Ireland 7s route to Rio

This all seems a bit facile.

Looking at the first post, we'll have to play the likes of England possibly in the next tournament?

irishbucsfan

Kaleb Sticky Shin wrote: »

This all seems a bit facile.

Looking at the first post, we'll have to play the likes of England possibly in the next tournament?

At the moment, no, England are 4th in the World Series so qualify by virtue of that. The Repechage would be anyone who hasn't qualified through that method, so if England finish 4th it'll be any European sides below them:

http://www.worldrugby.org/sevens-series/standings

EDIT: The series finished in London didnt it actually?

So Scotland, France, Portugal seem like the next ranked teams. Are they any good, do we have any sort of chance of getting to the Olympics?

irishbucsfan

Kaleb Sticky Shin wrote: »

So Scotland, France, Portugal seem like the next ranked teams. Are they any good, do we have any sort of chance of getting to the Olympics?

They would all be better than us, Scotland have gotten better in recent years, Wales are capable of putting together very strong sides (they won the 7s world cup not so long ago) but we'll have to wait and find out really because we are a bit of a wilcard. I think it's generally accepted that our chances of qualifying are extremely slim, but it's still a pretty entertaining journey to follow.

ceegee

Scotland and wales arent up for qualification though are they? As GB qualified via England

connemara man

irishbucsfan wrote: »

They would all be better than us, Scotland have gotten better in recent years, Wales are capable of putting together very strong sides (they won the 7s world cup not so long ago) but we'll have to wait and find out really because we are a bit of a wilcard. I think it's generally accepted that our chances of qualifying are extremely slim, but it's still a pretty entertaining journey to follow.

I can see the movie now a young team recently formed battle their way to reach the Olympics against the odds. (the audience watching think the whole time "shouldn't they have had a team for years")

irishbucsfan

ceegee wrote: »

Scotland and wales arent up for qualification though are they? As GB qualified via England

Of course! Forgot it's the Olypmics!

Melodeon

Here's a link to today's live stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1O7GvG0uQ

NoelJ

Melodeon wrote: »

Here's a link to today's live stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1O7GvG0uQ

Do you know when Ireland play? Bit difficult trying to figure it out.

Melodeon

NoelJ wrote: »

Do you know when Ireland play? Bit difficult trying to figure it out.

According to this page:
http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/group-254.htm

...the Switzerland/Slovakia game currently playing is match no. 26, so I'm hoping Ireland/Slovenia (match no. 27) is next up.

I could be completely wrong though!

sydneybound

God I watched a bit of Switzerland V Slovakia and god the poor auld Slovakians were woeful, real desperate stuff out there. I hope in years to come the competition picks up a bit.

irishbucsfan

NoelJ wrote: »

Do you know when Ireland play? Bit difficult trying to figure it out.

1.56pm local time. IE 4 minutes.

Melodeon

Someone just posted in the YouTube feed that the Ireland/Slovenia match is at 1:56pm local time, which I think is in about 3 minutes time.


Edit: GAH! Too slow!

NoelJ

Perfect cheers. I enjoy following this. It was always a shame we never had any element of 7s.

Melodeon

Here we go...

irishbucsfan

That was a lovely finish, if we ignore the standard of tackling.

sydneybound

Looks like another spanking...

Melodeon

4 trys in 6 minutes :eek:

NoelJ

sydneybound wrote: »

Looks like another spanking...

Slovenia could easily over turn this hah

DDC1990

Melodeon wrote: »

4 trys in 6 minutes :eek:

5 in 7.

Its like watching a real game of Rugby 08 where one person knows how to contest the kickoffs and the other doesn't.

The kick ahead before the last try was really silly.

DDC1990

That was interesting.

Slovenia would put a couple of good passes together then throw it to an Irish player to run all the way back and score.

Massive gulf.

I hope we don't look like that when we go up against France and Portugal.

VillaMad

57-0.

Total aggregate score this weekend is 298-0 from 5 matches.

Should be Croatia in the final later on and they should be a little bit more competitive.

wp_rathead

Serbia v Croatia...
nice try by Serbia

VillaMad

Update on the Ladies.

Beaten 34-0 by France in the quarter-finals.

Entered the plate competition and beat Ukraine 24-19 and will now face the Netherlands in the plate final.

The Lost Sheep

Kaleb Sticky Shin wrote: »

This all seems a bit facile.

Looking at the first post, we'll have to play the likes of England possibly in the next tournament?

Cant play England. Theyre qualified already

irishbucsfan wrote: »

At the moment, no, England are 4th in the World Series so qualify by virtue of that. The Repechage would be anyone who hasn't qualified through that method, so if England finish 4th it'll be any European sides below them:

http://www.worldrugby.org/sevens-series/standings

EDIT: The series finished in London didnt it actually?

Series did finish in London. England, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa qualified as are

Kaleb Sticky Shin wrote: »

So Scotland, France, Portugal seem like the next ranked teams. Are they any good, do we have any sort of chance of getting to the Olympics?

Theyre pretty good. Russia aren't bad either. We would then have to get past best of the world as well.

sydneybound wrote: »

God I watched a bit of Switzerland V Slovakia and god the poor auld Slovakians were woeful, real desperate stuff out there. I hope in years to come the competition picks up a bit.

If we get through these stages we likely wont be competing against these countries and we could be in Division A/Grand Prix series.

wp_rathead

while quality not there- really enjoying this Croatia v Serbia match

Greyian

Anyone know what time the final should be on at?

irishbucsfan

Greyian wrote: »

Anyone know what time the final should be on at?

17.44 local time.

Greyian

11 seconds for Austria to score against Greece...

irishbucsfan

The bowl final is on now, BG v BiH, it seems pretty early so maybe the Cup final will be earlier than they've said.

The Lost Sheep

Womens team won Plate. Beat Holland 19-5 in the final

Greyian

This is ridiculous

Melodeon

The commentators are getting a laugh out of it anyway

DDC1990

Men win the Final 74-0.

wp_rathead

DDC1990 wrote: »

Men win the Final 74-0.

ah what? thought was 18:04 kick off?:p

great win but was hoping towatch

Peregrine

So, what's next for the men's team? Division A?

wp_rathead wrote: »

ah what? thought was 18:04 kick off?:p

great win but was hoping towatch

Kicked off at around 17:25. You didn't miss much :P

The Lost Sheep

Nim wrote: »

So, what's next for the men's team? Division A?

We are promoted to Division A for 2016 and enter the European repechage competition in a few weeks time against sides from Division A and world series.

VillaMad

Move on now to Lisbon for the Europe Repechage on the weekend of July 18-19.

There is still another round in Division A and that will decide the final make-up of the 12 in Lisbon.

As it stands, the Repechage would contain Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Italy, Romania, Georgia, Lithuania, Belgium, Portugal, Germany and Russia along with Ireland.

bradders90

VillaMad wrote: »

As it stands, the Repechage would contain Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Italy, Romania, Georgia, Lithuania, Belgium, Portugal, Germany and Russia along with Ireland.

And then if we win that we are through to Rio 2016?Or is there another tournie aftrwards? Because if so then maybe im being ignorant and naive but those nations shouldn't really trouble Ireland.

VillaMad

bradders90 wrote: »

And then if we win that we are through to Rio 2016?Or is there another tournie aftrwards? Because if so then maybe im being ignorant and naive but those nations shouldn't really trouble Ireland.

Looking at the rules, it appears that the top three in the European Repechage go into the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament which will probably be held towards the end of the year or next which would contain countries from all around the world who haven't yet qualified.

I have seen Portugal on the main sevens circuit and they aren't too bad at all. We really don't know how good this Ireland side is until they face some competition.

The Lost Sheep

bradders90 wrote: »

And then if we win that we are through to Rio 2016?Or is there another tournament aftrwards? Because if so then maybe im being ignorant and naive but those nations shouldn't really trouble Ireland.

No. If we qualify from European repechage we enter the world repechage and there is a considerable few of those who will trouble us in European competition as they have a good bit of 7s pedigree and 15s rugby pedigree and will certainly trouble us.

The Lost Sheep

VillaMad wrote: »

Looking at the rules, it appears that the top three in the European Repechage go into the Final Olympic Qualification Tournament which will probably be held towards the end of the year or next which would contain countries from all around the world who haven't yet qualified.

I have seen Portugal on the main sevens circuit and they aren't too bad at all. We really don't know how good this Ireland side is until they face some competition.

The final Olympic qualification tournament has to be very late this year/early next year as Asian/African/Oceanic competitions are not being played until November

Peregrine

bradders90 wrote: »

And then if we win that we are through to Rio 2016?Or is there another tournie aftrwards? Because if so then maybe im being ignorant and naive but those nations shouldn't really trouble Ireland.

I think top 3 qualifies for the final world qualification tournament.

Most of them are in the Grand Prix series and have far more experience that the Irish side.

ArmchairQB

Portugal & Russia are handy enough and I am sure Italy have a few ringers in their squad. When is the next round of games for Ireland? Does the season finish up in the summer or continue on?

The Lost Sheep

ArmchairQB wrote: »

Portugal & Russia are handy enough and I am sure Italy have a few ringers in their squad. When is the next round of games for Ireland? Does the season finish up in the summer or continue on?

The next competition will be July 25-26 in Lisbon

The Lost Sheep

Draw for the European repechage has been made.
Must finish in top 3 In this to qualify us for the World repechage where there is 1 place in Rio up for grabs

Pool A Russia, Italy or Lithuania, Georgia and Ireland
Pool B Germany, Italy or Lithuania, Romania and Latvia
Pool C Portugal, Belgium, Poland and Ukraine

Poland, Latvia and Ukraine qualified from Division A for this stage

ken76

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Draw for the European repechage has been made.
Must finish in top 3 In this to qualify us for the World repechage where there is 1 place in Rio up for grabs

Pool A Russia, Italy or Lithuania, Georgia and Ireland
Pool B Germany, Italy or Lithuania, Romania and Latvia
Pool C Portugal, Belgium, Poland and Ukraine

Poland, Latvia and Ukraine qualified from Division A for this stage

How are Italy potentially in 2 different groups? Also how do u rate our chances in grp A?

The Lost Sheep

ken76 wrote: »

How are Italy potentially in 2 different groups? Also how do u rate our chances in grp A?

Italy and Georgia's positioning will be determined following the Exeter leg of grand prix series on July 11/12th which is 2 weeks before the repechage tournament we play in.

ken76

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Italy and Georgia's positioning will be determined following the Exeter leg of grand prix series on July 11/12th which is 2 weeks before the repechage tournament we play in.

Thanks, how do you rate our chances of a top 3 finish? Is there a massive difference in the standard of teams we played today and who we will play?

The Lost Sheep

ken76 wrote: »

Thanks, how do you rate our chances of a top 3 finish? Is there a massive difference in the standard of teams we played today and who we will play?

You would know as much as I do but you have to think it will be a few steps up in quality from divisions C and B.

Women's team have qualified for the European Repechage tournament which is July 18th in Lisbon. They must finish in top 3 to go to world competition for a shot at Olympic spot
Pool A Spain, Germany, Italy & Denmark
Pool B Ireland, Portugal, Belgium & Romania
Pool C Netherlands, Ukraine, Finland & Sweden