@Nepia
agree with most of what you say
we played shit in the first half, but still could have won, we were great for most of the 2nd
but in the final 10 minutes of the tongans were more composed, more professional than us
that surprised me, wouldn’t have happened in the old days, we’d have finished them off, no prob
the tongans are really good, they’d have a really good in union team too, if they were allowed
agree stacy fucked this up, just didn’t wanna say it
the winning game plan was to smother defence them, at least three in every tackle, peel off slowly, don’t let the tongans get any momentum, frustrate them
the aussies will do that next week
like a rush defence in union
as soon as I saw the kiwi team sheet I thought tonga was going to win
I think we are guna have to get used to “weakened” teams
all those PI players are gone for good, even tho most of them are still technically qualified for nz
way more PI players in the NRL than kiwi
the only consolation is I think the aussies are permanently “weakened” a little too
wouldn’t be surprised if the aussies got beat next week
the SOO situation needs to be sorted, although the players seem to be doing that with their feet already
I said a “like” union comp: like nz/aus/fij/sam/tong/png/ci
union cant do anything near as like competitive
the majority of the players come from the NRL
the NRL is the highest standard rugby comp in the world (league or union)
their next casting deal will be north of a billion per year, more even than french T14
I think the NRL players get the same match payments no matter what international team they play for
Imagine if union did something like that, you’d double the amount of world champ contenders
Union is my game, but I like the direction league is heading
Cant say the same about union
Lots of mickey mouse crap in union too
Only 5 or 6 international teams are legit contenders
Poms just played ABs in a nothing match . . . and the ABs got nothing, just expenses (and the W) . . . how f’d up is that!
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