GRR: National Teams
The USA Men’s 7s team should, by all rights, be in the Plate Final or the top four of the Wellington 7s, but they’re not, and as the credit for winning their pool is theirs, so the fault for not capitalizing on that lies squarely on their own shoulders.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The USA weren’t perfect on Friday in Wellington, but they still ended up wining their pool, as a clinical approach to their early pool games gave them a little breathing room in their final game of the day against South Africa.
The Eagles, South Africa, and France all ended up 2-1, but the USA had easily the best points difference and won Pool A.
Time to pass.
As simple as that sounds, it may be the next big thing for the USA Men's 7s team. After years of working on the breakdown and concentrating on using their power to phase-play their way down the field, the Eagles 7s squad, under Mike Friday, should move the ball.
The USA Women 7s team has been in Brazil for four days now, acclimating to Sao Paulo’s humidity and training in intermittent rain, as the second leg of the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series looms ahead. The Sao Paulo 7s will kick off this Saturday, Feb. 7, and the USA will look to improve upon its 7th place finish in Dubai.
The USA Men’s National Team forwards assembly finished up this weekend and Eagles Forwards Coach Justin Fitzpatrick was all smiles.
“It went very well; we’re very, very pleased with it,” said the Seattle Saracens Head Coach. “We were especially pleased with the volume of work we’re able to get through.”
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