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Fiji`s focus turns to Wales

High Roller: Fiji flank Ace Ratuva races away for his try

Fiji coach Ilie Tabua rued his side's ill discipline following their 55-12 defeat to Australia in Montpellier on Sunday.

A second-string Fijian outfit mounted some stiff resistance to the Wallabies in the first half, but they surrendered territorial advantage by giving away a succession of penalties and gave their opponents too much room.

The Australians enjoyed a mountain of possession and rarely needed to get above second gear as they worked a hat-trick for Drew Mitchell and tries each for Adam Ashley-Cooper and Stephen Hoiles.

Fiji's game was riddled with errors and despite scoring twice, through winger Isoa Neivua and flanker Ace Ratuva, they never came close to threatening the Wallabies.

The islanders now head to Nantes for a winner-takes-all clash with Wales, with a quarter-final place against South Africa in the offering, and Tabua has demanded improvements.

"We are looking to have more control in the game, we gave away a lot of penalties especially in the line-out in Australia territory and in the scrum as well," he said.

"We want to work on our defence too and improve our up front tackling."

"But I'm very proud of the players we put in. We thought we had a few chances at end of first half to chase the score and I was pleased with the younger players coming through, knowing that we've got a tougher game against Wales next week.

"It will be very tough, but we have to beat Wales to be in quarters which is our goal. We want to start the game well to give us a confidence boost going in."

Tabua confirmed that he had called up former Biarritz winger Sereli Bobo to replace the injured Filimone Bolavucu ahead of the Wales match.

"Yes, Filimone is out with ankle injury and Sereli Bobo has joined us now," he said.

Captain Seremaia Bai was confident the team would be able to step up a gear against Wales and make it out of the pool stage for the third time in the World Cup.

"I think after today's game I was pleased at the way the boys played," said Bai, who only had a handful of hours of sleep before the game after driving back to Clermont-Ferrand to be with his wife who gave birth on Saturday.

"There were some positive things and we played some good rugby.

"Of course, we need to look at our mistakes and learn from them, but we are confident we'll be ready for Wales next week."