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19th Sep 2015

Fijian rugby player crys his eyes out as emotion of playing in World Cup becomes all too much

We're getting emotional ourselves

Kevin McGillicuddy

Boys do cry no matter what Robert Smith says.

And sometimes even the biggest of boys are allowed shed tears, especially if your country is opening the Rugby World Cup taking on the hosts at Twickenham.

Before Fiji took on England last night and went down 35-11 to their opponents, Nemani Nadolo showed what it meant to him to play at a World Cup with buckets of tears before the game at the Fiji national anthem was being played.

The absolute man-mountain, in case you don’t know, is bigger than the legendary Jonah Lomu, and stands at 6’5 and weighs over 20 stone.

So we have no problem saying that it’s ok to be a blubbering mess because he is much much much bigger than us.

And wasn’t our own John Hayes at it in Croke Park.

The game proved to be an exciting start to the tournament with these two Sam Burgess offloads towards the end of the game our own personal highlights

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And his second offload almost at the end of the game wasn’t bad either.

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If you missed last night’s game you can catch the best bits here

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