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Patience may well be the key tool in the USA's toolbox this weekend.
Their forwards can win ball, win scrums, and use lineouts as a launching pad; they can defend; they can score tries through their backs and as a team ... but it could all come very slowly against Hong Kong. Goodness knows it came slowly against Kenya.
Gary Gold has faith in his new guys.
The USA Men’s 15s Head Coach will be starting Vili Helu, Cory Daniel, and Mitch Wilson for the second straight game after making their debuts last Friday against Kenya.
USA Men's 15 Head Coach Gary Gold has named his lineup to face Hong Kong Saturday.
Job #1 is done but there are two more big jobs to do for the USA Men’s 15s team.
And even within that first victory over Kenya—yes they won, yes they won by 44, yes they got the bonus point for four tries—there are key work-ons.
While Australia defeated Fiji to win the Hong Kong 7s, the USA returns home having finished a pretty creditable 6th.
To get to that 6th place the Eagles needed to win one game on Day Three, and they did that, putting in their best defensive showing in the 5th-6th semifinal.
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