World series bronze for Aust men's sevens
Australia have breathed life into their men's Olympic sevens 準備s with a bronze-メダル 業績／成果 at the world series tournament in New Zealand.
A 支配的な 33-21 勝利，勝つ over England in the play-off for third in Hamilton on Sunday was an appropriate finish for a 味方する producing their best form of the season so far.
As a result Australia climb from ninth to fifth equal in the 全体にわたる standings 長，率いるing into next week's fourth 一連の会議、交渉／完成する in Sydney.
狭くする losses to powerhouses Fiji and New Zealand, were 相殺する by 包括的な 勝利，勝つs over England, Argentina and Samoa, the latter two victories coming in pool play.
Australia were unlucky not to 倒れる the Kiwis in their 半分-final, going 負かす／撃墜する 17-14, 解放する／自由なing the tournament hosts to go on and clinch gold with a 27-5 敗北・負かす of フラン in the final.
Up 14-5 at halftime in the trans-Tasman contest, Australia's hopes were blitzed by a yellow card shown to Maurice Longbottom for a 審議する／熟考する knock-on. New Zealand capitalised with two tries in the two minutes the playmaker was in the sin 貯蔵所.
A desperate Australia could not 追加する to their first-half tries to captain Nick Malouf and Henry Hutchison.
They took their 失望／欲求不満 out on England, racing to a 33-7 lead on the 支援する of five unanswered tries, 含むing a pair to Hutchison, before England bagged two late なぐさみ 得点する／非難する／２０s.
新人 Josh Turner also 得点する／非難する／２０d in that match, and was the standout performer in the earlier 33-19 pool 勝利，勝つ over Samoa.
"Josh had an 優れた 週末 in the gold jersey, the way he continued to find space and 支援する up for his チーム仲間s was second to 非，不，無," coach Tim Walsh said.
"Finishing with such a wet sail against England shows that we are building 井戸／弁護士席 and the way we managed to attack the game was really pleasing."
The second day was spoiled by a 膝 傷害 苦しむd by Ben O'Donnell against Samoa.
The classy 支援する, playing his first tournament of the season since s urgery, underwent ざっと目を通すs and is likely to 行方不明になる the Sydney tournament at the very least.
The fickle nature of sevens was on show in Hamilton, with usual heavyweights Fiji and South Africa finding themselves playing off for ninth.
フラン have been a 発覚 this season and （機の）カム の近くに to a maiden 肩書を与える, only 落ちるing away late in the decider as New Zealand 船長／主将 Scott Curry bagged a hat-trick to 確実にする their status as favourites for Sydney.
フラン climb to second-equal in the standings と一緒に the Blitzboks, 15 points behind the Kiwis with seven 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs to play.
STANDINGS AFTER THREE ROUNDS:
New Zealand 63 points, South Africa 48, フラン 48, England 39, Argentina 35, Australia 35, Fiji 31, USA 30
