England have a point to prove
Tue, 25 May 2010 18:08
After last weekend's record breaking London Sevens the England Sevens squad head to Edinburgh this weekend to fight it out to become Scotland champions.
The last leg of the IRB Sevens World Series is the decider in who will be crowned overall Series winners. Samoa are still leading with 140 points followed by New Zealand, Fiji and last week's London winners Australia.
England are currently in fifth place and after dropping out of their home event in the cup quarter final against South Africa and losing the plate semifinal to New Zealand they go into Edinburgh with a point to prove.
England Sevens Captain and IRB 2010 7s Player of the Year nominee Ben Gollings said, "We never got out of the blocks against South Africa which was disappointing as it was a game that was very winnable for us.
"The New Zealand game was a chance to put things right but you can't fault the effort from the boys to pick themselves up and we were,
maybe, a couple of inches away from winning that game.
"Hopefully we can learn from that and take it into Edinburgh."
Despite England falling short the fans were out in force, a new crowd record was set with over 75,000 supporters gathering over the weekend and on Sunday Twickenham Stadium was packed with superheroes as 1091 people broke the Guinness World Recordf, for the Largest Gathering of Superheroes.
Not only is Edinburgh the last leg of this season's Series it also marks the countdown to this year's Commonwealth Games, which takes place in Delhi in October.
With a place in the Great Britain Sevens squad up for grabs Ryan's men will be putting their hands up for selection this weekend.
"Things haven't always gone our way this season and we have a tough pool with Portugal, Canada and Australia so I don't think we will be looking any further than that but with October's Commonwealth Games on everyone's minds I'm sure the boys will
be going all out to impress." said Gollings.
England Sevens squad for the Edinburgh Sevens:
Greg Barden (Royal Navy)
Kevin Barrett (Saracens)
Chris Brightwell (Bedford)
Ben Gollings (capt, Gold Coast, Australia)
Oliver Lindsay-Hague (Harlequins)
Tom Powell (Unattached)
James Rodwell (Moseley)
Nick Royle (Fylde)
Mat Turner (Bristol Rugby)
Tom Varndell (London Wasps)*
Rob Vickerman (Newcastle Falcons)
Micky Young (Newcastle Falcons)*
*Denotes England Saxons player
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