The Naitasiri rugby team will miss most of its top players in this week’s Digicel Cup match against Ovalau.

These players include Waisale Vatuvoka, Jimilai Nakaidawa, Vereniki Sauturaga, Ioane Naivalurua, Iosefo Bele, Amani Bosenawai and Paula Tiko, who have gone to join the Punjas Fiji A side and the Fiji Barbarians for their games this week.

Naitasiri coach Reverend Joji Rinakama has been preparing his boys very well for this game and he can vividly remember how they lost to the boys from the old capital at Nasau Park last year.

Reverend Rinakama said it would be wrong to say that Naitasiri is bringing a young team to meet Ovalau, as his boys are just as capable as those who are on national duties.