Pacific rugby’s bad year just got even worse

Pacific rugby’s bad year just got even worse

A Pacific Nations Cup without two of the Pacific’s main rugby nations, ‘home’ games in empty stadiums on the other side of the world and a rift between the government and Lakipi Samoan – these are just a handful of the many challenges facing rugby in the Pacific right now, writes James Nokise. Yesterday was Lomu Day in Tonga. The free event celebrated the late Tongan-Kiwi rugby legend Jonah Lomu with a concert and screening of the new documentar…