Sevens 2021/22 (World Series, Oceania, Comm Games & R7WC)

[qwerty51]

They have looked pretty good in the last 2 olympic gold medal games

NZ won last year's Olympics. SA won the CW games.
We won the World Series (Fiji handicapped tbf).

They're not always the best but we make them look like it whenever they play us.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Men's SF:

NZ 17-10 Ireland
Fiji 38-14 Australia

Bronze Final:

Ireland 19-14 Australia

Women's:

Australia 17-7 USA
NZ 38-7 France

Bronze:

France 29-7 USA

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Women's Final HT Australia 12-10 NZ

NZ score first & last, Madi Levi twice through the middle minutes.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Back to back penalties, Williams throws the ball away & gets carded, Australia inevitably score. 17-10.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Levi in again, 24-10 & NZ need a miracle.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Kaka gets one back, 24-15, less than 90 seconds on the clock.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Penalty count now 8-2 against Aus.

Saili scores well into overtime. NZ need conversion to force Extra Time but it's missed.

Gold Medal Australia.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Men's Final underway.

Fiji score pretty much from kickoff. 7-0.

Rinse & repeat. 12-0.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

NZ pull one back 5-12.

Fiji strike back immediately 17-5 approaching HT...

...but still enough time for Fiji to get another HT 24-5.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

NZ score first after HT & Fiji get a man binned 24-12.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Fijian binned as the first one comes back.

Now it's 6-on-6 but Fiji will get their man back a minute before NZ.

Two minutes left. Fiji back to 7.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Gold Medal Fiji 29-12.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Turning point of the women's Final definitely Williams getting binned & it was unnecessary to do what she did. Great effort to nearly force ET but Australia deserved winners, their second-half D was immense & although they conceded a heap of penalties never did anything dumb enough to get carded.

NZ Men were frankly never in it & that's just the way it goes against Fiji: they score early, its party time & no-one can keep up with them. Gotta keep them scoreless for as long as possible & force them to do dumb shit (way easier said than done, of course).

 

[Members Section]

HOW GOOD YTFG,

 

[Rugby Head]

I swear every time our men's team plays Fiji its men vs boys, we just get absolutely smoked. They never look like winning.

 

[qwerty51]

I swear every time our men's team plays Fiji its men vs boys, we just get absolutely smoked. They never look like winning.

You’re not wrong.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Day 3 highlights

Edit: not sure why the women's highlights aren't up yet, previously the gap has been less than an hour.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Here they are:

 

[Drew]

I’m no marketing expert, but I think the South Africans should’ve offered Australia a few rand to call up Nic White. Wouldn’t have been an empty seat in the house.
And well done Aussie women and Fijian men for the wins

 

[Serge]

It is an absolute travesty that the Aussie women's team do not get more recognition in Australia. They are a global brand of high performers getting more media attention from other countries than they get here. There is no better group of ambassadors for women's sport in Australia, who while dominating on the world stage present themselves as a modest close knit well behaved team. You would think a promoters dream. My most sincere congratulations to the team, coaches and support staff.