All posts tagged "Fiji"
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoSouth Africa’s World Cup stars to light up Barbarians’ November tour
South African World Cup champions Lukhanyo Am, Makazole Mapimpi, Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira and Herschel Jantjies will be in action for the...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoBeauty and the beast in equal parts
Brendan Gallagher’s reminiscences from a truly memorable World Cup in Japan Bowing out: The Japanese team show humility Best ref never...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoNow Japan gets ready to make Sevens sing
RUGBY MATTERS A weekly look at the game’s other talking points ONE of the big winners from RWC2019 is going to...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoThe Big Ten maintain their power game at World Rugby
ALL men are equal, but some are more equal than others as World Rugby continue to demonstrate with Orwellian ruthlessness. There...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoMoriarty try swings it Wales’ way after Vahaamahina red
From NICK CAIN at Oita Stadium Late winner: Ross Moriarty scores the crucial try ROSS Moriarty’s late try clinched a see-saw...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoBordeaux face battle to retain Radradra
World class talent: Semi Radradra PICTURE: Getty Images Semi Radradra’s stock has never been higher than it is right now. After...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Warburton red card still haunts me to this day
The semi-final loss at the 2011 Rugby World Cup was the worst moment in the career of Shane Williams and other...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoIt’s about time the law makers got hookers to toe the line
NICK READ HIS EXPERT THE Not-Straight scourge is spreading. Having already devalued the scrum as a contest by allowing scrum-halves to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoRugby Matters: Make Pacific Islands rugby’s West Indies
The West Indies cricket team can be selected from 15 Caribbean island nations. Brendan Gallagher asks if the same can be...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoGuscott column: Semi Radradra has been my player of the tournament
Jeremy Guscott was impressed by Fiji's performance, albeit ending in defeat, against Wales
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoAmos eager to finally end his role as bridesmaid
By ALEX BYWATER HALLAM Amos made his Wales debut in 2013 and Japan is his second World Cup – but with...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoRadradra has been my player of the tournament
JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE…EVERY WEEK WALES must be licking their lips with the prospect of France as their quarter- final...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoGive us more top level games, plead Uruguay
By ALEX BYWATER URUGUAY captain Juan Gaminara has told World Rugby the South Americans must take on the game’s best sides...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoFast games suit super-fit Wales says training guru
How sports science has Wales ready to be unbroken in the humid conditions of Japan
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: Hope has turned into belief after win over Aussies
How Wales' win over the Wallabies changed their outlook for the rest of the World Cup
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Featured
/ 6 years agoProblems will exist in the Pacific until we get a professional team, says Fiji coach McKee
John McKee reflects on the issues facing Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, with all three nations set to exit the World Cup...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoFiji flyers put on the style after half-time
Georgia……………10 Fiji……………45 FIJI ran in six second-half tries to record their first win of this World Cup and ease past Georgia...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoMore tackle problems for Cheika’s Wally-bies
By GEORGE LAWRENCE Cutting the line: Tevita Kuridrani runs in Australia’s fourth try PICTURE: Getty Images AUSTRALIA cruised to a comfortable...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoGeorgia turn on the power to bury Los Teros
Georgia……………33 Uruguay……………7 GEORGIA scored five tries to bring Uruguay crashing down to earth at Kumagaya Stadium following the South Americans’ shock...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWales withstand Wallaby revival to claim epic win
By SAM JACKSON Diving in: Gareth Davies goes over to score Wales’ second try WALES held off a fierce Wallaby fightback...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoDan will be ‘ready to go for Fiji’
DAN Biggar should be fit to face Fiji after a head injury forced him off. “As far as I understand, he...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoFast games suit super-fit Wales says training guru
By ALEX BYWATER Belief: Ryan Chambers WALES’ World Cup campaign couldn’t have gone much better to date and off the field...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoBall’s back on steam in Welsh boiler room
By ALEX BYWATER Hard yards: Jake Ball on the charge against Australia FROM forgotten man to irreplaceable World Cup star, Jake...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoMcKee plots to spoil pal Gatland’s party
By ALEX BYWATER JOHN McKee has known Warren Gatland for nearly two decades, but the Fiji head coach is still determined...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoHope has turned into belief after Aussie win
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND Word class rugby: Hadleigh Parkes score against Australia PICTURE: Getty Images THERE will be no...
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Features
/ 6 years agoCut out the Pools and go straight to quarter-finals
COLIN BOAG Humiliation: New Zealand blitz Canada as Rieko Ioane goes over for their fifth try Are you enjoying the RWC...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoRefs must get grip of scrum – Baldwin
By STEFFAN THOMAS Concern: Baldwin SCOTT Baldwin believes inconsistent refereeing of the scrums has contributed to Wales’ set piece problems at...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoJackson column: Class act as Manuel Diana remembers the fallen
Uruguay back row Manuel Diana paid tribute to the people of Kamaishi as a player who heralds from a club devastated...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoCain column: Bravo Japan… now give us World Cup for Tier 2
Nick Cain outlines why a World Cup exclusive to Tier 2 nations is needed in the wake of Japan's shock win...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoWilliams column: This Wales side have got Michael Cheika worried
Shane Williams previews the big clash in Pool A between Wales and Australia
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoClass act as Diana remembers the fallen
Emotional: Manuel Diana scores for Uruguay PICTURE: Getty Images PETER JACKSON Nobody following the World Cup beyond the banks of the...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoCanada need to evoke the 1991 spirit of Vimy Ridge
Enforcer: Norm Hadley CANADA tackle New Zealand on Wednesday and whenever the Canuks meet the All Blacks, which isn’t very often,...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoKey injuries mean Scots must change their approach
AS THEWorld Cup enters its second full week the stakes are getting higher and the tension mounting. Referees are also under...
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Features
/ 6 years agoWorld Rugby must take blame for tackle farce
Let off: Samoa’s Rey Lee-Lo should have been red-carded I’m not a fan of World Rugby, primarily because it seems to...
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoCampese: Aussies will be much slicker against Wales
DAVID Campese is predicting more World Cup woe for the Welsh today reminding Warren Gatland that “Australia always turn up to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 6 years agoGallagher column: Tonga and Samoa should have a base in Auckland
Brendan Gallagher's focusses on the lineage of Tonga, Samoa and Fiji's squads, most of whom are based in New Zealand and...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoRefereeing levels have been sub-standard, World Rugby admits
There have been a number of controversial decisions made so far at the World Cup
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Latest News
/ 6 years agoFijian giant Ratuva is on his way to join the Scarlets
By STEFFAN THOMAS THE Scarlets are set to sign Fiji World Cup lock Tevita Ratuva from Bordeaux- Begles. Ratuva is a...
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Features
/ 6 years agoLet the counties reps run our amateur game
COLIN BOAG Investment needed: Fiji did well against Australia, how much better with more money? Iwas on the list of the...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoTonga and Samoa should have a base in Auckland
BRENDAN GALLAGHER Exile returns: Steve Mafi played for Australia U20 before going back to Tonga Tonga will briefly enter our rugby...
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Columnists
/ 6 years agoThese Sevens stars can shine bright in Japan
Gold: Leone Nakarawa SEVENS sometimes gets a bad wrap with the perception being that it has become a sport apart and...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoHOW ALL THE OTHER WORLD CUPS STARTED
1987 New Zealand v Italy (Eden Park): The ceremony consisted of schoolkids and scouts shambling around the ground with the 16...
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Premiership
/ 6 years agoBaxter’s new breed prove their qualities
By MIKE SINCLAIR THE next generation of Exeter forwards showed they have been wellschooled in the Chiefs’ brand of pack attrition....
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoWallabies comeback dodges banana skin
By GARY FITGERALD Revving it up: Samu Kerevi scores Australia’s fifth try PICTURE: Getty Images Breakaway: Waisea Nayacalevu puts Fiji 21-12...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoMcKee: Hodge deserved a yellow
JOHN McKee claimed the decision by fellow Kiwi Ben O’Keeffe not to punish Reece Hodge for a no-arms tackle was crucial...
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International Rugby
/ 6 years agoI’ll prove Eddie was wrong to drop me, says Nathan Hughes
“You train all your life for a big goal like the World Cup and sometimes you have obstacles put in your...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoJapan will go ballistic if Blossoms bloom at Rugby World Cup
Nick Cain sets out the teams who are likely to be in the quarter-finals, and pegs Japan and Fiji to be...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoSkipper Vui must be at his best to inspire this underpowered Samoan challenge
Play-maker: Fly-half Tusi Pisi SAMOA have always been underdogs, but they used to punch above their weight and the question in...
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Rugby World Cup
/ 6 years agoLittle things matter if the Canucks are to progress
CANADA Hope: Evan Olmstead CANADA emerged from last year’s last-chance saloon as convincing winners of the repechage tournament to continue the...












