By ROB COLE
JAMAICA will go into their inaugural World Cup Sevens as rank outsiders without their coaches or players even getting paid in San Francisco.
While rugby’s Tier One nations will prepare for the tournament with gruelling training camps in state-ofthe- art facilities, things are very different for the Caribbean nation.
The island, remarkably, does not even have a single rugby pitch to use, so instead the country has focused on the UK where Jamaican-qualified players have been readily available.
In charge of its British arm is Andrew Allen.
“The majority of our players a...
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