The 7's teams will be picked from Union players as the RU's will be the ones picking the players...

Swimming Aus picks the swimmers, Athletics Aus picks the runners, etc. 7's is a Union promoted game so it only makes sense that the ARU will pick the teams.

The RLIF should be working on getting touch footy or 9's more widely accepted and get that into the Commonwealth games first and then try for the Olympics.

Moves are afoot to get RL Nines in the C'Wealth games but as usual with RL efforts are 1/2 ar5ed.

Exactly. One of the tiny number of players the media have the slightest interest in. Gets asked a few questions, gives an answer, might not even have spent much time thinking it through, might be right, might be wrong, but he's not running around the country trying to stitch up the sport he loves. FWIW I can tell you for a fact he'd much rather stay in League. One day, because everyone is entitled to make the best living they can, he might decide that Union is the best option to fill up a healthy pension pot for his future life, but I'm sure he'd rather not if it can be avoided. League in Europe isn't going anywhere good in terms of earning potential whilst we can't attract any commercial interest.

i am sure its a different governing body, and its not as if the england 7's team is the union version of england knights. its a totally different set of players i think.

Would be good to see.


7’s is a union administered game, not a generic ‘rugby’ game.

In Aus the ARU picks the Wannabes and 7’s teams.

Just as the ACB picks the Test, ODO and Twenty20 teams, etc.

we are far too confident, things have come a long way since Wigan and Bradford played in the middlesex 7s, I think any RL league all-star 7 teams playing a specialised rugby union 7's team would get absolutely bummed hard

Quote: Bill Sonny "we are far too confident, things have come a long way since Wigan and Bradford played in the middlesex 7s, I think any RL league all-star 7 teams playing a specialised rugby union 7's team would get absolutely bummed hard'" A QLD school who had never trained with RU rules before won the national sevens comp last year... www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -reyz.html Aus Union players are a joke but the Wallabies are still the second best team in the world. Says it all really.

Quote: Bill Sonny "we are far too confident, things have come a long way since Wigan and Bradford played in the middlesex 7s, I think any RL league all-star 7 teams playing a specialised rugby union 7's team would get absolutely bummed hard'" A QLD school who had never trained with RU rules before won the national sevens comp last year... www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -reyz.html Aus Union players are a joke but the Wallabies are still the second best team in the world. Says it all really.

Nice.

Why would they though, and would this happen before or after the game?

How do you think it would affect the play?

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what are the RFL doing about this? it will come to pass that soon the Rugby Union will be known as Rugby the world over except for little enclaves in the North of England and the Australian Eastern seaboard.....

Union have (I believe) a group of players contracted to the RFU purely as 7's players, a bit like the central contracts for the England RU side or the cricket.

Tom Biggs used to play in the 7's side (and now plays premiership rugby) and travelled the world as a professional 7's player, playing against developing nations and helping spread the game.

Union also employed someone full-time who's job was purely to get 7's into the Olympics. This individual I beleive had some very good contacts within sports governing bodies around the world - and it worked.

Let's be fair, Union have put in ALL the effort into getting 7's into the Olympics, why should they pick RL players or let RL steal the limelight?

Also, don't expect RL players to do what Bradford did 15 years ago should they play 7's again. It's moved on along way since then (7's not Union).

I know! It's as if the RFL only represent less than half of a small sport in a small country and don't run the major media outlets across the world! Come on RFL! Pull your finger out and do something!!!! Won't somebody please think of the children! [size(except Jimmy Savile)[/size

Bill Sonny wrote:we are far too confident, things have come a long way since Wigan and Bradford played in the middlesex 7s, I think any RL league all-star 7 teams playing a specialised rugby union 7's team would get absolutely bummed hard

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I don't think people have realised how much Sevens has progressed and how specialised it now is. Most nations have truly professional outfits that take their Sevens teams very seriously.

These aren't the slow, non-athletic bumbling fools that Wigan and Bradford beat all those years ago.

You'd have to have something special, like Tomkins, to get in. Now if we were talking about Australia, then I think they have the League crop to really make a case for practically displacing their current Sevens team. But we don't have the same talent, and we have a better Sevens team (imo, I guess)