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Tetavano looking puke an absolute cart horse again today. Seriously how bad his he, even before the Marquee tag.
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| Quote rollin thunder="rollin thunder"Tetavano looking puke an absolute cart horse again today. Seriously how bad his he, even before the Marquee tag.'"
I was just going to comment but you beat me to it. Absolute dog $hit player. Lazy is an understatement |
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Tonga Finish Top of Group
The last round of Group D kicked off at Middlesbrough everyone having a mathematical chance of making the World Cup quarter-finals.
Tonga went into today’s game undefeated and looking to top the group on six points and meet France or Samoa in the quarters.. The Cook Islands, with one win behind them needed to win - and rely on the result of Wales’s match against Papua New Guinea tomorrow night - to qualify.
Tonga welcomed captain Jason Taumalolo into the side for his debut, having missed the opening two matches.
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Tonga Finish Top of Group
The last round of Group D kicked off at Middlesbrough everyone having a mathematical chance of making the World Cup quarter-finals.
Tonga went into today’s game undefeated and looking to top the group on six points and meet France or Samoa in the quarters.. The Cook Islands, with one win behind them needed to win - and rely on the result of Wales’s match against Papua New Guinea tomorrow night - to qualify.
Tonga welcomed captain Jason Taumalolo into the side for his debut, having missed the opening two matches.
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Far too many blow outs now in the group stages, game like France and Samoa should have been much closer.
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Samoa Demolish France To Set Up Quarter Final With Tonga
The final game in group A was a ´do or die´ game for the runners up spot and a chance to play Tonga in the quarter finals as Samoa took on France at the Halliwell-Jones Stadium in Warrington with Samoa the firm favourites to take the spoils.
The bookies had given France a twenty-four point start on the coupon, but Laurent Frayssinous came into the match hoping that his side, packed with Super League stars would be able to spring a shock on Toa Samoa and Matt Parish´s group of NRL players.
Many neutrals were hoping the bookies would be right to set up a mouth-watering quarter final between Samoa and Tonga.
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Samoa Demolish France To Set Up Quarter Final With Tonga
The final game in group A was a ´do or die´ game for the runners up spot and a chance to play Tonga in the quarter finals as Samoa took on France at the Halliwell-Jones Stadium in Warrington with Samoa the firm favourites to take the spoils.
The bookies had given France a twenty-four point start on the coupon, but Laurent Frayssinous came into the match hoping that his side, packed with Super League stars would be able to spring a shock on Toa Samoa and Matt Parish´s group of NRL players.
Many neutrals were hoping the bookies would be right to set up a mouth-watering quarter final between Samoa and Tonga.
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Let's be honest, the group stages have been, by and large, blowouts. One or two close ish games, but mostly ridiculously one sided. It's important for the sport to develop but this isn't the way to do it, in my opinion. Not doing anyone any good.
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But the reason there are blowouts is because teams like Samoa PNG and Tonga have got better, they have done that by playing and competing against better teams.
Blowouts happen in most sports WCs outside of football.
These blowouts are not as damaging as RL fans like to make out, we are now at the QF stage with far more competitive matches than we’ve ever had, everyone looks at 2013 as a success but the group stages had to have a ‘super group’ and the QF contained mis matches.
I believe Japan got beat by 100+ points not so long back in RU, now they are starting to compete, we need to stick with it not bin it at the first go.
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| Quote christopher="christopher"But the reason there are blowouts is because teams like Samoa PNG and Tonga have got better, they have done that by playing and competing against better teams.
Blowouts happen in most sports WCs outside of football.
These blowouts are not as damaging as RL fans like to make out, we are now at the QF stage with far more competitive matches than we’ve ever had, everyone looks at 2013 as a success but the group stages had to have a ‘super group’ and the QF contained mis matches.
I believe Japan got beat by 100+ points not so long back in RU, now they are starting to compete, we need to stick with it not bin it at the first go.'"
Agreed. Even football world cup has blow outs when someone like New Zealand get there. And there's loads in the RU version. I genuinely feared England would go out in the Quarters due to the strength of Samoa and Tonga. That's never been the case before. PNG will give us a real game on Saturday |
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| Quote The Eagle="The Eagle"Agreed. Even football world cup has blow outs when someone like New Zealand get there. And there's loads in the RU version. I genuinely feared England would go out in the Quarters due to the strength of Samoa and Tonga. That's never been the case before. PNG will give us a real game on Saturday'"
Yeh, the good thing about the WC is that there is now more than 3 teams.
Tonga, Samoa, PNG will all give the big guns a game.
Most of the QF's will be competitive, not been like that for years.
But unfortunately the other 8 teams or so are making up the numbers.
And very disappointing that England are the only European team in the QF's.
Wales, Scotland, Ireland and France need to try to catch up with the likes of Tonga, Samoa, PNG & Fiji. |
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And also Lebanon who don`t look too bad.
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| Quote Simmo71="Simmo71"Wales, Scotland, Ireland and France need to try to catch up with the likes of Tonga, Samoa, PNG & Fiji.'"
The legacy from thus world cup needs to be a structured international calendar. I know IMG have that as a main objective which is good. But it doesn't need to be reliant of the tier 1 nations. Its great exposure for the lower ranked nations to play the big guns, but there needs to be structured and visible competition for them against the lower ranked nations. Something like the Nations League in football where its all set out with an through the calendar and a tournament at the end. |
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Broadly speaking the nations fall into 2 groupings, the first tier (NZ, Aus, Tonga, Samoa, England and PNG) and the second tier (France, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Lebanon, Greece, Jamaica, Cook Islands, Italy, Fiji). Both could have a rotating International Calendar and have closer more meaningful games that would grow interest and participation.
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