RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

IFI was a betting man, and thank the Lord I’m not Sir, I would have a modest punt on Ireland to take the forthcoming Olympic Sevens tournament.
Objectively they have no chance. They only qualified last week via the repechage tournament in Monaco and have never finished higher than tenth in the World Series with a best tournament result of third in the 2018 London leg.
None of this bodes particularly well but Sevens is unpredictable – any side can beat any other on their day and when rugb...