‘Play like a Fijian’ is one of the things the coaching staff of the FIJI Water Flying Fijians tell the players before their matches.

This is according to the team’s assistant coach Daryl Gibson, who said this in an interview with SENZ Breakfast.

He made the comment as the team looks to adopt its won style of play at the Rugby World Cup and not the more conservative tier-one style of play.

“I know it sounds funny but one of our things that we say to the boys all the time is just play like a Fijian, go out there and have fun, keep a smile on your face and we’ll see where that gets us,” Gibson said.

“If you look at Samoa and Tonga, they approach the game in a similar way. Their DNA is typically thicker, physical, big contacts, big collisions.

“You can see the game at the moment is being dominated by big teams, big collisions, and the team that wins that, at the moment is dominating rugby.”

The former All Blacks centre adds the journey so far with the Flying Fijians has been great.

“This is our eighth, going into our ninth week together and just that time’s been incredible. I’ve been with the team four years, and we get July and November, three weeks in July and three weeks in November.

“So we’ve been hanging out for this moment where we get the boys together for an extended period of time.”

“Obviously the Drua are second-year professionals now, and I think again it just highlights if you give the boys the right environment where they can train and be as professional as they can, what you can do. They’ve proven they can make it.

“The Drua boys approach the game professionally, they’ve trained professionally, they know what it’s about.”

The Flying Fijians take on Wales in their RWC opener at 7am on Monday, September 11.