Day One of the Gold Coast Seven’s leg of the IRB World Series showed that this season should be a tight affair and any team not playing at the top of their game will be punished. Only South Africa in pool ‘A’, Australia in pool ‘B’ and Samoa in pool ‘C’ ended the day unbeaten. With England failing even to make the cup as they drew with Mike Friday’s much improved Kenya and narrowly beat new boys Spain, before going on to lose to Samoa. Fiji lost to Australia by one point, but by three tries to two. But the big surprise was New Zealand being outclassed by South Africa, who look like the team to watch this term. If Kenya can build on day one they will also be a force to reckon with and Australia should be a good test but one they can overcome. New Zealand should be to strong for Argentina and South Africa France. The power smash will be Fiji versus Samoa and we will go with Fiji just.
So we called 18 out of 24 games correctly which given the upsets is quite a good proportion. Here are all the results so far.
Results Day One
All Times Local
01 13 Oct 10:30 England 14-14 Kenya Pool C
02 13 Oct 10:52 Samoa 31-10 Spain Pool C
03 13 Oct 11:14 Argentina 7-14 France Pool D
04 13 Oct 11:36 Wales 19-12 Portugal Pool D
05 13 Oct 11:58 New Zealand 19-7 United States Pool A
06 13 Oct 12:20 South Africa 38-0 Canada Pool A
07 13 Oct 12:42 Fiji 31-14 Scotland Pool B
08 13 Oct 13:04 Australia 31-14 Tonga Pool B
09 13 Oct 13:36 England 13-10 Spain Pool C
10 13 Oct 13:58 Samoa 14-12 Kenya Pool C
11 13 Oct 14:20 Argentina 26-0 Portugal Pool D
12 13 Oct 14:42 Wales 19-17 France Pool D
13 13 Oct 15:14 New Zealand 28-21 Canada Pool A
14 13 Oct 15:36 South Africa 33-5 United States Pool A
15 13 Oct 15:58 Fiji 35-7 Tonga Pool B
16 13 Oct 16:20 Australia 22-0 Scotland Pool B
17 13 Oct 17:02 Kenya 26-12 Spain Pool C
18 13 Oct 17:24 France 12-5 Portugal Pool D
19 13 Oct 17:46 United States 21-22 Canada Pool A
20 13 Oct 18:08 Scotland 5-24 Tonga Pool B
21 13 Oct 18:40 England 17-19 Samoa Pool C
22 13 Oct 19:02 Argentina 17-5 Wales Pool D
23 13 Oct 19:24 New Zealand 21-31 South Africa Pool A
24 13 Oct 19:46 Fiji 14-15 Australia Pool B
Fixtures Quarter-Finals
Check out our picks for day two, as usual in Bold:
All Times Local
25 14 Oct 10:30 Canada v Portugal QF Bowl
26 14 Oct 10:52 England v Scotland QF Bowl
27 14 Oct 11:14 Wales v United States QF Bowl
28 14 Oct 11:36 Tonga v Spain QF Bowl
29 14 Oct 11:58 South Africa v France QF Cup
30 14 Oct 12:20 Samoa v Fiji QF Cup
31 14 Oct 12:42 Argentina v New Zealand QF Cup
32 14 Oct 13:04 Australia v Kenya QF Cup