NZRL to block Aus v Tonga Test

[PARRA_FAN]

Cant say I'm surprised. We're in August and no-ones know if a test match will still go ahead. The people that run this game talk about the importance of International Rugby League but do they really care?

 

[roughyedspud]

They pay lip service to the international game,just doing enough to cover there backsides......the pacific series is a good case in point...Tonga v Samoa could get 30-40k over in NZ and PNG would sell out port moresby playing against the beerwah wombats under 10s..

But they'll stick it on in a Sydney backwater....cos they don't want the internationals to overshadow the origin game..

They'll play all star games and testimonials but say Denver tests or a Tonga game is too much...

It's funny cos in the last RLIF meeting they instructed the NZRL to schedule more games against the pacific sides...they've given up on Australia

 

[The Great Dane]

They pay lip service to the international game,just doing enough to cover there backsides......the pacific series is a good case in point...Tonga v Samoa could get 30-40k over in NZ and PNG would sell out port moresby playing against the beerwah wombats under 10s..

But they'll stick it on in a Sydney backwater....cos they don't want the internationals to overshadow the origin game..

Even for you that is an incredibility unfair assessment of the situation...

Yeah it's got nothing to do with Nine and Fox not wanting to gallivant all over the Pacific to broadcast games and having to deal with that, it's got nothing to do with the fact that for the NRL it is more expensive to host games in the PIs than in Australia and for less of a return, it's got nothing to do with the NRL having to juggle the interests of basically every RL organisation in the Southern Hemisphere when they organise these things, not to mention the fact that it shouldn't even be their responsibility to organise most of these games at all... Nah they're just scared that the Pacific Tests will overshadow SOO...

f**k it must be hard to remain so bitter at the success of others all the time...

They'll play all star games and testimonials but say Denver tests or a Tonga game is too much...

It's not to much for the NRL, however it's to much for the NZRL apparently...

It's funny cos in the last RLIF meeting they instructed the NZRL to schedule more games against the pacific sides...they've given up on Australia

When was the last time that England (not the Knights, The England international Rugby League team) played against the other European sides aside from France (who are basically your NZ in RL terms) outside of a tournament?

Maybe you should hold your lot to your own standards before condemning others for not keeping them either...

 

[roughyedspud]

England play France or Wales most years,we travel to Sydney to play Samoa or Denver to get a mid season game in cos France won't play us mid season...and created the knights to play more games against 2nd tier opposition...so no..I won't compare us to you....if there's room for a game we generally play one

 

[The Great Dane]

England play France or Wales most years,we travel to Sydney to play Samoa or Denver to get a mid season game in cos France won't play us mid season...and created the knights to play more games against 2nd tier opposition...so no..I won't compare us to you....if there's room for a game we generally play one

LOL!

The last time England played Wales outside of a tournament was 2009...
Samoa isn't in Europe nor is Samoa struggling for a game against strong opposition in the same way that say an Italy or Serbia is...
Last I checked NZ isn't a second tier nation, and getting payed stupid amounts of money to play a Micky Mouse in Denver isn't that much of an imposition is it...
And the Knights! Using that standard then the Prime ministers 13 is just as legitimate, I doubt that you'd accept that standard normally...

 

[Springs09]

To be fair they did play Italy before the 2013 World Cup, and lost. But then Australia played warm-ups in Fiji against Fiji and PNG last year. England played f**king Combined Affiliated States!

But I largely agree with Dane in that England aren't saints when it comes to playing against the second tier. They have a perfect opportunity to play against 1 or 2 more European teams this year as they are only playing 4 post-season games, but they aren't. And whenever someone suggests England play in a tournament against European sides like they want NZ to play in a tournament against Pacific sides, the English act as though they are too good for it, which is bullshit.

They pay lip service to the international game,just doing enough to cover there backsides......the pacific series is a good case in point...Tonga v Samoa could get 30-40k over in NZ and PNG would sell out port moresby playing against the beerwah wombats under 10s..

But they'll stick it on in a Sydney backwater....cos they don't want the internationals to overshadow the origin game..

They'll play all star games and testimonials but say Denver tests or a Tonga game is too much...

It's funny cos in the last RLIF meeting they instructed the NZRL to schedule more games against the pacific sides...they've given up on Australia

You're always complaining that the Pacific sides and European sides aren't organising their own games, but then it's Australia's fault that they are playing in Campbelltown? Why don't Tonga and Samoa organise their own mid-season test in Auckland? Why don't PNG organise mid-season tests in Port Moresby? Nah Australia has to do all that apparently. If it wasn't for Australia these countries wouldn't play at all. After all the hype about Tonga last year, Australia has been the only one that's even offered to play them again and capitalise on the potential growth of the game. England and NZ have done nothing but play each other.

Australia can and should do a hell of a lot more towards the international game, but it's not just Australia holding it back.

 

[Coastbloke]

We literally may as well forget the Tonga Test.
Along with the Origin game in Perth, you can now purchase tickets for the All Stars game at AAMI.

2 rounds of the comp and there's no word and only very recently do we know that the Kiwi Test will be at Mt Smart which is a joke in itself. It almost feels deliberate..

 

[Burns]

Still can’t buy tickets to the Test in Auckland in 8 weeks.

Hahahahahahhahahahaahahaha.

 

[Walter sobchak]

Still can’t buy tickets to the Test in Auckland in 8 weeks.

Hahahahahahhahahahaahahaha.

Unfuc#ing believable!!!!

Does the NZRU run the NZRL?? Deliberately balls everything up in order to never threaten the popularity of union in NZ.

 

[siv]

The comment from the RLIF that NZRL should arrange more RL events - I find interesting

Wonder who is the the real issue

NZRL or NRL

Seems to be a definite clash

 

[Burns]

 

[deluded pom?]

Apparently it's game on. Matty Johns said so.

 

[Vee]

Show yourself

Wow... John Hopoate a man with his finger on the pulse of international rugby league...

Sorry... that was terrible...

Show yourself out, would you?

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Seriously, why should we in NZ do any favours for Tonga? They're a fake international team anyway, and their fans have disrespected the country that gave them life. They can go and play Australia in their own (lol) country, or Aus. Eat a dick Tonga. Kristian Woolf is such a wanker for trying to pin this on us.

Now that we have a real coach, I look forward to us playing them but they can sort their own sh*t with Aus. NZ is not Mate Ma'as home, so why play Aus in a neutral country?

 

[RedVee]

IMO NZ should have welcomed this Test on the proviso they play Tonga the week after.

NZ then get 3 Tests played over 3 weeks in their backyard. Gotta be good for their finances.
1. NZ vs Aust
2. Aust vs Tonga
3. NZ vs Tonga

 

[Walter sobchak]

IMO NZ should have welcomed this Test on the proviso they play Tonga the week after.

NZ then get 3 Tests played over 3 weeks in their backyard. Gotta be good for their finances.
1. NZ vs Aust
2. Aust vs Tonga
3. NZ vs Tonga

IMO NZ should have welcomed this Test on the proviso they play Tonga the week after.

NZ then get 3 Tests played over 3 weeks in their backyard. Gotta be good for their finances.
1. NZ vs Aust
2. Aust vs Tonga
3. NZ vs Tonga

Even better if the games could be somehow spread out over NZ i.e Auckland, Christchurch and Hamilton.

 

[Matua]

IMO NZ should have welcomed this Test on the proviso they play Tonga the week after.

NZ then get 3 Tests played over 3 weeks in their backyard. Gotta be good for their finances.
1. NZ vs Aust
2. Aust vs Tonga
3. NZ vs Tonga

The big problem with that is that the Kiwis will be in the UK at the time of the Tonga match.

 

[deluded pom?]

The big problem with that is that the Kiwis will be in the UK at the time of the Tonga match.

The way the RFL mess about with games I'm sure they could move the first Test in England to a more unsuitable time/day for the English fans to accommodate a NZ v Tonga game.

 

[Walter sobchak]

The way the RFL mess about with games I'm sure they could move the first Test in England to a more unsuitable time/day for the English fans to accommodate a NZ v Tonga game.

Don’t go giving the RFL ideas!!