Slade takes centre stage against Fiji

It just doesn't...

I think if you're trying to sell the fact that Fiji have got these games over here, you need to not make it-

That's thing been completely dismissed, that has

What has, as a thing?

That it's Fiji's home games.

It's not even been a, a thought really, has it? It's not at all.

It's-

A lot of people will assume England are just taking the game north.

Right.

That that's what people will think.

Yeah.

They won't realize it's Fiji's home game.

Yeah, and we've been through why, and they don't play many home games in Suva, and then a lot of their players have, play up here, and it might make more commercial sense to play up here.

And I suppose the one advantage Fiji do have is that all they've had to do is travel from Cardiff to Liverpool, whereas England's traveling from Johannesburg, London, Liverpool.

I just don't think England should be able to train here for the week as well.

Yeah.

It's probably too much logistically to bother with, isn't it?

Yeah.

It's another thing-

And the organizers might go, "Well, yeah, we c- we can't mandate where people train."

Yeah.

[laughs] I just think if y- I just think you...

They're getting, they're playing at home in front of a home crowd, and they're getting all their home comforts as well, England.

This, this weather's too hot-

But on the flip side, they have traveled across half the spheres