POOL C ROUND-UP

Wales might have been confident of emulating Scotland’s achievement of clinching second in their group.

Although they sit a place, and a couple of points, below Canada in the rankings for this year’s World 7s series, they have played six tournaments to the

North Americans’ eight (competing as Great Britain for the first two rounds), and had outperformed them in three of the last five tournaments.

But like England, any hopes of reaching the knockout stages were vanquished inside the first morning, as they went down in similarly ugly fashion to their British compatriots, ...