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Quite a fun slate of games today

Obviously England vs Wales women won't be close, but I could see France giving the PNG women a game despite knowing nothing about the French girls since PNG suck and on the mens side Lebanon are competitive on paper with PNG here and have shortened a ton despite being underdogs still and obviously England vs Tonga should be competitive

I like Tonga to get the job done this time despite their bad form last year against Samoa etc and I think Lebanon are going to give PNG a game
 
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SwoopAE said:
Quite a fun slate of games today

Obviously England vs Wales women won't be close, but I could see France giving the PNG women a game despite knowing nothing about the French girls since PNG suck and on the mens side Lebanon are competitive on paper with PNG here and have shortened a ton despite being underdogs still and obviously England vs Tonga should be competitive

I like Tonga to get the job done this time despite their bad form last year against Samoa etc and I think Lebanon are going to give PNG a game
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In the likely event of a Aus vs NZ final, as assuming Ponga is fit to play, it's going to be like an Origin game. Allowing NZ heritage players to play for QLD or NSW and NZ was definitely a good move. Test match league is a thing again.
 
Ponga is prob out for the World Cup with the injury

I think anyone should be eligible to play for QLD or NSW if they played any junior football in the state personally, if you've played before you graduate high school or before you turn 18 that should be enough it's pretty harsh Herbie for example isn't eligible for QLD when he moved to QLD at age 14 and in theory we should want the best possible players representing QLD/NSW as well as NZ Tonga Samoa England and the other countries etc

Interesting 1h in this game, Lebanon were hopeless and are definitely cannon fodder for Tonga next week, but the intercept right before the half has them within a try despite being awful for the first 30 mins

PNG lots of go forward and the forwards from Lebanon have been awful, but PNG's poor execution in attack means they're only up a try when they should probably be up at least two or three tries

Expecting PNG to win by 12-18 or so off what we saw in the first half but this could be anything from a Lebanon outright win if they can get some good field position since PNG's defence is let's say iffy to PNG by lots if they dominate field position again with the wind behind them

Also lol at how slow Tony Francis for a winger, it's such a waste he has a lot of traits of an NRL level winger but he is the slowest moving winger i've ever seen especially considering he isn't fat.
 
SwoopAE said:
Ponga is prob out for the World Cup with the injury

I think anyone should be eligible to play for QLD or NSW if they played any junior football in the state personally, if you've played before you graduate high school or before you turn 18 that should be enough it's pretty harsh Herbie for example isn't eligible for QLD when he moved to QLD at age 14 and in theory we should want the best possible players representing QLD/NSW as well as NZ Tonga Samoa England and the other countries etc

Interesting 1h in this game, Lebanon were hopeless and are definitely cannon fodder for Tonga next week, but the intercept right before the half has them within a try despite being awful for the first 30 mins

PNG lots of go forward and the forwards from Lebanon have been awful, but PNG's poor execution in attack means they're only up a try when they should probably be up at least two or three tries

Expecting PNG to win by 12-18 or so off what we saw in the first half but this could be anything from a Lebanon outright win if they can get some good field position since PNG's defence is let's say iffy to PNG by lots if they dominate field position again with the wind behind them

Also lol at how slow Tony Francis for a winger, it's such a waste he has a lot of traits of an NRL level winger but he is the slowest moving winger i've ever seen especially considering he isn't fat.
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They are saying Ponga will likely be back for the final if NZ make it.
 
George Williams just set up that England try

Izzy set up the Tonga one in the first half

Good signs, finish the job please Tonga but good to see Williams get one.
 
Another one for George Williams

Herbie's looked dangerous a lot mostly in 1h but is being marked by Toia who is probably the 2nd best centre in the game

Katoa's been doing his job with the boot goal kicking at 100% so far too
 
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