IT’s time for the Fiji men’s sevens team to strut its stuff.
Gone are the days when we bamboozled and embarrassed our opponents.
Where are our fancy flicks, tricks and offloads, where is our staple?
Our sevens game has for all the more reasons been exposed.
And the maestro of the sport has called it out.
Waisale Serevi couldn’t have coined any better, ‘It is time to create a new brand of attacking play to outsmart our opponents.’
He argues that Fiji have become predictable to other teams.
“I’ve seen that the other teams in the series are playing our style of sevens rugby. We’ve lost our uniqueness by becoming predictable to the oppositions.”
The great ones’ views reflect the very quote, ‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’
And therein, is the tilt of our failures.
We have offered Spain, Argentina, New Zealand, France, England and Australia our know-how.
These teams just didn’t lurk into style but were home-schooled in our country.
And only to cut a leaf of our strategic blueprint of the game to their advantage.
These money teams travelled, assimilated, trained and sponged in the tactical and technical lace only turn it against us.
Australia and New Zealand have their eagle eyes not only studying our game but pouch our players to advance their rugby.
It is often said that in sports, train the bodies, but the minds, failure will have the adversaries turn it against you.
Aren’t we living it.
We need to as ask, where is our creativity that once our players possessed?
A game which our players had honed their skills by playing with a coconut, a plastic and rolled-up newspapers.
We perfected it with a touch of passion, a game we owned and played with so much ecstasy and elation.
And today we lose to Spain and Uruguay and play catch-up.
Why, because we are just too nice of a country, and we are Fijians.
Does anyone give a whiff of credence?
