International Pacific Championship

[Zaggo]

May out is huge. Our bench already looked significantly stronger.

I think this should be a really comfortable win for the Kiwis.

 

[tajhay]

And why couldnt they get an ex fiji/cook islander player in to provide some co commentary...instead we get the bland cooper cronk calls

 

[Jaffa J]

Is the broadcast coverage for the fiji v cook island poor quality or just my eyesight? Looks jarrish/blurry in spurts on kayo(fox)

It’s always bad in PNG

 

[Playdaball]

PNG fans love RL and can’t get enough of the game.
Question:
Why do they not turn up to international games?
Ps - Tony Iro was at the Alex Pub watching the game today

 

[BRING DA RUCKUS]

Kuki boys what are we doing

 

[Hitro]

Kuki boys what are we doing

Playing like they don’t know they have outside backs

 

[sup42]

PNG fans love RL and can’t get enough of the game.
Question:
Why do they not turn up to international games?
Ps - Tony Iro was at the Alex Pub watching the game today

They are more discerning these days, after the Hunters coming along you can't put a rubbish game in front of them and expect them to part with their coin.

 

[enterthewarrior]

Tonga vs Samoa should be played in Auckland not Brisbane. NZ has more passionate fans than Aus. What a joke Australia RL is.

 

[Playdaball]

Tonga vs Samoa should be played in Auckland not Brisbane. NZ has more passionate fans than Aus. What a joke Australia RL is.

I think it’s a near sell out in Brisbane .
Will attract more people than the same game at Hamilton or Mt Smart

 

[Defence]

Is the broadcast coverage for the fiji v cook island poor quality or just my eyesight? Looks jarrish/blurry in spurts on kayo(fox)

I changed from kayo to 9Hd which was a bit better- u can actually hear the crowd too.

 

[Leon Black]

How’d Putoko go? The PNG vs PM’s XIII stream made BarTV look 4K, last weekend! Good times when PNG start.

 

[Zaggo]

I think it’s a near sell out in Brisbane .
Will attract more people than the same game at Hamilton or Mt Smart

Yeah this is it. As much as I'd love the game to be in Auckland, it's tough to argue with 50k at Suncorp.

 

[Noitall]

How’d Putoko go? The PNG vs PM’s XIII stream made BarTV look 4K, last weekend! Good times when PNG start.

Didn’t see it, but judging by this post on the LU forum he went alright

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Watching Fiji v Cook Islands. Fiji easily the better team (when they can be bothered, that is) but one shining light for the Cooks is our Caelys-Paul Putoko. Real talent, that kid. Look out for him forcing his way into FG sooner rather than later

 

[Hitro]

How’d Putoko go? The PNG vs PM’s XIII stream made BarTV look 4K, last weekend! Good times when PNG start.

Only saw bits but he made an awesome break down the left side at one stage, put a step on Bula too. Vossy and Cronk were loving him.

Think he got shifted to the wing for Ioka, because Ioka was defending at the back during the last 20.

CPP still looked sketchy under the high ball, might be why he was moved to the wing.

 

[enterthewarrior]

I think it’s a near sell out in Brisbane .
Will attract more people than the same game at Hamilton or Mt Smart

OK fair enough. A bit of a stupid question but are most of the Tongan and Samoan fans attending the game live in Brisbane/Australia or will a lot of them go over from Auckland to watch the game?

 

[kos]

OK fair enough. A bit of a stupid question but are most of the Tongan and Samoan fans attending the game live in Brisbane/Australia or will a lot of them go over from Auckland to watch the game?

There’s a big PI population in Brisbane
A lot of them come direct from the PI to Aus as well as Kiwi Pi moving from Nz

Generally speaking most people in SEQ would have more disposable income than say in Nz

 

[Shogun]

Tonga vs Samoa should be played in Auckland not Brisbane. NZ has more passionate fans than Aus. What a joke Australia RL is.

And why is the final in oz they're not even in the f@<Kin' thing!

 

[Sugar Ray]

Terrell May drops off the bench.
Huge advantage to the Kiwis now.

Looking at the side now I think Jazz moves to 13, Paulo to prop, Papa to the bench and either CHT or Ioelu start.

You'd hope that's the case. It'd be weird if the bench stayed as CHT, Sasagi, Molo and Ioelu. Very small bench and the make up is weird.

This coach is a bit out of it though. He played Stephen Crichton at 6 two years ago and it backfired big time.