Irish Rugby and Sevens

shoutman · 10-07-2019 2:19pm

errlloyd wrote: »

Ireland Men’s 7s Squad (2019 Rugby Europe Olympic Qualification Tournament, Stade Michel Bendicichou, Colomiers, Saturday, July 13 – Sunday, July 14):
Jordan Conroy (Buccaneers)
Shane Daly (Cork Constitution/Munster)
Billy Dardis (Terenure College) Captain
Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne)
Jack Kelly (Dublin University/Leinster)
Terry Kennedy (St. Mary’s College)
Foster Horan (Lansdowne)
Adam Leavy (Lansdowne)
Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)
Harry McNulty (UCD)
Bryan Mollen (Blackrock College)
Greg O’Shea (Shannon)
Mark Roche (Blackrock College)

Any reason why there is no Mick McGrath?

troyzer · 10-07-2019 2:23pm

shoutman wrote: »

errlloyd wrote: »

Ireland Men’s 7s Squad (2019 Rugby Europe Olympic Qualification Tournament, Stade Michel Bendicichou, Colomiers, Saturday, July 13 – Sunday, July 14):
Jordan Conroy (Buccaneers)
Shane Daly (Cork Constitution/Munster)
Billy Dardis (Terenure College) Captain
Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne)
Jack Kelly (Dublin University/Leinster)
Terry Kennedy (St. Mary’s College)
Foster Horan (Lansdowne)
Adam Leavy (Lansdowne)
Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)
Harry McNulty (UCD)
Bryan Mollen (Blackrock College)
Greg O’Shea (Shannon)
Mark Roche (Blackrock College)

Any reason why there is no Mick McGrath?

Did he not get injured against Fiji in the last 7s tournament?

Squidgy Black · 10-07-2019 2:43pm

troyzer wrote: »

Did he not get injured against Fiji in the last 7s tournament?

Did his hamstring against England.

shotgunmcos · 10-07-2019 3:16pm

It will be streamed on Rugby Europe TV
https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/pools-announced-mens-sevens-olympic-qualifier-tournament

VillaMad · 13-07-2019 12:06pm

Wins for both men and women in their opening Olympic Qualifiers.

The Irish women defeated Romania 48-0.

The Irish men defeated Ukraine 41-0.

guapos · 13-07-2019 12:09pm

Spain at 5.30 should be a good one. If we win that we should avoid France until the final.

shotgunmcos · 13-07-2019 1:19pm

All easy and no surprises yet. Will get interesting when core teams start playing each other. Ireland vs Spain final pool match for both men and women. Both teams playing well enough and competitive enough to win it. But then France are the form side and England and Spain are thorny obstacles

VillaMad · 13-07-2019 2:59pm

Women beat Czech Republic 50-0 while the men defeated Russia 52-14 in their second games.

Both are through to the quarter-finals tomorrow.

guapos · 13-07-2019 5:44pm

Spain are playing great rugby. Will need some performance to come back

guapos · 13-07-2019 6:18pm

2nd on points difference is a tough one.

Cosmo Kramer · 13-07-2019 7:01pm

Not a great day really. The women have an all but impossible task from here with England in the quarters, then France if they get through that one.

The men have a better draw and will hopefully make the semis so a good chance of top 3, but disappointing not to take top spot in the group today.

Kiwi_knock · 14-07-2019 9:31am

Disappointing result against England, just far too many errors.

Kiwi_knock · 14-07-2019 10:45am

Surprise win for Portugal against Spain.

S.M.B. · 14-07-2019 12:30pm

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Surprise win for Portugal against Spain.

I take it this is good news for us should we lose to France.

How does the tournament next year work should we not win outright today but manage to come third?

VillaMad · 14-07-2019 1:29pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

I take it this is good news for us should we lose to France.

How does the tournament next year work should we not win outright today but manage to come third?

Only 1 qualifies directly here. 2nd and 3rd go into the final olympic qualifying tournament next year which is decided by regions.

2nd and 3rd will represent Europe here. South America and North America have already played their tournaments with Argentina and Canada qualifying directly. Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil and Chile will be in the repechage next year and there will be 2 more from Africa, Asia and Oceania so the Repechage will be a 12 team tournament with 1 place available for the Olympics.

S.M.B. · 14-07-2019 1:35pm

Ok, just the one qualification spot up for grabs next summer. Thought there may be more.

errlloyd · 14-07-2019 1:57pm

Is this game soon?

Squidgy Black · 14-07-2019 2:21pm

Lost to France 19-12

eagle eye · 14-07-2019 2:21pm

Heartbreaking stuff but France were the better team on the day.

guapos · 14-07-2019 2:23pm

Yeah both are trys were dodgy calls from the ref. Thought Conroy should have backed himself in the last minute.

S.M.B. · 14-07-2019 2:23pm

That was there for the taking. Unfortunate.

Kiwi_knock · 14-07-2019 2:35pm

Some poor mistakes but France are a good side so they were always going to be punished. Still should be able to finish 3rd.

D14Rugby · 14-07-2019 2:35pm

I grow to dislike whoever runs the Irish rugby social media more by the day. They lack any knowledge about rugby or the competitions the teams play in and its infuriating, obviously some "social media expert" with no rugby knowledge.

guapos · 14-07-2019 5:09pm

Convincing win against Portugal to take 3rd place.

The Lost Sheep · 14-07-2019 5:09pm

D14Rugby wrote: »

I grow to dislike whoever runs the Irish rugby social media more by the day. They lack any knowledge about rugby or the competitions the teams play in and its infuriating, obviously some "social media expert" with no rugby knowledge.

Haha
What exactly is so infuriating about social media posts etc? How is lack of knowledge shown and what more do you want the social media team to do. Justin Dee who used post here often used to manage some of the social media accounts and may still do at times. would you consider him having lack of knowledge.

Shame women wont qualify but at least men beating Portugal still leaves them with shot in world repechage.

D14Rugby · 14-07-2019 5:31pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Haha
What exactly is so infuriating about social media posts etc? How is lack of knowledge shown and what more do you want the social media team to do. Justin Dee who used post here often used to manage some of the social media accounts and may still do at times. would you consider him having lack of knowledge.

Shame women wont qualify but at least men beating Portugal still leaves them with shot in world repechage.

They posted that the mens team were out of contention for qualifying for the Olympics, really basic **** to be getting wrong.
If he posted that then yes, yes I would consider him to be lacking knowledge.

Surprised you didn't ask "but what would you do".

ScrubsfanChris · 14-07-2019 5:47pm

The Olympic Qualification repechage isn't until next June.
That's good for Ireland, gives them a whole season of World series comps to improve and grow.

connachta · 14-07-2019 5:49pm

Kenya and Australia will go through in their regional tournament, so did Argentina and Canada.

So basically 1 spot for 3 in the repechage days in June 2020

Samoa, France, or Ireland.
The rest won't be at the level (Brasil, H-K, Tonga etc.) at all IMO, but these three above are pretty close...

The Lost Sheep · 14-07-2019 6:18pm

D14Rugby wrote: »

They posted that the mens team were out of contention for qualifying for the Olympics, really basic **** to be getting wrong.
If he posted that then yes, yes I would consider him to be lacking knowledge.

Surprised you didn't ask "but what would you do".

did they? If they did they must have changed deleted a tweet as only aide out of contention was women which they said. They didn't say men were out of contention.

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

The Olympic Qualification repechage isn't until next June.
That's good for Ireland, gives them a whole season of World series comps to improve and grow.

yeah. Will really help having full season of games against Fijis, New Zealand to prep for that tournament

connachta · 14-07-2019 6:26pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

did they? If they did they must have changed deleted a tweet as only aide out of contention was women which they said. They didn't say men were out of contention.

yeah. Will really help having full season of games against Fijis, New Zealand to prep for that tournament

A new France vs Ireland decider is likely IMO

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