Wallabies benefit from Fiji brilliance

RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

NATIONALITY is a pretty fluid concept in the South Pacific with families regularly moving between all the Pacific islands and Australia and New Zealand so we shouldn’t be surprised at the considerable Fiji influence in Wallaby sides in recent decades.
For example, three of the current Wallabies squad who played Fiji on Sunday - Samu Kerevi, Marika Koroibete and Suliasi Vunivalu - were all born in Fiji while Mark Nawaqanitawase, Rob Valetini, Langi Gleeson and Issak Fines-Leleiwasa are all Fijian heritage play...

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