really enjoyed watching the 7's at the rio olympics

fast free flowing attacking rugby! with some real speedsters on show

GB lastnight, what a finish! 0-0 so the game went into extra time/sudden death and we got a penalty but hit the post only to score from the next play

that dan bibby is a real star, wigan lad i believe?

was wondering who he played for but it seems these lads are full time sevens players who tour the world?

the japanese team have been a hit, the usa team have some of the fastest that have an nfl background

would rugby league be able to afford any of the star players on show??? or do they get paid alot more to play sevens full time

the fiji team are awesome

are any of these players good enough to play rugby league in the NRL or Super League. I am guessing lots of these couldnt even get pro contracts in rugby union.

also do look at sevens and wish we had nines instead. nines is a better game, them two extra players on the pitch in nines should mean the defences are more structured and harder to beat. sevens just seems like get the ball wide and you are in for a try.

More importantly we need to use 9's in the same way Union has used 7's, to spread interest across the world.

Why isn't it called the Rugby Union 7's? Mark Chapman described it as that the other day.

I know that League players dont practice line outs but, I would like to see a league 7's team take on the Union boys.
I believe that the skill set in our game would put us above our more affluent "cousins".

Bulls and Wigan showed the way in 1996 and 2001.

The amount of funding from the olympics going to help the full XV a side game in various countries is yet another nail/trick that RL have missed out on.

I honestly think the standard of play hasn't been all that for the most part and somewhat boring to watch.
Tactics of standing around waiting for a team to walk up to you, kicking for touch to gain you 15-20metres from a penalty when you've a decent chance of losing the ball at the line-out and basically trying to barge your way through are outmoded.
wingers hanging out wide with shallow kicks for them to run onto haven't happened, barely any chip and gather kicks when there's 70metres of pitch behind the last defender.
Yes there have being some good passages of play and some great tackling particularly in the women's tournament (though was devoid of any attacking nuance) but honestly I thought a lot of it was tedious and I just switched off.

Re the GB/Argintine match, frustratingly the British lad tried to cut inside to narrow the angle when he had a golden chance of a try in normal time, got high tackled (& the Argie shouldv'e gone to the bin) but ultimately blew the chance of a try, very niave.
Can't see them winning it tbh but you never know, SA v Fiji for the final with Fiji pinching it...just

Perhaps not Although I agree with all of your other comments.

The standard of the attacking play (and defence) in the old Wigan 7's tournament back in the day, was superior to the Union 7's that the BBC are lauding as the "second coming".

Aye, never can tell, well done to them, didn't think GB would beat SA tbh

Everytime a top Rugby League team plays in a Union 7s they destroy everyone. League players have too much all round athleticism and their anticipatory instincts are too advanced for Union.

Most of the girls from the Australian gold medal side come from a touch background, which is played with League rules.
Jarryd Hayne wasn't able to make the Fiji side, and it sounds like he is just too big and not fit enough for the 7s format now.
All the really good touch and 7s players seem to be jockey sized and very fit and very mobile.
Not many 7s players are good at the longer forms now.
It's basically become a separate sport for fit little guys.

Wish I'd not stayed up... poop!

I seem to remember Wigan winning the Middlesex 7s a few years ago

Fiji is the only country where 7s rugby is the national sport.
Every kid in Fiji plays an informal form of 7s in any spare bit of ground they can find.
Part of the reason they are taking to Rugby League so quickly is because the basic skills of running, passing and tackling are things they learn about 5 minutes after they learn to walk.

Men against boys in that final. Fiji are a bit special, but GB's handling is woeful, and they just couldn't stop the offload in the final. They did well to make the final and showed alot of heart to get there, but a league 7's team would wipe the floor with the GB team. If you shut down the space for their speedsters they don't have the ability to break a team down.