Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments
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I'm curious what has happened to Francis Manuleleua. There were stories he was going to RL, but obviously not the Warriors (if true), and he didn't make the NZ Schools rugby teams. Maybe injured?
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@Bovidae said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
A few players from St John's Hamilton, which Sweeney was helping coach at the Condors.
They only lost one game all tournament, and that because they missed their conversions. There's some very good players in that side.
Micah Fale, who is still only 16, is a beast. Probably too small to play 15s to the top level, but sevens maybe.
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@Bovidae said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
A few players from St John's Hamilton, which Sweeney was helping coach at the Condors.
They only lost one game all tournament, and that because they missed their conversions. There's some very good players in that side.
Micah Fale, who is still only 16, is a beast. Probably too small to play 15s to the top level, but sevens maybe.
@Chester-Draws said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
@Bovidae said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
A few players from St John's Hamilton, which Sweeney was helping coach at the Condors.
They only lost one game all tournament, and that because they missed their conversions. There's some very good players in that side.
I watched St John's play twice during the year. They fell away badly at the end of the season when the CNI title was there for the taking, and obviously didn't fire much of a shot against Hamilton BHS. Quite a few of their players made the Chiefs U18s, and Jack O'Brien was selected for the NZ Barbarians U18s. They had a big backline.
Micah Fale, who is still only 16, is a beast. Probably too small to play 15s to the top level, but sevens maybe.
He is in the NZ U18s sevens squad.
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It’s guesswork regarding results and strength of teams but it looks like the great turnout could also bring luck into play more. The curse of the draw in 7s can mean that sometimes the best teams meet early in the knockout stages and this looks entirely possible here as well.
I looked at a couple of team’s draws and found they may be worse off by winning their pool.
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@Bovidae yeah I saw the Canadian team and a guy that was at WBHS last year and in NH dev side this year is there...they topped up squads with locals?
@taniwharugby said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
@Bovidae yeah I saw the Canadian team and a guy that was at WBHS last year and in NH dev side this year is there...they topped up squads with locals?
Some will have. There’s always last minute no shows with travelling teams for various reasons.
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@taniwharugby One of the real Canadian players has a cousin playing for the Asian Dragons. There is a video on the World Schools 7s FB page.
And we'll have to wait to see some NZ teams play as they haven't released a squad list.
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@Stargazer said in Invitational, provincial, local & school sevens tournaments:
Field 3 is here, but it still hasn't started streaming yet.
Still isn’t working. Just came in to watch a game on that field but lots of comments saying it isn’t starting up.
You all having the same problem?Edit: just started. Seems that you need to leave it hanging for a while so go there early if you don’t want to miss anything
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@Bovidae did’nt really tell us a lot ,Cooks were very poor
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NZ Māori Girls and NZ Boys very impressive in their first game.
NZ Barbarians Boys' game wasn't streamed, so still no idea who are in that team.
Now waiting for NZ Māori Boys game, which is at the same time as the NZ Cavaliers Girls' game.
After that, NZ Girls.
