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Maikeli Seru Nadroga Rugby Union president and former Flying Fijian Tiko Matawalu. Picture: FT FILE/SUPPLIED The Nadroga Rugby Union season starts next weekend with the Nadroga 10s tournament at Lawaqa Park in Sigatoka. Union president Tiko Matawalu said the coming season would be a challenging one to the former Fijian provincial rugby giant. “This is an important season for us,” Matawalu said. “We have a lot of challenges and we do not want to repeat what we went through last year.” Nadroga returned empty-handed in rugby last year. Compared with past years, the Stallions would end t...

Paulini Curuqara The Northland team. Picture: NOA BIUDOLE. Northland Rugby Union is expected to field the same squad from last year for this season’s Skipper Cup competition which is scheduled to start in April. Union vice-president Livai Driu said they had a successful ending in the Vodafone Cup Championship last year and were looking forward to the Skipper Cup competition. As usual, we are not new to the Skipper Cup competition because we will be playing against the big teams in provincial rugby,” Driu said. “Our preparation have started for the year and we have plans in place to a...

Seruvakula supports proposal to have separate women’s competition Seruvakula supports proposal to have separate women’s competition [image: file] Fiji Airways Fijiana coach Senirusi Seruvakula says he supports the proposal to have a separate competition for women’s rugby. Seruvakula says it is unfair for Lautoka to be demoted as champions of the women’s competition. Last season, the Lautoka women’s team was demoted because the Lautoka men’s team was one of two teams at the bottom of the Skipper Cup competition points table. Seruvakula adds it will be good to have a single compet...