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Watch: Hold Back the River - Australia Womens 7's trailer
By RugbyPass
Get ready for another short documentary series on RugbyPass.
‘Hold Back The River’ is a sports series produced by Onion TV that will look at the formative years of the Australian Women’s Sevens program and how it shaped their assault on the Worlds Sevens Series title and Olympic Gold medal.
Told from the perspective of coach Tim Walsh and utilising never-before-seen footage from inside the Sevens camp, the story starts in the present day with the high-profile Sevens team preparing for the Sydney Sevens in Feb 2017.
This event proves to be the unofficial ‘homecoming’ for the team that won the hearts of Australia’s sports fans during the Olympics, and whose success and positive culture has launched the sport into the nation’s psyche.
The Sydney Sevens provides an important backdrop to the ‘Road To Rio’ story - it provides a perspective that recent success has been built on innovation, determination and hard work.
The series contrasts this retrospective with the birth of a new age in Sevens Rugby in Australia as the team goes about setting new goals for on-field excellence and in their new roles of ambassadors for women elite sport.
As the tournament slowly approaches, we dip into the past as moments and memories are recalled by Tim Walsh and the players, prepare themselves for life after the Olympics.
Produced by Rugby Australia/Onion TV
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Yet Ethan Blackadder was one of our best against the World Champion Springbok. When he came back to the Crusaders later in the season , he made a huge difference, ( a long with others like Codie Taylor), we nearly made the Play Off's. Ethan has plenty of rugby left in him. His family , Dad Todd Blackadder must be very [proud of him. Todd Blackadder was a 3 time champion captain of the Crusaders, '98, '99 and 2000.An icon in this area. Also twice captain of Canterbury , '97 and 2001 when we won the NPC and Ranfurly Shield winning captain in 2000.
Go to commentsIt's the same criticism of Dmac and Mo'unga as well. Sadly the way the game has been heading recently it's the only way to break down a defence, and a player of Lawrences nature would have a very limited chance at doing that because he's too one dimensional.
Noah Lolesio is your sort of player and that worked OK, but only because his team is far more creative than Englands for example. The highly organized Irish attack was also another that didn't require much from the 10, but that is now changing with Prendergast who is in that league mold like the most new age 10's.
So it is in fact your two which would require even more change to make the most of than Marcus Smith.
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