2025 Pacific Championships

Rotation of somoas bench was horrible. They had cooked Haas vs fresh Fisher Harris in last quarter.
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Gardiner stuffed up leaving those big Samoan forwards on, who you could see tiring, with a tackling machine like May off until the final 22 minutes.
 
Mariner has been playing strongly. Also think he was ripped off with that no try decision.
Luai smart to draw the 2 points on the half time bell.
Never have thought much of Dylan Brown but must say he has played well this tournament.
The Kiwi pack is absolutely incredible and better than Australia. They only lack a smart crafty hooker/dh.
They'll get Marshall-King back.
 
Good game, much better than Oz v Poms. Australia will need to be much slicker than they were in England to beat this NZ team, tho strange grounds and spoiling tactics didn't help. NZ's offloads were impressive and Dylan Brown has suddenly started playing like a million dollar player.
 
Samoa just got outcoached in the end imo... Stacey Jones used his bench brilliantly & swung the game into NZ's favour, they just had too much momentum going for them & Samoa couldn't stop the rut. Why Gardiner would play Haas for 80 minutes, Paulo for 67 minutes & even Tevaga for 50 minutes is mind baffling especially only playing Terrell for 20 minutes when you know he can get through a mountain of work.
 
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