Paul Tietjens

Palais unfazed by big teams

This is for the Sydney leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series this weekend.

Tietjens concedes that his team will start as underdogs in the opening match against New Zealand at 1pm (12pm PNG time) to be carried live on local TV station EMTV, which has secured broadcast rights jointly with TVWAN for the Rugby 7s series for the PNG audience.

But the fact that the ICTSI South Pacific Palais will be facing off against tier one nations such as New Zealand is not going to intimidate his players to deviate from what they have been practising during training.