You wouldn't watch it at all ?

You can't watch something different with a different mindset ?

I find that quite sad.

I watch quite a bit of Union in the deep mid winter, if I can find an angle usually provided by an ex-leagueie, I much prefer it to football in the off season.

It is slowly improving as a spectacle but still has a long way to go for my exact tastes.

I've watched sevens and particulary enjoyed seeing Wigan and Bradford winning the Middlesex version (less enamoured by the combined forces of Leeds Rugby in said event mind) but honestly sevens is nothing like rugby should be. Where's the tackling, where's the building pressure, where's the hits, where's the war of attrition, where's the battle for field position?

It's nowhere it's two passes running backwards to run forwards and alternating tries where someone has to wait behind the sticks for someone to get to them before placing the ball running the clock down.

It's rubbish.

League adapts to the shortened version far better than Union, IMO.

I agree there, one good improvement would be to play on a pitch half the size, theres simply too much room for seven a side on a normal sized pitch because the team who usually win it are the team who field a couple of Martin Offiah style players

Limiting the time frame also helps a lot

I've taken the liberty of clarifying that for you.

Sevens is just a way of making Union watchable

Saying it is the most exciting form of rugby is akin to suggesting Basketball is better than Football because there's more scoring. The argument holds for (attention deficit) US sports Fans but the vast majority of the world know better.

(In fact, seven's is the rugby equivalent of basketball: fun to play and provides good highlights but games tend to lack any real tension and when it comes down to it each team scores so often that games are only really decided by when they fail to score)

There's a well-established international IRB sevens circuit. Why would GB look beyond those players?