“Our biggest constraints are time and number of players,” Varty explained. They will then have specific rugby training sessions at 7 p.m. Some players are taking unpaid leave to play in tournaments, and all of them train at least 15 hours a week, starting at 7 a.m. Varty said that for Hong Kong to improve on the international stage, players needed to be available full time. He also believes that not playing him was an opportunity missed to push the profile of 15-man rugby in Hong Kong, where sevens rugby is king because of the tournament held annually in March. The Lions won comfortably, 59-8, and the 27-year-old was clearly disappointed that he did not get to run in front of his home crowd. Surprisingly, Varty, who plays wing or fullback in the 15-man game, was overlooked for the Barbarians’ game against the British and Irish Lions in Hong Kong last Saturday. “It doesn’t actually feel like I’ve done it.” “I never thought that I’d play there,” he said. He called his experience at Twickenham “very surreal,” since in 2008 he had watched a roommate play there for Yorkshire in the English County Championship final. Varty came off the bench in the 40-12 defeat to England on May 26 at Twickenham - the home of English rugby two weeks earlier he had played sevens for Hong Kong as it looked to become one of the 12 core teams on the World Sevens Series circuit.
“Despite the results I still think it was a very good team.” “They didn’t have to train that hard or have to work too hard to put a good team together,” he said. “The guys I met were so on top of their game.
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