Moving Super Round From Australia To 'Electric' Fiji

It's through bleary eyes I type this week's column after bad weather and a stuffed plane saw the Stan Sport crew return from Melbourne at lam Monday morning.

Thankfully, the round 11 of Super Rugby Pacific was full of some incredible footy to perk up on - here we go.

How About Bula Round?

The Fijian Drua have done it again, rolling a top-four team in front of a packed house at home.

The high-flying Hurricanes are their latest victims and it's almost a certainty there's more to come over the last month of the regular season.

A combination of electric rugby and high-wattage crowd support has made an afternoon at a Drua game the hottest ticket in the competition.

It's now irrefutable the Fiji crowd are the most vocal and fanatical in the tournament, their love of the game is almost unmatched.

So, why don't we take the whole party to the island next year and go with 'Bula Round' instead of Super Round?

The infrastructure is there. The stadiums in Suva and Lautoka can hold 15,000 and 11,000 people respectively.

The desire for the matches certainly is. It'd be epic.

Between Two Posts colleagues Stephen Hoiles and Morgan Turinui also reckon it's a goer.

"Get there early in the week, go to the villages, embrace the communities, it's such a special place," says junket and touring extraordinaire Hoilesy.

''Australian and New Zealand rugby have benefited so much from Fiji over the years, it would be awesome to give back and for people here to see just how much Fijians love rugby up close," added Morgs, who has taken the Classic Wallabies there on a number of occasions. Bula Round baby! It would be something else.

Story by: Leone Cabenatabua - leonec@fijisun.com.fj