For your information clown... All those great all blacks who came through the sevens team were unknown before titch got his hands on them.
Was that not my f**king point? You claimed players are only picked if they're committed to the 7s team, but all the time there are young kids in the set-up who f**k off the 7s circuit as soon as they get a sniff of top level 15s.
Hence, 7s is a game for up-and-comers and never-has-beens.
He helped turn them in to great 15s players.
Really? Then why the f**k are most the guys in the 7s team conspicuously shit at 15s? Is he selectively coaching them?
You stack team full of 15s players and they would get smashed.
All the best 7s players are playing 15s. The guys constantly playing 7s are players who were never good enough to play top level 15s. As far as truly talented players go, Hosea Gear is about the only player in the world who's taken the 7 man game seriously. The rest don't want to know once they're playing club rugby at the highest level.
Case in point... Melbourne com games... Australia pick giteau, tuqiri & rogers... And get hammered by NZ and England.
Didn't watch it, can't comment. Australia are notoriously inept at sevens so it doesn't really surprise me that throwing 1 good player in didn't improve them much.
The fitness demands coupled with the recovery needed over the 2days is too hard for them to just walk in to.
But you're talking shit because as I've told you, that's exactly what players do.
Miles Craigwell, Leonard Peters, Benny Brazzell, Carlin Isles. Four Americans who've never known rugby, and they all WALKED into the USA sevens team and were getting games with a few weeks training.
Failed American football players have the fitness required but league players don't? :roll:
