What's new
By:
Advanced search…
The Front Row Forums

Register a free account today to become a member of the world's largest Rugby League discussion forum! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Search results

  1. Manu Vatuvei

    2024 Pacific Championships - 18 Oct to 10 Nov

    Yeah, it’s a big if, but with a low bar. Our attack doesn’t have to be good at all, just vaguely competent - but it’s likely we’re not capable of that.
  2. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Disappointing but promising. Even our understrength side physically dominated Australia for most of the game. Our cohesion on attack once we went more than 1-out was hopeless though. Every chance with a few tweaks we can win a final. What’s scary though is that the performance was very 2024...
  3. Manu Vatuvei

    2024 Pacific Championships - 18 Oct to 10 Nov

    Ideally yeah we wouldn’t concede 4 tries, but we conceded 4 today with Australia having no ball and playing very little footy and the Kiwis putting in massively on defence. They just have us covered for speed and strike on the edges and there’s no level of willpower or intensity that’s going to...
  4. Manu Vatuvei

    2024 Pacific Championships - 18 Oct to 10 Nov

    If we play like that in the final (if we make it) and are able to find something vaguely resembling NRL-standard attacking structure, we’ll be sweet. We have Aus covered physically.
  5. Manu Vatuvei

    2024 Pacific Championships - 18 Oct to 10 Nov

    Dominate territory and possession and lose by about 10-20. This is basically a 2024 Warriors game.
  6. Manu Vatuvei

    Off Season 2024/25

    Sivo scored 104 tries in 115 games (and 50 in his last 48 when he was "declining") but seemed to spend a lot of his career being treated as a laughing stock, at least by LU punters. I know scoring tries is only half his job but he was an incredible finisher who consistently scored from positions...
  7. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Personally I hope I live long enough (unlikely) to see Tonga and Samoa both go completely defunct due to a lack of qualified players. The idea that they add anything to the international game at all is a complete joke.
  8. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    No player actually says they are "unwilling", of course they are obliged to come up with an injury excuse. And hell, maybe they are all severely injured and incapacitated, we'll never know for sure. I just don't accept that it's likely that international matches invariably have about 10x the...
  9. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Johnson probably had a better Kiwis career than Warriors really. Didn’t get the job done in World Cups but nevertheless had an all-time clutch moment in the 2013 semi. Dominant figure in winning the 2014 4Nations undefeated, 3 consecutive wins over Australia 2014-15. Clutch performance...
  10. Manu Vatuvei

    Grass roots

    Auckland/Te Atatu Vulcans win a GP thriller 23-22 to take the National Title. Te Atatu's Kadiyae Ioka with the winning field goal and Te Atatu's Pat Vaivai man of the match, with tries to Te Atatu's Fine Vakautakakala and Ethan Figota.
  11. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Cup 2024

    He refused the call last year. As @Matua said, he made it pretty hard for the NZRL to put on some sort of retirement event for him, given he hasn't played since 2019 and then turned down what could have been his last opportunity in 2023.
  12. Manu Vatuvei

    Grass roots

    Just a random thought - National Provincial Championship grand final this week, Counties v (Te Atatu Roosters dominated) Auckland Vulcans. I find it very surprising that Bay of Plenty, Otago and Waikato were all in the comp this year but Canterbury were in the second tier comp. Apparently it's...
  13. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Oh I'm definitely not going to criticise him. Even if this is probably a manifestation of his ego gone wild yet again, give me someone whose ego makes them want to play for the Kiwis over yet another prick coming up with an excuse to not play, any day.
  14. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Busted, retired 2024 SJ is probably worse in reality than almost any other option we could have chosen. However, his name on the team sheet does give me more delusional cause for false hope than the other options, so that's nice.
  15. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Actually given CHT isn't in a Samoa side that's pretty low on spine players, could that mean he's a chance? CHT/Nikorima would be a real COVID Wahs throwback/nightmare.
  16. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Martin is also out. NZ eligible hookers and halves unavailable/unwilling: Brown, Hughes, Johnson, Foran, Marshall-King, Smith, Martin, Strange, Weekes, Roache, Katoa, Fainu, Luai. 13 and counting. Also assume CHT is in that boat.
  17. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Cup 2024

    I tried to count and got up to 13 eligible halves or hookers unavailable for us. It's all a bit of a joke. Ah well, now hoping for something along the lines of us beating Australia in 2003 with Faumuina and a barely 18 year old Leuluai in the halves.
  18. Manu Vatuvei

    NRL Finals 2024

    Yep. I truly believe that a lot of people are deluding themselves about how they felt about Cleary when Cleary was here. Certainly any time an old thread from 2006-2011 gets dragged up, it tells a different story to what people are saying now. I am prepared to admit I was probably wrong about...
  19. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    I come up with better excuses to not play Senior B cricket in summer than most of these cowards are coming up with. At least say there's a beer festival on or something.
  20. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Hughes is out What a farce

Latest posts

Top