That's a wrap
Thanks for joining me today.
Congratulations to Canada for winning the inaugural Sydney women's tournament. I will be back tomorrow for the final day including the men's quater-finals featuring:
New Zealand v Fiji
Wales v Australia
England v Argentina
USA v South Africa
Australia's men's coach Andy Friend on making the quarter-finals
'You've got to be in that quarter-final. We haven't been in the last two tournaments so that's great to get back into that and from there three games and you can win the Cup. Anything can happen.'
Australia to play Wales in quarter-final
Final score: New Zealand 14, Scotland 7.
About to have a chat with Andy Friend about his thoughts for tomorrow's finals matches.
Deadlock has been broken, Tim Mikkelson scores for the Kiwis. They lead 14-7.
If this result stays like it is, Australia will play Wales and New Zealand will tackle Fiji.
7-7 in the Scotland-New Zealand clash at half-time
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Australia progress to the quarter-finals with 26-7 victory
After an early slip up against New Zealand, the Thunderbolts will play either Wales or Fiji (depending on what happens in the last game between New Zealand and Scotland) in the quarter-finals.
A clinical four tries to one display with Hutchison, Taylor, Stannard and Kennewell all chipping in.
21-7 now to Australia with four minutes remaining
Charlie Taylor take a bow
An even better run than Hutchison. Taylor had blokes hanging off him left, right and centre but somehow managed to crash over to give Australia their second try of the match. In a much better spot.
14-7 approaching half-time.
Australia hit back
Henry Hutchison goes over with a barnstorming run and James Stannard makes the conversion.
7-7 after four minutes
18 seconds in and PNG score
Not the start the Australians were after. 7-0 just like that.
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Aussie sevens in do-or-die clash with Papua New Guinea
You'd think Australia will get the job done. But you never know... they did lose to Kenya last weekend at the Wellington Sevens.
Australians up soon
8.35pm Andy Friend's men take on Papua New Guinea. A win will put them through to the quarter-finals.
Elmo streaker alert
We've just witnessed the best thing we've seen all day.
Two blokes have obviously had too many rum and cokes in the sun and decided to have a run out on the field at the end of Wales-Samoa (which finished at 7-7).
One of them (Cookie Monster) got caught but the other, dressed in a red Elmo costume, made his way down the field. He was tackled (hats off) by security with about three metres to go but managed to plant his Elmo head piece over the line for a five-pointer.
Had the media box in absolute stitches. How good.
Hahahaha !!!#Sydney7s pic.twitter.com/Y42DoPY37n
— France7s 🇫🇷 (@France7sFR) February 4, 2017
Keep an eye out on this Wales-Samoa game
Australia might come up against Wales if they can beat Papua New Guinea later this evening (8.35pm).
Wales score the opening try to go up 7-0.
Wallabies captain Stephen Moore was at the Sydney Sevens today
Moore has backed Ben Barba to succeed in rugby union but warns that his new club Toulon will expect big things from him in the wake of Matt Giteau's departure.
Back to topA few other results
- Argentina draw with Canada 17-17
- Russia defeat USA 17-14
REACTION: Winning captain @ghis_landry on her side's hard fought win against @USARugby at the #Sydney7s pic.twitter.com/eet3CJmfKj
— World Rugby Sevens (@WorldRugby7s) February 4, 2017
Next Australian game is at 8.35pm
Australia take on PNG for a spot in the Cup quarter-finals.
If they win that, they'll face Wales.
Australian captain Sharni Williams after the NZ loss
"We just didn't really show up for the second day. All that preparation had gone into today but we didn't play to our potential. We can play 10 times better than that but we didn't come up and show that this weekend and it's pretty tough in front of our family and friends but we'll cop that on the chin and own that and go back and regroup.
"Not everyday is going to be bright and sparkly. You take a backward step and you can go forward. This is our backwards step to rebuild.
"We've let our fans down but at the end of the day we know what we did wrong."
Canada are champions
Canada are women's Sydney 7s champions, defeating the USA 21-17.
That's full-time, Australia go down 19-0 to New Zealand
Australia have finished fourth in the Sydney Sevens, after two straight defeats to Canada and then New Zealand.
A very disappointing result for the team, particularly at their home tournament in front of friends and family.
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