Stacey Flood: women's 7s' potential is 'limitless'

'I really do hate the fact that everyone is always like, 'Aw, they are gone back to sevens now and this and that', when they don't really know. And yeah, both programmes do have to stick together to succeed.'

SKY IS THE LIMIT: Ireland Women’s Rugby Sevens player, Stacey Flood, ahead of the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town this weekend. ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

By rights, Stacey Flood should be packing her bags for New Zealand and the XVs World Cup which kicks off early next month. As it is, she’s in South Africa where the sevens version gets underway in Cape Town tomorrow.

It’s a year since she was part of an Ireland XVs side that fell short of the longer form’s global gathering via a disastrous qualifying tournament that produced a win against Italy and disastrous losses to Spain and Scotland.