The Fiji Airways Drua team is the unknown quantity of the NRC this year.
The Fijians are unknown to Australian fans, players and coaches alike, as they are stacked with local talent keen to make their mark.
They are similar to many club players plying their trades for Australian NRC clubs in that sense but their visibility has been limited until this point in time.
Their first chance to validate the Harlem Globetrotters tag, while providing a dash of Fijian flavour to the competition today when they face Brisbane City at Ballymore.
Frank Lomani who starred for the Fijian U20 in 2016 and has the turn of foot off the mark to take advantage of any lazy defence around the breakdown. With the frenetic speed of the NRC, plenty of those gaps should appear.
Lomani’s combination with fellow young gun Kini Douglas will be pivotal to Fijian success this season.
There will be plenty of potential bolters among this squad.
It could be Lomani, it could be Douglas but it could also literally be any other player. Every player in this team is an unknown quantity and a handful of quality performances could be enough to catch the eye of a Super Rugby club.
