Ellie Kildunne; Helena Rowland, Meg Jones, Jade Shekells, Alex Matthews; Holly Aitchison, Natasha Hunt.

Even with Matthews, more usually in the back row, deployed as an emergency wing, it is a punchy England backline.

Six of the seven played in the Red Roses’ World Cup final win over Canada last year. Before that though, all seven played top-level sevens.

“Some of the world’s best 15 players have come through sevens,” says GB Sevens player Abbie Brown. “That Red Roses backline was our sevens squad at one point.

“So, yeah, it can be frustrating.”

Brown’s exasperation is not that those former team-mates are now excelling in 15s. She is proud of their achievements.

Instead, it is that the team that moulded them has been stripped back, scaled down and sent under.

In July, Great Britain’s full-time sevens programme was scrapped to save money. Instead of training together throughout the year, the men’s and women’s players only come together for tournaments.

When the decision was announced, fears were raised that Britain’s ability to compete with the rest of the world would be compromised. They have been realised. Emphatically.

Both Great Britain’s men’s team, which won silver at Rio 2016, and women’s team, which has twice come fourth at the Olympics, finished a distant last in the eight-strong top tier of the Svns global series.

Next year, they will compete in the second tier with the likes of Belgium, Brazil and China.

“I think we had over 25 new caps across the year, over 60-odd people in and out of camps,” says Brown.

“So when you look at the stats and how much training we had, we just couldn’t keep competing with the world’s best.

“We only had a handful of sessions before we competed against some teams that have been together for the whole of my career.”

Brown, like the rest of her team, has had to find new ways to supplement her income and support her rugby.

Brown has done coaching and mentoring. She has a 15-a-side contract with Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) side Loughborough Lightning.

But she is still searching for sevens.

“We’ve not stopped training or doing the most we can – if you enjoy something, then you’ve got to keep doing it,” Brown added.

“And sevens is exactly where I find my love.”

To find it Brown has been to India, where she captained the Mumbai Dreamers franchise in the country’s Rugby Premier League this summer.

Her GB team-mate Ellie Boatman has travelled even further, playing on Japan’s domestic sevens circuit for the Mie Pearls.

There is now a new option though, closer to home.

Brown, 30, is one of the marquee players for Ultimate Sevens, a new short-form sevens start-up circuit launching in September.

It will consist of four events, staged in Madrid, Cardiff, Biarritz and London, featuring 10-minute knockout matches, with optional timeouts rather than the usual half-time break, contested by six newly minted teams.

Tom Mitchell, who captained Great Britain Sevens at two Olympics, is the event’s sport and innovations director.

While R360, a breakaway 15s event, floundered in the face of opposition from existing unions and a lack of World Rugby ratification, Mitchell aims to complement the existing calendar, rather than disrupt it.

“Underneath it all is a massive passion for helping the sport to thrive and succeed as well, because I know it can,” he said.

“I’m not coming in here saying that Ultimate Sevens is the white knight and the saviour of a sport. It’s not about that.

“It’s about us contributing additional opportunity, both in playing time but also financial opportunity, for players and coaches.

“That might mean relieving some of the pressure on the international programmes as well.”

Certainly plenty of Brown and Boatman’s Great Britain team-mates are taking up the chance of top-level action on their doorstep.

Fifteen of their colleagues, including Svns rookie of the year nominee Finley Lloyd-Gilmour, are joining them in Ultimate Sevens.

The benefit is not just Britain’s though.

Australia’s Maddison Levi and Argentina’s Luciano Gonzalez are part of the international cast of stars, with the series coming to a crescendo at Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford on 24 September.

Will Jones, who co-captained Great Britain Sevens alongside Brown in the past, be there to repay the support her friend has given her during World Cup and Six Nations campaigns?

“Meg is definitely going to be there with a sign for you Abbie,” says Mitchell.

“Even if she is training she’ll bring the crew down!”

“She’d better do – I’ll be having words if she doesn’t!” says Brown.

Sevens is still drawing back 15-a-side stars, even if it is now in the stands, rather than in studs.