Watch every match of this week’s Vancouver SVNS live and on-demand, exclusively on Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt’s been a long time, but I’m very keen to get back in there,\u201d Turner told Rugby.com.au from Vancouver.<\/p>\n
\u201cI probably could have pushed for Perth, so I’ve been fit for a little while, but I didn\u2019t want to risk it. Being back around the boys is awesome and finally back with them training fully, doing my thing, which is awesome.<\/p>\n
The Australians head to the North American leg tied for fourth on the highly congested World Series ladder, full of confidence after their bronze medal finish on home soil.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was watching with \u2018Roachy\u2019 [Dietrich Roache] and \u2018Moz\u2019 [Maurice Longbottom], and we were chomping at the bit to get out there,\u201d Turner reflects on the last-second win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatching them just made me even more excited to get back to Vancouver and the New York leg and really rip in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the men’s program, it’s quite tight from first to eighth.\u00a0They can all win it so we just play game by game and do our study on the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve just got to turn it on. Every game is a grand final for us when we play\u2026\u00a0It makes you prepare better because you can’t really switch off so you’re always on when you’re playing. I think it brings the best out of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coach Liam Barry has blooded another debutant, turning to NSW Waratahs winger Archie Saunders.<\/p>\n
The rapid former Australia U20s star has impressed Turner, eager to see him step up to the World Series.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s integrated really well. He’s a good footy player over at the Tahs and playing for Rats [Warringah],\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s electric, every training session he’s running at 10 metres a second, which is pretty crazy.\u00a0He’s a big boy as well, it suits our profile and I think he’ll fit in really nicely, and hopefully he has a good debut.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Men will meet Argentina, France and Fiji in the pool stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shawn Mackay Award winner James Turner is eager to finally return to the SVNS World Series as Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,125979,760,178643,85],"class_list":["post-523499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-mens-sevens","tag-rugby","tag-sevens-world-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523499","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=523499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}