Pacific Islands All Stars V Australia/England

[taste2taste]

After the success of the Indigenous V Maori All Stars I thought a Pacific Islands All Stars V Australia or England could be an interesting concept.
Might be fun as a one off game. Imo it would be a ripper game and the PI team would be pretty hard to beat.
Does anyone see any potential in this hypothetical game ?

 

[Walter sobchak]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

 

[Burns]

Nah

 

[adamkungl]

Wouldn't mind seeing a Pacific All Stars v a touring Great Britain tbh, since both are combined-nation teams.

Ya know what, I used to be against these kind of things but if it makes money and builds an audience for the real national teams, and only takes up a small section of the calendar, then so be it. I get too hung up on *real* teams and official rankings etc

 

[Pommy]

It’s a no from me, get GB to play Samoa instead.
Preferably shit can GB and get England to play Samoa.

 

[adamkungl]

Yeah GB is a shit go while the other 3 nations are so far behind.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

I could see a Polynesian All Stars and Melanesian All Stars team being added to the Indigenous All Stars and Maori All Stars concept but I would have any of them playing international sides.

 

[Matua]

I could see a Polynesian All Stars and Melanesian All Stars team being added to the Indigenous All Stars and Maori All Stars concept but I would have any of them playing international sides.

Dane Gagai could then choose between the Indigenous, Maori and Polynesian team.

 

[Te Kaha]

I could see a Polynesian All Stars and Melanesian All Stars team being added to the Indigenous All Stars and Maori All Stars concept but I would have any of them playing international sides.

Considering Maori are Polynesians that will never work. Added to that Cook Islanders are both Maori and Polynesian.
Then you get the politics when one country has more players than the others and they start infighting. It may work once, but long term it never has and i doubt it ever will.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Considering Maori are Polynesians that will never work. Added to that Cook Islanders are both Maori and Polynesian.
Then you get the politics when one country has more players than the others and they start infighting. It may work once, but long term it never has and i doubt it ever will.

Thanks for the insight. Do you think the Maori All Stars could be expanded to Polynesian All Stars to take on the Indigenous All Stars each year?

 

[Storm13]

Thanks for the insight. Do you think the Maori All Stars could be expanded to Polynesian All Stars to take on the Indigenous All Stars each year?

Then what war dance would they do???

 

[Te Kaha]

Thanks for the insight. Do you think the Maori All Stars could be expanded to Polynesian All Stars to take on the Indigenous All Stars each year?

On one hand its better off just concentrating on the National teams, on the other it is entirely possible within one or to generations there wont be anyone eligible, under current criteria, for those teams so "heritage" teams may be the norm. That is assuming there are still any contact team sports in a couple of generations.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Then what war dance would they do???

I'd go with 'Hot Potato' by the Wiggles

 

[Matua]

Then what war dance would they do???

They could do an amalgam of them all - IIRC there wasn't really a tradition of haka style war dances in Samoa at least ... the Siva tau was actually created for the 1991 RWC.

 

[Walter sobchak]

Dane Gagai could then choose between the Indigenous, Maori and Polynesian team.

In true RL fashion he could end up playing for a team due to not being picked by the other 2.