Sevens World Series

England face USA, Samoa and Argentina on Friday’s first day of the Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens in Port Elizabeth
WELL, it certainly wasn’t a short trip across to Port Elizabeth! An early rise on Sunday led to all the teams enduring 17 hours of travel to get to our final resting point in the Eastern Cape.
For us, it was a little…

Christian Lewis-Pratt will make his first international appearance and Simon Hunt returns to the squad as England prepare to defend their Dubai Sevens title.
The two changes to the 12-man group see debutant Lewis-Pratt, 20, take over from the injured John Brake (broken finger) while Hunt, 30, replaces Chris Brightwell.
England go into the second leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series…

England’s Women will take part in the first ever first ever IRB-sanctioned Women’s International Sevens tournament this week and co-captain Michaela Staniford is hoping she can take some of the success she’s tasted with England’s XVs this week over to Dubai.
Wasps wing Staniford has been a central figure in England’s XVs team defeating world champions New Zealand twice this week,…

One tournament down, not the perfect start but plenty of positives for England to carry through to this weekend in Dubai. That’s not a losing coach clutching at straws but one who was obviously disappointed the side didn’t win the opening leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series on the Gold Coast at the weekend. We were close to getting…

England were left frustrated after being edged out by New Zealand and Samoa in their second day games at the Gold Coast Sevens.
They gave series champions New Zealand their toughest test of the day in the Cup quarter final – with tries from Chris Cracknell and Isoa Damudamu – before going down 24-14. Then they dominated long spells of their…

England will face arch-rivals New Zealand at the quarter final stage of the Gold Coast Sevens tomorrow.
They opened Day One of the HSBC Sevens World Series with comfortable victories against Scotland (24-5) and Tonga (19-0).
But the combination of a couple of defensive errors and chances not taken handed Wales a 21-7 win in the final Pool D clash.
Mathew Turner grabbed…

On Friday the HSBC World Series starts up again. Normally we are winging our way to Dubai for the opening leg but this time it’s all the way across the globe to the Gold Coast in Australia.
That, in itself, has made the start harder as we go from there to Dubai and finally Port Elizabeth; three tournaments on the bounce,…