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Another Fiji Sevens player has been arrested
By Chris Jones
Gareth Baber, the Fiji Sevens head coach, is facing another major problem in what is turning out to be a season of serious set-backs with police revealing a senior member of the team has been detained for allegedly drink driving.
Fiji TV have reportedly named the player as Kalioni Nasoko, captain of the Fiji Men's Sevens Team, who was arrested by the Fiji Police Force for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. Nasoko, who has been part of the team since the start of the 2018/19 HSBC World Sevens Series, was arrested by Nadi Police in Malolo.
He is currently being held at the Nadi Police Station as investigations into the alleged incident continue and is the second high-profile player to get in trouble with the authorities after forward Mesulame Kunavula was caught driving without a licence late last year.
The charge sheet for Baber is now worryingly long and includes former national 7s playmaker, Amenoni Nasilasila, who is due to appear in court for allegedly raping a 24-year-old woman last year while the Fiji Rugby Union also dropped Olympic Gold medal winner and keyplaymaker Vatemo Ravovou from the Hamilton and Sydney legs of the series for disciplinary reasons.
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The Fiji Sevens team is preparing for the North American leg of the HSBC Series having started this season impressively winning the Cape Town and Hamilton events, but they currently lie third in the table behind New Zealand, who won the Sydney Sevens, and the USA, the most consistent team in the competition and the defending champions in Las Vegas.
On a happier note, Jerry Tuwai was named the Sevens Player of the Year during the Fiji Rugby Union Annual Awards Gala in Suva. Tuwai is the only surviving member of the gold medal winning team from the 2016 Olympic Games currently in Baber’s squad.
He captained the Fijian 7s team during the 2017/18 HSBC World Sevens Series where they won five tournaments, a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games and a semi-final finish at the Sevens Rugby World Cup in San Francisco.
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I was at this match. Jordie Barrett earned his money with a massive hit to slow a connaught attack to win the math when Leinster had 14 in the last few mins. Mack Hansen had a real go at the refereeing after citing a serious head hits on Iaone and Aki.
connaught were up for this. Snyman tried a trademark dirty after, and the onnaught 4 and the onnaught pack absolutely laid into him.
Leinster hose to kick to the corner when only winning by 5 with 10 left and qith only 2 tries scored. onnaught should have punisihed them for that utter stupidity after they broke out and Leinster yellowed to stop the attack.
13 changes from last week. It seems teams are scoring about 10 points less against Leinster this year. With Neinaber in his second year, the new attack coah established, surely they will be a bigger threat in champions up? Or will the attack recgress further.
They must adopt the SA philosophy of take your 3 pointers and the bonus points will come.
connaught back line inluding Iaone, Murphy, Aki, Forde, cordero is the seond best in Ireland surely. Leinster were lucky here
Go to commentsShould have played more for England but he jumped ship just as he was breaking through.
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