Name: Ollie Phillips

Honours: England 7s

Highest Point in 7's: Winning the Wellington 7's in front of 45,000 people and coming from 17-0 to do it in the Kiwi's own back yard.

Training Tip: Maximise your strength and manage your weaknesses, after all your strengths are what make you the player you are.

Coaching Drill: Turnover Touch - so tiring and really tests your skills and concentration levels when you are struggling to breathe!!!

Name: Rhys Webb

Honours: Wales 7s

Highest Point in 7's: Being World Cup Champions! Receiving the world cup medal in front of 55,000 in Dubai.

Training Tip: Work hard, play hard.
Hold your depth . Follow your pass then get your depth back.

Coaching Drill: It’s a drill that focuses on the player passing the ball working to support the receiver then clearing out the contact. It’s vital in sevens to retain the ball so this really helps focus a player into a sevens mentality.

Place 2 players on a tackle shield, line them up next to each other roughly 10 meters apart. Line your team in 2 lines opposite the shields giving 10 meters space between the players and the shield with one player between the two lines 5 meters into the grid so they can pass backwards. The player in the middle starts with the ball and passes to the front player of the line on the right. The player receiving the ball then attacks the shield working on his footwork before taking contact. After the original player has passed the ball they should drop back to support the ball carrier. When the player with the ball takes contact the player from the middle runs to clear out the tackle shield. The next person in the line on the right runs to the breakdown and passes to the first player in the line on the left. The player who passed the ball follows his pass clearing the other shield when the player takes contact. Then the next player from the left then passes back to the line on the right. This continues with players joining the back of the lines.

Name: Richard Briggs

Honours: Ireland 7s

Highest Point in 7's: Winning qualification for the World Cup (Dubai)

Training Tip: Work hard in defense for one another and play with your heads up.

Coaching Drill: 'kick Out'
Seven players lined up behind the posts, with another seven players opposite. One of the players under the posts kicks the ball to the seven players. The player who kicks the ball then acts as a defender. The aim is for the attacking team to score without being touched. After they have accomplish this with one defender, then make it 2 defenders, 3 and so on, until they fail to score (get touched, ball handling error).

Name: Jack Smales

Honours: England 7s

Coaching and Playing Tips

Work hard in defence (if your lazy for five meters and the other team nake a break you will be working hard for 50 meters to track back and tackle and prevent a score). Work with the players either side of you and always cover the inside shoulder (dont let them step inside the man outside  of you)
 
Make effective tackles either to prevent the off load or the get the man on the floor.  
 
Initially two quick passes away from break down then put pace on the ball to fix the defenders and shift wide.
 
Be patient, hit the width effectively three times and there will be spaces in the middle on the way back across. 
 
Support the man who makes the break as you are usually the one who gets to score the try, unless its Ollie Phillips who just goes himself (selfish!!)  
 
Hydrate well and eat little bits (banannas, cereal bars) in between games, dependant on time scale, if there is an hour and a half have something a bit more substantial.
 
Always have a good try celebration!!
 
Best Tournament - Abroad = Dubai,

at home = Bournmouth 

 
Best moment - Winning Middlesex sevens with the Newcastle Falcons
 
Toughest opponent  - Willie Ryder
 
Person i would most like to have on my team - Ollie Phillips (because everyone stands and laughs at his bald patch and you can just run through them all!!!) 
 
Favourite team - Of course the mighty PP's 
 
Funniest moment - watching Hamish Smales (no relation) being stepped in a space of no more than two metres, hilarious. Closely followed by picking  up the ball from a ruck looking right and seeing Dave Muckalt on one wing and looking left and seeing Antony Phillips on the other, what do i do....... just kick it!!!

Name: Adam Hurst

Honours: Apache
website: www.apacherugby.co.uk

Highest Point in 7's: Playing Fiji Spartans with a pretty good line-up in our first outing as a side at the Henley 7's in 1998.

Training Tip: Depth. And don't run to the space you see, move the ball there!

Coaching Drill: Simplified 'pull-out' session: 2 single file lines 10 metres apart facing the same direction; front player in one line takes a few steps forward then passes to the front man of the other line; they run forward 10 paces and turn; the original passer runs the dummy diagonal hard line; ball carrier doesn't hit the runner but turns back and passes back to the first player of his line; new ball carrier passes to the first player of the original line and the drill goes on as before.

Simple and easy to run in small space at a tournament as a warm-up!