Tevita Vaikona

[JasonE]

More cruel luck for the Kiwis and Vaikona as it was revealed he actually was chosen in the test team and he went out a few hours later for Bradford and tore his cruciate ligament and is now out for the season.

Would have been awesome to see him and Vainikolo on the wings for NZ.

 

[playdaball]

Vainokol actually replaced him so you would not have seen the two Tongans in the Kiwi team.

 

[thuganomics]

AW, him and Vanikolo is a wining cobination. They play awsome for Bradford and they would of done well in the NZ team.

 

[douglasallen91]

no meli was the one who was going to be left out!

 

[playdaball]

Are you sure????

 

[Tupac Shakur]

They both are better than Meli.

 

[Anonymous]

Disagree.

Tonight Meli made one glaring mistake, but IMO looked a better player than Vainikolo, who basically just ran sideways.

 

[Rich]

TV hasn't been very lucky. He was also lined up to play in the NZ tour of the UK in 2002.

 

[Tupac Shakur]

Meli didnt get involved enough. Vainikolo is very hard to bring down he was dangerous everytime he touched the ball but the Aussies controlled him pretty well.

 

[Razor]

Bradford would only release 2 players, so Vaikakolo replaced him. They couldn't take both and Paul.

 

[ripper]

I though Meli missed the bus... Until he gave Lockyer the try