Rugby 7s general chat

[waiopehu oldboy]

Black Ferns Sevens: Jorja Miller, Stacey Waaka, Mahina Paul, Risaleaana Pouri-Lane (capt), Theresa Setefano, Maia Davis, Alena Saili, Jazmin Felix-Hotham, Braxton Sorensen-McGee, Danii Mafoe, Jaymie Kolose, Olive Watherston (travelling reserve), Kelsey Teneti, Katelyn Vahaakolo.

Further to my earlier post, with Sevens cut from the Comm Games there's not much to keep those who chop & change between the formats in Sevens.

Men's team has also been named:

Brady Rush, Tone Ng Shiu (capt), Akuila Rokolsioa, Dylan Collier, Jayden Keelan, Sione Langi Joseph Molia, Robert Rush, Kele Lasaqa, Regan Ware, Frank Vaenuku, Sofai Notoa-Tipo, Riley Williams, Fletcher Morgan.

 

[Red Runner]

Australia Women’s Sevens team for 2025/2026 HSBC SVNS Dubai:

2. Amahli Hala – 2 events
3. Faith Nathan – 32 events
4. Mackenzie Davis – 6 events
5. Teagan Levi – 25 events
6. Madison Ashby (c) – 25 events
8. Kaitlin Shave – 8 events
9. Tia Hinds – 20 events
10. Isabella Nasser (c) – 17 events
12. Maddison Levi – 26 events
13. Heidi Dennis – 6 events
22. Bienne Terita – 16 events
23. Ruby Nicholas – 10 events
65. Sariah Paki – 36 events

Australia Men's Sevens team for 2025/2026 HSBC SVNS Dubai:

1. Henry Hutchison (c) – 59 events
2. Ben Dowling – 21 events
3. James McGregor – 2 events
4. Dietrich Roache – 28 events
7. Josh Turner – 37 events
9. Will Cartwright - debut
10. Ben Dalton – 9 events
11. Maurice Longbottom – 48 events
13. Jayden Blake – 6 events
23. Aden Ekanayake – 7 events
24. Ethan McFarland – debut
33. Harry Wilson – debut
77. Wallace Charlie – 1 event

Players unavailable for selection

• Charlotte Caslick (personal reasons)
• Demi Kennewell (knee) – Vancouver 7s
• Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea (shoulder) – Vancouver 7s
• Michael Icely (shoulder) – Vancouver 7s
• Henry Paterson (knee) – 2026/2027 season
• James Turner (foot) – Vancouver 7s

 

[pissedoffihavetoregister]

similarly its been interesting to see Maya Stewart and Desiree Miller training with the Aussie 7s squad. I suspect we may see more overlap of those two high performance teams. Miller played for UQ in one of the Caslick Cup rounds up here a couple of weeks ago too.

its a good sign of the integration between 15's and 7's, For now its 15's girls practicing sevens (and with our recent history of injuries they are a good chance of getting gigs), with stewart, miller and ellis. Hopefully next year its more of the 7's girls playing 15's (still pissed off they only tried Tia Hinds in halfback for the 15's in the last half of the last game of the WC (hopefully they figure these things out earlier this time)).

 

[bhim]

similarly its been interesting to see Maya Stewart and Desiree Miller training with the Aussie 7s squad. I suspect we may see more overlap of those two high performance teams. Miller played for UQ in one of the Caslick Cup rounds up here a couple of weeks ago too.

Are many of our Womens XV players on fiull-time contracts? Its a good way to get some of our outside backs and centres into a full-time high performance enviromnent whilst they wait for their comps to get back into pre-season