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One of rugby 7s' biggest bamboozlers is moving to - surprise, surprise - a French powerhouse

As if Toulouse needed another flyer.

TOULON ARE SIGNING Clermont’s Napolioni Nalaga, Clermont are signing the Highlanders’ Waisake Naholo and now Toulouse have made their move, bringing the dazzling Semi Kunatani from the Fijian sevens team into their ranks.

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The 24-year-old Kunatani has played his entire career in the shortened version of the game but Toulouse – who have the biggest budget in the Top 14 – have seen enough to hand him a two year deal, according to reports from French website Rugbyrama.

Kunatani possesses searing pace but has also shown signs of being a strong defender too – which you don’t see a whole lot of in sevens.

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Of course, Toulouse will hope he has eradicated this sort of casualness from his game…

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It’s Jonah Lomu’s 40th today… and he is still younger than Brad Thorn!

It looks like this rampant Super Rugby ‘Jonah Lomu clone’ will be joining in the Pro12

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    May 18th 2015, 2:32 PM

    Even when on the bench he didn’t get game time. The coach doesn’t like or trust him. Saturday once again showed just how wrong O’connor has been all season

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    Mute Colin Webber
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    May 18th 2015, 6:24 PM

    O’Connor is just all wrong for Leinster.

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    May 18th 2015, 2:31 PM

    He has a very big chance next season with Leinster during the World Cup, midfield won’t be as competitive so he should get a good run of matches.

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    May 18th 2015, 6:56 PM

    Mark if Darcy doesn’t make the World Cup squad, he’ll play 12 with t’eo at 13. Then Madigan and sexton will be back so the midfield won’t be as easy to get into as you may think

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    Mute David Davidson
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    May 18th 2015, 4:27 PM

    That pop pass from O’Brien

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    May 18th 2015, 2:54 PM

    Battle between him and Madigan for the 12 jersey next season.

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    May 19th 2015, 4:02 AM

    It’s always to easy to see who coaches ‘just like/don’t like’. When Gopperth played badly it was ignored whereas when Madigan played mediocre or even if Reid played well decisions went against them.

    It creates such a poisonous culture as some players start to feel entitled to spots and others feel it doesn’t matter how well they play they won’t get picked. Cody and Fergusson were masters at disregarding players identities and judging on match performance alone. MOC is such a stink manager.

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