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World Rugby has released their short lists for their 2016 awards.

A bit of surprise: no Canadian women made the final three for women’s 7s player of the year.

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NZ’s Portia Woodman, Austrlia’s Charlotte Caslick and England’s Emily Scarratt are the final three.

If had a vote, I’d have Jen Kish or Ghislaine Landry in over Scarratt. Scarratt is a great player, but Landry was the series’ leading scorer last season and was second in scoring at the Rio Olympics, behind Woodman. Kish was the all-action captain for Canada. Both were game-changers more that once.

Woodman is an electric try scorer — probably the world’s best — while Caslick is a thrilling playmaker. Both make sense. (My pick is Woodman.)