One team unity

THE Brave Blossoms describe themselves as “One team” and their advancement to the quarter-finals has been a collective effort based on the Japanese work ethic (The Japan Times).

Japanese people, the majority of them, are efficient, productive people, and when they set their minds to something, they will collectively devote themselves to achieve it, as a team.

One questions the team unity of our Flying Fijians. Before each of our pool matches Leone Nakarawa stayed away from performing the cibi. From the start Nakarawa showed disunity with the way in which our team performs.

His reasoning is that he would rather glorify God before he goes into battle on the rugby paddock.

He can do the cibi and still worship God! I admire Leone Nakarawa and his game but I believe he should not have been given the option to stay out of performing the cibi. He showed disunity from the start and such an act would not sit easy with others.

The mighty All Blacks won the past two Rugby World Cup tournaments (2011, 2015) and they will most likely win again this time around in Japan, and each and every player must perform the haka before every match. There is no other option.

The question Nakarawa needs to ask himself is what he achieved by sitting out of performing the team cibi? It was nothing more than disunity.

While the cibi dates back to Fiji’s war-torn past, the performance of the teivovo right before each match is significant in psyching the team into battle.

We had a one player disunity and that is enough to disrupt a team’s performance!

SIMON HAZELMAN

Rava Estate, Savusavu