The Dominion Brothers 7s rugby team has replaced Police White in the last leg of the Super 7s Series.
The Cakaudrove 7 Selection is the 15th while Macuata Selection will be the 16th team to participate in the third leg of the Fiji Rugby Union Super Sevens Series to be held at Ratu Ganilau Park in Savusavu on Friday and Saturday.
Fiji Rugby Union chief executive officer John O’Connor confirmed that the two teams had secured their places after the qualification tournament at Ganilau Park.
“Cakaudrove Selection will be known as North One while Macuata 7 Selection will be called North Two,” O’Connor said.
“Cross of Victory, Bua 7 Selection, including the two qualifying teams, were selected to take part in a one-day round-robin competition in Savusavu. Unfortunately, Bua 7 Selection failed to participate, so the competition was between Cross of Victory, Macuata 7 Selection, and Cakaudrove 7 Selection.
“The three teams finished with nine points each, but Cakaudrove 7 Selection had better points difference hence they managed to get the 15th place followed by the Macuata 7 Selection which finished second and became the final confirmed team for the third leg.”
O’Connor said it was not an easy choice to select the final two teams as they had a lot of interest from other clubs prior to the qualifying rounds.
Just like Bukuya which came as a wildcard team in the second leg last month, he expected Cakaudrove 7 Selection and Macuata 7 Selection teams to be the crowd favourites.
Fiji 7s coach Gareth Baber said it would be interesting to watch the bunch of hidden talents and see how they cope up in a tournament which replicated the World Rugby Sevens Series.
“It’s not the end for other teams which are not a part of the third leg because we will again have wildcard entries in our final tournament which will be played at ANZ Stadium in Suva next month,” Baber said.
Cakaudrove 7 Selection (North One) will go into Pool A with Police Blue, Ratu Filise and Wardens.
Uluinakau, together with Dominion Brothers, Eastern Saints and BLK Stallions will battle in Pool B. Macuata 7 Selection (North 2) will be slotted into Pool C as the 16th team with Raiwasa Taveuni, Army and Tabadamu.
LAR Barbarians leads Pool D with Wadigi Salvo, Nawaka and Fire. The tournament kicks off at 8.30am at Savusavu’s Ratu Ganilau Park on Friday and Saturday.
