Player Roela Radiniyavuni

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Roela Radiniyavuni

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Roela Radiniyavuni (born 7 April 1990) is a Fijian rugby league and rugby union footballer who played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership.

Primarily a winger, Radiniyavuni has represented Fiji in rugby league, rugby union and rugby sevens.

Born in Suva, Radiniyavuni represented Fiji in rugby union and rugby sevens before switching to rugby league in 2019.

In 2019, Radiniyavuni relocated to Auckland, New Zealand and began playing rugby league for the Richmond Roses. On 22 June 2019, she represented Fiji, starting on the wing and scoring a try in a 28–0 win over Papua New Guinea.

In July 2019, she represented the Akarana Falcons at the NZRL Women's National Tournament. On 10 July 2019, Radiniyavuni joined the New Zealand Warriors NRL Women's Premiership team.

In Round 2 of the 2019 NRL Women's season, Radiniyavuni made her debut for the Warriors in a 6–26 loss to the St George Illawarra Dragons.

In November 2019, Radiniyavuni returned to rugby sevens, rejoining the Fijian national team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal at the event.

Radiniyavuni was named in the Fijiana Drua squad for the 2022 Super W season.

In 2022, Radiniyavuni was named in the Fijiana squad for two test matches against Australia and Japan. She started in the game against Japan and scored a try in the 29th minute. She also started in the test against Australia.

Radiniyavuni was named on the bench in the warm up match against Canada ahead of the World Cup. She was selected for the Fijiana squad to the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

 

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Pacific internationals keen to impress in NRL Women's Premiership​

7:17 am on 14 September 2019

A quartet of Pacific Islands rugby league internationals will be on debut when the New Zealand Warriors take on the Sydney Roosters in their opening round of the NRL Women's Premiership this afternoon.

Fiji's Timaima Ravisa will partner Kiwi Fern Charntay Poko in the Warriors halves at AAMI Park in Melbourne while Fetu Samoa duo Tasia Seumanufagai and Billy Jean Ale will come off the interchange bench.

Coach Luisa Avaiki says Ravisa will bring a lot of flair and excitement to the Warriors attack.

"She loves carrying the ball in hand as well and she's got really good footwork and I guess with her experience with sevens being able to manipulate defence and get into open space and take someone on one-on-one is something about her that's going to be exciting to see if she gets those opportunities," Luisa Avaiki said.

Wellington-born Tasia Seumanufagai did not know any of her teammates before joining the squad but says she's been made to feel at home.

"My team is very welcoming, the girls as well. I'm really excited but nervous at the same time but just ready to get out there..(the whole team has been) real supportive, How I came from Melbourne they've very encouraging and I've learned a lot from them," Tasia Seumanufagai said.

Former Fiji sevens internationals Timaima Ravisa and Roela Radiniyavuni have been training with the Warriors for close to six months. The duo impressed for the Fijian Bulikula in their Pacific Test victory over Papua New Guinea in June, before helping their country win gold in the Pacific Games.

Radiniyavuni has been named as a reserve for the opening round clash and says being a part of the Warriors squad is a huge step forward in their careers,
"I'm so excited and nervous to be part of the team...it means a lot to the girls that are playing. Being a part of the (Fiji) team I want to represent my country to show some good experience to the upcoming girls," said Roela Radiniyavuni.

Fellow Fiji women's international Aliti Namoce will come off the bench for the Roosters while the New Zealand and former Cook Islands representative Kiana Takairangi will start on the wing for the tri-colours.

Roosters prop Ruan Smith is the older sister of Bulikula front rower CJ Sims while Fetu Samoa's Va'anessa Molia-Fraser was originally named in the Warriors squad for 2019 but was ruled out of the competition last month after picking up a knee injury.

Sport: Pacific internationals keen to impress in NRL Women's Premiership

A quartet of Pacific Islands rugby league internationals will be on debut when the New Zealand Warriors take on the Sydney Roosters in their opening round of the NRL Women's Premiership this afternoon.

www.rnz.co.nz

 

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Radiniyavuni and Reid to debut​

Richard Becht
Tue 17 Sep 2019, 03:17 pm

Wing Roela Radiniyavuni and front rower Tyler Reid will make their NRLW debuts in the Warriors' second-round premiership encounter with the St George Illawarra Dragons at Mount Smart Stadium today (3.15pm kick-off).

In late selection changes, Fiji international Radiniyavuni comes onto the left wing and Reid has been brought onto the bench.

Radiniyavuni replaces Madison Bartlett, who made her debut last week, while Reid is in for Tanika-Jazz Noble-Bell.
There's also a change in the starting pack with Onjeurlina Leiataua brought into the second row and Kathleen Wharton moving to the interchange.

Dropping out of the 21 players originally named are Bartlett, Noble-Bell, Tasia Seumanufagai and Amber Kani.

The Warriors' first NRLW home game – and the competition’s first standalone fixture – follows an impressive 16-12 first-up triumph over the Sydney Roosters at the SCG last Saturday.

In a performance featuring a number of standout efforts and moments, rookie halfback Charntay Poko excelled with her kicking game and all-round touches including a critical try early in the second half.

The kicking statistics for the match underlined Poko’s value. She was the Warriors’ only kicker, making a competition record 515 metres from her 16 kicks including a 40/30 which led to the side’s first try; the Warriors also forced three goal-line dropouts on the back of Poko’s kicking game. The Roosters managed just 267 kicking metres.

The Warriors had a number of other strong contributors including captain Georgia Hale and centre Atawhai Tupaea. Besides her try, Hale made a game high 40 tackles without a miss while Tupaea, making her comeback at top level, scored the match-sealing try, gained a team high 106 metres from 12 runs with three tackle breaks and made 19 tackles with only one miss.

The Dragons were also the Warriors’ second-round opponents in last year’s competition.

On that occasion, the Warriors were coming off a 10-4 win over the Roosters while the Dragons had lost 4-30 to Brisbane. However, needing a win to boost their grand final claims, the Warriors fell 10-22 to St George Illawarra.

The same scenario presents itself again today although with the Warriors having the notable advantage of playing at home this time.

While the Warriors again take winning form into the contest, the Dragons fell 4-14 to defending champions the Brisbane Broncos last Sunday.

NRL WOMEN’S PREMIERSHIP​

WARRIORS v ST GEORGE-ILLAWARRA DRAGONS
3.15pm, Sunday, September 22, 2019
Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland
Referees: Kasey Badger and Ethan Menchin

WARRIORS
1 APII NICHOLLS
2 HILDA MARIU
3 ATAWHAI TUPAEA
4 JULIANA NEWMAN
18 ROELA RADINIYAVUNI
6 TIMAIMA RAVISA
7 CHARNTAY POKO
8 ANNETTA-CLAUDIA NUUAUSALA
9 KRYSTAL ROTA
10 AIESHALEIGH SMALLEY
24 ONJEURLINA LEIATAUA
12 CRYSTAL TAMARUA
13 GEORGIA HALE (c)
Interchange:
11 KATHLEEN WHARTON
14 KANYON PAUL
16 BILLY-JEAN ALE
25 TYLER REID
HEAD COACH | LUISA AVAIKI

Radiniyavuni and Reid to debut

Roela Radiniyavuni and Tyler Reid make their debuts and Onjeurlina Leiataua comes into the starting line-up for today's NRLW clash against the Dragons.

www.warriors.kiwi

 

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Radiniyavuni's interesting career
18 Sep 2021 WAISEA NASOKIA NADI

Thirtyone-year-old Roela Radiniyavuni has had an interesting career. She is a Fijian rugby league and rugby union footballer who played for New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premier- ship.

She represented Fiji in rugby union and rugby sevens before switching to rugby league in 2019.

In 2019, Radiniyavuni relo- cated to Auckland, New Zeal- and and began playing rugby league for the Richmond Roses.

In June 2019, she represented Fiji starting on the wing and scoring a try in a 28-0 win over Papua New Guinea.

Later that same year in November, Radiniyavuni returned to rugby sevens
rejoining the Fijian national team.

She made it in the Fijian sevens team which went on to win the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Radiniyavuni is now deciding on her next move since she received a few overseas offers to return to rugby league.

She confirmed she has been in contact with her former club in New Zealand.

The Richmond Roses women rugby league team are based at Grey Lynn Park. The club work closely with National Rugby League club Auckland Warriors and New Zealand Rugby League.

Radiniyavuni played for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL Women's Premiership in 2019 after a sterling performance for the Fijian Bulikula (national women's rugby league team) in their 28-0 win over the Papua New Guinea Orchids at the Leich- hardt Oval in Sydney.

"The contract offer has been sent to me. I'm still looking at it but have yet to make up my mind. It was a great feeling to play in the Olympics."

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