DESPITE the 26-40 loss of his side to Moana Pasifika, Swire Shipping Fijian Drua player Tuidraki Samusamuvodre was a happy man after he scored his first-ever Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific try on Saturday at Churchill Park in Lautoka.
Samusamuvodre scored in the first half which was also the team’s first try of the match on their home turf at the venue known as the “Fortress”, eventually conquered by their Pasifika foes in a highly-anticipated Super Rugby Pacific match known as the Battle of the Pacific.
Speaking on his feat, Samusamuvodre mentioned how he felt about the try.
“After five seasons, it’s good to cross over the try-line and I think it was the most exciting thing for me after five years,” Samusamuvodre said.
He is one of a handful of players that began the Drua journey when they were first established and based at Lennox Hill, New South Wales in Australia from 2021 and into 2022.
In sharing his thoughts, he also admitted their discipline was a key area that costed them the match.
“We focused on discipline in this game, but unfortunately we gave a lot of mistakes but that’s what we’re going to go back and look at and try to fix it in the next game,” he mentioned.
The Fijian Drua meet the New South Wales Waratahs this Friday at 8.35pm, in their first away game of the season at the Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
Samusamuvodre plays as fly-half and full-back, and hails from the village of Namotomoto in Nadi.
