HIGH-FLYING Western Samoa, last week's Canberra champions, were brought crashing back to earth by provincial side Nadroga as the big teams stumbled at the inaugural Fiji International Sevens yesterday.
Only hosts Fiji, who had a poor Canberra tournament, lived up to expectations, with New Zealand and Australia falling to strong provincial teams.
Western Samoa emerged as a major sevens force with a blistering performance last week to win the Canberra tournament.
But after beating Vanuatu 42-0 in their opening group match, they failed to turn on the power against Nadroga, losing 12-7.
Western Samoa take on a Scotland side who have yet to show the form which won them last year's Dubai Sevens.
Scotland were beaten 12-7 by Nadroga and must beat the Samoans in their final group match to enter the main Cup competition.
