'13 WC | Group D | USA 32-20 Cook Islands | Bristol

[Timmah]

1. Kristian Freed
2. Bureta Faraimo 3. Michael Garvey 4. Loto Tagaloa 5. Matt Petersen
6. Joseph Paulo (C) 7. Craig Priestly
8. Junior Paulo 9. Joel Luani 10. Eddy Pettybourne
11. Clint Newton 12. Matt Shipway
13. Daniel Howard

Interchange: 14. Tui Samoa 15. Mark Offerdahl 16. Stephen Howard 17. Les Soloai
Reserves: 18. David Marando 19. Judah Lavulo

Tinirau Arona, Sam Brunton, Daniel Fepuleai, Jonathon Ford, Anthony Gelling, Isaac John, Drury Low, Keith Lulia, Lulia Lulia, Sam Mataora, Joseph Matapuku, Dylan Napa, Dominique Peyroux, Jordan Rapana, Tupou Sopoaga, Zeb Taia, Brad Takairangi, Adam Tangata, Zane Tetavano


Referee
Ben Thaler
Touch Judges: George Stokes & Chris Leatherbarrow
Video Referee: Richard Silverwood​

 

[Moffo]

Who is the us coach?

Id say Yankees by six

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Terry Matterson.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Cookies to win by 8.

 

[ek999]

Cooks should win fairly comfortably. Fairly strong forward pack and decent backs.

Isaac John and Drury Low will be the key players for them

 

[adamkungl]

Least appealing game of the series so far for me. US team is a bunch of park footballer Aussies and Cooks are NZ D... no offence to any Cook Islanders here but I don't see the point of them even being in the comp. Whatever I expect Cooks will shit it in, hopefully it's an exciting game.

 

[newman]

Shit game with bludger players. Will still watch.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Yeah my opinion is that if all Cook Islanders have Kiwi citizenship, they should be playing for NZ... But I could be terribly misinformed and ignorant on the matter.

Still, I'd like to see America do well to hopefully give the game a kick start over there.

 

[adamkungl]

I guess now isn't the time to be questioning the legitimacy of a country.

 

[Springs]

The players would be or would be descended from Cook Islands Nationals. They have their own government, flag, anthem and coat of arms. It's no different than Welsh players playing for Wales instead of all home nations having to play as the United Kingdom.

Not to mention Rugby League is the most popular sport in the Cook Islands so if we count it as a country we can say it's the most popular in 2 countries now...

 

[nadera78]

England doesn't have it's own government or parliament, or even an assembly. Wales has an assembly but no government. Ireland is one country with a bit of another country added in. Scotland has it's own government, legal system, etc.

In cricket there's no such country as the West Indies, it existed for just two years IIRC.

In soccer there are dozens of non-countries playing in FIFA competitions.

 

[nadera78]

Cooks to win this one, I hope.

 

[adamkungl]

England doesn't have it's own government or parliament, or even an assembly. Wales has an assembly but no government. Ireland is one country with a bit of another country added in. Scotland has it's own government, legal system, etc.

The equivalent here would be both England and the UK competing in the WC.

 

[nadera78]

The equivalent here would be both England and the UK competing in the WC.

The Cook Islands compete in the Olympics. There's no bigger sporting event than that!

 

[Moffo]

USA to shit it in...more attacking options

 

[Moffo]

I don't understand why you guys are picking the Cook Islands? Their team sucks!

 

[Patorick]

I don't understand why you guys are picking the Cook Islands? Their team sucks!

:-k

 

[Bovrick]

I'll go for the Cook Islanders, but my predictions have been awful so far!

I'll also go for Gelling to be simultaneously the best and worst player.

 

[whall15]

Clicked the wrong button in the poll :lol:

Come on Cook Islands.

 

[joshie]

America by 10