Sevens

[cormac]

Ireland finished 5th in the world series. Its worth noting that our 5th is slightly tainted by NZ missing a bunch of events. They would be very likely to beat us.

GB are combining for next years sevens and Uruguay are promoting from the lower tier so there will be 15 core teams.

Next season's top 4 qualify for the 2024 Olympics. Then there will be a European qualifier and a repechage qualifier.

The Irish women finished 4th in their world series which was also joint second. Japan is getting promoted to be a core team and team GB will unite.

In all likelihood we'll be relying on the repechage again - GB likely to take the European spot (ourselves and France in with a shout too), with four of the following five making up the top four in the series table: New Zealand, South Africa, Fiji, Australia, Argentina.

France surely won't have to qualify for their own Olympics

[neiliog93]

Good shout! Between us and GB for the European slot then (Spain outside bet), and if not still the repechage.

[Ruckedtobits]

Good start by Men's Sevens in World Cup Sevens in Cape Town 28-0 win v Portugal.

[neill_m]

Ireland Men v England in Round of 16 at 1:39pm today and Ireland Women v Brazil in Round of 16 at 12:54pm today.

[neill_m]

Ireland Women beat Brazil 24-12, into Quarter Finals, will face New Zealand on Saturday night at 7:05pm.

[neill_m]

Ireland Men beat England 17-5, will face the Blitzboks on Saturday in Quarter Final at 9:33pm.

[R-Dog]

Ireland Men v England in Round of 16 at 1:39pm today and Ireland Women v Brazil in Round of 16 at 12:54pm today.

Great 17-5 win!

[neill_m]

Ireland Men v England in Round of 16 at 1:39pm today and Ireland Women v Brazil in Round of 16 at 12:54pm today.

Great 17-5 win!

Yup, posted that above yours

[neiliog93]

We're so much better than England at sevens now, it's hard to believe. Can't see us beating SA tomorrow, who were outstanding against Chile, but 5th place would still be a great achievement.

[naraic]

We're so much better than England at sevens now, it's hard to believe. Can't see us beating SA tomorrow, who were outstanding against Chile, but 5th place would still be a great achievement.

Well it shows what having a program does to sevens in a country. England has essentially dropped sevens temporarily (with GB sevens replacing them on the world series next year). That has had a massive demoralising effect. A lot of the players know that theres no place for them playing sevens next year.

5-8 is our general range in the mens 7s so job done to a certain extent.

[Dave Cahill]

Women beaten by New Zealand 28-0. We will play the loser of the France v Fiji Quarter Final in the 5-8 place semi final tomorrow

[Dave Cahill]

Brilliant second half performance after a 7 7 first half sees the men to a 24 14 win against the Blitzbokke and a spot in the semi final

[the spoofer]

Wow, just wow!

[neill_m]

Men's team into Semi Final v New Zealand on Sunday at 11:35am Irish Time after knocking out the hosts South Africa 24-14 in Quarter Final.

[Barry]

Great performance, fair play lads.

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[FLIP]

The World Cup quarter final curse is broken?

[OTT]

Tough loss, hard luck lads.

[Dave Cahill]

The first two minutes killed us - not claiming the first kick off in particular.

But despite conceding those two tries, they came back really strong and it was a brave performance to lose by the odd try in 5

[neill_m]

Not to be for Ireland v New Zealand.

Men's team finish up v Australia in 3rd/4th game at 6:25pm.

Women's team finish up v England in 7th/8th game at 4:31pm.

[Ruckedtobits]

Beaten 17-10 by NZ after coming back to 10-10 havingconceded 2 tries in first two minutes. A wonderful tournament performance from an under-rated team.