The New Season kicked off for the HSBC Sevens World Series, with the first of the tournaments held at the Gold Coast, Australia on 25 and 26 November 2011.
Seeing as the times are at ‘unusual hours’ in South African terms, starting at the ungodly hour of 04:30 SA Time, was only have a lively general Discussion Article and not a Live Article with Score Updates as the games proceed.
This is exactly that, the Discussion Article, here you will find all the scores.
Fiji wins the Tournament, New Zealand are runners up, South Africa ends in 3rd place and Australia ends in 3th place.
Fixtures – Day 1 |
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1 | 04:35 | SAMOA | 24 – 14 | FRANCE | Pool C | ||
2 | 04:57 | ARGENTINA | 33 – 0 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Pool C | ||
3 | 05:19 | ENGLAND | 24 – 5 | SCOTLAND | Pool D | ||
4 | 05:41 | WALES | 24 – 7 | TONGA | Pool D | ||
5 | 06:03 | NEW ZEALAND | 26 – 5 | KENYA | Pool A | ||
6 | 06:25 | FIJI | 38 – 0 | NIUE | Pool A | ||
7 | 06:47 | SOUTH AFRICA | 17 – 12 |
UNITED STATES | Pool B | ||
8 | 07:09 | AUSTRALIA | 33 – 0 | JAPAN | Pool B | ||
9 | 07:41 | SAMOA | 38 – 0 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Pool C | ||
10 | 08:03 | ARGENTINA | 14 – 31 | FRANCE | Pool C | ||
11 | 08:25 | ENGLAND | 19 – 0 | TONGA | Pool D | ||
12 | 08:47 | WALES | 14 – 12 | SCOTLAND | Pool D | ||
13 | 09:09 | NEW ZEALAND | 38 – 0 | NIUE | Pool A | ||
14 | 09:31 | FIJI | 26 – 7 | KENYA | Pool A | ||
15 | 09:53 | SOUTH AFRICA | 31 – 7 | JAPAN | Pool B | ||
16 | 10:15 | AUSTRALIA | 22 – 7 | UNITED STATES | Pool B | ||
17 | 10:52 | FRANCE | 33 – 5 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Pool C | ||
18 | 11:14 | SCOTLAND | 14 – 12 | TONGA | Pool D | ||
19 | 11:36 | KENYA | 19 – 7 | NIUE | Pool A | ||
20 | 11:58 | UNITED STATES | 21 – 0 | JAPAN | Pool B | ||
21 | 12:30 | SAMOA | 29 – 0 | ARGENTINA | Pool C | ||
22 | 12:52 | ENGLAND | 7 – 21 | WALES | Pool D | ||
23 | 13:14 | NEW ZEALAND | 28 – 5 | FIJI | Pool A | ||
24 | 13:36 | SOUTH AFRICA | 21 – 7 | AUSTRALIA | Pool B |
Fixtures – Day 2 |
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25 | 03:38 | KENYA | 5 – 7 | TONGA | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
26 | 04:00 | ARGENTINA | 38 – 12 | JAPAN | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
27 | 04:22 | SCOTLAND | 36 – 0 | NIUE | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
28 | 04:44 | UNITED STATES | 24 – 5 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 1/4 final Bowl | ||
29 | 05:06 | NEW ZEALAND | 24 – 14 | ENGLAND | 1/4 final Cup | ||
30 | 05:28 | SAMOA | 12 – 14 | AUSTRALIA | 1/4 final Cup | ||
31 | 05:50 | WALES | 5 – 33 | FIJI | 1/4 final Cup | ||
32 | 06:12 | SOUTH AFRICA | 14 – 5 |
FRANCE | 1/4 final Cup | ||
33 | 06:44 | KENYA | 14 – 19 |
JAPAN | SF Shield | ||
34 | 07:06 | NIUE | 0 – 38 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | SF Shield | ||
35 | 07:28 | TONGA | 15 – 24 | ARGENTINA | SF Bowl | ||
36 | 07:50 | SCOTLAND | 19 – 5 | UNITED STATES | SF Bowl | ||
37 | 08:12 | ENGLAND | 14 – 17 | SAMOA | SF Plate | ||
38 | 08:34 | FRANCE | 12 – 14 | WALES | SF Plate | ||
39 | 08:56 | NEW ZEALAND | 26 – 7 | AUSTRALIA | SF Cup | ||
40 | 09:18 | FIJI | 24 – 7 | SOUTH AFRICA | SF Cup | ||
41 | 10:00 | JAPAN | 19 – 31 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Final Shield | ||
42 | 10:30 | ARGENTINA | 17 – 14 | SCOTLAND | Final Bowl | ||
43 | 11:00 | SAMOA | 15 – 26 | WALES | Final Plate | ||
44 | 11:30 | AUSTRALIA | 5 – 17 | SOUTH AFRICA | 3rd Place | ||
45 | 12:05 | NEW ZEALAND |
12 – 26 | FIJI |
Final Cup |
Goooooooooooo Bokke!
2009/10 World Series champions Samoa got proceedings underway against France, with Tom Iosefo scoring the first try of the tournament, and the Series, in a 24-14 victory.
Manuel Montero scored the first hat-trick of the season as Argentina beat Papua New Guinea 33-0 in Pool C
England beat the auld enemy Scotland 24-5 in the third match of day one.
Wales came from behind at half time (5-7) to beat Tonga 24-7
As the HSBC Sevens World Series gets underway on the Gold Coast, the IRB has announced an exciting enhancement to the season-long Tournament.
In a change to the points system at each round on the 2011/12 World Series, every team participating will now earn points towards the Series standings.
As a part of this ranking enhancement a new third place play-off match between the two losing semi finalists has been added to the final day’s play.
“Sevens is a global game and every team that arrives to play in each of the nine rounds of the World Series aspires to succeed in some capacity,” said IRB Sevens Manager, Beth Coalter.
“It is only right that they should all take points away from each tournament, and this new system will also allow for more objective ranking of the teams come the end of each season.
“It is an extremely positive move forward for the game of Sevens and has the teams’ full backing.”
In addition, at each round of the World Series there will now be a live broadcast draw of the pools for the next, upcoming round in the moments preceding each Cup final.
New Zealand 26-5 Kenya
Fiji is playing Niue now.
Niue (play /ˈnjuːeɪ/ new-ay; Niuean: Niuē), is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the “Rock of Polynesia”, and inhabitants of the island call it “the Rock” for short. Niue is 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to the southeast. The land area is 260 square kilometres (100 sq mi) with about 1,400 people who are predominantly Polynesian.
Though self-governing, Niue is in free association with New Zealand, and lacks full sovereignty. All Niueans are New Zealand citizens and Queen Elizabeth II is Niue’s head of state in her capacity as Queen of New Zealand. Most diplomatic relations are conducted by New Zealand on Niue’s behalf. 90-95% of Niuean people live in New Zealand,[3] along with about 70% of the speakers of the Niuean language.[citation needed]
In 2003, Niue became the world’s first “WiFi nation”, in which free wireless Internet access is provided throughout the country by The Internet Users Society-Niue.[4]
Fiji 38-0 Niue
South Africa trailing USA at half time 12-5
Dry scores , SA draw level 12-12
Little more than 3 minutes to go SA defense saves a USA try. Still 12-12
Try from our own line Boom Prinsloo takes us ahead.
17-12 SA
Cecil Afrika is fit and playing
SA scraped through 17-12
Australia now playing Japan. Australia in new colors , lime green jerseys and looking ugly. Why do they discard their gold and green only they will know. Commentators dont think much about this calling it a silly move.
Half time Aus 12-0 Japan
of to shop, cheers
Some more scores updated, Wales busy playing Scotland now and the Scotts leading 12 / 0, 3 minutes left in the match.
Wales wins 14 / 12
New Zealans wins 38 / 0 against Niue
Fiji wins 26 / 7 against Kenya
NOW ON it will be The Blitzbokke vs Japan
Almost an immediate try for the Bokke, just denied, great scrambling defence by Japan
Japan strikes first, Japan 7 / 0
Try scored by Lote Tuqiri… cousin of Lote Tuqiri who played for The Wallabies at wing
Chris Dry strikes back, 7 / 7
Halftime
Bernardo Botha scores
Bokke 12 / 7
Try Dry again
Bokke 17 / 7
Hat trick by Dry
Bokke 24 / 7
Try Delport
Blitzbokke win 31 / 7
Blitzbokke sal moet baie beter speel as wat hulle in die eerste twee games gespeel het……hulle wen ja maar is glad nie oortuigend nie
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