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Aussie women go 2-0 at Vancouver Sevens on opening day
By AAP
Reigning world series champions Australia have dominated their opening-day matches at the Vancouver Sevens tournament.
Captain Charlotte Caslick scored a try in her 250th world series match as the Aussies beat Japan 26-7 before going on to thrash Spain 48-0 and lead Pool B going into Saturday's play.
New Zealand lead the overall women's standings with 78 points. Australia, the only other country to have won a tournament - in Dubai - are tied second with the United States on 66 points.
New Zealand were also unbeaten on Friday, outscoring their opponents Colombia and Great Britain by a combined 103-7 to lead Pool A as they look to back-up titles in the last three tournaments in Cape Town, Hamilton and Sydney.
In men's matches, Australia beat Chile 36-12 but lost to Canada 29-12 in the final match of the day.
Men's series leaders New Zealand were 2-0 and will meet Samoa in a rematch of last weekend's pool clash in Los Angeles which ended with a win for the Pacific Islanders.
Argentina, who lost to New Zealand in the Los Angeles men's final, got their campaign off to a winning start in Pool B, while South Africa's Ricardo Duarttee slotted an extra-time conversion for the Blitzboks to finish level with France at 19-19.
New Zealand lead the men's series standings with 107 points, followed by Argentina and South Africa with 86 each. Fiji are fourth with 84 points through six tournaments.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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