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Sale's Sevens Diary - Keeping focus
29 May, 2011
Bula Everyone.
We had a church service with the Fijian Community at the Dreghorn Barracks Community Centre on Friday night. It was a jersey presentation ceremony and the Fijians in Scotland had a chance to meet the players. The Fijian Community put up a dinner before we presented our Sevusevu to the Community.
The idea of having it at the Barracks was to keep reminding the players of the importance and the reason of us being here. Sometimes, our players seemed to get carried away when on overseas tours and often get sidetracked and lose focus. We wanted to meet with the Community but also keeping them focused on the job. About 100 people were present and the sermon was delivered by Corporal Bill Kama.
I then presented the jerseys before we sang the National Anthem and then the benediction was offered by Corporal Kama. We had dinner and we presented our Sevusevu before we shared a few bowls of grog with the soldiers. They were all very excited and asked questions about Fiji. It was also overwhelming to see and feel their support. Some of us even had close relatives here and we were humbled to have met them.
Filimone Savou (Jo Savou’s son) is also here with us. He came with Charlie Charters’ family. Charlie was of course the former Fiji Rugby Union marketing manager. It was a good boost for the team and very emotional for the Digicel Fiji 7s coach to see his son after one year.
Today is game day and we hope to progress to the knockout stages. We were disappointing against Scotland, average against USA but showed glimpses of what we can do against Samoa. We will be up against Australia in the quarters. Mark Lee, the Scottish team manager, was disappointed that they missed out qualifying by a mere two points.
Had Scotland scored another try against USA, they would have been through to the quarters instead of us. I was watching that game with great trepidation. The Aussies were cheering for Scotland (trying to avoid us in the quarters). Well, I guess we’re ready to go.
Vinaka.
View photos of the team at the England and Scotland 7s on Fiji Rugby's facebook page.
Related articles:
Sale's Sevens Diary - Murrayfield - 27 May, 2011
Sale's Sevens Diary - Edinburgh Castle - 26 May, 2011
29 May, 2011
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| Digicel Fiji 7s team manager, Sale Sorovaki. |
We had a church service with the Fijian Community at the Dreghorn Barracks Community Centre on Friday night. It was a jersey presentation ceremony and the Fijians in Scotland had a chance to meet the players. The Fijian Community put up a dinner before we presented our Sevusevu to the Community.
The idea of having it at the Barracks was to keep reminding the players of the importance and the reason of us being here. Sometimes, our players seemed to get carried away when on overseas tours and often get sidetracked and lose focus. We wanted to meet with the Community but also keeping them focused on the job. About 100 people were present and the sermon was delivered by Corporal Bill Kama.
I then presented the jerseys before we sang the National Anthem and then the benediction was offered by Corporal Kama. We had dinner and we presented our Sevusevu before we shared a few bowls of grog with the soldiers. They were all very excited and asked questions about Fiji. It was also overwhelming to see and feel their support. Some of us even had close relatives here and we were humbled to have met them.
Filimone Savou (Jo Savou’s son) is also here with us. He came with Charlie Charters’ family. Charlie was of course the former Fiji Rugby Union marketing manager. It was a good boost for the team and very emotional for the Digicel Fiji 7s coach to see his son after one year.
Today is game day and we hope to progress to the knockout stages. We were disappointing against Scotland, average against USA but showed glimpses of what we can do against Samoa. We will be up against Australia in the quarters. Mark Lee, the Scottish team manager, was disappointed that they missed out qualifying by a mere two points.
Had Scotland scored another try against USA, they would have been through to the quarters instead of us. I was watching that game with great trepidation. The Aussies were cheering for Scotland (trying to avoid us in the quarters). Well, I guess we’re ready to go.
Vinaka.
View photos of the team at the England and Scotland 7s on Fiji Rugby's facebook page.
Related articles:
Sale's Sevens Diary - Murrayfield - 27 May, 2011
Sale's Sevens Diary - Edinburgh Castle - 26 May, 2011
Other May 2011 News
| SA claim Edinburgh 7s as Fiji takes home the plate | 30 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 11 Results | 29 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - Keeping focus | 29 May, 2011 |
| Stallions stampede over Northland 33-3 | 28 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - Murrayfield | 27 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 11 Team Lists | 27 May, 2011 |
| Satala's Unit wishes him well | 26 May, 2011 |
| Lee Smith's Coaching Corner: The Development of Attacking Play (Part 4) | 26 May, 2011 |
| Caucau to focus on personal life | 26 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - Edinburgh Castle | 26 May, 2011 |
| Naqelevuki loving time at Chiefs | 25 May, 2011 |
| Fiji - the biggest attraction in the shortened game | 25 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - A perfectly executed game plan | 25 May, 2011 |
| South Africa beat Fiji to win London 7s | 23 May, 2011 |
| World record crowd attends London 7s | 22 May, 2011 |
| England falters as Fiji, Aus and NZ remain unbeaten | 22 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 10 Results | 22 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - Buckingham Palace | 21 May, 2011 |
| Ravaga hat-trick as Lautoka crush Navosa | 21 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 10 Team Lists | 20 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - Heroes for Life | 20 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - the Management Meeting | 19 May, 2011 |
| Sevens Heaven | 19 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - 30 hours of travel | 18 May, 2011 |
| Sale's Sevens Diary - At Incheon Airport enroute to London | 17 May, 2011 |
| Fraser Talk: The Good Wolf | 17 May, 2011 |
| Suva pace sinks Rewa 19-8 | 15 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 9 Results | 15 May, 2011 |
| PM farewells Digicel Fiji 7s team | 15 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 9 Team Lists | 13 May, 2011 |
| Unified Fiji Primary School Kaji Rugby Union announces festival and venue dates | 13 May, 2011 |
| Fijians help the British Army claim Inter-Services crown | 12 May, 2011 |
| A place in the Play-offs | 12 May, 2011 |
| Discipline improves in the Digicel Cup | 11 May, 2011 |
| Regulation 10.1 Concussion | 11 May, 2011 |
| Fiji Rugby's Kaji Rugby Skills Camp Report | 11 May, 2011 |
| Revised IRB Pacific Nations Cup 2011 Schedule Announced | 10 May, 2011 |
| Lee Smith's Coaching Corner: The Development of Attacking Play (Part 3) | 10 May, 2011 |
| Lee Smith's Coaching Corner: Will We See More Mauling? | 10 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Fiji 7s squad named for England and Scotland | 10 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 8 Results | 08 May, 2011 |
| 2011 Digicel Cup Rd 8 Tables | 08 May, 2011 |
| Nadroga earn bonus point 31-3 win over Nadi | 07 May, 2011 |
| Ratuvou try helps Lyon's promotion fight | 05 May, 2011 |
| Ngamoki-Cameron is PM's nominee to FRU Board | 05 May, 2011 |
| Digicel Cup Rd 8 Team Lists | 05 May, 2011 |
| Young Savou shines in Saracen colours | 04 May, 2011 |
| Lee Smith's Coaching Corner: The Development of Attacking Play (Part 2) | 02 May, 2011 |
| New FRU Board elected | 01 May, 2011 |
