{"id":9443,"date":"2013-08-17T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2013-08-17T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:29:44","slug":"rugby-7s-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9443","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Rugby 7s 2013 &#8211; with ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Rugby 7s competition day started back in 1956 at the Hayle&#8217;s Meadows Ground, still undergoing development at the time and due to be shared by rugby, hockey and cricket clubs. Abingdon Rugby are now well established at Southern Town Park. Abingdon Hockey play at Tilsley Park. Cricket and Football are at Hayle&#8217;s Meadow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081702.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby 7s 2013\" \/><br \/>\nThis year, 2013, saw the first ladies Rugby 7&#8217;s competition. Eight ladies teams competed for the George Dimond Cup in memory of one of the stalwarts of the club.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081703.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby 7s 2013\" \/><br \/>\nRadio Abingdon XTRA were broadcasting the proceeding from the back of a van, next to the club house. They had intended broadcasting from the clubhouse but it was too noisy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081707.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby 7s 2013\" \/><br \/>\nIn Rugby 7s there are far more tries scored than in the larger game with 15 players. Each team plays a number of short matches and the best scoring teams play off for the trophies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081717.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby 7s 2013\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon RUFC 7s can be seen here, in yellow and green, just about to score a try.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081718.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby 7s 2013\" \/><br \/>\nAfter scoring a try the player then tries to kick the ball back over the uprights from behind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13081719.jpg\" alt=\"Rugby 7s 2013\" \/><br \/>\nRugby 7s has all the parts you would expect of a game of rugby: lineouts, scrums, offsides, tries etc. . <\/p>\n<p>It just happens much quicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Rugby 7s competition day started back in 1956 at the Hayle&#8217;s Meadows Ground, still undergoing development at the time and due to be shared by rugby, hockey and cricket clubs. Abingdon Rugby are now well established at Southern Town Park. Abingdon Hockey play at Tilsley Park. Cricket and Football are at Hayle&#8217;s Meadow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}