Fiji coach John McKee has turned the heat on a number of Wallabies with Fijian heritage, saying the pressure is on them when they compete against their home country on Saturday..
Henry Speight, Tevita Kuridrani, Marika Koroibete and Sefa Naivalu are just some of the Australian players in line to face Fiji. i.
Earlier this week Naivalu spoke about how nervous he would be coming up against Fiji and McKee agreed, saying the pressure was on Australia's brigade of speedy Fijians.
"This Test match is different and the pressure will actually be on them because they're playing against their own country," he said. "It's not like playing for Australia against New Zealand or anyone else. This game, knowing the Fijian people and what it means to them and representing their people and families … it'll put a little bit of mental pressure on the Fijians playing for Australia.
"They're actually playing for Australia against their own country."
Wallabies hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau refuted the suggestion that there would be a number of nervous players.
"I think they'll be eager," he said. "There's always talk of betraying their nation, but I don't think that's the case at all.
"I'm eager to see what the fellow Fijians have to offer because in past performances up in the north they have been giving the northern hemisphere teams a run. It'll be interesting to see what they do in this June Test series."
Wallabies coach Michael Cheika said on Tuesday that Fiji were one of rugby's most improved sides..
"Obviously they have their unique place in the sevens game without a doubt, but in the 15s game, I would say they're the biggest improver," Cheika said on Radio Sport National. "We had them in our group at the World Cup. They might not [have] thought they had strength in the set-piece, but that's where they've really come to the fore and are really strong now."
New Zealand-born McKee took the role as Fiji head coach in 2014 but has spent time in Australia.
He started coaching in Victoria, notably for club side Harlequins and the state team for two years in the early 1990s.
He moved to Sydney in 1996 and became coach of Eastwood and, as well as other stints, was Australia's under-20s assistant coach at the junior world championships in 2013.
McKee has worked with Wallabies Reece Hodge, Samu Kerevi, Adam Coleman and Allan Alaalatoa, who were all around the junior national setup four years ago.
He believes Fiji have improved their set-piece considerably and are a genuine chance of beating Australia for the first since time since 1954.
"Fiji always had very exciting backs and could play the most exciting brand of rugby, but always suffered at the highest level because their set play wasn't strong enough," McKee said. "Since I've been there we've put a lot of work into that. You saw some of those results in the Rugby World Cup; we were quite competitive around the scrum and lineout."
Captain Akapusi Qera said Fiji would take motivation from the fact minnow rugby nation Samoa beat Australia 32-23 in Sydney in 2011.
"If Samoa can beat Australia in Australia, so can we," Qera said. "We're looking forward to that. It's a challenge been laid by Samoa and we'll try and equal that or even better that.
"[A win] would be massive achievement for us as a young group."