On the eve of the Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship 2018, Oceania Rugby caught up with Women’s Director Cathy Wong to talk about how the region are using rugby’s values to help more women play the game and to combat domestic violence. Oceania Rugby hopes its efforts to provide pathways that allow more women to engage […]...
The Fiji Airways Fijiana and Samoa’s Manusina kicked off the 2018 Oceania Rugby Women’s Championships today by registering impressive wins over Tonga and Papua New Guinea respectfully. A strong and vocal local crowd took the opportunity to see some international women’s matches at Churchill Park in Lautoka ahead of the weekend. MATCH ONE: PAPUA NEW […]...
New combinations will be tested as the Fiji Airways Flying Fijians seek to assert dominance over Pool D rivals Uruguay in the second test of the November Internatioal Series this Sunday in Gloucestershire, England. Head Coach John McKee has included six new names into the starting XV for Sunday’s match including the debut cap for […]...
The Fiji Airways Flying Fijians have completed their heavy training day in Hartpury, England ahead of this weekend’s second test against Uruguay and changes are to be expected from the squad who faced Scotland last weekend. With injury, judicial hearings and adjustment of combinations all leading factors in this week’s selection, Head Coach John McKee […]...
The Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) formerly along with Samoa and Tonga. In 2009, Samoa announced their departure from the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, leaving just Fiji and Tonga. Fiji are ranked tenth in the world by the IRB as of 16 June 2014.
Despite the relatively small size of their represented country, in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Fiji defeated Wales 38–34 to claim a quarter final spot (theoretically placing them in the top 8 teams in the world) and proceeded to give eventual winners South Africa a scare eventually going down 37–20.
