“I am smaller than most lads on the pitch but I don’t feel threatened by it. There are areas of the game other than being big and powerful”.
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It is a shortcoming that has not gone unnoticed by England.
“It’s interesting for us that we’ll be in the England changing room, although it probably won’t look like the England changing room on Friday night”.
“Hopefully our gameplan will tell towards the end”.
“These games take 80 minutes. There’s only so much prep we can do on them because they can do something out of nothing, that’s the type of player they have”, Youngs said.
“Senior players run the team”.
“We’ve been picked for this squad for a reason, and that reason is to play against England and do all we can to topple them on their home ground”, the Montpellier back-rower said.
“We’re ready to go”.
The Fijians are ranked ninth in the world but find themselves in the toughest of the four pools with England Australia and Wales, as well as complete outsiders Uruguay. “The coaches want us to be a decision-making team who adapt to what’s in front of us”.
“I don’t mind a tackle. There are no pushovers in international rugby”, Lawes said.
“Once I made the decision to come over, one of my goals was to play in this World Cup and it’s here now”. Anything can happen. We’re the minnows and people will expect us to ship 50 points. “It’s going to be a good challenge for us”.
“Fiji have very big, athletic players”.
And after taking on the rough Yorkshire terrain in the spectacular Land Rover World Cup 2015 Defender, specially commissioned for the continuous 100-day tour of the UK and Ireland, Cueto believes the chance for thousands of fans to see the trophy in the flesh will have a huge effect on grassroots rugby.
Rugby league convert Burgess admits his selection for the World Cup has justified his decision to leave the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2014.
Mark Cueto was speaking on behalf of Land Rover, a Worldwide Partner of Rugby World Cup 2015.
The sporting great was at a World Cup preview dinner at the Parkway Hotal and Spa that was attended by a crowd of over 200 and was hosted by Bristol coach Sean Holley and supported the Wooden Spoon charity. “So I’m just grateful for the position I am in”.
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“Basically all I was doing was articulating my belief and trying to build their belief that they can go on and win the tournament. Everyone knows it’s coming now”.
