The Australian Men’s Rugby 7s team were off to a brilliant start to the Olympics campaign with back-to-back wins v Samoa (21-14) and Kenya (21-7) last night. Now they’ve got Argentina next up tonight before they will turn their attention to the Medal Quarter-Finals later on during the day regardless of this final group stage result at Stade De France.
Yes, the only weaknesses they need to work on is the strong starts where the Aussies have been disadvantaged or have been levelled earlier on, especially when things may eventually go out of hand by the time they take on the other top-notch Olympic nations as it progresses. That next match v Argentina is the first real acid test where correcting this weakness could change everything so they can hopefully go all the way rather than being dropped out & not being able to win a medal.
However, they too have dominated for the majority though when it comes to the possession on this fast-paced format of Rugby off the back of a few brilliant tries and also a couple of opposition handling errors through the gate that sums up their perfect start of their Olympic campaign as still a long way to go towards chasing that gold medal come Saturday.
Hats off to Henry Hutchinson, who scored two tries in the first game v Samoa. So does an excellent group of backs on what has been a team-led brilliance v Kenya with James Turner, Nathan Lawson (also scored the team’s other try from the opening game) & Brumbies regular Corey Toole sharing the pie of tries being scored.
Plus, hats off to Dietrich Roache on his spotless conversion kicks through the two sticks. Keep an eye on him as their main man when the Aussie Men’s 7s team is set to get tested a bit tougher on the speedometer but we’ve got some of our experienced backline that can cause the opposition trouble starting with Argentina tonight.
