Fiji Planning For Partisan Crowd

Fiji have been using loudspeakers in training to prepare themselves for Friday night’s Rugby World Cup opener at Twickenham.

Over 80,000 fans will be packed into Twickenham for the World Cup’s opening match in what is bound to be a cauldron of noise.

Head coach John McKee revealed his side had practiced by trying to recreate that level of sound.

“We had a little bit of a strategy earlier in the campaign in Fiji, we had a PA system playing crowd noise and the sounds from Twickenham.

"That was part of our preparation. Just the normal crowd noise from Twickenham, they took it off some of the footage.

"It was good in those sessions we did it, it affected the intensity of the training. It’s hard to hear calls and the communication in the game.”