Sevens: Ireland Squads named for Dubai

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The Ireland Women’s and Men’s Sevens squads were named last week for next weekend’s Dubai Rugby Sevens which runs from 3rd to 5th December.

With both sides failing to trouble the main contenders earlier this month in Spain a big improvement is needed if their dreams of Olympic Qualification via the Repêchage are to remain viable through to next summer.

Having had all the cards stacked in their favour for re-qualification for the HBSC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series the Irish Women now face the toughest of challenges, having been placed in the same group as USA, Canada and Fiji and, missing proven internationals like Jenny Murphy and Claire Molloy, they will probably be fighting it out in Day 2 for “best of the rest” with Spain, Brazil and Japan.

However, the World Series is the level at which they need to play and a small improvement tournament by tournament may be enough to see them through come crunch time in June.

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