Rooster Chicken Fijiana Drua head coach Senirusi Seruvakula said they need to keep on working hard for the Super W grand final set for April 23 at AAMI Park in Melbourne, Australia.

“To qualify straight to the final is a big advantage for us,” Seruvaku­la told FRU Media.

“But we still need to work hard, reflect on our last game and on how to rectify the mistakes we made.”

The Fijiana Drua remained un­beaten at the end of the round robin competition.

In their last match against the Brumbies, the Fijiana Drua field­ed a lot of new players.

“We wanted to test them in this environment and also give them game time. Most of them stood up to the test,” Seruvakula added.

Meanwhile, succumbing to their first loss in Super W history, Wara­tahs wing Mahalia Murphy has described her team as a wounded beast after they bounced back to wallop the Reds 46-0 last Saturday.

Falling to newcomers Fijiana Drua 29-10, Murphy believes the loss was good for her team, who were on a 21-game win streak prior to the clash and had yet to be truly threatened by opposition throughout the season.

“We needed that loss,” Murphy told ESPN.

“We’ve been so dominant for four years straight, so it’s been good for us and it’s only going to help us get better as well.

“Obviously no one wants to lose, but we all needed a really good challenge and we knew it was bound to come.

“A loss isn’t really a loss for us, it’s more for us to learn really, so we’ll go back to training and pret­ty much go over the review and talk about what we could do better and hopefully we can fix all that up.”

Tonight, they meet the Reds again in the Super W semifinal at the Erie Tweedale Oval. The win­ner face the Drua in the Super W grand final.

Murphy said this was another opportunity for the Waratahs to right their course ahead of the do-or-die clash against the Fijians.

“Definitely a wounded beast. It’s always good playing against Queensland because they’re a very experienced team as well and we come across them at the grand final.”

With the Waratahs ready to bounce back even stronger follow­ing the loss, Reds captain Shannon Parry says her team are ready to face an even more determined op­position than they have previously faced.

Unwilling to unveil all that the team learnt from Fijiana’s dis­mantling of the Waratahs, Parry acknowledged there were several uncharacteristic errors from the Waratahs that they hope to exploit.

FIXTURES:

TONIGHT: Elimination Semifinal:

• Waratahs v Reds Women

April 23: Super W Final

• Fijian Drua v Qualifier Winner