Rugby World Cup

Altier looks set for big stage

by
The Rugby Paper Team
16 September 2018

One to watch: Hong Kong U20 fly-half Paul Altier

FIJI saved their best for last at the U20 Trophy final in Bucharest with a thumping 58-8 win over great rivals Samoa after a campaign that had seen them look much more vulnerable in the Pool stages.
Centre and star man Vilimoni Botitu crossed for two of Fiji’s nine tries but the score of the game was Samoa’s solitary try, a length of the field Barbarians style effort finished off by No.8 Shammah Solomona.
Portugal took third place with a spectacular 67-36 win over Namibia while, although Hong Kong lost heavily to Uruguay in the...

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