{"id":230272,"date":"2025-10-21T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230272\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:49:08","slug":"manuqalo-komatai-harlequins-women-sign-fiji-international-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230272\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuqalo Komatai: Harlequins Women sign Fiji international forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harlequins have signed Fiji international back row Manuqalo Komaitai before the start of the 2025-26 Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby (PWR) season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Komaitai moves to Quins after appearing three times for Fiji at the recent Women&#8217;s World Cup, scoring a try against Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regularly appearing as a number eight, Komaitai also serves for the British Army in the Irish Guards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Komaitai won the 2024 Women&#8217;s Super League title with rugby league side York Valkyrie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quins.co.uk\/Article\/manuqalo-komaitai-signs-for-harlequins-women\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlequins&#8217; website:, external<\/a> &#8220;I really feel like this is an environment that I can flourish in. This feels like a place where I can really develop my game and I&#8217;m excited to get going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quins begin their PWR campaign with a home fixture against Loughborough Lightning at Twickenham Stoop on Friday (19:30 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins have signed Fiji international back row Manuqalo Komaitai before the start of the 2025-26 Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-230272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}