Seasons Finale. 7's in the Rain?

So as the winter draws in and the clouds are increasingly covering us with more rain, we arrive at one of the seasons showpieces. The National 7's competition being held at Enkoping this coming weekend. Whoever planned this has very little idea about 7's rugby. The game is about running rugby in good conditions and on hard surfaces, not on what is quite clearly going to be some heavy ground, and we mean no disrespect to Enkoping.
This has also come at the end of a long drawn out season and consequently the organisers have not had the response they would have liked. With fewer clubs entering the tournament and a host of the bigger names missing, the competition has already been cut to 1 day.
The clubs entered for the Men are:-
Vanersborg, Enkoping, Gotland, Visby, RK Attack, Umea and Attila.
So, just one club from the Elite and although we expect Vanersborg to make a show, we would expect Enkoping to win.


For the Women, the line up is:-
Goteborg, Enkoping, Attila, Umea and Lugi.
Very poor attendance here with Goteborg the clear favourites to retain the crown.

The Juniors will feature clubs from:-
Vanersborg, Sodertalje, Hammarby and Enkoping.
Our money is on Vanersborg for this one.

This is a very poor turn out for a National event!
A shame that most of the top clubs are missing, in what should have been a festival of flowing rugby. So our plea to those doing the planning in future is, 7's is NOT meant to be played on waterlogged or very heavy pitches, move it back to the summer and do more to encourage the clubs participation, After all it is going to be an Olympic event in the not too distant future.