Past Tournaments

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History was made at the Rugby Sevens tournament in November this year (the 61st version of the series that started way back in 1947) – it was the first ever all-ticket event in the tournament’s long and distinguished life.

Review of 2007 Tournament including Videos of the Final between SA Vipers and Ponsonby and the knock-out rounds

Dragging myself out of be on Saturday november 4, 2006 in anticipation of the “heart attack” of a breakfast including scrambled eggs, bacon, beans, hash browns, something that club liason officer Werner Trachsel tells me are “sausages” (where DO white sausages come from I wonder?) that oft precedes a day of non-stop inaction up in the Eagles nest – sets you up nicely for the marathon ahead. Total concentration is the order of the day, for 11 hours straight, without a break, not daring to blink, praying that the scoreboard doesn’t play up.

Welcome to the 57th Singapore Cricket Club International Rugby 7s tournament. Your timing is perfect ­ as this is likely to be the most closely contested of any tournament yet. There are no fewer than 10 teams which could win a title which is proving harder and harder to win, year by year.

Just consider some of the statistics - no New Zealand side has won the Ablitt Cup for the last two years. This is something of an anomaly given New Zealand's unprecedented honour roll when it comes to 7s at all levels ­ no other side, for example, has won the IRB International Series since it began. Here at SCC, however, the Ablitt Cup is proving difficult for Kiwis to grasp. If a New Zealand team does not win this year, that will equal the longest losing phase by New Zealand sides since the competition went truly international in 1982.