The Swire Shipping Fijian Drua will get another halfback next week as Simione Kuruvoli is expected to be out for most of the Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific season.

Fijiana 7s coach Saiasi Fuli is slowly injecting young and new players in his squad as the team builds up to the Olympic Games next year.

The Kaiviti Silktails are serious about its pathway programs as it commits to operate as an Under-23 team.

Fiji Bati winger Marcelo Montoya and former Bati back rower Brayden Wiliame are two of the names in contention for the Warrior’s centre position.

Former All Blacks 7s captain Karl Te Nana believes this season’s World Rugby 7s Series is going to be really competitive.

Former Highlanders squad member Vereniki Tikoisolomone is focused on his next endeavour in America.

Number eight Billy Vunipola has been left out of new head coach Steve Borthwick’s 36-man England squad for the Six Nations.

Wallaroos lock Sera Naiqama is ready to experience a new level of competition on the other side of the Tasman.

The Wallabies have sacked coach Dave Rennie with immediate effect, announcing that Eddie Jones will replace him for the 2023 World Cup in a stunning development.

Former Queen Victoria School student Edward Sawailau scored a try for Perpignan but it wasn’t enough as they fell to Glasgow Warriors in the European Challenge Cup.

Toulouse maintained its winning run in the Heineken Champions Cup beating a 14-man Sale Sharks 27-5.

Southland Dominion Brothers is the first youth team through to the semi-finals of the McDonald’s Coral Coast 7s.