Re: Olympics Rugby 7's : Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:02 am  

I was listening to a womens ru coach last week on Radio merseyside who had come up from down south to promote the game up north. She was asked to explain the difference between League and Union and had the temerity to describe League as stoppy starty and Union had more continuity. Couldn't believe it and as far as I know no one from League has challenged it.

Re: Olympics Rugby 7's : Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:48 am  

exileinpietown wrote:

I was listening to a womens ru coach last week on Radio merseyside who had come up from down south to promote the game up north. She was asked to explain the difference between League and Union and had the temerity to describe League as stoppy starty and Union had more continuity. Couldn't believe it and as far as I know no one from League has challenged it.

that says it all really

Re: Olympics Rugby 7's : Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:28 pm  

Watch the final.

Not one of the GB team could handle a ball.

The Fiji team where a different class, but only playing 10 minutes each way, doubt many would have the stamina for league.

Re: Olympics Rugby 7's : Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:51 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Watch the final.

Not one of the GB team could handle a ball.

The Fiji team where a different class, but only playing 10 minutes each way, doubt many would have the stamina for league.

I only watched the final and the GB team were truly appalling.
The BBC commentators were making the Fijians into Superhuman Heroes.

Re: Olympics Rugby 7's : Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:37 pm  

I did suggest on a RU website that they had potentially discovered a really exciting version of rugby, all they needed to do was lose a couple of players from the 15 and speed up the scrums. Needless to say it didn't go down too well.

Re: Olympics Rugby 7's : Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:00 am  

I thought GB were terrible in the final. So easy to defend against as they never drew a defender as they instead passed it along the line, Fiji only had to slide across to stop them. Fiji on the other hand made the GB defence commit to the tackle so that they could then offload in the collision. There was always a Fijian on their shoulder for the offload.

Simply rugby really, almost rugby league like.