Northland maps 2021 battle plot

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The Northland team. Picture: NOA BIUDOLE.

Northland Rugby Union is expected to field the same squad from last year for this season’s Skipper Cup competition which is scheduled to start in April.

Union vice-president Livai Driu said they had a successful ending in the Vodafone Cup Championship last year and were looking forward to the Skipper Cup competition.

As usual, we are not new to the Skipper Cup competition because we will be playing against the big teams in provincial rugby,” Driu said.

“Our preparation have started for the year and we have plans in place to achieve our goal for the year. “We will bank on our young players.

We believe in our same squad that brought us this far. We will work on our under-19 players who represented us last year.

“They were mostly students from Ratu Kadavulevu School and Queen Victoria School.”

The Skipper Cup is Fiji’s annual tournament.