All posts tagged "Fiji"
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Columnists
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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...
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Dream Team
/ 7 years agoYoung Guns: Newcastle Falcons scrum-half Cameron Nordli-Kelemeti
Nordli-Kelemeti explains to Neale Harvey how he found rugby after the death of his mother when he was six
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 7 years agoGallagher column: So troubling to see Devin Toner replaced by a mercenary
South Africa-born lock Jean Kleyn will be playing in the World Cup for Ireland
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWRU dish out ‘confetti’ caps to their reserve team
THERE was a time when the Welsh Rugby Union went to elaborate lengths to avoid awarding caps, almost as if it...
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Features
/ 7 years agoFast tempo impressed me, it’s key to success
SHANE WILLIAMS WALES AND LIONS LEGEND WALES are set to make a host of changes for Saturday’s World Cup warm-up clash...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCheika takes chance on veteran Pocock
AUSTRALIA coach Michael Cheika has named back rower David Pocock in his World Cup squad, despite the forward’s fitness concerns. Pocock,...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSpare a thought for speedsters who will miss World Cup
THERE is no question that some bright new shiny stars on the wing will announce themselves in Japan next month so...
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Features
/ 7 years agoPolice escort put us on glory road
MY LIFEIN RUGBY NIGEL POMPHREY THE FORMER BRISTOL AND ENGLAND XV LOCK ALL three of our Cup Finals appearances in the...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCruden fails with last-gasp kick to hand Castres win
Seventy days after Toulouse lifted the Boucliers de Brennus for the first time in nine years, the new Top 14 season...
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Features
/ 7 years agoMatavesi gets his World Cup call again from Fiji
Japan challenge: Matavesi NEWCASTLE Falcons centre Josh Matavesi has been named in Fiji’s squad for the World Cup. The 28-year-old has...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBarbarians v Fiji: 100 days to go!
100 days to go before the Barbarians take on Fiji for the Killik Cup at Twickenham with Eddie Jones at the...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoSix-try Fiji fire up for challenge of Samoa
By ADAM ELLIS Forward power: Fiji pack truns the screw on Canada FIJI bounced back from a first round loss to...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoJapan warm up for their World Cup in style
By WILLIAM WITHERS Japan ………………… 41 Tonga ………………… 7 Flyer: Kenki Fukuoaka score Japan’s fifth try JAPAN eased past Tonga in...
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Features
/ 7 years agoHighs and lows on
Lions tour in ‘74 RIGHT up until my early 20s, when I was playing professionally for Middlesbrough, I seemed to be...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoFiji fire out World Cup warning to Wales
FIJI made a statement of intent with a resounding win over their Kiwi rivals in Suva in the first match of...
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Sevens World Series
/ 7 years agoEngland hold the key to Olympic dream
By ANDRE THOMAS ENGLAND may have taken the long route round to qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, but they...
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Features
/ 7 years agoFalcons duo join Harlequins
HARLEQUINS have signed Fiji internationals Vereniki Goneva and Tevita Cavubati from Newcastle. Winger Goneva, 35, joins for pre-season while second row...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoOwens: We’ll run ourselves into the ground
By ALEX BYWATER KEN OWENS will take a mantra of ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ into Wales’ World Cup...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoWales can win it, says Roberts, but there’s more to do
By STEFFAN THOMAS High hopes: Jamie Roberts playing for Wales WALES might be Six Nations Grand Slam champions, 14 games unbeaten...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoBarbarians put Eddie in charge
ENGLAND boss Eddie Jones will coach the Barbarians against Fiji at Twickenham in November, just two weeks after the World Cup...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoWarren can conquer the world in stages!
World’s best: Warren Gatland coaching Wales Chiefs: Sam Cane and Anton Lienert-Brown PICTURE: Getty Images ITHOUGHT Warren Gatland was going to...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 7 years agoEddie Jones to take charge of Barbarians in clash with Fiji
Twickenham match will be the first time Jones will have been head coach of the Baa-Baas
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoMore Fijians on their way to Scotland as Mesu Dolokoto signs for Glasgow Warriors
Dolokoto becomes latest player to join Glasgow Warriors, with Edinburgh already recruiting heavily from Fiji
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoKarkadze breaks Fiji hearts
Georgia …12 Fiji …8 GEORGIA held on to their status for next year’s U20 Championship in Italy with a pulsating finish...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoOutpowered Scotland left facing the axe
Scotland…19 Italy…26 SCOTLAND slumped to their fourth straight defeat amid the rain and thunder in Rosario. Carl Hogg’s side trailed 14-7...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoDuty free solace for sacked Jenkins
NO international coach can have been subjected to a more brutal sacking than Gareth Jenkins, on the Sunday morning after Fiji...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoEQP system is not working, the figures are a fudge
JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME England qualified: Nathan Hughes came to the Premiership before he was capped...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoThomas-Wheeler targets more big scalps in bid for fifth
■By ALEX BYWATER WALES U20’s most infamous clash with the Baby Blacks saw them hammered 92-0 in 2011. A side including...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoPumitas in seven heaven
Argentina………41 Fiji …………………14 ARGENTINA put on a show in front of the home crowd in Santa Fe by beating Fiji 41-14...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoGraham Rowntree signs three-year contract with Munster
England's triumvirate of 2015 will all call Ireland home after this year's World Cup
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Features
/ 7 years agoDavies off to Dragons to make room for Anscombe
TRANSFER WRAP DEAN Ryan has landed his No.1 target for the Dragons with fly-half Sam Davies moving to Rodney Parade from...
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoFiji in pole position to win World Series
Fiji have a two-point lead going into the final round in Paris
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoLondon Sevens: Phil Burgess raring to go as Sevens hits the capital
Burgess will stand in to captain England at Twickenham as Tom Mitchell misses out through injury
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International Rugby
/ 7 years agoWorld Rugby to offer Six Nations a compromise with ‘World League’ plans
World Rugby trying to keep order with Six Nations over promotion and relegation system, amid £5bn investment in proposed World League
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoUlster turn heads with ‘significant’ addition from Highlanders
Ulster add to an already versatile backline with signing of Matt Faddes
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoNaiyaravoro pining for a chance with his homeland
By GARY FITZGERALD TAQELE Naiyaravoro is still dreaming of one day enjoying the “passion” of playing for his native Fiji despite...
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Latest News
/ 7 years agoGoode crowned best in Europe
ALEX GOODE was last night named the best player in Europe after Saracens’ Champions Cup win to pile more pressure on...
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Club Rugby
/ 7 years agoTRP’s Championship Dream Team XV 2018-19
Jon Newcombe has canvassed opinion from the second tier to select a dream XV
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Miscellaneous
/ 7 years agoPivac gets best out of people says Hayward
By STEFFAN THOMAS BYRON Hayward has transformed the Scarlets’ defence – and now he faces the task of stepping into the...
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Super Rugby Pacific and Japanese Division One
/ 7 years agoLegend Watson accuses Sharks of ‘culture of fear’
By ADAM ELLIS Determination: Andre Esterhuizen scores for the Sharks THE SHARKS took full advantage of an ill-disciplined Waratahs team to...
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