Ratuvakacereivalu to make international debut for Fijii

[Elderslie_Tiger]

Here's one that has flown under the radar

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

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Ratuvakacereivalu to make international debut for Fijii
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Caitlyn Grant
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Thu 31 Oct 2019, 10:52 AM
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Western Suburbs Magpies prop Joseph Ratuvakacereivalu will be running off the interchange bench in his international Test debut for Fiji as they take on Samoa this Saturday.

Having featured for the Fiji Prime Minister's XIII against Australia earlier this year for his representative debut, the 20-year-old will now make his full Test debut for the Bati — becoming the third Wests Tigers player to appear for Fiji.


The call up for the Campbelltown junior follows his consistent performances for Brett Hodgson’s Canterbury Cup side this season. In 13 matches, Ratuvakacereivalu scored three tries and proved a constant threat with the ball in hand — racking up over 400 post-contact metres despite missing a large portion due to injury.

Ratuvakacereivalu will be facing Wests Tigers and Samoan representative Michael Chee Kam, who will be making his third appearance for the Pacific nation.

Samoa and Fiji will kick-off at 12:20pm AEDT from Eden Park as part of an international triple-header on the day that will also see New Zealand take on Great Britain (3:00pm AEDT) and Australia face Tonga (5:40pm AEDT).

 

[TheDaBoss]

Congrats ratu, enjoy yourself and rip in



Good luck commentators

 

[WswWt]

Damn how would you pronounce that last name?

Side note: I haven’t seen him play, how’s he go?

 

[Spud_Murphy]

Damn how would you pronounce that last name?

Side note: I haven’t seen him play, how’s he go?

Love to hear Rabs trying to call that one 😂

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

Damn how would you pronounce that last name?

Side note: I haven’t seen him play, how’s he go?

In 13 matches, Ratuvakacereivalu scored three tries and proved a constant threat with the ball in hand — racking up over 400 post-contact metres despite missing a large portion due to injury

 

[WswWt]

@Elderslie_Tiger

Fiji never have an issue with PCM though ahah. Nice sounds good!

 

[Tigers_Tale]

@WswWt Ratu, is a no nonsense front rower , takes it up hard front on, always seems to get over the advantage. Good defender. Really only question would be how many minutes he could play, would not look out of place off the bench in FG

 

[Yossarian]

Damn how would you pronounce that last name?

Side note: I haven’t seen him play, how’s he go?

We survived the Seumanufagai era, we've got this!

 

[TheDaBoss]

Damn how would you pronounce that last name?

Side note: I haven’t seen him play, how’s he go?

We survived the Seumanufagai era, we've got this!

Wat about the semi ridge ridge ridge era

 

[WT2K]

Congrats Ratu

 

[BalmainJnr]

A whole arvo of the Kiwi commentary team could be tough. Looking forward to seeing all our players having a crack today. Rip in Ratu!

 

[balmain boy]

Could certainly replace Musgrove in our 30. Big, strong running prop, cam offload, defends ok. His injury last year was really unfortunate timing

 

[TIGER]

What number?

 

[WT2K]

What number?

15

 

[TheDaBoss]

He scored

 

[hsvjones]

What is his current contract ?

 

[Madge]

@hsvjones he is only on a CC contract. Not included in the top 30.

 

[balmain boy]

His try was interesting. The ref sent it to the video ref to check whether it was a penalty for a double movement or just a play the ball. He never thought it was a try. Then the video ref looks at it a dozen times and gives the try. The ref awarded it with a bemused look on his face...

 

[Tigersmurf]

Arm carrying the ball did not touch the ground, so unless the ref called held then it is play on. Try was the correct call.