After a fifth consecutive loss to New Zealand on the IRB world sevens series, England were left fuming and frustrated.After seeing his side's 29-14 loss in the final of the NZI Wellington sevens coach Ben Ryan didn't even try to hide his feelings.
"I don't like losing to them. We've just lost to them four or five times in a row now and occasionally – big respect for New Zealand – they deserved to win that game. Sometimes you can be a sore loser because we want to win the title, we don't want to come second."
England against Kiwi counterpart Gordon Tietjens in each of their past five meetings, including last year's Commonwealth Games semifinal in New Delhi.
Ryan on other hand believes that our side is more stronger than Kiwis and we have a great chance to win the world series title for the first time.
"We're still the leaders because we've been in more finals, so we'll hang on to that as long as we can. There's nothing about being joint leaders," Ryan said.
"The momentum will be with New Zealand in Las Vegas, where they will want to back it up, but there are four or five sides, including us, lining up to have a crack at them."
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