Fiji kicking coach Seremaia Bai has described how the country may get a week-long holiday should they defeat England and reach the World Cup semi-finals.
Fiji are pursuing their best-ever tournament result against England and it is clear what the team means to everyone back home.
“I think it will be a one-week holiday in Fiji, it will be crazy,” Bai said. “Rugby means a lot for us in Fiji, it just gives us life, it keeps everybody happy and (everybody) comes alive, comes together.
“It keeps the country in unity. Through rugby, whatever the result, hopefully we will make the country proud.
“I don’t call it excitement – I think ‘crazy’. Just like in England, passionate about rugby, same as a little island in Fiji, everyone gets up at three or five o’clock in the morning.
“People who are sick come alive when we win games. We have just got to make sure that we not only play for a certain quarter-final, we just play for our own people – young kids, people in the village – it means a lot to them.
“Everybody’s excited. I know that comes with disappointment along the way, but 16 years ago we made the quarter-final and now we are here where no one even gave us the possibility to make it. We’re going to make the most of it.”
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