Its now do or die for the FMF Flying Fijians as they take on the much fancied Springboks side in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal.
The international media has been focusing on Fiji, saying that their fairy tale story may continue beyond Monday if they have a game plan to counter the South Africans.
There has been increased media attention on Fiji since they had the historic win against Wales over the weekend and even the top TV stations that would rarely have news reports about our country, have started focusing on Fiji - these include the likes of the BBC and CNN.
Fiji coach, Ilivasi Tabua said they are ready for the Springboks although the message from the Boks is that they will not show any respect to the island nation team.
He said this will just push them harder to try their best to beat the South Africans.
However South African captain, John Smit said they have set their eyes to play in the final and the aim will be just that in Marseille on Monday morning.
Speaking to the BBC this morning, Fiji's Vice Captain, Kele Leawere said although they know that their pre-tournament goal was to reach the World Cup quarter final, they are definitely not just in the quarters to make up the numbers.
Just to ensure that the Fiji team is in the right mindset, they had a rest day today and visited the Island of Monte Cristo where the movie, Count of Monte Cristo was shot, and our boys also visited the Notre Dame, the highest point in Marseille, the second biggest city in France.
Reports from Marseille are that more than 40 journalists, cameramen and photographers were following the boys everywhere they went today.
Close to 60 thousand spectators will watch the quarterfinal match in Marseille and there are predictions that majority of the crowd will be behind Fiji when the game kicks of at 1am Monday.
And the Fiji 15s team and the nation as a whole is now living the dream, living the dream to create history against one of the best in the world with a budget for the Rugby World Cup that Fiji can only dream of. But as fly half, Nicky Little sums it up from Marseille that the boys are ready to even die for their country on Monday morning.
Flying Fijians ready for Boks
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