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Fiji Airways Fijiana coach Richard Walker is confident his team will improve following the past 2 tournaments as the team has worked on areas that need improvement heading into the Vancouver 7s this weekend.<\/p>\n
Walker confirmed the team has had a solid buildup despite the temperature change. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a couple of trainings. One was in the wet and one was inside a bubble,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then we had a scrimmage with the Black Ferns Sevens yesterday. That was really good for us. I wanted us to play one of the top teams before the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
That hit-out against a strong team like New Zealanders has given the camp a shot of confidence as they look to arrest a slide that saw them finish sixth and seventh in the last two tournaments.<\/p>\n
Addressing questions sent in by fans, Walker acknowledged that the team has conducted a thorough review of their performances in Singapore and Perth.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Singapore and Perth, obviously we\u2019ve had a few work-ons,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe look at four main topics and four main areas that we focused on back in Fiji which included 1 on 1 tackles, the ruck area, kick-offs and attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel like we had enough preparation around that, and we\u2019re looking forward to that coming out this weekend,\u201d Walker added.<\/p>\n
According to the Coach, the key difference heading into Vancouver is stability. Unlike the previous leg where they were integrating debutantes, Walker confirmed this squad has a settled look to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have any debutantes and we\u2019ve kept the core group from Perth. And a couple of changes that we made were girls that were with us in Dubai-Cape Town. So we\u2019re looking to have a solid group that kind of knows each other and no new players coming in. So that\u2019s been a good change for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With a consistent line-up and a week of sharp preparation under their belts, the Fijiana will be looking to turn their strong training form into a \u201cstronger finish\u201d when the whistle blows in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji Airways Fijiana coach Richard Walker is confident his team will improve following the past 2 tournaments as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-521870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}