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Rupeni Caucaunibuca joins Northland
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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 571959" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>He's currently playing for Bayonne in France - where they've moved him to centre. After a very poor start hes looked to come around towards the end of the season - although hes still only managed one try in almost two years in the Top 14 (scored a couple in the Amlin Challenge Cup). I agree Rokocoko of 2003 was the most devistating winger of any player - at least certainly for the All Blacks. His issue was confidence I believe. In 2009 he lost condfidence - and then he was asked to play a game plan which involved an extremely high work rate - but didn't utilize any of his flair. I remember reading in 2009 after an All Black training squadthat he still had the fastest sprint times in the squad by some margin - but he didn't look like he was comfortable going himself - which earlier years he had no problem with.</p><p></p><p>Caucaunibuca is playing for the Classic All Blacks as a guest. A tad ironic that he ends up some how playing against Fiji for New Zealand, maybe a little over a decade from what many hoped. He is once of those players I'll always watch. It'd be amazing to see Sivivatu, Rokocoko and Caucaunibuca playing at the same time - arguably the three best Fijian wingers ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 571959, member: 38640"] He's currently playing for Bayonne in France - where they've moved him to centre. After a very poor start hes looked to come around towards the end of the season - although hes still only managed one try in almost two years in the Top 14 (scored a couple in the Amlin Challenge Cup). I agree Rokocoko of 2003 was the most devistating winger of any player - at least certainly for the All Blacks. His issue was confidence I believe. In 2009 he lost condfidence - and then he was asked to play a game plan which involved an extremely high work rate - but didn't utilize any of his flair. I remember reading in 2009 after an All Black training squadthat he still had the fastest sprint times in the squad by some margin - but he didn't look like he was comfortable going himself - which earlier years he had no problem with. Caucaunibuca is playing for the Classic All Blacks as a guest. A tad ironic that he ends up some how playing against Fiji for New Zealand, maybe a little over a decade from what many hoped. He is once of those players I'll always watch. It'd be amazing to see Sivivatu, Rokocoko and Caucaunibuca playing at the same time - arguably the three best Fijian wingers ever. [/QUOTE]
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