Suaalii refused to stoke the personal duel that has emerged between him and Scotland centre Sione Tuipulotu.<\/p>\n
He hit Tuipulotu with a big tackle in the first half of the Wallabies’ defeat at Murrayfield in the autumn, sparking an exchange of words.<\/p>\n
Suaalii, who suffered a wrist injury in their collision, was heard to say, apparently to Tuipulotu, that he would “see you next time” as he left the field.<\/p>\n
“Not really to be honest,” he said, when asked if such personal battles fuel him.<\/p>\n
“I am really just focused on what I can bring best for the team, but anyone in the Lions I am ready to go against them.”<\/p>\n
After initially crossing codes, Suaalii played at outside centre, but his most recent outings for the Waratahs have been at full-back, where he was named in the Super Rugby Pacific team of 2025.<\/p>\n
“It makes you a better rugby player, seeing the game from a different perspective always helps you,” he added. <\/p>\n
“I am very confident in playing wing, centre and full-back.”<\/p>\n
Suaalii is targeting a return to action in the Wallabies warm-up Test against Fiji on 6 July. The Tests against the Lions take place on 19 and 26 July and 2 August, kicking off at 11:00 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suaalii refused to stoke the personal duel that has emerged between him and Scotland centre Sione Tuipulotu. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-176134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114665721927009275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}