Tietjens – The Spinoff

New Zealand missed the memo, and the Olympic medals they wanted

11 August 2016 by Scotty Stevenson

The New Zealand men’s sevens Olympic campaign was given a raw deal by a rugby union which still sees the seven-a-side game as a poor relation to 15s, writes Scotty Stevenson in Rio de Janeiro. It was a salty old hot take-o-rama after the New Zealand Men’s sevens team was bundled out of the Olympic … Read more

Sports: Sir Gordon Tietjens and the Battle for Sevens Gold in Rio

25 November 2015 by Scotty Stevenson

Sir Gordon Tietjens picks his first New Zealand Sevens squad for the 2015/16 season today with the ultimate prize an Olympic Gold Medal. We look at the coach and his team and ask why didn’t more big name players commit to his cause? The story, apocryphal maybe, goes that when Sir Gordon Tietjens first became … Read more