Coaches reflect on NZ’s ‘disappointing’ Cape Town SVNS campaigns

WORLD RUGBIES 7s CURCUIT;
 
Hopefully the World Rugby 7s rugby circuit RE imagine their format even more and change the way they format their games very soon, so all the top teams play each other often. Otherwise why watch the 7s world rugby circuit when it’s not a real competition.
 
This new 7s world rugby format is a nonsense format and is much worse than the old-world rugby formatted circuit, because no teams form or consistency counts until the last round. Like having 30 odd practice games. As none of the first six tournaments within ranks really count for anything, as the top eight teams make the final anyway. Which means the top four teams from the first six rounds of the world rugbies 7s circuit are meaningless. As those teams could come 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th in world rugbies 7s circuits FINAL round.
 
Or maybe have the first six tournaments as a premiership to make the finals like Australia’s NRL. And have the first six tournaments run as competition by having two pools of six teams that play each other often. Or simply say goodbye to eyes that ‘watch’ world rugbies 7s rugby circuit because it’s not a competition!
 
The old-world rugbies 7s ladder system was much better ranking system that at-least found the most consistent team as the FINALIST!
 
Presently the world rugbies 7s champions aren’t the real champions as a team of champions beats a big pool of evenly ranked teams at every world rugby 7s circuit, that aren't necessarily the teams that make final. Making the comp “not” worth watching because presently winning on the World Rugbies 7s circuit depends on who you play, and even those games are “now” all meaningless until the last round. Making the game a shame not a game!
 
By having all of their world rugbies 7s series top 12 teams put in TWO pools of six teams, ranked in each pool from the previous IRB sevens ladder standings. POOL ONE 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11: POOL TWO 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12:
 
Would create a real competition as then all of world rugbies circuit teams would regularly play each other. Then have all the teams by rank from each pool, play the other pools teams by rank. Meaning Pool A’s ranked teams would play Pool B’s teams by rank, all the way down to the 6th ranked team in both Pools.
 
Ie Pool A 1st versus Pool B 1st, Pool A 2nd versus Pool B 2nd, 3rd versus 3rd – 4th versus 4th -5th versus 5th – 6th versus 6th. Which means each team would play six games each to get ranked correctly. Which would be great spectator wise. Which is 66 odd competitive games spread over two/three days.
 
Or 132 games in the men’s and women’s divisions held over 2/3/4 days, should be accomplishable. With 14 manned squads for nutrition and two or three rugby fields at each location?
 
And by having the bottom four teams after world rugbies 7s circuit having to challenge the top two teams from the challenging series for their top twelve rank. Would create a good relegation pool of six teams. If the new challenging teams had ‘time’ to develop their game with 3 or 4 rounds after that year’s world rugbies 7s circuit. To RE merge with world rugbies top 8 IRB teams for the next year’s world rugbies 7s circuit.
 
They also need to evolve the rules of the game to speed the game up a heap to save time to score more tries, the games have become predictable and boring!
 
Making the 7s word rugby circuit very good to watch that would pay for itself easily, ‘you’d think’!
 MENS POOLS:
                  POOL ONE;-----------------POOL TWO;
 
1st NEW ZEALAND------------------2nd ARGENTINA
3rd FRANCE---------------------------4th FIJI 5th AUSTRALIA-----------------------6th SAMOA
7th SOUTH AFRICA------------------8th IRELAND 9th USA---------------------------------10th GREAT BRITIAN
11th SPAIN----------------------------12th CANADA
 WOMEN’S POOLS
 POOL ONE;-----------------POOL TWO;
 
1st NEW ZEALAND------------------2nd AUSTRALIA 3rd USA--------------------------------4th FRANCE
5th IRELAND-------------------------6th FIJI
7th GREAT BRTIAN-----------------8th JAPAN
9th CANADA-------------------------10th SPAIN 11th BRAZIL-------------------------12TH CHINA
 
By Adopting these six 7s rugby ELVS would mean all the squads on the World rugbies 7s rugby circuit could win a tournament or two. And would stop the world rugbies circuit’s predictable boring outcomes?
 
Who wants to watch a one-sided comp where many squads can’t win it because of its rules? What are ELVs for. These rules would speed the game up and improve its spectacle tenfold. In the order they’re in?
 
The world rugby sevens squads need to have 14 in their squads to have a seven manned bench to help rehydrate the team if these six 7s EVLs were used?
 
1/ Use the TMO as a stop clock at the moment a try was scored to when the try scoring team restarts. That would probably add two minutes of dead time to most games, and a team could ‘not’ run down the TMO clock while converting a try to win.
 
2/ Seven points awarded for a try under the posts, would save a lot of time, to get more tries.
 
3/ All conversions to be taken by the person who scored the try, even if it’s a forward because a scrubbed conversion by a forward would create plenty of time for an extra try or six. Making it far easier to get six quick unconverted tries to win, rather than get 4 converted tries to ‘WIN’ a game.
 
4/ Having one-minute yellow cards for some cynical game momentum changing fouls. Would suit any team as having two-minute ‘yellow cards’ is far too long and destroys the games spectacle.
 
5/ Having two-minute replacement red cards” for deliberate ‘knock ons’ that stop a try from being scored or for dangerous play.
 
6/ Use the drop goal-line drop-out. Which should already be a law as it’s very hard in sevens rugby to hold a player up over the goal-line, and that type of defence deserves a team break. To get to kick the ball away from their goal-line!