It’s being upgraded for the 2019pacific games, it is more than adequate for hosting a Tonga RL game.
https://www.nudsp.to/sport.php
lol, turnstiles and toilets are a start, but when are they starting work on all this stuff? Cause three quarters of the things they show in their image hasn't been built, so if they plan to have it all ready by next year they better have started building yesterday!
To give you an idea here's an article on the stadium from May last year
after the upgrades payed for by the NZ government were completed (notice the lack of a lot of the 'upgrades' they were crowing about in your links, some of that was supposed to be paid for by NZ, but it hasn't happened).
https://www.radionz.co.nz/internati...a-stadium-given-all-clear-to-host-rugby-tests
And here is the only pictures that I can find of the stadium from earlier this year after the damage from Cyclone Gita-
I get that having games played in Tonga would be a great thing, but they're simply in no position to host games. As I said in a previous post the best thing that could be done to change that state of affairs would be to get on the Aus and NZ government to invest a few million each to get them to a place where they can host games.
Given what we saw in RLWC every png game should be in png, nz v Tonga should be in nz everytime and Tonga v Samoa or Fiji played in tonga. I get it’s the dumb nrl broadcasting agreement means these internationals have to be played in Sydney but it’s sht for actually growing the profile of int rl in the countries playing.
There're commercial reasons as well i.e. there's more money to be made from these games in Aus or NZ (and maybe Eng as well) than on home soil, but yeah I don't disagree in principle.
