The Aussie women’s team turned in the most dominant tournament victory ever recorded on both the men’s and women’s World Sevens Series tours, by winning the Sydney title without a single point conceded in six games.

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Finding ways to improve on such a performance at the next tournament would be a huge enough task in a normal year but the importance of doing so is magnified for the Aussies given their next competitive outing is the Commonwealth Games in April.

Walsh said the team were in no danger of resting on their Sydney laurels, however, when most of the world’s best teams battle for the first ever women’s sevens gold medal on the Gold Coast.

The cutthroat nature of sevens keeps a constant sense of perspective and the Aussie team’s experience last year is also valuable, said Walsh.

The newly minted Olympic champion Aussie team failed to win a single tournament in the 2016-17 season.

“Post-Rio, when we came back as world champions and Olympic champions, we felt like we let ourselves down in numerous areas. We have been there, so we can take what we learned there and from here, and keep that momentum,” Walsh said.

“Sevens is so cutthroat, you can literally go from one opposition error to win a quarter-final and then you go on and win a tournament. Without that error you could be out the other door and finishing seventh or eighth.

“The reality check the players have is they know the game is on a knife-edge, and one mistake and we could be gone. So we celebrate the wins but don’t take them for granted and keep working hard.”

Walsh said he had not needed to pick apart the match tapes from Sydney to find faults. The players did it for him.

“The girls are really good in knowing where they are at and where they can be. Different players have different responsibilities within our performance and all of them came back with pretty remarkable and detailed points where we just weren’t good enough,” Walsh said.

“Particularly in that first half against New Zealand, our attack was pretty ordinary. Our defence was outstanding but our attack wasn’t up to standard.

“We have to keep evolving as well, after that kind of result. Because the New Zealanders, the Canadians, the English, they’re all going to be hungry now to come and thump us. It has fuelled their desire to bring us back a peg or two, so it has motivated us to train even harder.”

The Australian women’s team are currently in Las Vegas, having lined up an exhibition series against the USA at the Las Vegas Sevens.

They’ll play in the Commonwealth Games format, with two games on Friday and Saturday, and one on Sunday.