'13 WC | Group B | New Zealand 42-24 Samoa | Warrington

[Parra Pride]

The only time I've seen it was last year v Manly. I haven't seen such individual brilliance on a big stage from him before.

He was pretty good towards the end of this season playing centre.

 

[whall15]

Roberts or Masoe should've got Man of the Match.

 

[franklin2323]

How can the rest of the tournament top this for pure entertainment?

RL unlike other sports will always throw these games up. Fiji v Poms & Samoa v PNG will be just as good

 

[Springs]

Masoe and Matagi joint man of the match.

 

[tmfsd]

Ok I'm going to put my hand up and say I've been bagging Roberts for many moons now but he has played out of his skin 2nite. Possibly best on the park, but he has to play like that every week. Masoe for PM! What a f**king great game that was!

 

[Big_nick]

Samoa and PNG on a dry track will be great

 

[afinalsin666]

How can the rest of the tournament top this for pure entertainment?

Hmm. I don't think the games can be, but if England crowds continue to get behind the underdogs like today, it will certainly go a long way towards it. Samoa drew so much energy from the crowd during their blitz.

 

[aqua_duck]

JWH was MOTM for mine, 18 hit ups for 165m

 

[Springs]

Well done both teams. Entertaining as hell.

 

[Tera]

One of the most entertaining games I've ever seen.

 

[Ari Gold]

International rugby league in crisis

 

[afinalsin666]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. No one really wants to watch that. It was meaningless, and passionless. The crowd was terrible, and it was a 42-24 flogging. The players didn't care, and were just going through the motions.

No one cares, when the high of watching this game wears off, you'll all realise that you don't care either.

 

[franklin2323]

Wish Samoa would have got this passion straight after half time. Take that 8 minutes out...

Yep. If only Nuuasala bitch slapped at 22-4 rather then 36-4. Still will give others confidence to take it up to the big 3.

 

[RHCP]

SBW OMG indeed, cannot believe that! :lol:

What a cracking game.

 

[kiwileaguefan]

What a game!! If that happen in the quarter finals for the Kiwis i would be worried...but how good was that.

Even my old man who is a die hard Rugby man watched it and just text to SBW is a dick and he is thoroughly enjoying the game.

At 36-4 down i was really worried it would end up 60+, but that one slap started Samoa on a big roll.

Its a shame because the SBW no try will over shadow the effort put in by Samoa back here.

 

[The Clan]

Tonga must respond and show that they're also here to party

 

[Masoe_eats_babies]

Mose Masoe my man of the match. When he was on NZ scored 1 try(Vatuvei late in the game) and Samoa scored about 4 of their 5.

Was a massive performance. His presence literally changed the game. With Masoe on the field Samoa scored 20 points and NZ scored 6. (I think)

Alternatively you could probably make the argument that while JWH was off NZ turned to shit. Probably a bit of both.

 

[Diesel]

First game of the WC for the Kiwis and Samoa always being it when playing NZ. My only concern is the head coach and how much he can f it up

 

[deluded pom?]

For all the doom mongers, that's the point of the RLWC.

 

[Dav0c]

I love how people are writing the Kiwis off already.. Gives me confidence they will go all the way.