{"id":673156,"date":"2026-07-04T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:03:31","slug":"nations-championship-fiji-aim-to-create-slice-of-suva-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673156\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: Fiji aim to create slice of Suva in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fiji will be favourites this weekend as they are ranked two places above Wales in the world rankings in ninth, with Steve Tandy’s side in 11th.<\/p>\n

They also won 24-19<\/a> in their previous trip to Cardiff in November 2024, although that game was played at the Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n

Seruvakula, who took over at the helm in April from Mick Byrne, has named a strong side in his first game in charge.<\/p>\n

It is close to full strength with a mix of players from the domestic Fiji Drua side that play in Super Rugby and those based in Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n

It boasts a powerful centre combination in Semi Radradra and Josua Tuisova, and includes Bordeaux’s Champions Cup winning full-back Salesi Rayasi.<\/p>\n

“We have players who have already done it before by winning in Wales and anything is possible,” said Seruvakula.<\/p>\n

“Wales have been in camp for a while now and we just marched into Cardiff last week and we have had 11 days to prepare.<\/p>\n

“We know they’re going to be very tough in the physicality, breakdown and set-piece and they will be attacking us through the middle.<\/p>\n

“We will have to be ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji will be favourites this weekend as they are ranked two places above Wales in the world rankings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}