masukuma wrote:
miracles don't happen. its building a team to maturity! Mitch may be faulted for many things but his eye on focusing on the future i.e. team 2016 for the olympics was admirable - get the guys to taste the big leagues early and by 2016 we would have a totally youthful team. Australia has been doing the same over the last 3-4 years. this team of theirs is becoming more lethal year after year. We need foresight! it may feel nice to win a round in the HSBC sevens but to me winning the Worldcup and the Olympic Gold in Rio is what we should be aiming for.
While you patiently wait for Mitch to build a team for 2016, Kenya was on the verge of loosing its IRB core status. Kenya would have been demoted to playing only in Dubai and SA kama hapo zamani.
The poor performance would have caused sponsors to pull out and the public to loose interest. And there is no guarantee that Kenya would be successful in 2016 because of what Mitch built.
Long story short, you cannot use the IRB sevens series to build for the future. If you want to build for the future you can field younger players in lesser tournaments like Safari sevens or Rome sevens or Twickenham sevens. The IRB sevens requires grizzled veterans.