Suliasi Vunivalu has revealed how Dave Rennie’s training demands almost drove him out of rugby as he prepares to live up to new Wallabies coach Eddie Jones’ expectations.
The Queensland Reds winger will play his first game of the Super Rugby Pacific season in Melbourne on Sunday against the Western Force.It will be just his 15th cap since the two-time NRL champion switched from the Melbourne Storm after the 2020 season, an ankle complaint keeping Vunivalu out of last week’s round 1 loss to the Hurricanes.
Former Australian coach Rennie had demanded Vunivalu go “balls out” in training to prove he was ready. “I’ve never been that guy, I never hit top speed until game day ... I’d been focused too much on trying to get my speed back, I forgot about the footy.Vunivalu was a rugby-playing child in Fiji and continued with his first love after moving to New Zealand before the Storm pounced.
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