It has not been a great start to the SVNS season for the USA Men's 7s team.
They look ahead to the Perth Sevens ranked 11th out of 12 and thinking about how to get to the top right.
New Head Coach Simon Amor wasn't ignoring that fact. He came out of Dubai and Cape Town determined to make some significant changes. The big move was to put the players through something like a 7s boot camp.
Former Great Britain 7s captain Tom Mitchell, former New Zealand 7s captain Scott Curry, and the former S&C coaches from Great Britain and New Zealand were all brought in.
The message? This is the level of attention to detail you need. This is the commitment to accuracy you need. This is the level of fitness and physical preparedness you need.
"We have been working on rapidly improving firstly our fitness levels, as you cannot be successful in 7s if you are not at the required fitness level," Amor told GRR.
That was a message from Amor to the team and this is something that international 7s players have to learn periodically. These games are full-on for 14 minutes, and you cannot afford to take a moment off. To do that you need the fitness levels to be at a full sprint for almost the entire game.
