We are two days away from the Vodafone Flying Fijians game against England yet something is already abundantly clear – the road to a level playing field remains incredibly long.
Progress has been made in negotiations with the clubs in England, and especially France to ensure that player release issues are soon a thing of the past, giving coach John McKee his best available squad this weekend.
Managing the financial deficit his side face in comparison to England is another matter.
Each of the hosts’ players on Saturday will earn $57,008.
Fiji’s entire squad will take home $23,840 and McKee says the Fijian players are more focused in representing their country.
McKee is happy to have some players back in the squad including Leone Nakarawa, Kini Murimurivalu, Peceli Yato and Josh Matavesi.
The Flying Fijians will take on England at 3.30am Sunday.
In other test matches, Georgia will face Samoa at 12pm Saturday, Italy against South Africa at 3am Sunday, Tonga against USA at 4am, Scotland faces Argentina at 6am, Ireland against the All Blacks at 6.30am while France will host the Wallabies at 9am.
