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  1. Manu Vatuvei

    Father / Son duos in the NRL

    Frank and Shane Endacott.
  2. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Apparently it’s not even top 50! Seems to me Latu, Fifita, Tupou, Finau would be much more common
  3. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    yeah I was thinking with RTS's defection Smith might've actually been in line for a call-up, probably why my mind went immediately to his Storm replacement.
  4. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Katoa (Storm) for sure. He adds to the ranks of Katoas, he's been in great form, and most importantly he gives Tonga a token Tongan.
  5. Manu Vatuvei

    Pacific Championships 2024

    Howarth? Played NZ A last year so they're obviously working on him. Would be standard practice, all these Kiwis won't play for us but an Aussie will.
  6. Manu Vatuvei

    Who do you want to play at fullback in 2025?

    I'm assuming Manu will be gone and Timoko is one centre. Talau has played for Samoa, I did think of him but figured he'd stick with them. I assume he would qualify for NZ via his Dad playing for NZ? Otherwise I'm not sure he would qualify because he's born in Aus and Willie was born in Samoa...
  7. Manu Vatuvei

    Who do you want to play at fullback in 2025?

    I guess Kris is also a thing
  8. Manu Vatuvei

    Who do you want to play at fullback in 2025?

    Who've you got for Kiwis fullback and centres? Keep CNK at fullback and find a new centre somewhere (dare I say, someone from the Warriors?). CNK centre and Kini FB? Funnily enough I think Reimis Smith would've been perfectly poised to play for the Kiwis if he hadn't moved on....maybe his...
  9. Manu Vatuvei

    F.O Andrew Webster

    This too - I thought he and Leiataua could've got more minutes last year, but were set for big minutes this year at least....not the case (Leiataua seems chronically injury prone tbf).
  10. Manu Vatuvei

    F.O Andrew Webster

    100% agree. JFH is a very good player, elite even, but he's 15kg lighter than AFB without the footwork. He will work the house down, but we've been relying on a prop as one of our key try scoring threats (which is an indictment in itself) and that's gone now.
  11. Manu Vatuvei

    Grass roots

    Don't say I can't pick 'em.....Fine won Fox Memorial POTY at the ARL awards.
  12. Manu Vatuvei

    Team v Sharks

    100%. I fully understand that SJ deserves the send-off, but the way it's happening while he goes on a career-worst run of defeats is an elephant in the room that is getting bigger and bigger. This guy is going to go out on 10 straight defeats while he and everyone around him ignores that fact...
  13. Manu Vatuvei

    Hall of Fame

    Joey is an interesting one in that regard too because his resume is certainly impressive, but other guys were more prolific. There's also the slightly curious fact that Johns was semi-regularly not the preferred option in his preferred position for Australia and NSW. Actually just checked and...
  14. Manu Vatuvei

    Hall of Fame

    While far from disqualifying, none of the three bolded numbers are thaaaaat impressive though. There are plenty of reasons why a guy might've missed some rep footy (injuries, dodgy selectors), but I do think those are key numbers that make up a resume. Those stats would indicate Lazarus played...
  15. Manu Vatuvei

    Hall of Fame

    I'd say Benji is the best Kiwi player of his era (i.e. over Mannering) and I'd also have Benji over Stacey. Honestly when I clicked on that article I thought it was going to be about whether or not Stacey should be in the HOF, forgetting he was already in. I was generally mulling over that too...
  16. Manu Vatuvei

    Erin Clark

    Hey I'm not even sure the "mobile, versatile forwards" approach is wrong. Just saying that to me, our squad suggests we're sticking to it.
  17. Manu Vatuvei

    Erin Clark

    I'd have to disagree. That whole bench is pretty much converted mobile backrowers, not a genuine "big man" on it. Clark obviously, Ale is a nuggety backrower playing as an undersized prop, Sifakula is a recently converted backrower who seems to have spent his whole rehab in the gym, Halasima is...
  18. Manu Vatuvei

    Erin Clark

    For sure, I'm just a bit surprised that we've forced out one hooker/undersized middle forward, and replaced him with pretty much his closest equivalent in the competition. I guess it makes it very clear that we were not "moving on from Jazz" as in a Jazz-style player, but rather that we were...
  19. Manu Vatuvei

    Who do you want to play at fullback in 2025?

    Not hating on Tuaupiki at all but yeah. I would be stunned if he ever hit, say, 50 NRL games. I like him but I just don't see more than fringe NRL standard/back-up there, and he's already about to turn 25. Feel free to bring this up in future when he finds his niche somewhere and starts racking...
  20. Manu Vatuvei

    Erin Clark

    Yeah I came here to say that this guy is basically Jazz Tevaga but that appears to have been covered. Perfectly decent signing but seems like a sideways move really.

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