Fiji's reaction to their come-from-behind victory against Georgia at the Rugby World Cup
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- Rugby press conference with Fiji's head coach Simon Raiwalui and captain Waisea Nayacalevu as they discuss their comeback win against Georgia at the Rugby World Cup. #rwc2023
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Simon is a class act and always handles himself impeccably.
Well spoken Wais.
Never give up, never surrender.
Was fantastic to see you speaking consistently with the referee.
Vinaka na qaqa ra cauravou.
You nail it simon.and wais.
Congratulations Fiji from Georgia! I will be supporting Fiji against other oposition and hope you make it to finals!
Unfortunately we remain one half team just short of being stable, strong side on a consistant basis. We made some individual mistakes that cost us this gane
We will represent tier 2 nations (including Georgia) in the later stages of the tournament.
Georgia, hold your heads up. You gave us a good game and a scare. Brave brave defence. Your country has been knocking on the 6 Nations door for a while now and I for one would love to see you playing there. You deserve it. No doubt you’ll be a great team in a few years time with the core of this squad.
The issue being for Georgia. When u think of six nations. It’s easy to move around for games. Wether the games held in France Ireland Scotland England wales or Italy. It’s quite easy and cheap to get there for the fans. Not so much for Georgia
Basically. The logistics of adding Georgia to the 6 nations don’t make sense. Which is unfortunate because they’re an amazing team.
would be great to upgrade the 6Nations to 7Nations,
but a couple of things to consider......
As a proud non native fan of Fiji I'm so stoked for the boys. It was an ugly win but you have to find a way when things aren't going to plan and that's what they did.
Godbless Fiji Team and all the coaches staff🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯
Simon would definitely have made a diplomat in another life. Spoke well and concise without any fluff around or discredit. I’m constantly in awe at how he handles these questions.
Great game Georgia, Fiji can afford to play one game in the tournament like this and still win. After Wales and Australia!!! After this game Fiji will rise again. Good luck for the quarterfinals ❤ Good luck from Croatia, go Fiji go.
Simon answers very professionally and supports the team genuinely. Pure class. We are happy to have him as our Head Coach🇫🇯. Toso Viti❤
Thanks Simon Raiwalui...you're the best
Raiwalui seems like a great coach
Well said coach rewalui
U20 Georgia bringing in guys that can boost up a team for the future and their is no doubt that they will be in the best form in rugby world cups to come all the best for the future Georgia .
Thank u Georgia
Vinaka vakalevu fiji for the win.. toso viti toso
Well said Simon, it is a game where tier 2 teams vying for tier 1 status. Thanks to Georgia for exposing Fiji's weaknesses on the route to the finals.
And now tier 1 nations vying for tier 2 status *cough cough Australia
@@adamcarson3871 please do away with rubbing salt on the wound, Australia or for that matter any team. Can we have some respect on the human level. There is a time for everything. Humbleness and respect. Old saying " every dog has his day" and by the way Australia is like a big brother to us. From Fiji
@@patkuruvakadua4657NOT 😅!
From Fiji!
@@patkuruvakadua4657now is not the time for respect. Australia need to fire their whole rugby administration board. Burn down the systems in place and start again from the grassroots level. They were faint apart 2019. They’ve fallen apart now. If they want to remain in anyway competitive they need major change in their rugby systems.
@@wakanda2536 iko Mai vei?
Vinakavakalevu to team Fiji for their come back win. May be team Fiji n the fans have now come to realize that Georgia has grown up in playing rugby n may be in the next world cup they will cause a few upsets. Well done Georgia for exposing team Fiji's weaknesses n this will cause them to prepare well for the nippy portugees next week , n if all goes well then for the big one.toso viti Toso
This scare is much needed for the Fijians as it should be a wake up call to not mess around and get their act together.
I agree.
Let’s go Fiji 🇫🇯 👍🤙🫡🫡
Looks like Simon has been a mighty strong change for the better for this Fiji team. Then again they do have lots of experience players
❤ U guys 💯...RESET MODE...
MOVE FORWARD LEARNING ALL THE TIME...PLAY SMART...PLAY SAFE..YOUR SACRIFICES AND EFFORTS ARE SUPERNATURAL 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯❤U FOREVER🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥
Wow, nearly lost, but good comeback, come on Fiji 4 more games to go
🏆🤔🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯yes
Ask Wais more Questions man he's like a security guard for Simon in those Press Conferences lol
Well done Fiji 🇫🇯 to the next one lessgoo 💯
The last question was a stupid question. Great answer from Coach Simon.
Poor old Eddie Jones. He must have been licking his lips at half time when Georgia were 9 zip ahead. Fiji were awful, players looked like they had been on the beach all week drinking beer. Then the inevitable come back by Fiji before Georgia stage a late recovery only for Jones’ Australia to be denied by the last kick of the ball. What a kicker, mate.
Why is he persisting with Teti Tela? Kinda feels like the team is carrying him in defence. He puts them under a lot of pressure and offers way less in attack.
Well said mate I just said the same thing, Fiji has been playing with 14 men so far, Tela is so useless, hope Simon can see that soon and realise his 10 isn't good enough for Test Rugby...
Yea, i agree..i think there is not much depth in the fly half position, aftr their first choice got injured. Hopefully Botitu gets a run.
What a useless player. Ben would have made a lot of difference.
O how we miss Muntz.
@@olextamani8669yeah it’s actually a real shame, anyone who watched Fiji before the WC, knows how important Muntz is to the team, with his goal kicking and game management
What can we say... we love our Kava 🙏🏼💙🇫🇯🥴
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fiji too good
Go Fiji, Gooooooooooo!!!!
🎉🎉🎉Well answered Coach Raiwalui...
🎉🎉🎉Thank you Captain Nayacalevu...
Kindly relay to the Warriors not to ever underestimate Teams that are there in the World Cup...
Best of Luck in your last pool game match....🎉🎉🎉
GOD BE WITH YOU BOYS
Congratulations Fiji
I think all teams should do a head count before, half time and after the game when playing any of the Pacific island teams
@@philippians4194 Not at all
@@philippians4194 I'm worried about their traditional dietary preferances
The task isnt to kick Australia out, its to win knowing we up against a strong team !!! That last stupid question 😮
Seni rairai vnk na qito ya kei Georgia...No.10 tetitela cv sa senirawa niko place kick ni dou sa rush D taki jiko mai..But ❤Fiji..lave tale boiz.
I wish Rawalui was my coach
Hope you gave your boys a clip on the ear each for that first half! Got to work on those butter fingers and coordination
💯
Eddie Jones would have been hanging by the seat of his pants 😂😂
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
If Fiji keep playing like this with Portugal next week…it will be a different story…Portugal is good Team and they showed that against Australia.
Lucky escape there. A different referee would probably have produced a different result.
how many kiwi coaches in this rugby world cup? nz must have the highest rate with exporting their coaches to international teams
Simon Raiwalui is a Fijian. His name is an indigenous name. His parents are from Fiji and he has played rugby for Fiji. If any country that exports alot of rugby talent its Fiji🇫🇯
@@donnalesiv5079 he was born and bred in nz with a kiwi accent - facts are facts he may have fijian heritage but he was still born in nz so is a kiwi coach duh!!!
@@bodybalanceU2he was born in New Zealand, but lived most of his life in Aussie. He considers himself Fijian and is more in tune with his Fijian heritage and even knows the language. Him being born in nz and having an nz accent doesn’t mean shit. You’d be surprised at how many Fijians in Fiji that have accents just from the western shows they watch growing up. My cousin has an Australian accent eventhough he spent his entire life in Fiji and he developed it from watching play school growing up which is an Australian kids show.
@@calebstephan2083 yeah then he wouldnt have an nz accent if he spent most of his life in aus - you are grasping straws no understanding that people have accents where they are brought up - bs to "i have an aussie accent cuz i watch aussie shows" bs to that
NZ, Italy and Wales
Simon, you need to bench matavesi. Have no damn idea why you keep starting him. He overthrows all his line outs. Tevita ikanavere needs to start.
Radradra , nayacalevu very greedy and want to take on the whole team ,from Wales match Radradra a liability I don't know what the fascination about him is about, injured all year automatic call up , while Masi is benched I can't understand
@@hilton5439its comes down to whom is the BEST to carry out the role assigned to him on the ground, theres no room for experiments.
Also, Tevita did some daring smart breaks
@@sitelamaharaj2309exactly. Tevita is better at playmaking and is more physical and on top of that he throws the line out better than matavesi.
@@linatuitogaqerelevu9675exactly. Masi is a great player but Simon is probably worried to experiment with him since this is his first World Cup but Simon needs to start him against portugal even if it’s for a few minutes. He should bring him up as replacement for nayacalevu in the second half of the portugal game to test how well he’d play on the big stage. This is his last chance to experiment with it because England is a team he can’t be testing players he has benched against. If masi doesn’t play next game he ain’t playing at all this tournament.
great game .should have kicked some penalties like Georgia when they had chance
The Vinaka Vakalevu says it all🤣🤣🤣
Congrats but you screwed my fantasy team!!😂 Dropped down to 3rd in the league.
Well done to Georgia for a fine display of defence and resilience. One bad refereeing decision cost you with that collapsed scrum, no advantage.
Fiji, love you, but that was a shameful performance which has undone most of your good work. You also just gave a template on how to beat you to the most unimaginative, right before you likely play the English, who can be the most unimaginative. Momentum: gone. Most of the fear you were instilling: gone. Back to stationary.
Ok calm down we dominated the second half and scored two tries to their none. We beat the Wallabies and pushed Wales till the end. Onto the next . Toso Viti 🙏🏾🇫🇯
Toso Viti .. well done Fiji 👏👏👏
Calm your ass down. All teams come to win in this world cup.. Sorry but England have no attack whatsoever.
@@ViliameYari You've been my second team since I was a kid. But that performance was a huge let down in a world cup where, thanks to the draw and Australian crisis, you had a great chance of making a semi-final. You should be angry. But, you're such chill people, you're probably not! Ha ha... much love from Ireland, brother.
@@stephengallagher2209 haha yeah mate. We are just thankful to be in contention. It will be a slow process over the next couple of years but you’re right though- some unnecessary plays yesterday put us in trouble. Anyways all the best to you guys, looking like strong favorites to make the final at least!
TOSO VITI..........TOSO👍🙏
Geogia got robbed of that so called forward pass try
As a Fijian fan that’s correct but saying that both linesman and referee called right in front of them.
6N Group 2 urgently needed: Italy, Georgia, Portugal, Canada, USA.
I dont know what Teti Tela is doing in the team, his not a test level rugby player, Fiji really missing Muntz, we need some running flyhalf, Tela cant kick for goal, his boot isnt long enough to get any good clearance, cant even organise the backline properly, even Volavola isnt the best of form but surly his my pick in front of Tela... they could play Lomani @ 10 for Portugal game see how he goes... Lucky for Fiji Botia and Nayacalevu played really good, Tuisova needs to bend his back and tackle low or else he will be missing games... Ravutaumada needs to play fullback and Droasese isnt playing good his kick returns are poor... 9 Kuruvoli, 10 Botitu, 11 Radradra, 12 Tuisova, 13 Nayacalevu, 14 Habosi, 15 Ravutaumada, try that backline vs Portugal...
From a fan's perspective, our Fijian brothers overplayed a lot and it almost cost them the match such was well noticed by most stanched followers of the code... One step at a time brothers at your normal pace...Toso Fiji Toso💪💪
Well atleast you beat Australia, barely winning under Georgian pressure, Goodluck handling Quarterfinal pressure.
Don’t worry about that, we’ll be alright
@@EsBeeQue lol
@@debaterofeverythingpresent2775 😝😂
Very poor kicking at goal from both the kickers: set piece not gd today.change the game plan if plan A is not working.
Aĺl the best for future games
Fiji were absolutely awful for a lot of thst game.
Exactly the first half was horrific and as a Fijian, our team needs to do alot better if they want to win.
Not crying about the ref this time just because he was on your side
Oh please. The ref disallowed a legal try from Fijis tap and go which the commentators noticed and called the ref out on and also played an advantage twice in a row in favor of Georgia. The ref made bad calls on both sides. Not only Georgia. When Georgia were up by 9 the Fijian fans online were complaining about the Fijian players online. They weren’t complaining about the ref because the ref was taking the piss on both sides.
Are you saying we weren't robbed of that first game? Because we were. Ref was a disgrace in that game. Secondly, in this game, ref did his job. We just didn't play the way wanted. Credit to Georgia they wanted to win that game. They played quite a game.
Keep your pants on Karen.
As long as they performe to the standard, no one is perfect.
What do you mean we're not complaining about the referee
News on red card ?
“No issue”
Boys play like Fijians please next tym... Go Fiji Go❤
@@pojeeboy 🤣🤣🤣
@@MeleKotothey did in the first half. Should play smart and learn quickly.
They won't last in the quarter final
If they keep playing like how they played against Georgia..maybe they won't but let's not lose hope ae😊
@@DjDipz 🤞🏾🫱🏽🫲🏾
Nahhh...Fiji will be a different team altogether when they reached the quarters marked that!
Now knock out those English geriatrics, yuppies and johnny come latelys with their kick kick kick mentality and boring approach, with too many distributors instead of real flair players.