In 2008, he was selected in the Pacific Islanders 2008 tour to Britain and Ireland. He was selected to play against France on 15 November 2008 where he made a late, high tackle that resulted in a serious injury to French scrum-half, Jean-Baptiste Elissalde and was subsequently given a red card and expelled from the game. He was banned by the IRB judiciary for 22 days. He made a comeback for Clermont on 13 December in the Heineken Cup against Munster after his ban expired. and is the top try-scorer in the Top 14 with 13 tries. He has also been selected to be part of the Fiji sevens team to the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai. He ended the 2008–09 Top 14 season as the top try scorer scoring 21 tries in 19 appearances breaking the record he set last year by 2 tries. In October 2009, he was named the French Top 14 player of the year for the &lt;a href="2008%E2%80%9309%20Top%2014%20season"&gt;2008/2009&lt;/a&gt; season and was also included in the French Dream team, the last Fijian to win that award was Rupeni Caucau in 2006