“It’s crazy to see where Samoa are from being close to beating us in 2023,” said Manu.<\/p>\n
“It’s tough to see.<\/p>\n
“My five brothers have played for Samoa, maybe they will say ‘go, get on the flight’!”<\/p>\n
Tuilagi played 20 league matches in Bayonne’s run to the Top 14 play-off semi-finals last season, a run of fitness that he rarely matched during his time in England.<\/p>\n
Although currently out of action with a hand injury, he believes a change of scenery has helped him avoid longer lay-offs.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s the sun and the red wine, something like that,” he joked.<\/p>\n
“Training’s intense [in England], over there maybe not as intense.<\/p>\n
“It’s long – on Tuesday, our big day, we will still be up at 6-7km [of running in the session]<\/p>\n
“But the contact is not as much as in England\u2026 just in general the lifestyle is different, the way the French live is very, very relaxed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It’s crazy to see where Samoa are from being close to beating us in 2023,” said Manu. “It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-315537","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\/315537","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=315537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}