Not much genuine pace? Kieran Dixon is the fastest man in Super League! LMS is one of the fastest forwards ever to pull on a jersey!

George North is the only rugby union player worth picking IMO.

Aren't the RLIF lobbying the Olympic C'mtee to get RL players included??

It's rugby union 7's, a variant on rugby UNION!
Just as touch rugby is a RL variant.

In Australia some prominent personalities are lobbying to have rugby league players selected for the Olympic Rugby Sevens. However the ARU seems to be more concerned with keeping the event to itself than in winning gold. www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/r ... 6812428202

In Australia some prominent personalities are lobbying to have rugby league players selected for the Olympic Rugby Sevens. However the ARU seems to be more concerned with keeping the event to itself than in winning gold. www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/r ... 6812428202

As they should, they have done the hard work and spent resources to establish 7's as a popular variant of RU and succesfully campaigned to get it in the Olympics. Why should they choose RL players? There are probably some sprinters, swimmers, touch footy players etc that could also do a good job at 7's but they aren't RU players and have no right to be picked.

it is up to RL to develop nines if we want to see RL players at international events like C'wealth games and Olympics.

In fact Touch rugby/football is the most poular variant of any rugby code and the RLIF should be following the NRL's lead and bringing it back under RL's governance. As nice is it is for the RU people to be running a part of RL for us it is a variant of RL, developed by RL and plays to RL rules mostly. Touch footy is a bigger sport than RU or RL traditional variants and that is where the path to the Olympics lies for RL imo.

The United Kingdom Rugby 7 team will be filled from the best players from the Rugby 7s Tour from England and Wales. These are players who play it week in week out and are used to the conditions, rules and fitness needed. It will probably be our best option to stick with them regardless of League players who can play.
The England 7s team is pretty good. Making it to finals and semi finals in more a less every tour tournament. Add to that squad the best of the welsh 7s team and we will be pretty strong with players who know how to play the game.

Sam Tomkins
Kieron Dixon
Kallum Watkins
Ryan Hall
Danny Brough
Larne Patrick
Daryl Clark

Dixon is quick off the mark which gets him away from defenders, but he struggles to sustain it over a distance. Jamie Shaul at Hull is the same, lightning over 20 metres but doesn't have a big top speed, as we saw at Wembley.

Over 100 metres Dixon would get left for dead by proper sprinters like Caro, Penny or Lineham.

Tom Lineham is faster than Kieran Dixon? On what basis can you make that call?

Dixon before Charnley?
Anyway it's a Union event not ours.

I know Tom Lineham finished 3rd in the fastest man in league race a couple of years ago (Caro won). Unless they had a race I guess we wouldn't know, but my money would be firmly on Lineham. He's a big man and takes a while to hit too speed, but he can really motor when he gets there.

Tomkins, Ratchford, Broughton, Watkins, Atkins,
Lomax, Brough, S Burgess, J Graham, Farrell

State the bleedin obvious Jason!

In the same way that the USA Field Hockey federation are lobbying to have their players selected for the USA winter olympic Ice Hockey team???

union would not let league players play union in the Olympics because they would not like to look upstaged by fitter and faster league players.

There is a chance Fiji will pick Uate, Koroibete, Kev Naiqama or the new guy for Penrith (scored 27 tries in NSW cup last year in his first year of League - played 7s till 2013).
Rugby 7s is actually the national game of Fiji and they will probably start gold medal favourites.

Foulau will play for Aus, and SBW will play for NZ.

Caro is only fast while sprinting, give him a ball to hold at the same time, and his speed gets cut down drastically at times.

Lineham isn't THAT fast, Dixon is certainly quicker IMO. And tbh his fitness/stamina is a doubt too. In 7s he'd be f'cked.
It isn't all about who is the quickest/strongest, need some skill and great passers/kickers.

Those picking Burgess, Graham etc clearly don't understand 7s..they aint the guys for this sport. Louie Scarsbrook I'll give you, probably even Crabtree as he has great pace for a big un.
My back of a fag packet SL 7s team:

Kallum Watkins
T. Briscoe
LMS
Brough
Crabtree
Charnley
Roby

Interchange:
Ablett, O'Loughlin, Chase, Hill, Farell, Hall, Lunt

My 7 would be: Tomkins, Charnley, Brough, Watkins, LMS, Roby/Clark, Dixon.
Subs: McGilvary, Chase, Manu, Hall, Ratchford, Roby/Clark, Burgess

There is more chance Uzbekistan will make the final and call me up as a late replacement t to win them gold!

Fiji is the next union v league battleground, Fiji RU are not going to be giving any publicity or leg ups to RL.

Can't we enter a league team as an independant? That would be brilliant.

Png should enter a team of RL players. I would assume though that there would be some qualifying requirement including registration with the sports governing body.

Just register our best players for Bermuda, show up union on a world stage.

Or Isle of Man?