NRL 2025
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The grub comes up with a huge play on the restart.
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Far out that was frantic stuff.
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“What concussion?”
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Finally Molo goes off for a test. That should’ve happened 5 minutes ago
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Papali’i on that left edge has been excellent.
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Kini just got smashed in the head by a very poor tackle technique
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Nikora is some player. Defensively he’s basically as good as Mannering but on attack he has a bit of Shontayne Hape in him.
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Very satisfying win after a brutal physical first half. The crowd and support for Samoa was fever pitch and it was good seeing our boys stay in the fight.
Second half we really stepped up our attacking intensity. Our bench forwards bought some heat and I think stayed on a little longer because of how they were performing. Then our starters came back on and it was lights out.
Our left side was dominant.
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Just watched it, without knowing the result.
Wow what a performance from the Kiwis.
Weathered a fucking horrendous Samoan storm in the first 20-30 minutes, but started getting on top towards the end of the first half.
That second half, some of the best league I’ve seen. 30 unanswered points, just well and truely shut the door on Samoa, didn’t give them a sniff.
Stoked for Foran to sign off with the fairytale ending.
What a shame we don’t get to play Aussie, the form we’re in, we’d be bloody hard even for them to stop.
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That was a quality game of footy.
We were good for that win and that margin. Can't undersell Foran's knowledge about when to not try something and just dig Samoa in to the grind they were losing.
Brown good. Kini good. Bench very good. Nikora good. Things are looking up for next year if Hughes is fit.
Jerome Luai can get in the bin, mouthy grub who is also a diver, and frankly he had a shit game today.
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Good to read this thread and have my thoughts about Samoa getting away with stuff be echoed by others. I couldn't complain too much at the ground because I was surrounded by Samoans.
Worrying first half but was awesome once we got cooking in the second half. I think that's the best I've seen Nikora play, and Papali'i was on fire as well. I think Whyte is my new favourite league player (I haven't had one since Bromwich retired), he just gets stuck in and keeps going. Kini seemed to be getting hit a lot at the ground, but looks like he was creating space, I do wonder if Mulitalo's injury saved our campaign, in saying that CNK seemed like he was going ok but will have to check when I watch a replay.
Luai burnt his team with his Hollywood at the end of the second half, as it meant that their similar shots started getting noticed. Definitely seemed like the ref was squaring up the ledger in the second half but the TMO 50/50 seemed to go our way.
Atmosphere was pretty good, probably more Kiwi fans there than it looked on tv. But, the day was completely geared towards Samoa. Supposed to be a neutral ground for a final, but the organisers decided it was a Samoan home final. The ground announcer was Samoan, and he wouldn't shut the fuck up all game, even the Samoan fans were over him, he did slip in the odd Kiwi song (E papa, Tutira mai nga iwi), and the half time entertainment was all Samoan.
Many of the Samoan fans sitting in my area were embarrassed with the booing during the haka.
Anyway, capped of a good day of Black results.
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Courier mail spreading rumours the warriors making a play for NAS.
My first gut reaction was WTF?!
My next thought was, who else is leaving? As we have 30.
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@bayimports said in NRL 2025:
Courier mail spreading rumours the warriors making a play for NAS.
My first gut reaction was WTF?!
My next thought was, who else is leaving? As we have 30.
Hoping this one not trueI thought a few of our 30 have been given permission to check out the market.
I don't mind NAS, he's a NZer and everyone knows my feelings about one of the guys we have playing prop, plus we don't make the grand final so we don't have to worry about him being suspended for it.
