{"id":453773,"date":"2026-05-31T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453773\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:35:08","slug":"kolinisau-calls-for-consistency-ahead-of-australia-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/453773\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolinisau calls for consistency ahead of Australia semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National 7s team will need to maintain the flair, discipline and consistency displayed in their quarter-final victory over New Zealand as they prepare to face Australia in the semi-finals of the Valladolid Championship in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Osea Kolinisau says improving numbers at the breakdown was a key focus area heading into the quarter-final, and the players delivered on that plan with an emphatic 40-0 win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that discipline remains crucial at this stage of the competition and praised the players for maintaining their composure and structure throughout the quarter-final encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji will take on Australia in the first semi-final at 8.44pm, with a place in the Cup final at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina will face South Africa in the second semi-final at 9.06pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Cup final is scheduled for 2.26am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Fiji Airways Fijiana 7s side will face Spain in the seventh-place play-off at 11.04pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men&#8217;s National 7s team will need to maintain the flair, discipline and consistency displayed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,230845,213],"class_list":["post-453773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rugby-7s-valladolid-7s","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}