They are what Ben Ryan, the English coach of the Fiji sevens team, half-jokingly refers to as “third-world problems”. Like going six months without pay when he started. Or driving through the countryside to discover one of his star players going hammer and tongs in a match for his village when he was supposed to be resting. Or being mobbed whenever he pops down the supermarket.

“In Fiji you have to be prepared for anything because, like the weather, you will get sunshine and blue skies and then bang you get hit with a really bad storm,” Ryan said. “It is the same with Fijian rugby. Everything is fine and then suddenly bang: something will happen that will turn you inside out. You have to ride out the storm and the sunshine will return. From a coaching perspective, it has been brilliant experience. No day is ever the same.”