Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments
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National Sevens - results day 2:
Women G30 Bowl Final (9th-10th): Taranaki 5 v Ta$man 24
Women G31 7th/8th place play-off: Wellington 5 v Otago 20
Women G32 Plate Final (5th/6th): Manawatu 17 v Canterbury 0
Women G33 3rd/4th place play-off: Bay of Plenty 10 v Auckland 33
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@Stargazer when is the men’s final, do you know?
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@Stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
National Sevens - results day 2:
Women G19 Cup QF: Counties Manukau 27 v South Canterbury 12
Remarkable effort by Sth Canterbury to rustle up a team and make it to Tauranga in time considering they did not even play yesterday. What happened here, did one of the teams get out on the turps last night and create havoc resulting in them being turfed out of the tournemant?
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@Stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
National Sevens - results day 2:
Women G19 Cup QF: Counties Manukau 27 v South Canterbury 12
Remarkable effort by Sth Canterbury to rustle up a team and make it to Tauranga in time considering they did not even play yesterday. What happened here, did one of the teams get out on the turps last night and create havoc resulting in them being turfed out of the tournemant?
Haha, the organisers are trying very hard to post all the results, but with a few mistakes. I corrected most of them before posting them here, but missed this one! Obviously, it's Canterbury, not South Canterbury.
I'm glad you're paying attention! :grimacing_face:
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@Stargazer I guess Hannah Brough moved back to Counties
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@Stargazer I guess Hannah Brough moved back to Counties
@Stockcar86 It may be temporary. Several players were playing for another province than their NPC team. We had Teilah Ferguson back from Otago, but I'm sure she'll be studying in Dundedin again in 2020 and probably play for Otago Spiriti in the NPC.
Our women's team was missing several players; it's a pity that they didn't do well after such a good Central Zone tournament.
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For whoever is interested: the National Club Sevens are held on Friday, 7 Feb and Saturday, 8 Feb 2020 at Porirua Park (Porirua). Sixteen teams will play for the Middlesex County Wavell Wakefield Cup:
Ardmore Marist (Counties Manukau)
Alhambra Union (Otago)
Feilding Yellows (Manawatu)
Havelock North (Hawke’s Bay)
Hutt Old Boys Marist (Wellington)
Kaitaia (Northland)
MAC (Hawke’s Bay)
Marist Albion (Canterbury)
Massey University (Manawatu)
Northern United (Wellington)
Oriental-Rongotai (Wellington)
Saracens (Canterbury)
Te Puna (Bay of Plenty)
Toa (Horowhenua-Kapiti)
Timaru Old Boys (South Canterbury)
Waihi Athletic (Thames Valley)More info: https://clubrugby.nz/wp/2020/02/04/national-club-sevens-at-porirua-park-this-friday-and-saturday/
For updates etc, follow Northern United RFC on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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Draw day 1:
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Condor Sevens
The dates for the Condor Sevens have been announced:
Thu 10 - Fri 11 December 2020: Open boys & girls (seniors)
Sat 12 - Sun 13 December 2020: U15 boys & girls (juniors)
Normally, the seniors would play on the weekend and the juniors on Thursday and Friday, but because - due to Covid-19 - several tournaments had to be squeezed into one weekend (because of changed NCEA examination dates), they have swapped the dates for the seniors and juniors, to allow students to play at multiple events.
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RED BULL IGNITE7 RETURNS WITH EXCITING NEW FORMAT
Red Bull Ignite7 breaks new ground again in 2020 as the country’s leading sevens players go head to head this December.
New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has today announced that contracted sevens players will join the Bolt, Surge, Inferno and Power teams alongside more than 60 emerging sevens players for the third annual tournament.
A live draft event on Monday 30 November will see eight captains, including Tim Mikkelson, Scott Curry and Sarah Hirini, pick their playing squads in a three-round draft, broadcast on SKY.
Teams will then assemble for one week in Tauranga before a two-day tournament at Blake Park on 5-6 December.
“The opportunity to evolve the Red Bull Ignite7 concept to include our contracted players alongside the next generation of stars is new for us. The proposition of senior players being charged with picking their teams means we have something completely different on our hands.
“The other element of this which is also really exciting is it will grow our leaders as they will have to think about how to build an environment as their team prepares to perform.
Talent identification to confirm the wider playing group is underway and expected to feature several Farah Palmer Cup and Mitre 10 Cup players. All players will be given training support in the lead up to the tournament before assembly in December.
This will be the first sevens tournament for the World Series-winning All Black Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens since the beginning of 2020 and kick starts the playing schedule in the lead up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
The teams are hopeful for some Oceania based tournaments at the start of 2021 before the World Series is re-instated.
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RED BULL IGNITE7 RETURNS WITH EXCITING NEW FORMAT
Red Bull Ignite7 breaks new ground again in 2020 as the country’s leading sevens players go head to head this December.
New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has today announced that contracted sevens players will join the Bolt, Surge, Inferno and Power teams alongside more than 60 emerging sevens players for the third annual tournament.
A live draft event on Monday 30 November will see eight captains, including Tim Mikkelson, Scott Curry and Sarah Hirini, pick their playing squads in a three-round draft, broadcast on SKY.
Teams will then assemble for one week in Tauranga before a two-day tournament at Blake Park on 5-6 December.
“The opportunity to evolve the Red Bull Ignite7 concept to include our contracted players alongside the next generation of stars is new for us. The proposition of senior players being charged with picking their teams means we have something completely different on our hands.
“The other element of this which is also really exciting is it will grow our leaders as they will have to think about how to build an environment as their team prepares to perform.
Talent identification to confirm the wider playing group is underway and expected to feature several Farah Palmer Cup and Mitre 10 Cup players. All players will be given training support in the lead up to the tournament before assembly in December.
This will be the first sevens tournament for the World Series-winning All Black Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens since the beginning of 2020 and kick starts the playing schedule in the lead up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
The teams are hopeful for some Oceania based tournaments at the start of 2021 before the World Series is re-instated.
@Stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
RED BULL IGNITE7 RETURNS WITH EXCITING NEW FORMAT
Red Bull Ignite7 breaks new ground again in 2020 as the country’s leading sevens players go head to head this December.
New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has today announced that contracted sevens players will join the Bolt, Surge, Inferno and Power teams alongside more than 60 emerging sevens players for the third annual tournament.
A live draft event on Monday 30 November will see eight captains, including Tim Mikkelson, Scott Curry and Sarah Hirini, pick their playing squads in a three-round draft, broadcast on SKY.
Teams will then assemble for one week in Tauranga before a two-day tournament at Blake Park on 5-6 December.
“The opportunity to evolve the Red Bull Ignite7 concept to include our contracted players alongside the next generation of stars is new for us. The proposition of senior players being charged with picking their teams means we have something completely different on our hands.
“The other element of this which is also really exciting is it will grow our leaders as they will have to think about how to build an environment as their team prepares to perform.
Talent identification to confirm the wider playing group is underway and expected to feature several Farah Palmer Cup and Mitre 10 Cup players. All players will be given training support in the lead up to the tournament before assembly in December.
This will be the first sevens tournament for the World Series-winning All Black Sevens and Black Ferns Sevens since the beginning of 2020 and kick starts the playing schedule in the lead up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
The teams are hopeful for some Oceania based tournaments at the start of 2021 before the World Series is re-instated.
I will be heading along to this. Close friends have had their daughter selected to participate. She's only 16 so is likely to be a 13th player in one of the teams but a top achievement to get identified and selected all the same, especially considering that she has been noticed playing in a bit of a backwater as far as rugby goes.
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The country’s leading female sevens exponents have been selected for the upcoming Red Bull Ignite7.
The 52 players will spend the next month preparing and will be drafted into teams on 30 November, before the tournament is played at Blake Park in Tauranga on 5-6 December.Black Ferns Sevens coaches Allan Bunting and Cory Sweeney have selected all of their contracted players along with several stars of the Farah Palmer Cup and emerging sevens talent.
Sweeney said this was a unique opportunity to get the best sevens players from across New Zealand for an exciting tournament.
“We believe with the players who have been selected that this tournament has the potential to be World Class.
“Many of these players were involved in the Farah Palmer Cup which was a great competition this year. We look forward to them stepping things up a notch as they turn their focus to sevens and ultimately the preparation for next year’s Olympics.
“It’s quite unique that the pressure now turns to the captains who will have the difficult task of picking their teams at the draft,” said Sweeney.
All former Red Bull Ignite7 MVPs return for 2020, with Isla Norman Bell, Kalyn Takitimu-Cook, Mererangi Paul, Renee Holmes and Grace Kukatai selected.
Seven 2018 Youth Olympic Gold medallists will be amongst those in the draft with Takitimu-Cook, Risi Pouri-Lane, Mahina Paul, Tynelle Fitzgerald, Tiana Davison and Montessa Tairakena in the selected group.
2019 Condor Sevens MVP Jorja Miller steps up, after leading for Christchurch Girls’ High School to a national title last year she is one of four school-girls that will join the programme as apprentices for the week.
The Red Bull Ignite7 players for 2020 are;
Mia Anderson
Isla Norman-Bell
Shakira Baker
Manaia Nuku
Michala Blyde
Mahina Paul
Kelly Brazier
Mererangi Paul
Gayle Broughton
Risi Pouri-Lane
Sam Curtis
Cheyelle Robins-Reti
Georgia Daals
Leanna Ryan
Tiana Davison
Layla Sae
Princess Elliott
Alena Saili
Dhys Faleafaga
Teuila Sotutu
Lyric Faleafaga
Kiki Tahere
Rhiarna Ferris
Montessa Tairakena
Tynelle Fitzgerald
Kalyn Takitimu-Cook
Theresa Fitzpatrick
Ruby Tawa
Stacey Fluhler
Terina Te Tamaki
Sarah Hirini
Kelsey Teneti
Renee Holmes
Shyanne Thompson
Jazmin Hotham
Alanis Toia-Tigafua
Tysha Ikenasio
Hazel Tubic
Maia Joseph
Rebekah Tufuga
Shiray Kaka
Leianne Tufuga
Rosie Kelly
Ruby Tui
Grace Kukutai
Janna Vaughn
Crystal Mayes
Olive Watherston
Jorja Miller
Tenika Willison
Tyla Nathan-Wong
Portia WoodmanThe men’s players will be announced in two weeks
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I cut out the provinces as it made a mess of the cut and paste but the breakdown is as follows
Northland 2
North Harbour 1
Auckland 7
CM 3
Waikato 13
BOP 9
Manawatu 7
Taranaki 2
Wellington 3
Caterbury 2
Otago 3Some odd spreads there BOP and Waikato make up nearly half the selection. Very surpirised that there are only 3 from Welly and that only already established players from CM are involved.
SI is poorly represented, which could be a reflection on the game there, but weird when you consider the strength of the womens XV game in Caterbury. Of the 5 SI players at least two are schools players attending as apprentices (13th player).
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I cut out the provinces as it made a mess of the cut and paste but the breakdown is as follows
Northland 2
North Harbour 1
Auckland 7
CM 3
Waikato 13
BOP 9
Manawatu 7
Taranaki 2
Wellington 3
Caterbury 2
Otago 3Some odd spreads there BOP and Waikato make up nearly half the selection. Very surpirised that there are only 3 from Welly and that only already established players from CM are involved.
SI is poorly represented, which could be a reflection on the game there, but weird when you consider the strength of the womens XV game in Caterbury. Of the 5 SI players at least two are schools players attending as apprentices (13th player).
I don't know who the other 2 school age players are.@Crucial Waikato has a good women's sevens programme coming out of Hamilton GHS. BOP benefits from having the national sevens base there as a lot of their players were from other provinces (e.g., Blyde - Taranaki, Brazier - Otago, Risi Pouri-Lane - Ta$man, Alena Saili - Southland).
Did your friends daughter get selected?
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@Crucial Waikato has a good women's sevens programme coming out of Hamilton GHS. BOP benefits from having the national sevens base there as a lot of their players were from other provinces (e.g., Blyde - Taranaki, Brazier - Otago, Risi Pouri-Lane - Ta$man, Alena Saili - Southland).
Did your friends daughter get selected?
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@Crucial Waikato has a good women's sevens programme coming out of Hamilton GHS. BOP benefits from having the national sevens base there as a lot of their players were from other provinces (e.g., Blyde - Taranaki, Brazier - Otago, Risi Pouri-Lane - Ta$man, Alena Saili - Southland).
Did your friends daughter get selected?
Yep. She is one of the four ‘apprentices’.
Really exciting for her. She may not get any game time unless there are injuries but for a 16 year old getting to train and mix with some of the world’s best for a week is going to be very cool. -
It will also be interesting to see how her 'stats' match up.
They usually run a bit of a 'combine' type thing to baseline sprint times, strength, standing jumps and all that type of shit like the US sports systems.
My son has been setting her S&C program from afar and she is pretty much having to train herself under his guidance. They are working on getting her peaking at this event so the outcomes will be of big interest.
One of the reasons she was nominated in the first place is that she went to an Otago development camp and showed some good numbers and a good understanding of how to train to improve.
