No easy games: Kolinisau

The Fiji Airways men's sev­ens rugby team is treating all teams as a threat in this weekend's Singapore 7s tourna­ment.

Head coach Osea Kolinisau said yesterday they are in a tough pool where they face South Africa, Spain and Great Britain.

The Blitz­boks along with Fiji and New Zealand are joint leaders of the 2025/26 HSBC SVNS points table with 32 points each.

"We cannot underestimate any team," Kolinisau said.

"We cannot jump into conclusions but we've to take each game at a time."

Kolinisau reiterated the need to keep working on their defence, dis­cipline, communication and attack.

"We've to connect with our one-on­-one tackles.

In the last tournament we missed a lot of tackles.

"We've been working on our de­fence and hope to improve in Sin­gapore.

"At the same time we've to watch our discipline, especially at the breakdown with our timing of con­testing the ball.

"We cannot be too aggressive be­cause we can be penalised or our players getting the card. That is why we need to be communicating all the time and also keep working on our attack as well."

Kolinisau said he was impressed at how Malolo star utility back Douglas Daveta has fitted into the team. He indicated that Daveta has been very vocal while playing in the sweeper's role.

"That is what I want, someone who is communicating all the time as he controls the game and mar­shalling the forwards. For (Nacani) Boginisoko he works hard on his defence and is very physical with his game."

Kolinisau indicated that he would be giving Daveta and Boginisoko some game time in Singapore. Captain Jerry Matana said the team is injury-free and they are looking forward to the task before them.

Meanwhile, Fiji Airways Fijiana (women's) sevens head coach Rich­ie Walker said he is happy with how they have prepared for the Singa­pore tournament.

Walker said they have been work­ing with the Fijiana XVs side, which has seen the selection of cap­tain Alfreda Fisher.

"It's a big task when it comes transitioning from fifteens rugby to sev­ens. It is a different level of fitness where the game is played at a much faster pace.

"Alfreda has been transitioning well and I'm really happy with how we've come this far," Walker said.

The Fijiana side is pooled with Australia, United States and Japan.

WHAT'S ON SATURDAY

Women: 3.26pm Fijiana v Austral­ia, 6.30pm Fijiana v USA, 9.56pm Fijiana v Japan

Men: 4.32pm Fiji v Great Britain, 7.58pm Fiji v Spain, 11.46pm Fiji v South Africa.