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Dismayed reaction from Welsh fans as 7s set-up is scrapped

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Just weeks after it emerged that the RFU were scrapping their England 7s programme, rugby officials in Wales have done likewise with their World Rugby Sevens Series team. A statement issued on Friday afternoon read: “The Welsh Rugby Union can confirm that its men’s sevens programme will cease to operate in its current format for the foreseeable future due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19.”

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Welsh fans have not reacted positively to the revelation that their team will be scrapped, which had some of the best sevens players in the world.

Explaining the decision to shelve their programme, WRU performance director Ryan Jones added: “It’s an extremely regrettable situation we find ourselves in, and one that is being felt across the world inside and outside the context of sport.

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“I’ve seen first-hand how much the sevens players and staff have put their heart and soul into the programme, which has made reaching this outcome all the more difficult. 

Many Welsh rugby fans could not contain their dismay at the Welsh Rugby Union, voicing their angst about how underfunded the Welsh sevens team has been in recent years.

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There’s a lot to unpick in your comment but let’s start with the obvious and that is that you clearly don’t know what the budgets are and therefore cannot state that they are equal. The other provinces all know that the budgets are not equal and are actually very far from anywhere near equal.


Now you mention stadia, sure Ravenhill and the RDS are comparable but Leinster don’t play most of their games at the RDS anymore, do they? It’s a well known fact that their players don’t like the facilities and have taken up residence at the Aviva, with the occasional sojourn to play English teams, for obvious reasons, at Croker. There is no comparable facility available to any other Irish province so that’s a pretty significant advantage already.


So fanbase, sure Leinster have a larger fanbase and that’s a direct result of being, by a considerable distance, the largest urban population on Ireland, aided further by the absence of any top tier football teams that similar cities across other countries have. Once again an inherent advantage over the other provinces. This advantage is actually leveraged yet further by the private funds invested in the private school system that feeds the Leinster academy. Now Belfast has an element of this but it’s very much smaller in scale. Munster and Connacht, pretty negligible by comparison.


As far as Ulster mismanagement is concerned, remind me again who ultimately leads and provide oversight of Ulster? Yes that might be the IRFU as the Dublin centric beneficial owners of the team!


And with that I rest the case for the prosecution…oh, apart from a further example of a recent IRFU increase to 40% of the provincial contribution towards central contracts. Leinster’s response, they announced that the replacement for All Black Jordie Barrett next year would be none other than fellow All Black, Rieko Ioane! Now what does that tell us about budgets when Munster were told to release Snyman last year who just happened to end up at…Leinster! Ofc, we won’t mention either, the detail of comparing Ulster being also instructed to release Ruaan Pienar a few years ago to prevent blocking of player pathways, I wonder what Jamie Osbourne has to say about Barrett and Ioane’s sabbaticals?

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