Tim Walsh is putting aside any past glory as the champion Women's Sevens side begins their title defence in Dubai.
Walsh's side has experienced a dream 12 months, claiming a historic 'Triple Crown' that included the HSBC World Series, Commonwealth Games and Rugby Sevens World Cup.
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Their dominance was reflected in the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year award, with three out of four nominations, headlined by eventual winner Charlotte Caslick, from the Australian side.
Walsh has always been a process-driven coach, favouring player growth over any silverware.
With the exact same 13 from the World Cup Sevens, Walsh is hitting the reset button as they prepare for the next challenge.
“Winning doesn't last very long,” Walsh explained to Rugby.com.au.
“You live in the moment for a couple of minutes and then you see the emotion of other people, which is what I think what it's all about. Coaching for me is having a positive impact on people's lives and to see it all come to fruition is what you live for.
“You enjoy that for a bit and then before you know it, you’re already looking around, what's next? What's the next purpose? What can we do better? What can we do differently? What can we do that's going to make sure that the players are challenged and the program continues to flourish?
“Yeah, you'll always look back on it at some stage, certainly with fond memories, but the reflections (are) more around the areas of improvement as opposed to the jubilation of winning.”
In Walsh's eyes, it's about continuing to refine the's program's 'purpose', with Olympic qualification in their sights.
“We know that in sport, we're defined by our results. You can do all the work you want, work your ass off, do everything well and lose and you'll get, flunked or whatever," he said.
We're not outcome (driven). Obviously, that's what we’re out there to win and we're not afraid to say it but we're very much process driven, and it's the journey to be better and we know if we perform we will win.
“It’s chasing purpose, peak performance, and disguising it in some bloody hard work, which is what we're very good at. If you look at any of the stuff that is presented in the media or even by their players, we're having a bloody good time. but you should see the data, the ‘crunning’, the ‘cromiting’, all that kind of stuff.
“In the culture we have, it is about enjoying the hard work, playing courageously in disguise again as fun. That’s the journey. The ultimate outcome is of course winning but it's not what we focus on.
“You got to have purpose and there's plenty of purposes. There's benchmark events, there's an Olympic qualification, the Olympic Games to build for. So it's not like there's a lack of benchmark events on motivation to go out there and do it. That’s what we're trying to do but it's the journey that we focus on."
Whilst the squad has remained settled since Walsh took over, he is already looking towards the future of the program.
“We want to be a podium all the way through for as long as I can see, 2032 in Brisbane is that end of that Golden Decade,” he said.
“We need a really strong pathway, an Australia A program that we’ve worked so hard on the last 11 months to get that happening and it is going to happen, we’re going to have some incredible experience and talent coming playing in international tournaments that we pretty much self-run and organise ourselves.
“From that, you’ll get players coming into the team and two we’ve seen come up in Bella Nasser and Kahli Henwood along with Bridget Clark are quickly finding their feet. At some stage (they) will make their debuts, taking each step up the ladder to be the next generation and there’s a heap more under that with the World Schools competition coming up in a couple of weeks with some freaky talent there.
“It’s about finding that core group, the cohesion and competition that deliver results are vitally important. That’s just not at competition, it’s training every day in an incredible system that monitors and regulates all the players with the main goal of being able to train together because the more we train, the better we’re going to get and the more we do that we start to become unstoppable.”
