Having travelled the world, the Australia Sevens teams are motivated to put on a show at their rare homecoming this weekend.
The Men's and Women's sides will play Fiji and New Zealand across three matches on Friday and Saturday, with Saturday's matches part of a monster quad-header with the Wallabies and Wallaroos.
The 'Kick On Sevens' on Friday will see the teams play their rivals twice at Easts Rugby Club, fast-tracking their preparations before next month's World Series opener.
The teams will also head to New Zealand later this month in order to start fast in a season that includes Olympic qualification linked to the SVNS World Championship.
But for Men's skipper Henry Hutchison, a Randwick junior, playing in front of friends and family was a perfect chance to impress after their title win in Valladolid.
"We want to play as much as we can. It's been a big year with the Ultimate Sevens and the Indian Sevens supplementing the World Series so the boys are getting more rugby, but not necessarily getting rugby at home," he said.
"To get more rugby at home, to be in front of commercial brands, to showcase our skills, it's important on so many levels to get new engagement into the game and also new investments.
"We're chomping at the bit to play and super keen to have our own games on Friday and then also keen to play out at Accor [Stadium] before the Wallabies boys on Saturday."
Women's captain Bella Nasser shares the sentiment as the two teams resume their rivalry in New Zealand, playing at every leg of the SVNS World Series before the Aussies claimed the World Championship in Bordeaux.
"We very rarely get to play in Sydney, which is where we are based and is very accessible to our friends and family," she explained.
"It's where most of us live, so to play in front of our home crowd, have their support and show them what we've been working on, particularly against New Zealand, it'll be awesome."
The event comes as both skippers sign new deals until the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, looking for their first medals after Paris 'heartbreakers.'
"I feel really honoured to have the opportunity to sign a two-year deal to put my foot forward for selection for the '28 Olympics and continue to build with the team we've got at the moment," Nasser said.
"...The hunger probably hasn't really left us since Paris. We have immediately looked forward to the next four years and building and growing as a team each year and tournament."
"Paris is heartbreaking in the sense that we got so close and I thought we were good enough to medal," Hutchison adds, gunning to be a four-time Olympian.
"We were consistently sitting around that fourth or third position. We were there or thereabouts so to fall short is definitely a motivation,"
