We want to win more than one game - Umaga

We want to win more than one game - Umaga

By Alipate Narawa
Sunday 12/11/2023
Tana Umaga was an assistant coach with Samoa at the recent World Cup. [Image: Stuff.co]

Incoming Moana Pasifika head coach Tana Umaga has stated that they will need to win more than one game if they are to compete.

Since their inception last year, Moana Pasifika have won just three of their 24 games, compared to eight from the competition’s other newbies the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua.

Umaga says they want to get off the bottom and he believes they can challenge for the top eight.

He says there are only four teams that miss out, so they want to challenge for that area.

The former All Black says if they can keep working week by week, get that one win and then they can hopefully put something together.

There is always a big turnover in Super Rugby squads the year following World Cups, but it is even more so with Moana Pasifika for 2024, who have changed over half their squad.

The Moana Pasifika coach says they have got 19 new players and trying to bring them up to speed in the two months of preseason will be tough.

He says it is up to them as coaches to try to develop them and tailor the learning to suit them, to make sure they are doing everything they can so they can progress in our game.

Umaga says it is not going to be easy, if it was easy everyone would be doing it. 

[Source: Stuff.co]

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