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Kamikaze triumphant in RugbyRocks Open

Tuesday 15 June 2010 (UR7s)

Tom McArthur and UR7s staff

Outside of the action from the National Sevens Series from Saturday’s RugbyRocks, 32 teams battled it out in a hugely competitive Men’s Open competition.

Koru Kamikaze laid a marker for the rest of the Open events, that will run in conjunction with the National Series, by sweeping to victory at Richmond Athletic Ground.

The Londoners, voted Men’s Open Team of the Year by UR7s last year, were in ruthless form in the final comprehensively beating POD 52-17. 

Kamikaze blitzed their opponents in the opening exchanges with Prince Moyo and captain Sam Showering going over early on. Soon after an excellent team move finished off by Semisi Taulava gave Kamikaze an ominous 19-0 lead.

POD’s youngsters, hailing predominantly from the East Midlands, eventually got on the scoresheet through 18-year-old Josh Barrett. But that effort was quickly negated with a lung busting try-scoring run from Aaron Higgins and a close range try for Elliot Harvey, giving Kamikaze a 33-7 lead at half-time.

 

Ironically the eventual winners were made to graft to reach the final, overcoming a spirited Titans (21-31) in the semi-finals and Mahoney in the last-eight (26-21). POD meanwhile put away the Carmarthen Warriors in the semi-finals and edged Kamikaze Academy, a development side, in the quarter-finals.

In the Plate Final the Silverbacks took take home some silverware beating the Snappers in the final.

National Series hopes

“We had some close games in the group and knock-out stages, but we battled through quite a tough group and we’re happy with our performance today,” said Kamikaze vice-captain Carlton Littlechild.

“We came with a good squad, and we wanted to win the open from the off. We wanted to set our stall out and be in with a good chance of getting into the National Sevens Series in the future”.

 

RugbyRocks Men's Open

FINAL POOL STANDINGS

Pool A: 1. Titans, 2. ON Badgers, 3. Prawns, 4. Paulines
Pool B: 1. Koru Kamikaze, 2. Redingensians, 3. TPCC, 4. Bermuda
Pool C: 1. Mag 7s, 2. Tour Aid 1, 3. Sapper, 4. Twix
Pool D: 1. Mahoney, 2. SOY, 3. Outlaws, 4. Marauders Academy
Pool E: 1. Flair, 2. Apache Chiefs, 3. Hollywood, 4. Imperial
Pool F: 1. Kamikaze Academy, 2. Warriors, 3. Silverbacks, 4. Nomad
Pool G: 1. Church, 2. Rice, 3. Touraid 2, 4. Quad
Pool H: 1. Olafs, 2. Phantoms, 3. Medlora, 4. Olafs

 

CUP KNOCKOUT

Round 2 G1 26 Titans v Redingensians 19
Round 2 G2 19 Magnificent 7s v Soy Galacticos 21
Round 2 G3 22 Koru Kamikaze v ON Badgers 14
Round 2 G4 19 Mahony Army v Touraid 1 14
Round 2 G5 28 Flair Bears v Warriors 29
Round 2 G6 24 Church v Phantoms 7
Round 2 G7 38 Kamikaze Acad v Apache Chiefs 7
Round 2 G8 24 POD v Team Rice 21

QF1 31 Titans v Soy 19
QF2 26 Koru Kamikaze v Mahony 21
QF3 12 Warriors v Church 5
QF4 17 Kamikaze Acad v POD 28

SF1 21 Titans v Koru Kamikaze 31
SF2 7 Warriors v POD 35

FINAL 50 Koru Kamikaze v POD 17

PLATE KNOCKOUT

PQF1 21 Prawns v TPCC 17
PQF2 26 Sapper v Outlaws 24
PQF3 19 Hollywood 7s v Silverbacks 24
PQF4 24 Touraid 2 v Medlora 26

PSF1 10 Prawns v Sapper 38
PSF2 43 Silverbacks v Maedlora 24

PLATE FINAL Silverbacks bt Sapper
 

COMMENTS

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John Tue 15 Jun 2010 18:36

was POD 28 to 17 Kamikaze POD 35 to 7 Warriors Team Rice was the hard one POD 24 to 21 Rice Our 18 and 17 year olds did a great job. As did the rest of the team. Pool was POD 33 to 0 Olafs POD 36 to 0 Phantoms POD ? 30 I think to 7 Medlora What a wonderful day.....5 minutes off the coach and blasting away the first opposition; all players outstanding; weather perfect; Josh Barrett scoring on the telly; how lucky am I to have friends llike you. Bloody marvellous! TIM

was POD 28 to 17 Kamikaze

POD 35 to 7 Warriors

Team Rice was the hard one POD 24 to 21 Rice
Our 18 and 17 year olds did a great job. As did the rest of the team.

Pool was 
POD 33 to 0 Olafs 
POD 36 to 0 Phantoms
POD ? 30 I think to 7 Medlora

 What a wonderful day.....5 minutes off the coach and blasting away the first opposition; all players outstanding; weather perfect; Josh Barrett scoring on the telly; how lucky am I to have friends llike you. Bloody marvellous!
TIM
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Oli Tue 15 Jun 2010 19:00

Should have been an all kamikaze final. We were given 5 minutes between your game and the previous. Had we been allowed time, PODs day ends there. Not only that we had to put out any 7 as the ref would not wait for us to get the rest of our squad. It was a joke! Oh well next time we meet we will rectify that. Oli

Should have been an all kamikaze final. We were given 5 minutes between your game and the previous. Had we been allowed time, PODs day ends there. Not only that we had to put out any 7 as the ref would not wait for us to get the rest of our squad. It was a joke! 
Oh well next time we meet we will rectify that. Oli
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Matthew Wekpe Wed 16 Jun 2010 15:50

oli i agree all the way the ref was taking the mick..it would hav deffo been i diffrent story if we had the same rest as POD. matt

oli i agree all the way the ref was taking the mick..it would hav deffo been i diffrent story if we had the same rest as POD. matt
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Leonard Wed 16 Jun 2010 23:24

"We were given 5 minutes between your game and the previous" You got to be having a laugh! Kamikaze turn up with two full teams and complain about a POD side of only 12 players which had included a with 17 and 18 year old! most of the POD squad were forced to play full back-to-back games cause of the small squad. If POD had a full squad and the luxury of being able to rest and rotate players more frequently throughout the tournament I bet my bottom dollar the result would have been very different.

"We were given 5 minutes between your game and the previous" You got to be having a laugh! Kamikaze turn up with two full teams and complain about a POD side of only 12 players which had included a with 17 and 18 year old! most of the POD squad were forced to play full back-to-back games cause of the small squad. If POD had a full squad and the luxury of being able to rest and rotate players more frequently throughout the tournament I bet my bottom dollar the result would have been very different.
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