Why Quade Cooper’s Rio Olympics snub showed the gulf that now separates sevens and 15s rugby
A lot of the pre-Hong Kong Sevens hype last month focused on one man: New Zealand’s Sonny Bill Williams. A World Cup winner in 15s with the All Blacks, a star too in rugby league (and a half-decent heavyweight boxer just for good measure), it was a mouth-watering opportunity to see him in the flesh.