Irish Rugby and Sevens

connemara man

19-5 full-time

TheAnalyst_

What level are the big teams like England, Scotland etc? Is it their second string guys?

Squidgy Black

TheAnalyst_ wrote: »

What level are the big teams like England, Scotland etc? Is it their second string guys?

Wouldn't be their first team selection but England have a Sevens academy and all the players would be playing 7s professionally on a regular basis and a few players from clubs also.

connemara man

Ireland's semifinal Vs Rusia will be at half 12 sorry


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5pdkaa_rugby-europe-sevens-grand-prix-series-2017-lodz-round-2_sport

connemara man

Ireland lost the semi final to a last minute try.

Just wondering and this has nothing to do with the match itself but is 7s reffed differently?

The Lost Sheep

connemara man wrote: »

Ireland lost the semi final to a last minute try.

Just wondering and this has nothing to do with the match itself but is 7s reffed differently?

Reffed differently how?
There is variations in the laws

Great to be in and around the finals at this level.

The Lost Sheep

TheAnalyst_ wrote: »

What level are the big teams like England, Scotland etc? Is it their second string guys?

England, Wales, France have second string/academy squads

connemara man

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Reffed differently how?
There is variations in the laws

Great to be in and around the finals at this level.

The breakdown in general. Just wondering. It's not something I've looked into really

connachta

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

connemara man wrote: »

Ireland lost the semi final to a last minute try.

Just wondering and this has nothing to do with the match itself but is 7s reffed differently?

Reffed differently how?
There is variations in the laws

Great to be in and around the finals at this level.

3:53 for the 3rd-place game against Wales

connemara man

14-5 to Ireland halftime

connemara man

3rd place to Ireland 28-5 final score

connachta

Nope, too early, 35-5 :P
Good to see Conroy scoring again on a Connacht perspective

connemara man

connachta wrote: »

Nope, too early, 35-5 :P
Good to see Conroy scoring again on a Connacht perspective

I thought the clock had gone and turned over. I have no sound

The Lost Sheep

Womens 7s competing in grand prix series stage 1 in france this weekend.
Beat Italy 22-7, Portugal 47-7 and England 24-12 in pool stage yesterday.
Beat Spain 15-0 in Quarter final before losing 14-7 to France in Cup semi final and play England in Plate final

The Lost Sheep

Ladies beat England in Plate Final last weekend so finished 3rd in that round. Next round of games for them is in two weeks time in Russia.
Ladies in pole position for one of the two places up for grabs for next years world cup.

Mens side play in round 3 of the series in Clermont next weekend. They are joint top with Russia and Spain after 2 rounds. Top 2, of sides not already on world series, qualify for Hong Kong 7s in 2018 where they will attempt to qualify for the world series for 18/19 season. We have 36 points from opening 2 rounds of series. Next best in sides trying to qualify for Hong Kong are Germany on 20 and Italy on 18

The top 2 sides not already qualified will also qualify for next years world cup. Russia, Spain and ourselves have not qualified for world cup so we need to finish ahead of both to qualify for that.

VillaMad

Eir Sport are going to show full coverage of the Clermont Sevens this weekend, starting on Saturday at 8.55am.

Ireland will play their first game against Belgium which will be at 10.28am our time.

Quintis

Any update how the lads are going today?

The Lost Sheep

Quintis wrote: »

Any update how the lads are going today?

all games are live on eir

http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/rugby-europe-tv/live-clermont-ferrand-sevens-mens-grand-prix-series-2017

RichieRich89

I don't watch much 7s. Is it usual for a kicker to be as good as Dardis is at the drop-kick conversions? He seems to consistently get them even from wide out

Quintis

https://twitter.com/rugby_europe/status/881180629169315840

Ireland v France tomorrow,

Todays results,

Ireland 35 Italy 0
Ireland 28 Belgium 5
Ireland 21 Wales 5

VillaMad

Very impressive today.

Their scramble defence was very good to restrict the other sides to just two tries all day.

France looked pretty good today and that is a tough quarter-final game. Spain and Russia as usual look the teams to beat.

d-gal

Who's on the panel for the Sevens team?

Kiwi_knock

d-gal wrote: »

Who's on the panel for the Sevens team?

This is the current squad for this weekend.

Fionn Carr (Naas)
Jordan Conroy (Buccaneers/Connacht)
Billy Dardis (UCD) (capt)
Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne/Leinster)
Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)
Mick McGrath (Clontarf)
Harry McNulty (UCD)
John O'Donnell (Lansdowne)
Greg O'Shea (Shannon/Munster)
Mark Roche (Lansdowne)
Josh Rowland (Buccaneers)
Nick Timoney (Queen's University/Ulster)

Kiwi_knock

Hard fought 7-5 win over the French. Very tough game, and they had to dig deep to win.

connachta

Ireland beat Spain a direct opponent, and through the final vs Russia!
Very good game, world series here we come!

Kiwi_knock

Another tough game, did well to cope with Spain's pressure in the first half. Great to have a speedster like Conroy in the team.

lologram

Based on this week's results (Ireland finishing either 1st or 2nd), it looks like Ireland have qualified for the Hong Kong 7s with a series leg to spare.

They can head into the last leg of the series knowing if they finish in the top 2 overall out of Ireland, Russia and Spain then they'll also qualify for the 2018 7s RWC.

Kiwi_knock

Final just started, already 5-0 up

lologram

10-0 now and playing well

lologram

17-14 win for Ireland