In an excellent Commonwealth Games Sevens tournament, I thought Scotland’s men and women made a fine contribution, both finishing sixth. I suspect there might have been a motivation of a different sort for both Sevens squads, given the dreadful decision by the Scottish Rugby Union at the behest of World Rugby to vacate the World Sevens Series and merge with England and Wales in a Team GB, apparently because that’s what the International Olympic Committee wants. I feel the players needed to prove a point, that they deserve to be at the top table of the game and need the support of the SRU, not the insult handed out to them just a few days before the tournament began in Coventry.
No one has denied my assertion last week that the dead hand of the supremacist IOC was behind the merger, and I am not backing down at all in my complaint that the SRU has effectively betrayed our Sevens players and the whole of Scottish rugby with their acquiescence to form a Team GB and effectively take Scotland out of the elite level of Sevens.
