Baber ensures 7s program in place

“I really want to push on and show the people and myself the next challenge is not only in sevens but 15s as well.

“Taking the decision, I knew what would be entailed to go another three years and the program for itself, I wanted to make sure that for those players and the nation of Fiji the person who does that is going to go through the same challenge that I did and get in to a position where you can put a team at a podium in an Olympics game which was the challenge itself.

“As I have said I thank you all especially the media for how you have supported me.

“As John have said I will move on in November but my love for Fiji has not diminished I still very much want to be with you there and celebrate what we have achieve in the men and women’s game and how successful that was for all of us as a Fijian nation.”

General manager high performance and former Flying Fijians captain Simon Rawalui thanked Baber on behalf of all unions for the infrastructure he had put in place.

“The timeline and pathways for our players, we are still working on that in terms of what is the next step for Fiji Rugby.

“It’s been planned out differently and we have an exciting time moving forward in the coming months, getting those things in place and that is part of the great effort that you have done in the last period with us.

“We are forever grateful, you might be from a little town in Wales but you will always be a part of our Fijian family.

“I am just excited now to see where the Fiji 7s program will go from now, it’s a very exciting time and as you have seen there will be a transition period where a number of our sevens players will jump into 15s which is part of our pathways.

“But with Saiasi Fuli, Jerry Tuwai and Baber identifying those next set of generation, we are blessed with those talents, we are blessed enough to use that talents so its going to be very exciting time for Fiji Rugby.”