International Pacific Championship

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Another awesome sight this weekend with the crowd. International league is improving but it's not really due to management and planning but more luck they fell into with the Tongan & Samoans drawing the crowds.

That middle 3 of the Kiwis with JFH, Leota and Tapine is a great unit. This week there was less of a drop off when they were replaced. Whyte, Willison and Clark kept it going through the middle.

Nice work from the halves. Having a fast elusive fullback helped a lot.

Also Isaako knocking over the majority of the conversions.
 
Tonga and Samoa did the Kiwis a favor with the movement of players away from New Zealand.

New Zealand having lost all the stars to Tonga and Samoa have become a team that has returned to oldschool Test match culture, the players that the Kiwis have available now are there for the old fashioned reasons people played test matches in days gone by.

By reducing their options the Kiwis have ended up with hearty play for the flag types of players.

Even though Tonga and Samoa took some players that were better than their Kiwi counter parts at the time of the split, what really makes a strong test team is the will to fight for your colors.

In this vein it is good people like Dimitric and Leka chose where their hearts lie.

Gee Dimitric is a good bench player.
 
sup42 said:
He is not ok right now.

Should have gone to hospital.

The fact they played him after a cat one head injury was appalling, seeing him on their bench in shots in lala land with bloodshot eyes and tears streaming, all signs of head injury was appalling.
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Yeah I was surprised he played after the knock in the warm up & then 2nd HIA. Poor from the docs all around really, player welfare not prioritized.
 
Wahs_Ultras said:
Pretty crazy how he committed to the kiwis. He would for sure have had a future playing in the origin arena the way he’s going.
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Panthers know they’ve got a star and are enjoying paying him a modest salary compared to what he will earn when his contract is to be renewed. He’ll still fill out a bit more and could be as good if not better than Crichton
 
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sup42 said:
Tonga and Samoa did the Kiwis a favor with the movement of players away from New Zealand.

New Zealand having lost all the stars to Tonga and Samoa have become a team that has returned to oldschool Test match culture, the players that the Kiwis have available now are there for the old fashioned reasons people played test matches in days gone by.

By reducing their options the Kiwis have ended up with hearty play for the flag types of players.

Even though Tonga and Samoa took some players that were better than their Kiwi counter parts at the time of the split, what really makes a strong test team is the will to fight for your colors.

In this vein it is good people like Dimitric and Leka chose where their hearts lie.

Gee Dimitric is a good bench player.
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Yep great call. The players who are choosing Kiwis have a ton of pride for the jersey. It's awesome to see.
 
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