternoon......... Comms just mentioned the possibility of lightning in the near future, too.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Which makes it difficult for teams in the bottom half of the previous tournament to break out, unless you luck out and get an Argentina, or a France or a Scotland.

There's a bottom half? Who knew. Oh, right..............

 

[galumay]

Good win by the gurls, hosing down in Honkers - as it is here so I feel like I am at the game - except when it gets really heavy and i lose the foxtel signal!

 

[wamberal]

Honkers Stadium starting to look like a giant slip & slide, should make for an interesting afternoon... Comms just mentioned the possibility of lightning in the near future, too.

The rainfall record used to be 20 inches in 24 hours. When it rains heavily, you cannot see out your windows, everything is white.