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This week we’re showcasing the best of the Condor 7s, the New Zealand secondary schools national Sevens competition.

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First up – Taufu Funaki of Sacred Heart College, Auckland. Funaki lit up the tournament with explosive footwork coming off the bench for Sacred Heart. Funaki had one of the best steps going around, easily beating the first defender on many occasions, helping Sacred Heart into the quarterfinals of the Cup before elimination by Napier Boys.

Funaki was a Blues u18 representative in the fifteen man code and became the first choice halfback for the infamous New Zealand schoolboy side that toured Australia.

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They need to get the basics right and this is fundamentally their biggest issue, just like the opposite is true for their attack. The Wallabies don’t defend the gain line, teams constantly get gain line and the second is slowing down the ruck. So they are continually on the back foot and playing flat out in defence trying to get into the right positions and teams manipulate this. If the Wallabies suddenly got physical dominance with their defence and slowed each ruck down by another second or two things would be materially different. Like every 10 likes to play behind a forward pack winning gain line, every good defence benefits with time as well. If the Wallabies go out this weekend and stop Scotland gainline and slow their rucks down to 2 or 3 seconds on average our defence will be significantly better. And that is the easy fix for this weekend.

In attack our forwards need to stop being static and Lonergan needs to play with some deception and he needs to get out from behind the ruck as no one on this planet will expect him to run with the ball. Set the forward pod to go one way and then just get out and link with a runner on the opposite side. He is so one dimensional, he needs to be able to change it up and he needs to play with more tempo. So like the defence if our forwards win the gain line and rucks and we get quick ball we will stress the Scotland defence and their will be plenty of opportunities.



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