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Rare win: Dan Bibby celebrates with Ethan Waddleton as England defeat South Africa to win the 2017 Canada Sevens
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So farewell then to the England Sevens programme as the RFU continue to make swingeing cuts to deal with the current financial crisis. It’s a harsh blow and the massive and avoidable overspend on the Twickenham ground improvements – notably the corporate facilities – a few years back makes all such redundancies doubly regrettable.
In the short term i...