Wednesday 16 February 2011

Aussie Sevens side need to lift game

In order to taste the success in the third round of the Rugby Sevens World Series in Wellington, Australia need to improve their games,coach Michael O’Connor says.

"We came out of the blocks a little bit slowly,” coach Michael O’Connor told AAP after training in New Zealand’s capital on Wednesday.

“The team’s really evolving at the moment.”

In the opening two rounds of the tournament in Dubai and South African,they both finished at number seventh and sixth.

“Players we’ve bought in for this Wellington leg, we’ve now got nearly half the squad that have played here in Wellington before, so that experience factor I think is going to be very important,” O’Connor said.

Australian captain Bernard Foley is confident the return of fellow London Sevens-winning teammates Jacob Taylor and Henry Vanderglas plus the inclusion of key figure Brian Sefanaian is very crucial and their side confidence will boost because of their inclusion.

Australia is currently ranked sixth on the World Series ladder.

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