THE Fiji 7s team will play Spain in a scrimmaging session today as part of the final phase of preparations for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in Hamilton this weekend.
According to Fiji 7s coach Gareth Baber, Spain play a structured game similar to that they will face against their opponents in pool play.
“Spain is a very structured team and like to play width to width,” Baber said.
“We know that the teams that we are going to come against are going to have some of those traits. “So it is important that outside of Fiji we get to play against teams that possess that ahead of the tournament.”
Meanwhile the Fijian 7s team departed for New Zealand yesterday morning confident of bouncing back in the 2019-2020 series.
The team made a slow start in the series finishing ninth in Dubai and lost in the bronze final to France during the Cape Town 7s.
Baber said their preparations for the Hamilton 7s had gone well with couple of weeks of camp at the Uprising Beach Resort in Pacific Harbour. “Obviously we had the incoming cyclone which curtailed some of the stuff,” he said.
“At the back end of last week it was important for the players to spend some time with their families and get their mindset straight as well.
“So we got what we needed to do last week and we came back on Sunday evening and now we are out on an early flight to New Zealand.
“We are prepared for what we all have to do this weekend,” the Welshman said.
In the group stage matches on Saturday, Fiji will face Samoa at 12.47pm and then play Australia at 6.35pm.
On Sunday Fiji will battle Argentina at 11.57am.
