Fijian Drua players will dominate the FIJI Water Flying Fijians side that will face the Barbarians for the Killik Cup at Twickenham, England on June 22.

“The Drua boys will represent the country with pride, basically it will be the Drua boys since the Northern hemisphere players are bonded by Regulation 9,” Bryne said.

The Regulation 9 Camp is the window that World Rugby assigns for national teams to have excess to its professional players plying their trade with professional clubs in their various adopted unions.

Bryne has confirmed that the team that is going to play the Baabaas would be flying out on Saturday.

“We will sit down and look at it. We will work it out once we reach there and see how the selection goes,” he said.

Byrne said there will be no scrimmaging matches before the Barbarians match.

The Flying Fijians will get together as a team on June 29 in London.

“We will start the programme then go to Georgia. After the test we will spend one week training then head off to Los Angeles and spend a week there before we play the All Blacks.”

Meanwhile Fijian Drua chief executive officer Mark Evans has disclosed that Fijian Drua will be launching an Under 16 Boys Academy in October.

“We’ve made some progress in some of those areas. We’re running trials and combines and scabs around looking at the Deans (competition) as we speak,” Evans said.

“We are determined within two years we will have 90 boys in the boys’ academy and then will start working on the girls’ (academy) too.

“Five players who played for us in the campaign in the first team were under 21. That’s a promising statistic. It’s very rare that you have 19 and 20-year-olds debuting in the premier competition. We had five this season. Although one did play one last year. But that was pleasing.”

He added the takeover of the winning team across from the Fiji Rugby Union to the Drua, with a lot of joint contracts employed by them and the union has been successful.

According to Evans in the next couple of months, the Drua management will improve facilities at the Drua base in Legalega to give women more dignity.

“For the women’s team, we’re going to put in a medical room, a social area, and a changing area, so that the two teams are treated on a much more equal basis,” Evans said.

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