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"They're fitness level is very impressive,'' said Drewitt, before taking the national team on one of his super-charged coaching sessions on Tuesday night.

"But they have to decide whether they want to be professionals in terms of their attitudes towards the game, or whether they want this to be a social thing. Clearly the players are motivated,'' he said, lifting his hands high on an invisible learning curve.

Drewitt, one of the game's most impressive instructors, has been brought to Bermuda for a two-week coaching stint aimed at improving the squad for a crucial year, which includes the Caribbean tournament in late November and the World Cup qualifier against the USA Eagles on March 12. He is also teaching players and officials to become coaches so that more young people in Bermuda can be lured into the game.

And despite excruciating hot weather under achingly blue skies, Drewitt has been working hard -- 12-hour days on the weekends are the norm -- stomping through the National Sports Club pitch the way men in southern France stomp on grapes -- easily and with enthusiasm.

Drewitt, 35, is clearly a man on a mission. This disciple of the game has been busy proselytising rugby all over the world with evangelical fervour. Lately his bewitching homilies have been aimed at players from Canada, the United States and Europe. His main goal is to develop coaching in the countries he visits so that youngsters can be taught the game in fresh and interesting ways.

The system he leans on is from his native England, with a sprinkling of methods from Australia and New Zealand added for good measure.

Danny Cozens, who is being looked upon for bringing salt and vinegar to a Police roster decimated due to contract terminations on the force, is the type of player Drewitt covets.

A hard-hitting, take-every-rub-the-wrong-way player during his days in county and divisional rugby in England, Drewitt places a premium on players who have atittude. He prefers a faster, feistier bunch of players -- guys who can run, tackle, chew gum, salivate and growl at the same time.

"He's helping us understand the game better,'' said Cozens. "We've covered a whole range of aspects -- scrums, rucks and mauls, place-kicking, positional skills, tactical options and team play over individual play. He's put everything together in one neat package.'' Now a lecturer at Exeter College in England, Drewitt's aim is to give rugby players in Bermuda a new way of looking at things.

"Plus a few things they haven't seen before,'' he said. "Things we've developed for our own national team in England.'' "Heck, Bermuda has a major task and a lot of hard work ahead of them,'' he added, referring to the World Cup qualifier next spring. "Bermuda will have to keep ball away from the Eagles and whether they can do it for 80 minutes, I simply don't know.'' But a situation that once looked look like a tighter fit than a rugby team's field trip in a mini-van, Drewitt now has the national squad believing they are capable of pulling off what was once unthinkable.

"This is something we should have done a while back,'' said Bermuda Rugby Football Union official Brian Toms. "Most important, it gives us a new focus on what to coach. We've really been behind in this matter.'' Sunday is the unofficial start of the 1993-94 season with the Sandys Boat Club tournament (1 p.m.).

BACK TO BASICS -- Bermuda national team coach Keiron Peacock, left, and Peter Drewitt watch closely as players participate in a work-out under Drewitt's expert tutelage. Drewitt has been brought to Bermuda to give the national team some pointers.