Months of preparation will now go down to 80 minutes of rugby with 50 players shouldering the expectation of their comrades, families and fans of the Army and Police teams in the Sukuna Bowl this afternoon.

It is a clash of the best in local rugby with 10 players in the starting Police side featured from the champion Nadroga team while defending champion, Army also has 10 players who played in the Suva team that took the Stallions to the wire in the Digicel Cup and Farebrother Sullivan trophy challenge.

In fact they also have 12 players in each team that have played for Fiji with the Warriors and the National 7s team.

Army team manager, Major Aseri Rokoura believes they are better prepared than last year and has told their fans that they won’t return home disappointed this afternoon.