As the Fijiana 7s team head into Cape Town, coach Richard Walker says they are keeping the team grounded, confident, and mentally ready to face a tough pool where every opponent must be treated as beatable but never underestimated.
Walker says the players need to be confident enough that they have the ability to beat a team like New Zealand but also getting things right from Dubai.
He says they are also focusing on the mindset that it will take everything they have to beat not just New Zealand, but every team in their pool.
The coach says Great Britain did not win a game last week, so they cannot factor that it's going to be an easy game as they are going to come out with a “nothing to lose” mindset.
The Fijiana 7s will take on the USA at 8.44 tonight, before facing Great Britain at midnight, and they will meet New Zealand at 3.48 tomorrow morning in their last pool match.
The women’s semi-finals will start at 9.38pm tomorrow, and the final will be at 2.10am Monday.
New Zealand is the defending women’s champion.
