Inbound Australian Men's Sevens coach Tim Walsh has one key directive from Rugby Australia in his new post - take Australia to the top of the Sevens world.
It's a mission Walsh is familiar with, having taken the Australian Women's Sevens side from fifth place to a World Series title and an Olympic gold medal in 2016.
While Walsh's women are now a Sevens superpower and are yet to drop a game through two World Series tournaments this season, the men are still struggling to consistently crack the code's top tier.
They did break a six year drought in lifting the Cup at Allianz Stadium and a bronze medal finish at Hamilton followed but consistently they are around the fifth and sixth place mark, with New Zealand, Fiji and South Africa producing podium finishes.
Finishing on the podium with regularity is a vision Walsh has for this current crop of players.
"I believe this team can consistently win," Walsh told RUGBY.com.au.
"I wouldn't be here, doing this if I didn't believe that.
"That's my directive - to take this team to the podium."
Achieving that directive will be Walsh's greatest challenge yet as a coach on the World Series.
The way he has rebuilt the Aussie Women after a year chasing the tails of New Zealand boosts his credentials, as he completely reshaped the way his side plays in search of a fresh edge.
That edge has instilled the Australians as red hot favourites for Commonwealth Games gold, such has been the level of dominance in their play this season to date.
"This is a completely new challenge for me," Walsh said.
"Seven years ago I had aspirations to be the coach of the men's team, not the women's, but once I landed in that job I knew I was in the right place.
"I had a couple of approaches to take this job and a few other approaches to take men's jobs elsewhere but I wanted to continue what we are doing here."
Walsh admits both he and his family were ready to uproot and move overseas for a fresh challenge before the opportunity opened up within Australia.
At that point, it was an easy decision.
"I'm an Australian and I love this place," he said.
"It was an honour to play for my country, an honour to coach the girls and now it's an honour to lead another national side.
"It was also a good sense of timing in that I feel you really need two years prior to an Olympics to put your own stamp on a team.
"Doing this now allows me to do that and it also allows John Manenti to come in and do the same thing for the girls."
Walsh's time at the helm of the women's program put Sevens on the map and he hopes to do the same during his time in charge of the men.
The first step to putting the Sevens jerseys on the same pedestal as a Wallabies jersey also happens to be along the same lines as his mission from Rugby AU.
"My goal is to make the Australian Sevens jersey is a prestigious one," Walsh said.
"Winning is obviously a huge component in that.
"You just have to look at the doors that opened up for the girls, the exposure and the leverage we got off the back of Rio to see what winning does.
"To bring that prestige we have to be winning on a consistent basis and we certainly have the group to do that."
