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Tough call, but rugby must help the islands

CHRIS HEWETT

Fiji talent: Semi Radradra
PICTURE: Getty Images

When the Bristol scrum-half Richard Harding led England onto the field in Suva for their first game on Fijian soil in 1988, the tourists found something of a curiosity awaiting them on the far side of halfway His name was Jone Kubu and - how weird was this? - he liked to play his rugby abroad.
Everyone else in the Fijian line-up was island based, with a variety of local teams - Nadroga, Nadi, Rewa - represented in the elite selection. By moving to Australia after the inaugural World Cup in 1987 and hooking up with Easts club...

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