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Les Fidji coupent dans le budget du Sevens pour privilégier la RWC 2023

Lyon's Fijian winger Josua Tuisova celebrates his try during the French Top14 rugby union match between Section Paloise Bearn Pyrenees (Pau) and Lyon Olympique Universitaire Rugby at the Stade du Hameau in Pau, south-western, France on January 7, 2023. (Photo by GAIZKA IROZ / AFP) (Photo by GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Peter Mazey, président par intérim du conseil d’administration de la Fiji Rugby Union, a confirmé que, bien que l’enquête sur les problèmes financiers de la fédération ait révélé des dettes d’un montant de 1,4 million d’euros (3,5 millions de dollars fidjiens), la préparation pour la prochaine Coupe du Monde de Rugby se déroulera bien selon les plans.

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Maze:y a affirmé que la FRU avait même prévu que les Flying Fijians puissent disputer la finale du tournoi en France, mais qu’il y avait de mauvaises nouvelles concernant les coupes budgétaires en ce qui concerne l’équipe de rugby à sept doublement médaillée d’or aux Jeux Olympiques.

S’exprimant lors d’une conférence de presse à la Rugby House, Mazey a déclaré : « Nous sommes ici depuis seulement un mois et il y a beaucoup de travail à faire pour que tout soit en ordre ici, c’est pourquoi nous demandons au peuple fidjien de faire preuve de patience.

« En ce qui concerne la Coupe du Monde de Rugby, nous ne cherchons pas à réduire les coûts – nous voulons gagner. Nous avons même prévu des primes en cas d’accession en finale. En revanche, en ce qui concerne l’équipe de rugby à sept, nous allons devoir faire des économies. C’est difficile d’envoyer tous nos joueurs en stage pendant de longues périodes dans des complexes touristiques qui coûtent 25 000 dollars par semaine. Nous ne pouvons pas nous le permettre. »

Mazey a ajouté que depuis la formation du nouveau conseil d’administration, plusieurs problèmes avaient été découverts et que le niveau d’endettement constituait leur plus grande préoccupation. « Nous devons trouver un moyen de rembourser nos dettes avant de nous occuper de quoi que ce soit d’autre », a-t-il ajouté. « La dette s’élevait à 1,7 million de dollars en 2022, mais elle a doublé au cours des derniers mois.

« Nous pensons que cette situation est due en grande partie à l’absence d’une budgétisation appropriée ou au non-respect des budgets prévus dans presque tous les domaines ici à la FRU. Il y a beaucoup de choses qui ont conduit à l’augmentation de notre niveau d’endettement. Il faut être responsable. Même dans les plus petites choses, des fonds ont été gaspillés. »

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Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I rated Lowe well enough to be an AB. Remember we were picking the likes of George Bridge above such players so theres no disputing a lot of bad decisions have been made by those last two coaches. Does a team like the ABs need a finicky winger who you have to adapt and change a lot of your style with to get benefit from? No, not really. But he still would have been a basic improvement on players like even Savea at the tail of his career, Bridge, and could even have converted into the answer of replacing Beauden at the back. Instead we persisted with NMS, Naholo, Havili, Reece, all players we would have cared even less about losing and all because Rieko had Lowe's number 11 jersey nailed down.


He was of course only 23 when he decided to leave, it was back in the beggining of the period they had started retaining players (from 2018 onwards I think, they came out saying theyre going to be more aggressive at some point). So he might, all of them, only just missed out.


The main point that Ed made is that situations like Lowe's, Aki's, JGP's, aren't going to happen in future. That's a bit of a "NZ" only problem, because those players need to reach such a high standard to be chosen by the All Blacks, were as a country like Ireland wants them a lot earlier like that. This is basically the 'ready in 3 years' concept Ireland relied on, versus the '5 years and they've left' concept' were that player is now ready to be chosen by the All Blacks (given a contract to play Super, ala SBW, and hopefully Manu).


The 'mercenary' thing that will take longer to expire, and which I was referring to, is the grandparents rule. The new kids coming through now aren't going to have as many gp born overseas, so the amount of players that can leave with a prospect of International rugby offer are going to drop dramatically at some point. All these kiwi fellas playing for a PI, is going to stop sadly.


The new era problem that will replace those old concerns is now French and Japanese clubs (doing the same as NRL teams have done for decades by) picking kids out of school. The problem here is not so much a national identity one, than it is a farm system where 9 in 10 players are left with nothing. A stunted education and no support in a foreign country (well they'll get kicked out of those countries were they don't in Australia).


It's the same sort of situation were NZ would be the big guy, but there weren't many downsides with it. The only one I can think was brought up but a poster on this site, I can't recall who it was, but he seemed to know a lot of kids coming from the Islands weren't really given the capability to fly back home during school xms holidays etc. That is probably something that should be fixed by the union. Otherwise getting someone like Fakatava over here for his last year of school definitely results in NZ being able to pick the cherries off the top but it also allows that player to develop and be able to represent Tonga and under age and possibly even later in his career. Where as a kid being taken from NZ is arguably going to be worse off in every respect other than perhaps money. Not going to develop as a person, not going to develop as a player as much, so I have a lotof sympathy for NZs case that I don't include them in that group but I certainly see where you're coming from and it encourages other countries to think they can do the same while not realising they're making a much worse experience/situation.

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