GB Team Sports

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

On 9/8/2025 at 5:22 PM, Rafa Maciel said:

 men's lacrosse team are taking part in the Canadian Super Sixes event in Ontario from October 10-12.

 

They'll be competing against , ,  and .

 

No sign of the women's team competing though. 

Forgot all about this but in the end  finished 3rd in their group behind  and 

 

 v  - 12-21

 v  - 10-20

 v  - 19-18

 v  - 17-15

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

Less than inspiring results from the first leg of the 2025/26 Rugby Sevens.

 

 Men finish in 7th place after defeats to  (21-14) and  (26-17). On the upside, they did defeat  (14-10) in the pool match. In the 5th place semi-final, they were crushed by  (34-0). They finished up with a 24-19 win over . 

 

On the women's side,  went down to defeats against  (41-5),  (36-5) and  (55-0). In the 5th place semifinal, they then lost out to  (49-14) before finishing the day with another loss, this time against  (46-5). Needless to say, they finish the tournament in last place. 

 

The tour continues next week in Cape Town .

[Rich 23]

Not really sure that there's much hope for better things for 7s in this country, even with Scotland pushing it a bit.

 There are enough potential professional 15s contracts for half decent British players which means they are all unavailable and those that are left aren't good enough or would rather do something else. Maybe they should just pick the U20s and sell it to the clubs and players as a development thing? I guess that might be why Scotland added it to their 'pathway' but that's a small pool to pick from.

Edited December 1, 2025 by Rich

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

2nd round of Rugby Sevens in Cape Town at the weekend.

 

's women will be up against ,  and 

 

"An increasingly confident"  men's team will be up against ,  and . 

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

2nd leg of the 25/26 HSBC Rugby SVNS completed in Cape Town

 

Starting with the women's side - they've now gone two tournaments without winning a single match. In fact, they haven't even been close to winning any of their matches so far. In the pool, they started with a 38-10 defeat to , before being drubbed 40-0 by  before finishing with a 31-17 loss to . In the 5th place semi, they lost to  25-7 and finally,  condemned them to last place (again) with a 43-7 defeat.

 

The men had a better tournament. In the pool, it was a 29-12 loss against , followed by a 21-17 loss to  and finally a bruising 41-7 loss to . In the 5th place semi,  recorded their sole win of the weekend with a 29-10 win over . In the end GB finish in 6th place after a losing out to  27-12.

 

Not a lot to be said about the women's side. With  the only other European nation, it's difficult to know where the  team stand. On the men's side, GB have faced  twice now and won on both occasions. So, from a European perspective,  remains the top nation and assuming they will qualify through the SVNS series, GB could still be in the mix for the European quota. 

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

Draw for Singapore stop in the HSBC Rugby SVNS is out.

 

For the men,  will face off against ,  and . So far this season, Spain is the only country that GB have managed to record victory over so the chances are GB are looking at another 7th or 8th place finish.

 

On the women's side,  remain winless this season. In Singapore they will face off against ,  and . Nothing suggests that GB will break their duck in any of those games.

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

The groups have been announced for the 2026 Flag Football World Championship which is due to be held in Dusseldorf from 13-16 August.

 

The  women are the current European Champions and will be up against ,  and . The match against Austria will be interesting as it is a repeat of the 2025 European final. 

 

For the men, they are in group with ,  and . 

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

Another set of disappointing result from  leg of Rugby Sevens.

 

The  men finished bottom of their pool after defeats to  (22-19) and  (33-12). Their 29-14 defeat at the hands of  probably the most disappointing given they are likely to be key competition for European quota place and they had defeated them in both of the previous 2 legs. 

 

 will face  in the 5th place semifinals tomorrow. 

 

The  women continue to have an absolute shocker of a series. They haven't won a single match in the series so far and it doesn't look like they are going to break that this weekend. They were absolutely destroyed by  64-0. They did at least manage to score against  but still went down to a 32-5 defeat. Things didn't get any better in their final pool match as they lost 52-0 to .

 will face  in the 5th place semifinal - so think we are likely to chalk up another loss