Watch the 2025-2026 HSBC SVNS Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cFrom my point of view, I always love going to Dubai to showcase what you’ve been doing in the pre-season,” Walsh told Rugby.com.au<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives it some relevance and something to believe in. So, I think we’re the best prepared team, to be honest. I think getting to Dubai is for all different reasons, but kicking off the season, we’re always really well prepared.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s hard and fast. It’s hot. It just suits us and everyone’s just raring to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walsh is particularly excited to get stuck into the new format, which serves as an exciting change of pace in the tournament\u2019s history and serves as a valuable finals-style format to fill the gap left by the sport’s temporary omission from the 2026 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think every World Series tournament, they’re all pretty prestigious,\u201d Walsh added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to go out there and win and nd the Comm Games, it’ll return, which is great, but the World Series, the last three, is like a World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a great opportunity for the team to have a benchmark goal for and continue on our growth as a program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s great having the World Series this year, up to nine tournaments, and then they’ve split it into the six [regular season] and the three [finals]. So from a coaching point of view, it’s fantastic to have a healthy squad and a big squad, and an experienced squad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walsh and the players have had a near-perfect preseason, with several tournaments in Fiji and Queensland, and the opportunity to play regularly against arch-rivals New Zealand, a clash that the head coach compares to a \u2018sibling rivalry.\u2019<\/p>\n
With the likes of the USA, Fiji, and Japan also getting involved, Walsh believes the side is in a good place to hit the ground running when the first whistle blows at The Sevens Stadium on November 29th.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very handy to be able to duck over to Fiji, New Zealand and vice versa,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen having Japan, USA, you know, they know to get better, they probably want to play against us. So, they jumped on a plane and came down here and played.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery diverse teams too, like Japan, USA, New Zealand, Fiji. [We\u2019re] fortunate and great prep to play world-class teams, but of all different styles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia and New Zealand are probably without doubt the leaders, in terms of numbers and stuff like that. Part of that is that we are neighbours and we play each other all the time so, it’s a bit of a sibling rivalry, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With tomorrow marking ten days until the start of the SVNS World Sevens, Women\u2019s head coach Tim Walsh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,167943,63,40283,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-291913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-au7srugby","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-womens-sevens","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}