LIVE GAME *spoilers* Tonga v Samoa

[Telltails]

Id love to be in that crowd

 

[orange&black]

Both 5/8s are pretty average. Iongi struggling out if position and Talagi making a lot of errors.
Anyone know if Soni Luke is contracted for 2026?

 

[Wezt]

Both 5/8s are pretty average. Iongi struggling out if position and Talagi making a lot of errors.
Anyone know if Soni Luke is contracted for 2026?

free agent

He is looking at a super league move, i don't know how he doesn't have any NRL offers

 

[Tucker]

This game is surely over.
They’ve been off the field too long already.

 

[innsaneink]

Haha 9 have given up...news is on

Kayo still holding out

The betting on the game would play a part on it not being abandoned

Samoa warming up....five minutes to go

 

[gregjm87]

back on now

 

[Telltails]

May Paulo to Hass

 

[innsaneink]

May Paulo to Hass

Terrell with nice soft hands...not often you see a prop prop prop try

 

[Telltails]

Terrell looks like he is carrying more weight since seasons end

 

[426Tlgerland]

Score update , we lost tv due to living in unit ours is dish on roof , always goes out in storms and we got a good one

 

[gregjm87]

Score update , we lost tv due to living in unit ours is dish on roof , always goes out in storms and we got a good one

34-6 final score. Tonga got worse after the break

 

[gregjm87]

And Paulo and Haas just continued to run through them.

 

[Telltails]

You have to wonder where the Australian sides are going to find the forwards to match these sides in the future with more and more showing allegiance to the Pacific islands.

 

[Droppy05]

You have to wonder where the Australian sides are going to find the forwards to match these sides in the future with more and more showing allegiance to the Pacific islands.

Not a bad pack for Samoa-Haas, Junior, May, Papali ,Molo, Nanai. Good luck to Roos taking them on.

 

[happy_tiger]

You have to wonder where the Australian sides are going to find the forwards to match these sides in the future with more and more showing allegiance to the Pacific islands.

Yeah I don't agree with it

I'm happy for players to play for Samoa ...Tonga ....Cook Islands
But to then still take the 30 k and play SOO ....just wrong ......

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Is it just me, or does the off season feel really short all of a sudden. We still have footy in some form for another couple of weeks, into mid-November. Then trials kick off in February. It’s only about 2-2 and a half months where we have no footy.

 

[Glenji95]

Yeah I don't agree with it

I'm happy for players to play for Samoa ...Tonga ....Cook Islands
But to then still take the 30 k and play SOO ....just wrong ......

It won’t get changed though as the NRL won’t want to face repercussions from that decision. The Polynesian influence will continue to grow in the game as some of them are incredibly talented and in fairness some of them were actually born in Australia, either NSW or QLD to the ones that are. And technically that still does make them Australian, and it still technically does make them Queenslanders or New South Welshmen (least to the ones that were born here). Just have to accept that eventually majority of players that play Origin in the future will have some ties to a Polynesian country and might decide to play for them rather than Australia. I might be a real old man when it happens but eventually (unless the NRL scrap Origin or do decide to change the eligibility criteria) almost all the players in the future that play Origin will have some sort of Polynesian ties, there won’t be many players in the future that won’t in some capacity.