Fiji Wins!

Fiji won in Adelaide tonight and victory was sweet. Coming back after the loss to Samoa in HK last week, the boys made up for it and gave them a good hiding, 21-7. YESSSSS! Fiji had an especially tough journey to the finals. First they had to dispatch a tough Tongan team, almost going down 22-21, had an easy victory over Canada (33-7), but were overcome by a resurgent England team 20-12 (who incidently, were beaten by Tonga 12-5!!) Well, that was all just during the pool matches!

Even tougher was the quarters & semis - Fiji had a draw with South Africa 17-all at full time and scored in sudden death to win 22-17. Then we had another showdown with NZ and again scores were tied 17-all almost at full-time, but Ryder saved the day by scoring just before the final whistle to nail it, 24-17. Then, Samoa. We were expecting a cracker of a match and weren't disappointed. There were some freakin' tough tackles done on the Samoan players; just as well Naevo didn't get sent off for that bruising judo throw on his unfortunate Samoan victim! In the end, we got what we came for... the Cup.

Now it's just left for the England & Scotland legs, and then the Sevens circuit for 2006/07 is finished. All the best boys and bring back the title of Sevens champs for the year again!