Ahead of next week’s Commonwealth Games rugby sevens tournament, Jon Newcombe spoke to Mathew Tait about his love of the shorter format of the game and how the multisport event helped to get his career back on track in 2006

Rapid: Mathew Tait evades a tackle against Samoa in the Commonwealth Games quarterfinal at the Telstra Dome
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Dumped: Gavin Henson smashes Mathew Tait in 2005

For Mathew Tait, there was never any danger of him doing ‘a Justin Harrison’ and slinging his silver medal into the water when England came off second best against New Zealand in the...