{"id":373127,"date":"2026-04-10T15:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/373127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:42:12","slug":"namoce-out-vakatawa-in-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/373127\/","title":{"rendered":"Namoce out, Vakatawa in \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Vakatawa.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua has made a few changes to its lineup it announced on Wednesday to take on the Western Force in round nine of the Shop N Save Super Pacific in Lautoka tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Iosefo Namoce who was named at inside center is out and will be replaced by Virimi Vakatawa.<\/p>\n<p>The former French international was not in the initial matchday squad.<\/p>\n<p>Namoce was missing from the captain\u2019s run today while Vakatawa was running at 12.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Glen Jackson has also made a change on the bench with Mesake Vocevoce ruled out and Isoa Tuwai coming in to take his place.<\/p>\n<p>The Drua hosts Western Force at 4:35pm at Churchill Park in Laitoka.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua has made a few changes to its lineup it announced on Wednesday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-373127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373127","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=373127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}