Ireland Womens Sevens, Ashleigh Baxter

Ireland Women’s Sevens Squad confirmed for Canada

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Ireland Women’s Sevens Squad was confirmed yesterday for their trip to Langford, Canada for the fifth round of the Women’s Sevens World Series.

With Ireland Women’s rugby currently in preparation for the 2017 Women’s World Cup, in Dublin and Belfast in August, it is somewhat surprising that eight players have been withdrawn from the World Cup squad at this stage?

Stranger yet is that two of Ireland’s vital World Cup warm-up matches, against Japan, take place the following week, on 3rd and 7th June, and the final warm-up matches (that we are aware of), against Spain, are to be played on the weekend of 29th June, four days after the end of the French leg of the Women’s Sevens World Series where more likely than not the same players will be once again called up for Sevens duty!

Bearing in mind that the largely amateur Women’s XV programme only has limited weekends for training, it’s surprising that the coaches and management don’t see a problem with dropping . . .

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