LIVE GAME Internationals Saturday Games

[BroncsFan]

One Tesi Niu looked this good on debut for Tonga too, just saying.

This is a cracking game and that was stupid by Laybutt.

Can only ever remember Tesi playing 6 for Tonga... and he never looked this good.

Also I think Tesi is more of a 6 than a 1

 

[Mustafur]

Can only ever remember Tesi playing 6 for Tonga... and he never looked this good.

Also I think Tesi is more of a 6 than a 1

He played fullback for Tonga against Great Britain.

 

[BroncsFan]

He played fullback for Tonga against Great Britain.

As I said can only "remember" him playing 6 for Tonga... which is the game I thought he played well in.

Can't remember anything about him playing 1 and whether he was any good in that game.

 

[Mustafur]

streaker?

 

[levikaden]

Fiji jersey looks mint

Looks like one of the terrible bulldogs ones

 

[BroncsFan]

@meady !!!!

 

[Allo]

@meady !!!!

please play on to the WC mate. Even if it’s only one game

 

[BroncsFan]

What a try!!

 

[Mustafur]

Dolphins would be wise to sign Lam.

 

[_wwong]

was that the first ever no look kick from olam?

 

[pennywisealfie]

Great weekend of footy. I'm not much of a rugby league guy usually, but damn I enjoyed today.

Stoked for Meady getting a try.

 

[NSW stables]

Dolphins would be wise to sign Lam.

Lam is a good little player. He did well filling in at the roosters last year.

 

[Sproj]

I’d be far more comfortable offering Lam others years than Milford. Cheaper, better organiser and seemingly less trouble.

 

[Jedhead]

That Kyle Laybutt had a wow of a game for PNG and kept Kikua fairly quiet all night. He played like what I'd imagine our Gambler to be like if he never had the back chat going non-stop.

 

[Kimlo]

The warriors were the only club yet 23 nrl teams are trying to sign cobbo for more than the Roosters re-signed manu for lol

Yep, we're meant to believe that Cobbo is fielding 900k overs from 7 clubs or something yet ONLY the Warriors chased Manu.

Now I rate Cobbo but it's not even close, Manu is an out and out superstar in multiple positions including the spine, Cobbo is just a winger who may or may not have the fitness and definitely has the error rate to be a risky purchase.

Nothing fishy.

 

[McHunt]

Lowlight of the weekend was having to suffer personality blackhole Sonny Bill's commentary. He should stick to calling Rugby Union. Fit right in there.

 

[Kimlo]

Missed the last game but going off the highlights, Olam looked fantastic. I didn't know he had that kind of speed and that kick for the last PNG try was special.

 

[Kimlo]

I don't know about anyone else, but I seriously enjoyed this week of league far more than another NRL round. To me it highlights that the NRL could have a real gem here if they work hard at promoting IRL and funding teams a b it more.

I think instead of raising the cap by another 1m, raise it by 500k and use the rest of that money to fund IRL. I don't think an 11m salary cap improves the game much, but a 10.5m cap with the spare 17m going to IRL would do so much more for the game in the long run.

@BroncsFan raised good points about what's needed to make IRL shine but the one thing he didn't cover is there needs to be more games. Money aside, having 1 game a year in the middle of the season is not going to convince people to play for 2nd tier teams over Aus/NZ. There needs to be an end of year rep schedule, even if it's just a 3 week mini tournament of sorts.

Or have all 3 origin weeks as standalone and throw in 3 weeks of IRL with it. Cut the NRL season by 1 round to make up the broadcast difference in games.