Australia's men's and women's Sevens sides have buried the skeletons of tournaments past ahead of their opening World Cup matches in San Francisco.
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Australia's women, led by co-captains Sharni Williams and Shannon Parry, will kick off the Australian campaign on Saturday morning at 4:28am AEST with a clash against PNG.
Williams will look no further ahead than that at this stage, sticking to the tried and tested cliche of worrying about one game at a time.
"We take on PNG and then we will reassess and go from there," Williams said.
"We take it game by game and it's a cliche but we are adapting to it because that's exactly how it's going to be."
The knockout format means Australia must win three matches to make the World Cup final, where New Zealand will almost certainly await.
John Porch’s Australian men’s side have some skeletons of their own - disastrous results in Paris and London their worst two week stretch of the season.
Captain Lewis Holland said the team had left those results in Europe, immediately turning their attention to their first fixture of the weekend - a 12:47pm AEST showdown against the winner of France's clash with Jamaica.
"I know that the last four weeks have training - it hasn't been brought up," Holland said.
"We settled it there in Paris and London and we will move forward from there."
A high intensity session on Monday was followed by a scratch match against Japan on Wednesday, a preparation which has Holland mighty confident his side can bounce back to the sort of form which delivered a Sydney 7s title and two other podium finishes.
"I've got full confidence that if we play the way we have been training and the way we want to play, I don't think anyone will beat us," he said.