Glen Ella join FRU HPU
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Former Australian rugby union player Glen Ella has joined the Fiji Rugby Union, as an adviser to elite players and coaches.
He has a two-year contract with Fiji's High Performance Unit, but his start date is still to be worked out.
"My job will be to go through their elite teams, and also their coaches, how they coach their elite teams and obviously the juniors," he said.
"They have to get it right at that junior level, and then it gets easier as it goes along.
"In some cases in the modern union, and Australia is one of those countries, they have let grassroots rugby slip, and they are certainly not getting the rewards that they should be."
The former Wallaby and Australia sevens coach, who advised Canada's 2007 World Cup team, was brought on board at the suggestion of Fiji's national coach and former Wallaby, Ilivasi Tabua.
"It's good timing, they don't get to play internationals like the test playing nations but they still performed so professionally at the World Cup," he said.
"They play Australia A, NZ Maori, Tonga and Samoa, but they need to play northern hemisphere teams, and I think they don't travel there till next year.
"There is a fear that if they don't play top level rugby, they will slip.
"That's why I am there to assist them in those processes."
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