Jarryd Hayne signs with Fiji Sevens

[Braveheart81]

happy to disagree.
I look at Wells who was one of their better players last year carving up the Canberra comp.

He played two tournaments last year for the Aussie 7s.

I really don't think you can say he was one of their better players last year.

 

[barbarian]

I thought Jenkins was looking overseas for a gig and more as an outside back?

Yeah he's a winger.

 

[Highlander35]

Allan F is tiny (height wise) though isn't he. Couldn't be more than 5'7.

 

[ACT Crusader]

I'm not sure that's true. No 15s player has been a revelation in Sevens - SBW, Messam, Habana, de Jonge and others have all had moments but for the most part been, at best, average.

Australia has faced similar challenges to all other sides. Our 15s guys have looked OK, not out of place, but not as dominant as we'd hoped.

I think this season has entirely debunked this following line....



... which I think is way out. I think at least 8 of our current Sevens side could walk into Super Rugby and be good (Clark, Holland, Cusack, Myers, Fa'alavau, Fou, Hutchison, Jenkins).

I reckon this has been the season where we have all seen how good these guys are, and how it's become so much more than 'rugby lite'.
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Vito was awesome at 7s on the wing and that was after he had shown promise as a XVs player for Wellington.

Messam previously was an excellent 7s player whilst a XVs player. This stint around he has stunk the house out.

 

[Ash]

From memory, wasn't Vito considered the best 7s player in the world before his switch to XVs?

 

[Piglet]

Hayne left out of Fiji squad for London 7s

http://www.sportingnews.com/rugby/n...-for-london-sevens/1buk23q2fik0i1aokpgnoie2z0

Ryan won't name his final team until tomorrow.

Fiji needs to make the quarter finals to win the series. Their pool of death opponents are Wales, England and Australia.

Will they risk playing an untried, probably unconditioned (for 7s) individual who doesn't know the team plays?

 

[Marcelo]

I'd guess his best position would be as a 7 like his identical twin brother.

It's just what Aussie rugby needs. There is little depth in that position

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

The plot thickens with a twist in the tale:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...ji-sevens-squad-for-final-leg-of-world-series

I'm working on the assumption there were some formalities (passport/ citizenship/ Olympic-standard qualification would be my guess(es)) that hadn't been completed when the initial 12 were named, meaning he couldn't be one of them, that have now been attended to. Still not going to Rio on merit, tho.

EDIT: he's not on the supposedly official squad list:

http://pulse-static-files.s3.amazon...-a2bd-8b82b493a35b/WR7M-17-ENG-SquadLists.pdf

To summarise: maybe he's in, maybe he's not, fuck knows (& he's not telling).

 

[Jeeper]

http://pulse-static-files.s3.amazon...-954f-601d47273e21/WR7M-17-ENG-SquadLists.pdf

Updated list.. Looks like he will get a run. I for one will be watching every Fijian game and I am sure many others who have never seen rugby sevens will have a look.

 

[RugbyReg]

yep, I've always recorded games and watched the replay when they are through the night, but reckon I'll get up for the Aussie one.

 

[louie]

Overheard some RL fans talking at my local coffee shop this morning. One said "He'll do really well in 7s because it's more like RL then union". Made me giggle.

 

[wamberal]

I hope he watches it.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Overheard some RL fans talking at my local coffee shop this morning. One said "He'll do really well in 7s because it's more like RL then union". Made me giggle.

7 is closer to 13 than 15?

 

[Marcelo]

Finally this silly has played 2 minutes for Fiji 7s. He's officially inelegible for the Wallabies. Thanks for nothing, Hayne. Come back to the NRL, please. Now you are useless for Aussie Rugby

I would like to see him doesn't make the squad for Rio

 

[Sir Arthur Higgins]

He says he has a connection to Fiji so he probably moves to England or France and plays Union for $1m+ a year and plays in 2019 in Japan for
Fiji. He will make as much money as if he played super with a wallabies top up.

 

[Ash]

Judging by his appearances so far, he does not deserve to make it. That may not come into the equation though.

 

[barbarian]

He didn't look that out of place though. He made no mistakes, and had a few nice touches.

Hard to criticise him for a lack of involvement. It's not like 15s where you can go looking for work. Sometimes the ball just doesn't come to you in 7s, and that's not your fault at all.
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[waiopehu oldboy]

Finally this silly has played 2 minutes for Fiji 7s. He's officially inelegible for the Wallabies. Thanks for nothing, Hayne. Come back to the NRL, please. Now you are useless for Aussie Rugby

A man can only have so many dreams, clearly being a Wallaby wasn't one of his.

I would like to see him doesn't make the squad for Rio

That's just petty.

 

[Ash]

He has a few more chances, but that question you have to ask, is he in the top 12 in Fiji? Is he even in the top 20 - 30?

I'd say not, and he has spent the last 1.5 years working his body into completely the wrong type of fitness, size and shape for sevens as well. He won't be unable to fix that in time for the Olympic.

If he was coming right off from when played League, I would have backed him, but 1.5 years later, nope, not now.

 

[Pfitzy]

I hope they pick him - gives everyone else a better shot at Gold