Fiji to remove ‘outdated’ union jack from flag
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Fiji have never beaten England. The two teams have played each other five times - between 1988 and 2012 - with England winning all five.
17th June 1988: Fiji 12-25 England (National Stadium, Suva)
4th November 1989: England 58-23 Fiji (Twickenham, London)
20th July 1991: Fiji 12-28 England (National Stadium, Suva)
20th October 1999: England 45-24 Fiji (Twickenham, London)
10th November 2012: England 54-12 Fiji (Twickenham, London)
The British & Irish Lions and Fiji have only played each other once. Fiji won 25-21 at Buckhurst Park in Suva on 16th August 1977 when the Lions toured New Zealand (but also playing one match against Fiji in Fiji).
So Fiji have played England and the British & Irish Lions six times in total, winning just once.
England will next play Fiji on 18th September in Pool A (which also includes Australia, Uruguay and Wales) in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, which England is hosting. The match will be played at Twickenham.
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You're wrong.
The scores you posted were those of the Fijian Junior High School Team playing the professional groups from Britian and/or England... Of course you want to count those, but the pro Fijian teams have soundly trounced you each and every time they met
The scores you posted were those of the Fijian Junior High School Team playing the professional groups from Britian and/or England... Of course you want to count those, but the pro Fijian teams have soundly trounced you each and every time they met
Rugby Union didn't turn professional until 1995 (Rugby League turned professional in 1898 ).
Does Fiji play the Union or League Rugby.. or both. I didn't know there was a difference before the Rugby League World Cup was broadcast in Canada for the first time last year (to my knowledge).
That no pro-Fijian team has ever thrashed England or Great Britain.
Fiji has both a Rugby Union team and a Rugby League team. The Rugby Union team was founded in 1924 and the Rugby League team was founded in 1992.
Rugby Union is Fiji's national sport.
Rugby Union was the original version - or "code" - of rugby.
Rugby League was formed in 1895 when the teams in the north of England broke away from the Rugby Football Union (RFU) in a dispute with the southern teams to form the Northern Rugby Football Union (NRFU).
Originally, the NRFU teams played rugby the normal way, but they eventually developed their own style of play and rules, with the aim to make the NRFU game faster and more free-flowing. In 1897, the line-out - which is still prevalent in Rugby Union - was abolished. In 1898, the NRFU became professional (Rugby Union didn't turn professional until 1995). In 1906, NRFU sides were reduced from 15 players per side to 13 players per side (as it is today, with Union still having 15 players per side) and replacing the ruck formed after every tackle with the play. Scrums are also much less prevalent in Rugby League as in Rugby Union. Thus, Rugby League was formed, with the teams in Northern England playing the game differently to those in the South.
A similar schism took place in Australia in 1907, and Rugby League went on to replace Rugby Union as the main rugby code in New South Wales and Queensland.
Today, Rugby League is most popular in Northern England (especially Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Yorkshire) and in Australia and Papua New Guinea, where it is the national sport. It's also popular in other rugby playing nations like New Zealand, Tonga (both of which Union is the national sport) and France (the Catalans Dragons play in England's Super League).
Rugby Union is most popular in Southern England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Tonga.
Rugby League is seen to be the tougher version of the two codes, and is said to be the toughest sport in the world other than boxing (and they don't wear daft, oversized helmets, 1980s shoulder pads and kevlar body armour like those American footballing wimps).
In England, Super League XX has just got under way. Widnes Vikings and Wigan Warriors drew 22-22 in a thrilling opening game last night in what was a great advert for both the sport and for Super Legaue.
Super League XX clubs
Widnes Vikings drew 22-22 with Wigan Warriors last night in the opening game of Super League XX
Watch the highlights of the match here: Sky Sports : Twelve-man Widnes Hold Wigan
Rugby Union pitch
Rugby League pitch
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Finally, something we can agree on.... The pro teams from Britian/England refuse to play the Fijian pro teams because they are terrified of the beating they would receive, as such, your boys insist on playing only Fijian teams in the amateur and school leagues.