"So when we came to Italy, I just wanted to enjoy things. The event sold-out mere hours after tickets went on sale.Pack the Park will be the curtain-raiser to the Mitre 10 Cup fixture that will see Southland take on Taranaki. While New Zealand Rugby remain optimistic that a spin-off of Super Rugby could kick-off in the near future, ... Grace has been handy in the lineouts from the blindside flanker position and was selected at lock by former All Black Mils Muliaina in his form New Zealand team.

You have to accept that - that is what I needed to do because of this incident." "That was it. Playing for Connacht in a European quarter-final, he had been taken off just before half-time with a hamstring injury and was confronted by police en route to the dressing room. 28 Jul, 2020 6:01pm 3 minutes to read.

"You just don't know what to think when you are sitting in a cell. Having believed he would be remaining at Connacht for another season, he had turned down previous offers to remain in Ireland. Life has been good in the ­Emilia-Romagna region as Muliaina and his partner immersed themselves in the Italian way of life - language classes twice a week, and living in the upstairs of a renovated pool house on a farm ­estate in a small rural village outside ­Parma.

They will play alongside friends and former teammates of Blair Vining.“Both of the teams are stacked with incredible players, which is amazing,” Vining says. "Gianluca, the Zebre coach, told me just before we played Connacht this season, 'every day I've seen you as a player and always admired you, but every day I have seen the person you are and what you have done here has been fantastic and the person you are is unbelievable'. Among them are union superstars including Stephen ‘Beaver’ Donald – the unlikely hero of the All Blacks’ 2011 Rugby World Cup win – Ma’a Nonu, Ali Williams, and even Carlos Spencer. I would be ­lying if I said it doesn't still hurt the way it happened, and I haven't ­really been able to talk about it.

Unofficial fanpage to Malili Muliaina.


Returning to New Zealand while the drama was unfolding was bittersweet, realising what his family had to endure.

And for a police officer, who I don't know, to make a ­decision like that - one that can change a person's life - is unbelievable.

"At best you get a sorry, but that's all you can ask for.
"The club only knew this person who was a former All Black, who played in Ireland.

"I did feel let down. Muliaina had signed for the Parma-based side before his shock arrest in Gloucester, a month after the alleged incident in the Welsh capital. The great former All Blacks and Chiefs fullback.

But I also wanted to have a good night with the boys. Among them? Celebrated names like Stephen Donald, Ma’a Nonu and more.To pay tribute to the community that has supported its cause – and to mark the first anniversary of the death of cancer care advocate, Blair Vining – the Southland Charity Hospital will bring Pack the Park to Rugby Park in Invercargill on 17 October. He’s been a huge supporter of the charity hospital since the very beginning.

"I knew I hadn't done anything wrong, and I tried to live as normally as I possibly could by being seen out.

However, he still struggles to come to terms with the past, and remains angry and frustrated at his televised arrest for a sexual ­assault charge that took six months of his life.

I was standing there and my son is a metre away - he's only 7. It's a real sucky ­system, truly unfair, but it is what it is, and you try to move on as best you can. When the police came over to me - there were about five or six - and read something out, it went straight over my head and I laughed. "My whole mentality at the time when getting out of the Cardiff police station was: 'Yes, I was ­arrested, but I am not allowed to talk about it, so how is this new club going to react?' Much as been documented of Connacht's evening drinking at the Kiwi's Bar in Cardiff on a designated night out for the club, but Muliaina says he had returned to the team room in the hotel before venturing out again. You try to put on a brave face and then you go home where the barrier comes down, and you wake up in the morning, and think, 'Jeez, has anyone got my back on this? All of his arm twisting has definitely paid off, and we hope the crowd really enjoy coming out and seeing so many rugby heroes out on the field,” Vining says.Pack the Park will be followed by gala dinner The Aftermatch at the spectacular Bill Richardson Transport World. They didn't have to believe what took place. "I have learned the language and taken a step back from rugby - in not having the pressure of rugby sort of hold me down."


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