Rugby News, Analysis, History, Schedule, Rumours
The success of the 2022 HSBC Sevens Series is definitely more crucial this season. For many more reasons than can be recalled in a bullet point presentation, yet, for the upcoming dates of this ‘crammed’ calendar year, there is so much to gain and much to lose, with the success of the game is hinged […] READ MORE
Fiji Barbarians win Vina Del Mar Sevens to claim the second leg of the Sudamerica Sevens. This hotly contested South American rugby sevens series is played over two legs, with an invitational place on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series up for grabs. The Fijian second-string Barbarians (babas) side faced the Argentina Cougars team in […] READ MORE
Kenya Sevens head coach Innocent Simiyu has named five debutantes as the side braces for the two legs of the 2021 HSBC World Series in Vancouver and Edmonton. The five players are; Timothy Mmasi, Derrick Keyoga, Mark Kwemoi, Alvin Marube, and Levi Amunga, who has been knocking on the door in recent seasons. Commenting on […] READ MORE
The date is fast approaching for the World Rugby pinnacle event. And as organizers begin to prepare the venue, it will be “see you in San Francisco, July 2018″ for the #RWC7s An International two-day tournament for the Rugby World Cup Sevens trophy, which will be a huge challenge for all men’s and women’s teams […] READ MORE
Canada will be aiming for consecutive titles with neighbors United States hoping to put it all together for once and win this season. Fiji will hunt until the curtain fall in the HSBC Paris Sevens, with South Africa going all out to wrap the series. New Zealand and England hope to cement their top four spots, while Sam Cross tries to hold off the chasing pack in the DHL Performance Tracker. READ MORE
The sad impact of the pandemic has seen the 2021 HSBC Sevens Series dates rescheduled, with Hong Kong 7s canceled. “While it is obviously very disappointing not to be able to go ahead with two of our planned Sevens Series events in Hong Kong and Paris in 2021, the decisions have been taken with the […] READ MORE
With the good relations that have always existed, it was quickly accepted when the Aussie 7s teams invited the New Zealand Sevens squads to a pre-Olympic Oceania tournament based in Townsville, QLD. The newly developed Pacific-Aus Sports Oceania Sevens tournament is scheduled for June 25-27, boosting all qualified team’s preparations ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. […] READ MORE
This month, New Zealand All Blacks legend Sonny Bill Williams called time on his professional rugby playing career. Although already retired from rugby union at both club and international level, Williams announced he had played his last game in league too, officially hanging up his boots in rugby for good. In a career that spanned […] READ MORE
Black Ferns Women’s Sevens coach appointed New Zealand Rugby have announced that Allan Bunting has been appointed as the new Women’s Sevens Coach of the Olympic silver medal winning Black Ferns Sevens. Making the announcement, New Zealand Rugby General Manager of Rugby Neil Sorensen said that promoting Bunting to the head coach position was about ensuring […] READ MORE
Across the board, all nations have had to make the best of it. Yet for sides downunder and being somewhat isolated, the NZ rugby preseason for each of the XVs and 7s sides has had to be creative and especially reactive. Covid-19 has changed or made near impossible so many of the prearranged set preseason […] READ MORE
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