The USA leg of the iRB HSBC Sevens World Series is this weekend 8/9/10 February 2013 in Las Vegas.
The teams will all be tired following a tough contest and short turn round form Wellington. So we will list the pools and fixtures and then give you our hot tips to progress into the quarter finals and semi finals.
Pools
Pool’A’
England, Scotland, Fiji, Portugal
Pool’B’
Kenya, South Africa, Canada, Uruguay
Pool’C’
New Zealand. Argentina, France, Wales
Pool’D’
Samoa, Australia, Spain, United States
So some interesting calls on these pools we are going for England to top A with Fiji second. Kenya to top B with South Africa second. New Zealand to top C with Argentina second. Samoa to top D with Australia second.
That would give us Cup quarters of; England v Australia, New Zealand v South Africa, Samoa v Fiji and Kenya v Argentina. With England, New Zealand, Samoa and Kenya fighting it out in the semis.
Here are all the pool fixtures with our selections in BOLD:
Fixtures Pool Rounds Day One & Two
01. 08 Feb 16:00 England v Fiji Pool A
02. 08 Feb 16:22 Scotland v Portugal Pool A
03. 08 Feb 16:44 Kenya v Canada Pool B
04. 08 Feb 17:06 South Africa v Uruguay Pool B
05. 08 Feb 17:28 New Zealand v France Pool C
06. 08 Feb 17:50 Argentina v Wales Pool C
07. 08 Feb 18:12 Samoa v Spain Pool D
08. 08 Feb 18:34 Australia v United States Pool D
09. 08 Feb 18:56 England v Portugal Pool A
10. 08 Feb 19:18 Scotland v Fiji Pool A
11. 08 Feb 19:40 Kenya v Uruguay Pool B
12. 08 Feb 20:02 South Africa v Canada Pool B
13. 08 Feb 20:24 New Zealand v Wales Pool C
14. 08 Feb 20:46 Argentina v France Pool C
15. 08 Feb 21:08 Australia v Spain Pool D
16. 08 Feb 21:30 Samoa v United States Pool D
17. 09 Feb 12:00 Fiji v Portugal Pool A
18. 09 Feb 12:22 Canada v Uruguay Pool B
19. 09 Feb 12:44 France v Wales Pool C
20. 09 Feb 13:06 Samoa v Australia Pool D
21. 09 Feb 13:28 England v Scotland Pool A
22. 09 Feb 13:50 Kenya v South Africa Pool B
23. 09 Feb 14:12 New Zealand v Argentina Pool C
24. 09 Feb 14:34 Spain v United States Pool D