Quote: vikings 4 ever "I dont understand why there is so much interest and defensiveness about seven's being included in the olympics with people basically saying we must get league players involved and it would be a travesty of justice of no league players were involved.
There's a bloke who plays for England called Ben Gollins who has scored 176 tries for England at sevens and no doubt that by the time the sevens is played at the olympics there will be another English player who has scored a couple of hundred tries - why are the selectors going to split up a side that plays together in favour of players who dont play the game?'"
So that they had the best players available to win the medal.
Would you fancy a team of RU players or RL players to win
Sevens or any abbreviated version of the game is about 4 key skills / attributes.
pace,
Passing ( keeping the ball alive)
Tackling
Stamina to run up and down the length of a field non stop for 15 minutes.
I have no doubt that when it comes to tackling, passing and stamina Rl would come out on top. Even now RU is still predominantly kicking wher Rl is about passing.
