00:02Hi, could you perhaps start by giving me your thoughts on the performance and result today,
00:07please? Say it again? Could you give your thoughts on the performance and result today,
00:11please? It was really disappointing and also that we really did not do what we planned to do
00:23from the week and also that red card really punish us especially in playing in this tier one level.
00:32Do you have any issues with the red card or was it a clear one in your view?
00:39They're looking at it right now so I wouldn't comment any further.
00:52Hi, commiserations on the rough scoreline today and I was looking back on the last three games and I
00:56think the average scoreline is 30 points to 24 or something and obviously you got a historic win
01:01against England before the last World Cup so I don't think anybody saw this scoreline coming.
01:06You've mentioned the red cards, it's difficult to just put it down to that and I think two weeks
01:11in a row you've been taken to task at the set-piece time. Is that something that you worked on
01:17and is
01:17that something that particularly disappoints you? I think our set-piece especially the scrum really
01:23worked well today. Only the line-outs that we really need to put a bit more work on it and
01:30we're just two
01:34weeks together and the teams that we are playing they've been there for more than a month and these
01:40boys have been coming out from playing club top level from France and Japan and you know it's been
01:49happening like this every year and you know I'm not giving any excuses we just need to adopt. England
01:55was the best team today they play really well and they deserve the win because we give away a lot
02:02of
02:02penalties and our boys was a lack of focus from the start so that what destroy us today.
02:11Tex as captain and also in the front row I think my colleague pointed out that there was something
02:16like 15 scrums in that first half can you talk us through what that experience was like from you
02:21particularly at the beginning of the game you're on the back foot in that department.
02:26As coach said I think our scrum went better today our set-pieces we just didn't finish them off
02:32maybe defensively we gave away too many penalties before the scrum even came together
02:38if it was from the bind and too much pressure or not enough pressure and at this level everybody's
02:44good at scrummaging so there's a lot of games going on between props and we just have to be better
02:49at controlling those things preparing for those things and I think England got the better hand
02:57at set-piece today just because of that but it wasn't because they pushed us over or anything it
03:02was just because the setups were 50-50 and we brought the ref into it and that is both front
03:09rows we don't
03:10want that to bring refs to make decisions and it's on us to be able to fix that and come
03:16back next week
03:17stronger in that department thank you was anything England did that surprised you at all or you were
03:24particularly impressed by uh yeah the pace of the game was very very fast you know we thought they're
03:31gonna be playing uh just focusing on on their forwards on especially when we give penalty away and then
03:40uh kick it out and have that uh more line out and more but they were they were fast they
03:46were playing
03:47edge to edge and shifting the ball when they already know that we are lack of with one player
03:52so it they really display us a smart rugby today
03:56all right first it's it's a very important for us uh because it uh it brings the the the the
04:22people together in united kingdom our people the fijian community and uh now it will make us
04:28work hard to build our own stadium back home uh because this crowd we can move it back home if
04:34we
04:34have the right capacity of the the stadium but this is the right time fiji we came here to play
04:42because
04:42of the weather it suited us rather than coming on november uh yeah it was very blessing the capacity
04:51that was uh the record crowd uh today more than 50 000 and that's the history for fiji rugby and
05:00and
05:00when do you think fiji will have the capacity to host their own home games and um
05:07what what will it take to have that capacity to show your own games because a lot of people will
05:10say
05:10it's a bit of a nonsense that they're saying this is your record home attendance when you're actually
05:15the other side of the world i hope it's soon uh because we are in this uh competition for a
05:21long
05:21period of time but we need to host back home uh rather than bringing our game here to the europe
05:28so i hope the the the board and then and the people uh heading the fiji rugby that we're going
05:37to be
05:37building a stadium soon
05:52yes certainly because we you know we are mainly known for tourist destination yeah with the beautiful
06:01weather and the people so why can't they come to us but it's going to be hot when they come
06:08over to
06:09to our country you're shaking your head there i have no idea maybe yes maybe no why don't you think
06:17they they do want to come see you i think the past few years only scotland has dared to come
06:23over i think
06:24that's the only team that wanted to come over and respect them for that i don't think anybody else made
06:29an effort to want to come and play us in fiji because you can see from the draw results it's
06:35a
06:35very difficult place for foreign teams to win isn't it i think so it's very hard to win in fiji
06:43okay thank you
06:51so yeah let's try and get a bit more positive text so about the kind of the event here and
06:57we talked
06:57about how it's not in fiji but the the pre-game show was amazing and all the singing the performances
07:02and the stalls outside despite being thousands of miles from home do you feel that connection
07:07when you're playing in these events
07:11i didn't watch any of the events that took place because preparing for the game but
07:16from what i hear it's good for the people of fiji and uh ambassador to the uk says says it's
07:22a blessing
07:23for the fijians here some haven't gone back home in a long time so this is the closest to fiji
07:29they will
07:30have experience or they have experience for the past few years so i think it's good for fiji to come
07:35bring it as much as here because it brings the fijian community here together to enjoy a great game of
07:46rugby thank you
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