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Taqele Naiyaravoro

“I’ve felt the power he has – it’s incredible”

EVERY WEEK Northampton coaches Phil Dowson and Sam Vesty team up to tackle – or at least try to – Taqele Naiyaravoro. The two-on-one drill is designed to help the Fiji-born wing improve his decision-making in terms of when to offload and when to go to ground, yet sometimes he simply gets past both of them.

“It takes two

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