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Rugby Sevens at the Olympics |OT|
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Paul_Str337
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First time watching and wow, the girls are beating the holy hell out of each other. Also great match by Team GB with a flawless game over the previous group leaders.
Canada played pretty poorly against us, you'll just have to hope they do the same again.
Was a wonderful game, we keep playing like that and we could well win a medal.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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France is a heavy underdog here, sorry bud. Not impossible though, France has beaten them in the circuit before.
If by us you mean GB, then you're not giving your girls enough credit. The poor Canadian play was in no small part due to the good GB play.
Yeah it's fine, I'll still cheer them on
Oh yeah, I don't want to take away from our performance at all, we played fantastically!
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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USA is gonna try to lose this game by less than 30 lol
Good effort but a few dumb mistakes so far.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Could have scored 2 tries and actually be leading. US Women's team has potential, but too inconsistent. Kind of like the men, but at least the men are performing at a higher level, thanks to Mike Friday.
Well, they're not doing too bad so far lol. They're winning now, 3 minutes to go.
12-12 final score.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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US was incompetent to not win that game. Shows the lack of consistency, but potential as well. Now the US gets NZ, who is constantly smoking us lol
I'd still like to see (on the men's side) how a whole team of American football QBs (with experience in running the option or spread option) would do in this thing after 3-4 years of training in sevens.
Re: Canada vs. Great Britain. Team GB's defense was solid and well organized. Unlike against Japan and Brazil, Canada couldn't simply pick holes in the defense or ram their way through. Meanwhile, Canada's defense made too many mistakes. I enjoyed watching the Canadian women cruise to a gold medal at last year's Pan Am Games, but now they're up against real competition.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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I have decided to come up with a team. You need more than just QBs. Realistically though, you'd have to get some athletes when they are young and/or athletic college players who won't make it to the NFL and can make the transition to RU. We do have a fledgling league, if it proves itself to be financially feasible, I can see some athletes making the transition.
I watched the Canada vs GB game on CBC. Still not a big rugby fan but I kind of dig the mini-game that it is. Huge fucking field, not many players and a super short time. My wife was shocked it was already over after like 20 minutes real-time.
In that game they dropped a shit load of passes though, is that common? Like the ball was covered in grease.
In that game they dropped a shit load of passes though, is that common? Like the ball was covered in grease.
A few drops happen, but not normally that many. Would expect fewer mistakes from Canada in future, they'll be disappointed with that.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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I feel if we play like this we can give them a good game. We'll probably still lose, but it should hopefully be close.
We've played well so far, I reckon we can give it a good shot
EDIT: Just realised we have the best defence in the tournament currently.
Our speed is giving me hope. This has been clinical.We've played well so far, I reckon we can give it a good shot
EDIT: Just realised we have the best defence in the tournament currently.
Edit, just been researching it. Looks like a semi vs Nz is better than having to beat Australia. Gives me a bit more hope. Also Clive Woodward is a giant asshat. Worth pointing that out even though it is blatantly obvious.
Since it's only 14 min anything can happen, especially if the favored team makes some mistakes.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Dirty play, but stopped a try. Can't blame her.
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