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Reds bolster pack with Fiji international Peni Ravai
By AAP
France-based Fijian prop Peni Ravai has joined the Queensland Reds as the Super Rugby Pacific club attempts to plug the gap left by the injured Taniela Tupou.
The two-time World Cup forward has played 36 Tests for Fiji and has plied his trade in the first and second divisions in France since 2016, most recently for Top 14 outfit Clermont.
Scrum weapon and tackle buster Tupou has been a focal point of coach Brad Thorn's plan at Ballymore.
But the Wallabies prop is unlikely to feature this season after tearing his achilles tendon on last year's European tour.
He is facing a race against time to be fit for September's World Cup.
Ravai, who can play on both sides of the scrum, began in the now-defunct National Rugby Championship for the Greater Sydney Rams in 2014 before a stint in New Zealand.
The Reds play the Western Force in Perth on Saturday, one of just two warm-up clashes before their season begins against the Hurricanes in Townsville on February 25.
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Total and utter rubbish. All that so-called ‘Super’ rugby did for SA rugby was to increase the airmiles accounts for our players and contribute a moer of a lot of cash to the Antipodeans. SA's schools and club rugby are the secret, and the only problem for our top sides is that so many of them are being poached by the European ones, and from an early age, too. That's why the Boks are so good, but the SA senior sides not so much at the moment, but are slowly coming to terms with having to play in NH weather. Mind you, they had to do that in skaapnaaier territory in the old days, too.
Go to commentsI can’t believe Rugby Australia thought the NZRU would accept 1-12 split. I’m sure if the split was more even then the NZRU would’ve made it work.
It’s even worse when the NZRU relatively recently gave Rugby Australia a bigger cut of the Super Rugby broadcast.
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