Flying Fijians team

Taitusi Sokiveta, Phoenix, Arizona

The Flying Fijians 15s rugby team needs to play South Africa, the All Blacks, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and the Wallabies before the Rugby World Cup in Japan.

If they can’t cover this then an invitational tour to play Wales in Swansea, England at Twickenham, Scotland in Glasgow or Edinburgh, Ireland in Dublin and then cross over the English Channel and play France in Paris.

It would be like the British Isles tour of 1964, where Fijian winger Suliasi Daunitutu made a 40-yard dash and scored against Wales in Swansea. That, brought the Wales school kids to their feet.

Then, a tour of New Zealand playing all their tough provincial sides and three test matches against the New Zealand All Blacks, not the Maori All Blacks. From there, then crossover to the Sydney Cricket Ground and play the Wallabies.

We then can invite South Africa to play Fiji at the ANZ Stadium in Suva. Can you imagine the Springboks playing in Fiji? It would be 1969 all over again. I was a Saraswati College student at the Buckhurst Park sideline when Fiji played the mighty All Blacks, featuring Collin Meads, Brian Lachore, Sid Going and Fergie McComick.

We can put the Springboks up in a hotel in the Yasawa Group, with lots of kava and taralala all night on our white, sandy beaches. They would definitely come here instead of dealing with the world governing body of rugby and their tier-one tier two agenda. We can bring in all heads of states these countries to negotiate an invitational tour of the Flying Fijians to these countries; all it takes is just one phone call from one head of state to the other – problem solved.

With the current New Zealand prime minister, she’s like the ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ and ‘Dr Martin Luther King’ – all in one.

She doesn’t have a racist bone in her. Imagine her signing a document allowing the Flying Fijians to tour New Zealand and play the All Blacks? It would be like they say in court, “case closed”.

The World Rugby governing body addicts of tier one-tier two agenda have no power in this because the prime minister has total power of their own countries. Not rugby organisations!

In the movie ‘Invictus’, Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) was sitting close to New Zealand’s prime minister during the Rugby World Cup final match, which South Africa later won.

With all these tours, the Flying Fijians can perform well against any team in the Rugby World Cup in Japan, come September.