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You could work with six franchises across five to six weeks consisting of both men's and women's squads. You could then run one competition round a week running over six games over a 3 hour timeframe. Over the 5-6 weeks each team would play each other once. The home team squads would play the...

Arguably the tournament nature of 7s is the primary reason for the lack of any momentum for the establishment of any Pro circuit beyond the WS. While it works as an event weekend for the WS it's hard to transfer that across to a more domestic based league. Though, that hasn't prevented some...

Sounds like a good set up. Certainly one that could be built upon.

I largely agree with everything above. I'd actually like to see a more localised regional circuit based in and around the Asia-Pacific. Essentially a franchise league. Something similar to what they've recently done in Sri Lanka but on a larger scale. I'd go for an 8 franchise league with 8...

Well, it will be either one of the Rays or the Rams. Country have already released their squad and I don't remember seeing his name on that list.

They're bringing back both Baseball and Softball for Tokyo. Both team sports that will add many more athletes than an expansion of the 7s events to 16 teams each would have. They are also will be including Surfing, Karate, Sports Climbing and Skateboarding. To make way for these they dropped...

True but part of the reason other sports like Basketball, Hockey or Soccer are restricted is because of time contraints. Sevens is very different. Looking at the three above. A game of Hockey goes rins for four quarters of 15 mins (60), Basketball for 4 quarters of 12 mins (48 though with...

Yes. Beyond that will probably depend on how it goes in Tokyo.

Saw on twitter that if the US can either win or lose within 4 they qualify. Which would be devastating for NZ.

Okay. What does this game mean for us? Read on PR that if GB won we essentially qualified. Is that true? Also, are NZ out of the running?

But the difference is, while the ARU developed the program over a 7 year period with a specific performance goal in mind. This article is nothing more than an attempt by the AFL to disrupt the current media hype and attention the team has earned. It's essentially a 'look at me, look at me' play...

And we beat the Blitzboks 12-5.

It appears the AFL women's league will be a 8 week competition run alongside the NAB Cup. So you have to wonder exactly how meaningful in terms of exposure to elite training and development this will actually be. I think it could be countered by ensuring we provide our current and potential...

Refreshing. Also saw on fb that the ARU have officially announced the women's circuit for next year. Good stuff.

Saying that, we could very well beat the Blitzboks. I've noticed that over the course of the last several tournament a bit of a mercurial nature to their play. Could just as likely as come out firing against SA as they are sluggish.

Wait, I'll just call my uncle who recently moved out to Gulargambone. No seriously, I have an uncle who just moved out there.

The ARU have now officially announced the establishment of the Women's National Universities Competition for next year.

Absolutely. Considering the success of our women's team I actually think the target of growing the overall participation levels among young girls and women of 15% by 2020 is easily too low. If off the back of this we cannot at least double the current numbers it would signal a huge failure for...

Anyone else see the Matthew McConaughey interview on 7. It was a little surprising. Most of all because he had a reasonable understanding of Cricket and its different format. I had to chuckle there. I have to wonder how many arhletes from otger sports have watched or read about these...

In the Women's 7s anyone of NZ, Can, USA, GB and on a good day France alongside ourselves were a realistic shot at medaling. Seems like a fairly consistent spread of teams with the two sports listed above. I find his comments a little ignorant of the situation on the womens circuit. We all...