{"id":306024,"date":"2026-02-28T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306024\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:37:10","slug":"fijian-drua-v-hurricanes-live-updates-hurricanes-head-to-fiji-in-round-three-super-rugby-pacific-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306024\/","title":{"rendered":"Fijian Drua v Hurricanes live updates: Hurricanes head to Fiji in round three Super Rugby Pacific clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Live updates of the Super Rugby Pacific clash between the Fijian Drua and Hurricanes in Lautoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Hurricanes side features a potential debutant and a handful of changes to the team that defeated Moana Pasifika 52-10 in last week\u2019s season-opening win in Wellington, including four new faces in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two of those changes come in the front row, where props Pouri Rakete-Stones and Tevita Mafileo join vice-captain Asafo Aumua up front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The forward pack is otherwise unchanged, with Hugo Plummer partnering newly-capped Hurricanes lock Warner Dearns in the second row, while Devan Flanders, Peter Lakai, and Brayden Iose make up the loose forward trio.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A fresh halves partnership sees All Blacks halfback Cam Roigard promoted to the starting team alongside first-five Callum Harkin, who shifts to the No 10 jersey from fullback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-below\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-below\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live updates of the Super Rugby Pacific clash between the Fijian Drua and Hurricanes in Lautoka. The Hurricanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5432,3019,167339,2566,69651,106,42,49155,78,167340,4960,43,13572,18833,6327,313,1529,61,40,38,41,39,7245],"class_list":{"0":"post-306024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-between","9":"tag-clash","10":"tag-drua","11":"tag-fiji","12":"tag-fijian","13":"tag-head","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-hurricanes","16":"tag-in","17":"tag-lautoka","18":"tag-live","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-pacific","21":"tag-round","22":"tag-rugby","23":"tag-super","24":"tag-three","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-top-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topnews","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}