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said while Fiji had
the potential to
do that, he had
would not sup-
port FRU’s bid
for a four-year
contract start-
ing in the 2019-
2020 season.
He said this as
the FRU started
a campaign to
win support
across the
country for
the bid,
p u t t o -
gether by
a taskforce
led by FRU
general man-
ager commercial
Brian Thorburn
and assisted by Greg
Peters of Foreign
Sports and Media.
T h e F R U ,
which said it
was aware
of Ryan’s
views
when he

Get your priorities right, FRU told

Why Ryan won’t

back Fiji 7s bid Amenoni Nasilasila

wins DHL Impact
Player in Cape Town
Photo: World Rugby

OLYMPIC-winning coach Ben Ryan has declined his support for the bid when FRU
expressed serious reservations on Fiji’s bid approached him in August 2017, while
to host a leg of the World Rugby Sevens FRU hopes its bid will meet World Rugby
Series, saying the Fiji Rugby Union has its requirements when it is submitted by the
priorities misplaced. end of this month.
By Ilaitia Turagabeci Ryan, who was a guest at the Mana In a lengthy post on his Facebook page,
Whey Coral Coast Sevens last month, Ryan said he was not prepared to back the

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