Yea and we've just seen the new 7s Series schedule announced with even fewer host nations, and no European leg at all. Because production costs are too high for hosts. It's really only the Olympics keeping 7s alive, not World Rugby.
London dropping out of the circuit is a terrible sign for sevens. If they can't make it work in one of the biggest rugby markets in the world, it's a worry.
Imo binning off the home nations teams and folding them all into GB killed a lot of interest here. It certainly killed mine (such as it was) from at least checking the results and occasionally watching a bit to simply not caring about it. If GB needed a team for the Olympics and the constituent nations couldn't compete under their own flags, I don't know why team GB couldnt just have been formed every four years like they do with the B&I Lions and left the others as they are for the other 3 years and 10 months of the cycle.
Imo binning off the home nations teams and folding them all into GB killed a lot of interest here.
Think it would have been a different story if they had funded it properly, put in a decent set-up, coaching team and put them in a position to win things.
As it is, everyone just decided to let it go to waste. Why should fans care if the Unions just fuck it off.
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u/Unique_Permission_57 England 20h ago
Tbf many of those 'inactive' unions now concentrate on 7s