As a thirty-year-old, Kamea took on the then-fiercely amateur rugby establishment in Fiji when he recruited key players from the Fiji team that won the 1990 and 1991 Hong Kong Sevens, including Noa Nadruku who would become a legend with the Canberra Raiders, Joe Rabele, the current coach of the Fiji Bati, and Eddie Waqa, father of NRL Premiership winner Sisa, and took them to the Nissan World Sevens in Sydney in February 1992. Other players who joined Kamea on that epic trip to Sydney included brothers Alifereti Dere and Pauliasi Tabulutu, Niko Baleiverata, Pio Kubuwai, Nemani Matirewa, and former Wallaby Acura Niuqila. The father of NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne, Fiji-born Manoa Thompson, played for Kamea at Fiji’s first outing in the Rugby League World Cup in 1995. Kamea was given a life ban by Fiji Rugby Union for his trouble, but all was forgiven a decade later when he was invited to join the FRU as a board member by which time rugby union had turned professional. Kamea, who has both Fijian and Tongan roots, said he sees Super Rugby and Rugby League as two sides of the same moral issue: ‘In the early 1990s so much was expected of those players, so much income was being generated on the back of their talent, yet they received absolutely nothing - not even complimentary tickets. ‘In the Pacific, where we play this great game, player welfare is still the most important issue, for the players themselves, their immediate and their extended families and their wider communities.’ ‘Now Pacific rugby league players are some of the most keenly sought-after players in the NRL,’ said Kamea, who keeps across both codes as publisher of Teivovo Rugby magazine and most recently organized the Uprising Fiji International 7s tournaments. ‘Sadly this same question of fair play for those boys that launched rugby league in Fiji nearly three decades ago is still here but the problem is in rugby union. And it’s linked to the fact the Pacific Islands were left out of Super Rugby, forcing our best players to play overseas just to make a living.’ ‘But from 2022 onwards our principle is in the Pacific, for the Pacific and by the Pacific,’ said Kamea. He confirmed that his group had had positive discussions with the Sir Bryan Williams-led Moana Pasifika group, their bid details of which were revealed in the New Zealand media over the weekend. Kamea said that discussions with the Fiji Rugby Union and Oceania Rugby had been positive and were on-going.