Fiji are on the verge of only their third appearance in a World Cup quarter-final after coming from behind to see off a spirited Georgia, leaving Eddie Jones’s Australia on the brink of elimination in the process. That they did not claim a bonus point means we cannot talk in certainties just yet but Fiji will not be complaining. This was a match that they looked like losing for large spells and it is a mark of their progress that they found a way to win it.
As a result, they are almost there and they may even be confirmed as quarter-finalists on Sunday depending on what happens between Australia and Portugal. If not, their fate is in their hands when they face the latter next week and, without doing a disservice to Portugal, it is little more than prolonging the agony for Jones and the Wallabies.
