Pukpuks name team for Sydney

PNG Pukpuks sevens team has been finalised for the Sydney sevens leg of the HSBC world rugby series.

The bulk of the team has been made up of fiery sevens talent from the New Guinea Islands.

PNG sevens have been hard at training to finalise the Pukpuks and Palais team for the upcoming HSBC Sydney sevens tournament in Australia from the 26th to the 28th of January.

While the Palais team was announced over the weekend for the women’s sevens, Pukpuks have finally released their 14 men squad for the Sydney leg of the HSBC sevens series.

Almost half of the Pukpuk 7s team is made up of players from Rabaul and Kavieng one from Manus.

Freddy Rova and Gairo Kapana are the only two players in the final team from Aroma.

The 2 shadow Players are Port Moresby based, Shallendra Birney and Dean Manale.

Pukpuks 7s coach Dougie Guise confirmed that the team will travel out for Sydney on Tuesday the 23rd of January.

Meantime Palais women’s 7s team have confirmed their 12 woman team to participate at the Sydney 7s as well.

Author: 
Sophie Yaruso