The consensus view in the Irish rugby community seems to be that the overlap of players between women’s 15s and sevens has reached breaking point. That is, everyone holds this view apart from the one man that matters, David Nucifora, for the moment at least. Ireland were denied the entirety of their starting backline apart from the halfbacks against England last Sunday, and while their presence may have aided only the lopsided nature of the scoreline rather than the result itself, their absence reveals a different issue. Gerry Thornley today looks at how the event they are preparing for instead of the Six Nations, the Langford Sevens in Canada, isn’t all that important in the grand scheme of the sevens season, and at how Nucifora et al are failing to read the r …