HSBC Tokyo 7's - Easter 2015

[waiopehu oldboy]

USA win it 17-12. Australia now have 91 series points.

 

[Quick Hands]

Shield to Portugal over Argentina
Bowl to USA over Australia

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Scots look awfully pretty in pink & tackling like Molly Ringwald (many of you will need to google her, sorry 'bout that). NZ 7-0 with 2:30 until HT.

Try Stowers, 12-0 unless Waaka kicks it from the touchline. Does, 14-0.

Try Scotland after the HT hooter, 14-7.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Waaka will surely get binned for that slap-down. Does & Scotland walk over for the try, 14-14. We can't lose to Canada AND Scotland on the same day, can we?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Yeah, nah, but fuck me that was close, try after the FT siren seals it 21-14.

NZ now have 115 series points & will retain 3rd place overall even if England beat Sethfricka. Which they won't, blitzbokke looking awesome this weekend.

DJF almost looks embarrassed as some Japanese guy hands him a waiter's tray......................

.................. he'll need to regrow some hair but other than that I see no reason he can't be the new Willie The Waiter post-rugby (non-Waikatoans may need to google him. Sorry 'bout that).

7-7 in the 3rd/ 4th playoff, Canada are playing out've their skins today.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Try Canada & a Fijian could be in a spot of bother here, tackle was way high. No card & no conversion, Canada 12-7 with 3:20 left.

Try Canada, under the sticks, 19-7 coming up. Fiji looked like a Ferrari all weekend, now looking like a Festiva.

Kiss of death works again, Fiji pull it back to 14-19, 0:45 left. C'mon Canada Oh Canada!

Try Fiji right on the siren, 21-19. Fiji now have 125 series points, even if Sethfricka lose the GF they'll stay top & Fiji 2nd.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Crowd seems a little thin in Tokyo. Almost Gold Coast-ish.

With RWC 2019 being held there, I hope they do some more marketing.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^^ haven't been able to find any crowd numbers but, yes, looks a tad sparse although looks like the (covered?) stand where the cameras are has decent numbers whereas the open stand opposite & the ends are pretty barren. Weather won't be helping, either, looks to be fair pissing down up there.

Senatla possibly scores in the corner, ref wants to check & no try, lost it short of the line.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

England score first, 7-0 with 3:19 of the half left.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Insane try SA, 7-7. Frankie Horne with the perfect kick-pass. SA Lamborghini starting to growl.........

HT, still 7-7. Seths being dragged down to Poms skill level, partly by the weather but mostly by trying to do too much too quickly. Need to be more patient.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Well fark me, SA cough it up & Poms are in, 14-7.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Well double fark me, SA Lamborghini looking very Lada-ish right now, some Pommy bloke goes 80-odd metres & it's 21-7 with 4:15 on the clock. Afrika pulls one back, 21-14.

 

[AngrySeahorse]

Can SA do a Fiji?

 

[qwerty51]

Well that could not have gone any worse. Playoff vs Samoa it is.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^^^^ no they can't, Poms win.

SA now have 129 series points & retain top spot. England now have a neat 100 & go 4th overall.

 

[Quick Hands]

Crowd seems a little thin in Tokyo. Almost Gold Coast-ish.

With RWC 2019 being held there, I hope they do some more marketing.

Can't say I'm familiar with Japanese sports grounds, but that place looks like the equivalent of playing the Sydney event at Lidcombe Oval. (which I had cause to visit a couple of months ago, and it has not changed one bit since the 1980s)

 

[Hugh Jarse]

For the record:
Australian Men’s Sevens results in Tokyo, Japan, 4-5 April:
Australia 10-12 Portugal, Pool B
Australia 14-17 Scotland, Pool B
Australia 19-14 New Zealand, Pool B
Australia 14-5 Kenya, Bowl Quarter-Final
Australia 17-12 Wales, Bowl Semi-Final
Australia 12-17 USA, Bowl Final

Final placings for the Tokyo Sevens (Top 6): 1. England (22 World Series points), 2. South Africa (19 points), 3. Fiji (17 points), 4. Canada (15 points), 5. New Zealand (13 points), 6. Scotland (12 points), 7. Japan / France (10 points), 9. USA (8 points), 10. Australia (7 points)

Current standings in the 2014/15 HSBC Sevens World Series after seven rounds (Top 6): 1. South Africa (129 World Series points), 2. Fiji (125 points), 3. New Zealand (120 points), 4. England (100 points), 5. Australia (91 points) 6. USA (71 points)

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

Byron Kelleher sighting:

Yeah, nah, got no idea WTF it's meant to mean, I'm just trying to mess with yo' head, @Dismal And yes, I DO have similarly creepy googled images of Muke LcAlister & Lasesa Tavea. Don't MAKE me use them.

 

[cyclopath]

^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't make me ban you for forum indecency! That cannot be unseen, nor uncontemplated.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^^^^ I used those thingy's. Anything you saw & now can't unsee after that is YOUR problem. Deal with it God knows we had to..........