2016-2017 World Sevens Series

[Stargazer]

Great action from Koroi! Just delaying, then kick the ball for Molia to score!

[Stargazer]

That's really bad. Ref asks his assistant: "Is it a try, was it grounded?" Assistant ref says, "yes, it's a try". Then ref still goes to TMO to have a look. And it was clearly a try. He showed not to trust his assistant. Not good.

[Stargazer]

Very good win from the AB7s over Wales: 36-14.

[Stargazer]

Wow, that offload from Ravouvou to Ware!
14-0 to NZ at half time.

[Bones]

Wow Joubert is a pretty average ref these days eh. Every breakdown he's screaming "hands off black" and even penalising NZ for not releasing the tackled player at one ruck when all they did was counter ruck. Of course after he's given US a penalty for the NZ player not releasing the ball when they didn't release him.

Edit: oh it's not Joubert it's some Welsh newby.

[Stargazer]

NZ win 21-14 and will play Canada in the Cup QF (Sunday, 5:14pm NZT).
USA also through, but will play Fiji.

[KiwiMurph]

Sensational try by Canada against NZ. Canada up 19-7. Too good for NZ at this stage.

[Bones]

Ravouvou is pretty shit and quite the liability apart from the seemingly rare magic touch.

[Bones]

Fucking kidding me. NZ needing 2 tries at least to win and they're picking and going from 60 out with a minute to go.

[KiwiMurph]

Not for the first time this season nz unbeaten in pool play and then knocked out in quarters. NZ have been quite rubbish on finals days this season.

[Bones]

@KiwiMurph yeah that was a shit house display. I guess the very first play of the match should've signalled what was going to happen. Spin it wide to Ravouvou immediately without even looking up and watch him give it back.

[Stargazer]

So Australia knocks South Africa out of the Cup, the USA stop Fiji on its way, and Canada beat NZ.
That's not the semi-finals anyone would have predicted. Now hoping Kenya beat England ...

[KiwiMurph]

@Bones yep they didnt even try to create space for Ravouvou - just throw it to him and ask him to beat a line of defence. Yesterday nz were quite strong at the breakdown - today canada won that battle convincingly.

[Duluth]

@Bones said in 2016-2017 World Sevens Series:

Spin it wide to Ravouvou immediately without even looking up and watch him give it back.

He was good last week but had two genuine shockers this week (the first pool match and the QF). Three times he has run straight towards touch and then thrown a no look pass. Idiotic.
Was surprised he wasn't dragged earlier in those 2 games

[Snowy]

Sevens is always a bit of a lottery but there really are quite a few teams in it now.

England seriously helped by the ref (the penultimate penalty in particular).

[KiwiMurph]

NZ get out of jail vs Kenya in the plate semi. Ravouvou had another shocker unfortunately.

[Chris B.]

Tew needs to give some attention to Sevens. They've become something of a red-headed bastard AB child in the past couple of years.

Someone needs to work out the formula for winning and the formula for picking a dozen or so NZers who can do the job.

[KiwiMurph]

NZ win the plate, defeating South Africa. Waaka looked badly injured though.

[NTA]

USA hammer us then go down to the Canucks in the final.

Great sport, this

[Snowy]

Just watched the other NZ matches v Kenya and SA. Most concerning thing is the defence.
When we were consistently winning the series we conceded a few tries per tournament, now it is a few a match. Maybe that is my rose tinted memory.

Nice to get a win over SA for the first time in a year though.