Hutchison: We’ll be targeted by other teams
World Sevens Series men’s points table leaders Australia is determined to stay on the top spot at the end of this weekend’s Dubai Sevens tournament.
The Aussies are aware that New Zealand, South Africa and Fiji will be out to beat them.
“There’s definitely a target on our back, a lot of teams will be coming for us after Hong Kong but we relish and welcome that,” Australia sevens winger Henry Hutchison told Rugby.com.au.
“We’re going to have to be disciplined to keep it up because sevens is such a difficult game, a different team turns up every event so you can’t be switched off for any game.”
The New Zealand is due to play in Dubai for the first time in three years and they have been drawn in arguably the toughest pool in the men’s tournament. This is where they face Fiji, Argentina and Uruguay.
Meanwhile, South Africa men’s captain Siviwe Soyizwapi said preparations have been going well. “We can take a lot of confidence from the camp back at home and the past two days in Dubai have been great as well, being out on the field in the heat so it’s been good. “We enjoy playing in Dubai. It gets hot this time of the year in Cape Town so I think it’s always good preparation for us coming into Dubai.
“There’s a lot of confidence that we can take from the previous years however I think we always have to start all over again with each tournament. So we’ll take it a step at a time and I will take this as a brand new tool.
“It’s really exciting to have our new coaches in the frame with new ideas coming through and I think you will see something new this coming weekend with two new debutantes as well which brings something different that they can add to the squad, so I’m really excited to see it,” he said.