The All Blacks Sevens squad are in Mount Maunganui this week preparing for their next two tournaments in Hong Kong and Singapore and have been enjoying the new facilities on offer.
Tauranga property developer and Waikato University council member Paul Adams got a chance to watch the squad in action at the new High Performance Sports Centre on Monday and got a photo with Sonny Bill Williams.
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Mr Adams said Mount Maunganui-based coach Sir Gordon Tietjens invited him to come down to the centre to see the team training.
"I went over there for a couple of hours to watch them go through their paces," he told the Bay of Plenty Times. "The sevens guys think it's a great facility. Sonny Bill said to me it's as good as there is in New Zealand."