annoying thing about 7s is it seems like every game is decided by who get the crappy ref calls

the game is too short, so little like things can be everything

yeah would take a miracle here. In a 14 minute match bad calls matter a lot and we had em 2 matches in a row

red card was fair though in the modern game and a brain explosion

It's just terribly officiating by the French ref. Early calls against against that were blatantly wrong. The red card was right in the shit modern rules of rugby but the attacker dips his head into the shoulder. 

Finally got to watch the full replay for the Tillies.

We were not that bad - just not good where and when we needed to be.

We were flattered heavily by the scoreline. Rarely a chance to score, but the last ten minutes we were trashed by the German team - with several brilliant opportunities for them to score and just missing the ball with a lunge by narrow margins or just missing the goal with our keeper beaten. Three more goals would not have been unfair the way they combined and attacked.

To me, Foord is not a striker and Gustarssol set us up to fail in the front third. I would not be surprised to hear that he decided the game was basically unwinnable and he saved our attacking legs for the rest of the tournament - not a bad thing necessarily if that was deliberate. Taking off Raso, who creates chances, and bringing on Heyman supported by Van Egmond is another wasted set of subs. No point to it at all as Van Egmond does not apply meaningful pressure, does not have the speed to make space, and could only feed Heyman if the German players all fell over.

They were a well organised and skilled opponent and very solid at the back.

Several times we ran into our own players, passed into our own players or contested the same ball. Just not a cohesive team. I think our poor touch is responsible for most of that - with players knocking the ball a couple of metres further than intended then having two Tillies try to recover when it rolls into space.

We needed our backline to be much more resilient and beaten by a quality opponent than have them all looking at each other time and again while Germany exposed our inability to close off the goal area.

Yes I know it is childish, but Janina Minge? What a name! Got to love that German sense of humour.

We are not out of the tournament, with many positives in our general play against a very good opponent. Hopefully Germany beat everyone and it is up to us to make good on our next two games.

Finally got to watch the full replay for the Tillies.

We were not that bad - just not good where and when we needed to be.

We were flattered heavily by the scoreline. Rarely a chance to score, but the last ten minutes we were trashed by the German team - with several brilliant opportunities for them to score and just missing the ball with a lunge by narrow margins or just missing the goal with our keeper beaten. Three more goals would not have been unfair the way they combined and attacked.

To me, Foord is not a striker and Gustarssol set us up to fail in the front third. I would not be surprised to hear that he decided the game was basically unwinnable and he saved our attacking legs for the rest of the tournament - not a bad thing necessarily if that was deliberate. Taking off Raso, who creates chances, and bringing on Heyman supported by Van Egmond is another wasted set of subs. No point to it at all as Van Egmond does not apply meaningful pressure, does not have the speed to make space, and could only feed Heyman if the German players all fell over.

They were a well organised and skilled opponent and very solid at the back.

Several times we ran into our own players, passed into our own players or contested the same ball. Just not a cohesive team. I think our poor touch is responsible for most of that - with players knocking the ball a couple of metres further than intended then having two Tillies try to recover when it rolls into space.

We needed our backline to be much more resilient and beaten by a quality opponent than have them all looking at each other time and again while Germany exposed our inability to close off the goal area.

Yes I know it is childish, but Janina Minge? What a name! Got to love that German sense of humour.

We are not out of the tournament, with many positives in our general play against a very good opponent. Hopefully Germany beat everyone and it is up to us to make good on our next two games.