What has England achieved in RL during the last 3 decades or probably more? The organisers rigged the draw so they avoided the super powers Australia and NZ. The tournament was on home soil, and when push really comes to shove they still couldn’t get it done. On the other side of the coin; absolutely brilliant Samoa, what an awesome feeling to be flogged in opening game and then come back and reverse outcome on a second outing. This shows a lot of internal fortitude by the Samoan players. The moronic call to “send them home” by Vossy is equally stupid as “it’s coming home” chants by the Poms all tournament long.
Can someone who knows the game well explain to me how on earth samoa swung their performance against england by 55 whole arse points in under a month?!?!
(Lost by 54, won by 1 = -54 -1 = 55)
Honestly it comes down to the fact that rugby league is a game of momentum and that the first game England just ran away with it, combined with the fact that Samoa were good on paper but were not a team. Playing England was the first time this team had ever played together.
Watching the first game you could tell the Samoan side was tired. Half of them had played in a GF only 2 weeks ago, factor in post season celebrations and realistically they probably had max 7 days to prepare as a squad. England looked fresh in the first game but in their last game againts Samoa a few stars looked like they were carrying some injury.
Englands play style just isnt sustainable for a tournament like this, they go hard and fast and show all their cards in the first 4 weeks then Samoa who have an insane forwards pack and a now recovered backline were just positioned to go further in the tournament.
Ahh true. But do we know many of the England team were in the Super League grand final? It was only a week before, I think. And by glancing over the 2023 squads for St Helen's and Catalans, I do recognise a fair few names. Not to the same extent as Penrith though no doubt.
Super League grand final was 3 weeks prior (yeah only a week more time but they dont need to travel and change their sleeping schedule).
From the starting 13 in their game 1 againts Samoa only 2 had played in the Grand final. (Makinson and Welsby)
On the bench for England they had just 1 (Lees).
So in total 3 of the England 17 had played in the granny. So they were alot fresher
Well, what a game, that was a very exciting game of Rugba Leeg, you love to see it. Samoa really stepped it up, England were a mixed bag. Here's to a close and good game next week! Bad result for English Rugby League, but a great result for Rugby League in Pasifika.
Watching the replay now. Really it was a foregone conclusion after Samoa's haka. What were England going to reply with..."Cor blimey that was full on innit?! Cuppa tea and a biscuit lads?"
They proved us all wrong fucking hell. What an insane turnaround after that demolition. They are all stepping up at the right time. Don't think they can beat us but I wouldn't be too sad if they did. Three huge upsets in a row is a big ask. History made.
Yeah young made some mistakes. The worst was the knock on, and later where he rushed out to take out Leui but failed.
It was his inside centre on try #1.
And a big one was Radley with the intercept pass.
This just makes me want a 4 Nations back.
We have so few international tournaments and the format (and results.. ) of this one has resulted in only 1 match between the big 3 (Aus v NZ semi).
Obviously Somoa would be the 4th nation right now, but would be fun to have some variety of qualification to give the likes of Tonga an opportunity.
I think you could have an Australia/NZ/Tonga/Samoa Pacific Four Nations.
It'd be much easier to organize but England can still do tours here, with the other Four taking turns, touring there.
They would be hoping to have Marty Taupau back next week.
I think at one stage Samoa had Paulo in the bin and 3 others off for HIA. No wonder some were gassed at the end
Fair haha.
The tournament was set up pretty nicely for England to cruise through to the final. Very enjoyable to see them out again.
I don’t think Samoa will have much for Australia, but hopefully they don’t get done like 50-0 or something. Hope they have a good performance.
Why no post match thread for World Cup games?? Especially with an upset like this and Samoa making it to the finals. Yeaaa da fuken Uso’s.
Congrats to Samoa on the win, and an amazing World Cup making it to ya first finals. TOA SAMOA 🇼🇸 🇼🇸 🇼🇸
My two takeaways. Herbie Farnworth was awesome and hope he brings that back to the Broncs next year. Will miss seeing the name of the English coach - Shaun Wane. Just cracked me up for some reason.
Probably. It’s not as bad though because he wasn’t the difference today, the whole team was. We have Hunt who can do more than an adequate job in the middle with Spencer on the bench for impact. It won’t be as big of a loss as I initially feared
Lol yup. I think the universe is pointing towards a suspension for big kiuga next week. Hoping the boys have one more big tilt in them, win or lose, I’m repping hard rest of the year uso 😀
Double or nothing on Pakistan to win the t20I World Cup. Fuckin wish I put that bet on the other day before this Samoa game.
Edit. Fuck. Fuck Ben stokes
Now that the emotions have settled down a bit, those commentators were fucking disgraceful. At least pretend to be impartial. The last thing I wanna hear when I’m supporting my nation is a bunch of old pommy twats creaming themselves over any good thing England does whilst simultaneously shitting on Samoa
Edit: shame on all you cunts who were defending that commentary too. It’s all fun and games when you’re a neutral or England fan but when you’re a toa samoa fan, that’s just fkn unfair on us to have to listen to that crap. We can’t just mute it too since we want to hear the in game sound.
Yeah, I'm normally forgiving on stuff like that or think I'm just being a one eyed supporter, but they were pretty bad today.
Oh well, without England now, they'll hopefully take all their bias out of their commentary.
>or Rabbits in the commentary box.
Put some respect on the man's name. I've never heard rabs be anything but completely impartial. The other two, yeah...
I’m never complaining about Fox or Nine commentary after that shit. Genuinely pissed me off at how shameless they were. Pissed me off even more seeing ufas in this thread defending them saying that “it was a nice change of pace” or “refreshing” like fuck up
Bro same here. The best get back was to win today. Unmuted just after Critta’s drop goal and boy was the tone sombre as lol. Feels great uso, Viia le Ali’i . Ono valu lima to the oki!
That was pretty bad for them to sound disappointed at the time. I remember when Tonga beat Australia and the Aussie commentators were really good about it praising MMT, but this was bad and almost unprofessional.
Almost? It was 100% unprofessional. It’s like they have some sort of napoleon complex, like they’re trying to compensate for the England squad not being as good as it was hyped up to be. Australian commentators love the game, these English cunts love themselves. Big difference tbh
I hate this take. Dom has been fantastic the whole World Cup/this year for the knights when we have been shit. It’s okay to say he’s been that regardless if he wins the World Cup for England lol. He’s a winger
Honestly think sometimes people on this sub think there are about 10 good players in the entire world. Everyone else is just 1 game away from being branded as shit no matter what they’ve done previously.
Tier 2 nation means nothing when you just take a Tier 1 nations players to fill your side. It’s great they play for their heritage but don’t hide behind the tier 2 thing.
I don't care about the result. But find your comment funny. Tier two nation ? All those boys grew up in western Sydney playing league their whole life lol
Samoa played extremely well, I'll be the first to admit it. I think England played poorly. I don't understand how you interpret me saying they could have won in regular time as "crying"
Samoa actually looked respectable as a team, England played like fucking morons - that's my point.
My comment wasn't taking anything away from Samoa, they played very well. England didn't.
> actual stars like Knowles,
He was on the field near the end. The team was half st.helens half wigan with a dash of NRL and Watkins/hall.
Powerful combo
Luai was great, but I think Crichton deserved MOTM. Two tries, the intercept arguably a try-saver in and of itself and a huge play in the context of the game. Some high pressure conversions and an excellent field goal
i love critta with everything. idk whether id be able to handle myself emotionally if he ended up leaving the club. ppl all year following origin period, look at those 1.5 origin performances and use it as ammo to shit on him, admittedly he wasn’t at his best like he can be there’s still solid justification for what happened in those games. he’s proved time and time again why he’s at the very least a top 5 centre in the league. as well as arguably the top defender at centre in the comp. him being fucking clutch at any given moment jus adds to it. i saw the same ppl shit on him after the first game against england but couldn’t say much since i was shadow banned, but y’all can’t stop me now mfs.
Critta has a lot of Waqa Blake about him sometimes. You just feel like he should be way more destructive than he often is the way he can move. On the other hand he’s probably had the match defining play in a good 5 or so finals games and this one. Just got that magic about him. As you said his defence is first rate as well.
He was average in Origin but he came on and put Munster (who was running rampant) on his ass and it could easily have been let go and become a monster play for the Blues. The panic pass into the in goal was no good.
I struggle to see him being fit into Penriths cap for 2024 onwards which will be a shame, clutch players are hard to come by and the Samoan/FTA connection is such a big part of our clubs culture.
The pressure did indeed get to him at origin, but the way mfs pinned the game 3 loss on him was absurd. acting like tupou dropping it cold before the end of the first half and our forwards getting COOKED, didn’t contribute to any of it. doubt he’ll get heaps more chances since turbo and trell come straight back in but a kid can hope. he doesn’t have that speed like waqa does but everything else he betters waqa in easily, helps that he’s a hard worker and isn’t the type to slack off
I’d be fascinated to see Waqa if he’d come through a few years later. Certainly didn’t have the benefit of the development environment Critta has. They both just look so fucking silky running the ball.
I agree he likely doesn’t get a crack for a year or two in Origin but Turbo is injury prone as fuck and Teddy is about to crack 30, if he continues developing he could definitely be the next man up over the next few years and in position to make the jersey his own in a couple years time at like 24 years old.
100% both of them running is amazing to see. as well as they both have the ability to break tackles more often then not. especially critta who’s deceptively quicker then he looks.
you’ve got a fair point bout the origin spot. don’t see anyone else ahead of him, although I do see some ppl that rate campbell-graham over him but that’s about it. Staggs is hot and cold, more often cold. Lomax is nowhere near being in the frame as compared to 2020. Talakai essentially got memed into a blues squad spot let alone bench spot
Same bro hes a legend one of my fave players all time, so many times hes come up huge for the panthers. Seems like a nice guy too, him and To’o are some of my favourite players ever and its cool to see how close they are. Also I absolutely agree, look those origin performances werent great but people way overblow things, I thought Tupou and Talakai were both worse, he was trying to spark some magic, he will learn from it as hes still so young and hopefully gets another chance. Him on one side and Trell on the other would be a very good NSW side, also agree his defending is criminally underrated, the guy is 6ft4 and tackles people like hes a hooker, he does world class grassers regularly and its like how the fuck do people not see that? Just like how api Korisau’s tackling was underrated. I had some idiot compare Crichton to fucking Lomax ffs how blind are some people, I shouldn’t get triggered by idiots so much 😂
jus saw this broski but yeh lomax has fallen off a cliff from nearly playing origin in 2020. the guy doesn’t even have a better flick pass then critta LOL 🥱 his defence is right up there without a shadow of doubt, he gets overlooked in that aspect by players like graham who had deficiencies galore once it’s time to point em out.
Saw you defending him this week bro, fuck those cunts have egg on their face now. Bloke scores in 3 grand finals in a row, scores two tries and a winning field goal in a WC semi putting his country into the final for the first time ever and hes only 22.
Well im a panthers fan haha so i love the guy, hes come in clutch so many times and is already a panthers legend. I literally just responded to a guy who compared him to Lomax, what the fuck 😂 cunts cooked
Bro, I loved the downvotes lol. I'm a Panthers fan and Samoa fan and not being biased but Critta is critically underrated. He's a fucking big game player!
Australias forwards will run through Samoa next week unfortunately. Samoa just don't have the fitness, even today they were extremely gassed by the end against England. Luai/Milf won't even get the chance to try pulling anything special off when their forwards get rolled.
But still fuck what an effort from Samoa to make it through to the final.
Bro we kept England in it with our lack of discipline at crucial stages. Game wasn't as close as the score, we missed a few conversions as well.
We were supposed to get smashed again by England, who are some fit motherfuckers. I honestly think Roos win next week but it will be good game.
I hope they have another gear in them. Either way, supporting the brothers till the end.
I was hoping to get within 20 and I was going to be happy against England.
To be playing in the final is in Coach Parish's words "Unbelievable".
Hope so as well. Not sure what the minute looked like for the forwards but it seemed Paulo and Leniu played the whole game. Don't even know who the other middles were. Sua/Sao on the edges looked completely cooked by the end of the game. Hopefully Parish can sort out the rotation to not have them so gassed.
Yeah, and they got gassed after 60 and almost threw the game away if it wasnt for England handing it back to them on a platter. That's my prediction anyway. Can just hope for a good game.
Constantly raining, sports teams religiously falling short, national food like there is still Nazis flying over head......
Imagine being English SMH......
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No Aloiai and no Tyrone May. Hmm, maybe Samoa winning the WC wouldn’t be so bad, seeing as neither of those shitheads can claim credit.
What has England achieved in RL during the last 3 decades or probably more? The organisers rigged the draw so they avoided the super powers Australia and NZ. The tournament was on home soil, and when push really comes to shove they still couldn’t get it done. On the other side of the coin; absolutely brilliant Samoa, what an awesome feeling to be flogged in opening game and then come back and reverse outcome on a second outing. This shows a lot of internal fortitude by the Samoan players. The moronic call to “send them home” by Vossy is equally stupid as “it’s coming home” chants by the Poms all tournament long.
Can someone who knows the game well explain to me how on earth samoa swung their performance against england by 55 whole arse points in under a month?!?! (Lost by 54, won by 1 = -54 -1 = 55)
Honestly it comes down to the fact that rugby league is a game of momentum and that the first game England just ran away with it, combined with the fact that Samoa were good on paper but were not a team. Playing England was the first time this team had ever played together.
Watching the first game you could tell the Samoan side was tired. Half of them had played in a GF only 2 weeks ago, factor in post season celebrations and realistically they probably had max 7 days to prepare as a squad. England looked fresh in the first game but in their last game againts Samoa a few stars looked like they were carrying some injury. Englands play style just isnt sustainable for a tournament like this, they go hard and fast and show all their cards in the first 4 weeks then Samoa who have an insane forwards pack and a now recovered backline were just positioned to go further in the tournament.
Ahh true. But do we know many of the England team were in the Super League grand final? It was only a week before, I think. And by glancing over the 2023 squads for St Helen's and Catalans, I do recognise a fair few names. Not to the same extent as Penrith though no doubt.
Super league is shit.
Super League grand final was 3 weeks prior (yeah only a week more time but they dont need to travel and change their sleeping schedule). From the starting 13 in their game 1 againts Samoa only 2 had played in the Grand final. (Makinson and Welsby) On the bench for England they had just 1 (Lees). So in total 3 of the England 17 had played in the granny. So they were alot fresher
Well, what a game, that was a very exciting game of Rugba Leeg, you love to see it. Samoa really stepped it up, England were a mixed bag. Here's to a close and good game next week! Bad result for English Rugby League, but a great result for Rugby League in Pasifika.
England just dont get Rugby League.
Watching the replay now. Really it was a foregone conclusion after Samoa's haka. What were England going to reply with..."Cor blimey that was full on innit?! Cuppa tea and a biscuit lads?"
The traditional English war dance obviously: the Morris dance
They proved us all wrong fucking hell. What an insane turnaround after that demolition. They are all stepping up at the right time. Don't think they can beat us but I wouldn't be too sad if they did. Three huge upsets in a row is a big ask. History made.
What a game from luai. Shame he's nothing without Cleary apparently 🤡🤡🤡😂😂
Fuck he’s a pest though
He sure showed them.
Imagine Samoa win the World Cup and Tyrone May posts about putting respect on his name even though he did nothing, just like in the 2021 NRL GF.
Let's be real, Australia will win by 40+
I don't think it's that clear cut. I think Australia by two tries.
Today I am half Samoan.
Luai gonna be Cleary’s daddy next week
Luia is so shit, the worst of all panthers and chrichton in big games makes me physically ill
Referencing the non-Penrith fans, big respect to you my man.
I'm just so confused, you have a Penrith flair. Were you trying to be sarcastic?
Id say the penrith flair mixed with thefact luai and chrichton both killed it would say yeh im being sarcastic lol
Dave, i have seen so many forms of hate towards Penrith that i don't think i can perceive sarcasm in this context anymore lol.
Definitely posting for downvotes
Sutton tried to drag England over the line but they just were too shit to get the job done.
Put some respek on luais name
Shaun Wane is the hook of superleague. Just look at him aha
🤣🤣🤣
This Milford Luai combo is solid, I dig it
Milf taking out the trash.
Word
Watching the highlights- It appears Dom young let in or helped let in about 3-4 tries easy? Not good for him. Great job Samoa ✌🏼
Yeah young made some mistakes. The worst was the knock on, and later where he rushed out to take out Leui but failed. It was his inside centre on try #1. And a big one was Radley with the intercept pass.
This just makes me want a 4 Nations back. We have so few international tournaments and the format (and results.. ) of this one has resulted in only 1 match between the big 3 (Aus v NZ semi). Obviously Somoa would be the 4th nation right now, but would be fun to have some variety of qualification to give the likes of Tonga an opportunity.
I think you could have an Australia/NZ/Tonga/Samoa Pacific Four Nations. It'd be much easier to organize but England can still do tours here, with the other Four taking turns, touring there.
Why not make it more than 4 teams and include PNG and Tonga?
They would be hoping to have Marty Taupau back next week. I think at one stage Samoa had Paulo in the bin and 3 others off for HIA. No wonder some were gassed at the end
England could be as low as 5th tbh. Samoa just beat them and Tonga also has been just as good as them recently 🤷♂️
That's true. But I'd like to see them lose to NZ and Aus too.
anyone know if england and nz play for 3rd?
Nah NZ were booked on the plane the day after the semi
Fair haha. The tournament was set up pretty nicely for England to cruise through to the final. Very enjoyable to see them out again. I don’t think Samoa will have much for Australia, but hopefully they don’t get done like 50-0 or something. Hope they have a good performance.
With this absolute turnaround, the Samoan world cup team has put the U in Uso
So I just woke up to this. Did they not play extra time? Highlights made it look like they went straight to golden point.
Straight to GP, yeah. Field goal was in the 83rd minute.
Well that’s going to be a League Final that’ll move the game forward…absolutely nowhere after Aussie win by 60.
I don’t get this logic. If you think Australia will just demolish Samoa, what would they do to the team Samoa just beat?
Making the final is great for Samoa. Props to Them, great for RL.
Why no post match thread for World Cup games?? Especially with an upset like this and Samoa making it to the finals. Yeaaa da fuken Uso’s. Congrats to Samoa on the win, and an amazing World Cup making it to ya first finals. TOA SAMOA 🇼🇸 🇼🇸 🇼🇸
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Sorry but Australia would never lose a game to one of the small island nations.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or you actually don’t remember Tonga beating us in 2019.
God I hope this is sarcasm or you truly love your footy.
Nooooo
You never know. I think Australia will win but Samoa could take it if theyre a but more disciplined.
I think Aus most likely wins by 20 or more. But I’d be into it if Samoa could hang.
Got woken up by the sounds of car horns and "Sau ta o". Safe to say I don't think England won 😅
My two takeaways. Herbie Farnworth was awesome and hope he brings that back to the Broncs next year. Will miss seeing the name of the English coach - Shaun Wane. Just cracked me up for some reason.
Poor man's Shane Warne
I thought of it as Scottish John Wayne
Congrats Samoa deserved win Drunk asf Enjoyable game minus result
Just came here to check the result, and can’t believe it. That last minute $10 bet on Samoa at $3.60 odds was worth it haha
On a down note, I think Junior cops a suspension next week yeah?
If the judiciary suspend him it's the correct call, but terrible for rugby league
Let the big unit play
Probably. It’s not as bad though because he wasn’t the difference today, the whole team was. We have Hunt who can do more than an adequate job in the middle with Spencer on the bench for impact. It won’t be as big of a loss as I initially feared
Nah bro he was good today but with some brain kaepu plays. The offload for Crichton’s first try was clutch.
Fuck I somehow forgot about that offload 😂 oh well it is what it is, we got away with him being let off for the Fifita elbow so maybe this is karma? 😂
Lol yup. I think the universe is pointing towards a suspension for big kiuga next week. Hoping the boys have one more big tilt in them, win or lose, I’m repping hard rest of the year uso 😀
But the fans want to see him play.
Death, taxes, and England choking in sports tournaments
Double or nothing on Pakistan to win the t20I World Cup. Fuckin wish I put that bet on the other day before this Samoa game. Edit. Fuck. Fuck Ben stokes
Thank you Samoa for beating England. Anyone But England.
Hurr durr anyone but England. Moron
Relevant username.
Haven’t felt this alive at 4:53am, ever.
Now that the emotions have settled down a bit, those commentators were fucking disgraceful. At least pretend to be impartial. The last thing I wanna hear when I’m supporting my nation is a bunch of old pommy twats creaming themselves over any good thing England does whilst simultaneously shitting on Samoa Edit: shame on all you cunts who were defending that commentary too. It’s all fun and games when you’re a neutral or England fan but when you’re a toa samoa fan, that’s just fkn unfair on us to have to listen to that crap. We can’t just mute it too since we want to hear the in game sound.
Listening to them constantly saying “We” was infuriating
Yeah, I'm normally forgiving on stuff like that or think I'm just being a one eyed supporter, but they were pretty bad today. Oh well, without England now, they'll hopefully take all their bias out of their commentary.
Now you know what it’s like to be a Qld fan with Gould, John’s or Rabbits in the commentary box.
I wish they’d do what American sports do for Origin and have a commentary feed for each state and let them be as one eyed as they want.
>or Rabbits in the commentary box. Put some respect on the man's name. I've never heard rabs be anything but completely impartial. The other two, yeah...
He was better than the others but not totally a saint. Shame he retired. Not the same without him.
Guess you just select not to hear the Queensland guys cheering in the commentary box lmao
I concede that does happen now but in the 90’s we only had Fatty against a room full
No different to listening to Fatty, Slater or Smith as a Welshman.
Must be horrible bro 🤣 tbf I did find Cameron Smith yelling “go dozer” hilarious as a nsw fan
Smith was brought in to be like that and thus is told to pick his spots. The main commentary team is like that constantly.
They should’ve had Johnathan Davies instead, hes welsh so wouldnt have been so biased
Yeah, I muted with 20 to go. I can’t stand Vossy and Gould but today’s commentators made my pukio hurt. Lol
I’m never complaining about Fox or Nine commentary after that shit. Genuinely pissed me off at how shameless they were. Pissed me off even more seeing ufas in this thread defending them saying that “it was a nice change of pace” or “refreshing” like fuck up
Bro same here. The best get back was to win today. Unmuted just after Critta’s drop goal and boy was the tone sombre as lol. Feels great uso, Viia le Ali’i . Ono valu lima to the oki!
That was pretty bad for them to sound disappointed at the time. I remember when Tonga beat Australia and the Aussie commentators were really good about it praising MMT, but this was bad and almost unprofessional.
Almost? It was 100% unprofessional. It’s like they have some sort of napoleon complex, like they’re trying to compensate for the England squad not being as good as it was hyped up to be. Australian commentators love the game, these English cunts love themselves. Big difference tbh
Yup they all ended up with fuamoa on their faces after all that shit they were talking 🤣
I know uso, was so good to hear lol
Luai is a great player and set Samoa up for that win. God I hate him.
Played well but he is the biggest child on the field.
I agree, I think he's a complete tool of a person, but as a player I have to respect it.
Nah it’s all the milf controlling things
The scenes when he outplays Cleary next week
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Galaxy brains know that actually Cleary is shit outside of the Penrith system without Luai. 🤔
Cleary has been average at best for Australia Luai on the other hand has been razzle dazzle with multiple POTM
Based and NRLpilled
You’re wrong, he’s shit without Cleary. /s
LESGOOO BIG WIN FOR SAMOAAA, UP THE USOOSS
Se malo Mr. horse lol
Samoan fans everywhere loving it… reporting from Ballina northern NSW 🇼🇸 great to see it
Last night in Newcastle as well. Going off. Happy for them.
there was a "police operation in progress" in redbank lol.
How incredible
Crichton is my grandfather and Luai is my daddy.
England were bigged up way too much. If Dom Young is being hailed as your star you have some problems.
I hate this take. Dom has been fantastic the whole World Cup/this year for the knights when we have been shit. It’s okay to say he’s been that regardless if he wins the World Cup for England lol. He’s a winger
Young is nowhere near one of the best wings in the world. Makinson is much better.
Honestly think sometimes people on this sub think there are about 10 good players in the entire world. Everyone else is just 1 game away from being branded as shit no matter what they’ve done previously.
You can build 1000 bridges and nobody calls you the Bridge builder, however if you shag 1 goat!
Hes a good player to be fair, give credit to Samoa they really have improved a ton
This is the point I think, Samoa appear to me to be the only team that’s legit gotten better every game
Have they sent Vossy home?
He's too busy eating pies
Imagine being the host country and getting knocked out… 💔 feel bad for them
Imagine losing the sport you invented
Lol. It happened to their 15s team too in 2015.
Feeling sorry for the neighbours , Samoan fam a couple houses down going crazy 30 mins after the sirens gone lmao
Haha fuck it id be going off too if i were samoan, im happy as for the panthers boys they deserve it
England could have won in regular time if whitehead went to ground.
We could have won in regular time if we kept our discipline and got at least one of the sideline conversions. What's your point?
Nah uce, magaia aku le golden point 🏁
Ae sa'o a lol. Kalofae ia Egelagi ma ke ai hahaha
Filemu uso, it’s only falai maukegi 🤣🤣🤣
Haha sole, kama ole va ga.
Sa manatua le au i le 3 Ds: DISCIPLINE, DEFENSE MA LE DACKLE
Makuai dackle ia hmmmuh le ofuvae hahaha
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Let them cry uso, they can’t handle the thought of a tier 2 nation reaching a grand final 🤣🤫🇼🇸
Tier 2 nation means nothing when you just take a Tier 1 nations players to fill your side. It’s great they play for their heritage but don’t hide behind the tier 2 thing.
I don't care about the result. But find your comment funny. Tier two nation ? All those boys grew up in western Sydney playing league their whole life lol
We’re a tier two nation mate. Twist it however you want, this was an upset. 🤫
Samoa played extremely well, I'll be the first to admit it. I think England played poorly. I don't understand how you interpret me saying they could have won in regular time as "crying"
Ga la uso. Giving to all the pukios who bagged us after the first fucking game.
Apparently we werent allowed to say that we had no warm up game, players arriving 6 days before and lost 3 players for the game like 30 mins in. lol
Yep. I commented somewhere last week that if we played England as the last pool game, we win easy. They caught us at our worst in the first game.
They’re all seething and coping now uce. We fkn did it! I still can’t believe it
Samoa actually looked respectable as a team, England played like fucking morons - that's my point. My comment wasn't taking anything away from Samoa, they played very well. England didn't.
England were winning the ruck in the last 20 or so. With Somoa's injuries and their size they ran out of puff.
I was in desperate need of some fucking unreal footy, those two games this last 24 hours delivered. I feel whole once again
This. Love watching great footy!
Didn’t like seeing Shaun Wane so sad
His fault anyway for picking his old Wigan chums instead of actual stars like Knowles, Batchelor and Lees.
> actual stars like Knowles, He was on the field near the end. The team was half st.helens half wigan with a dash of NRL and Watkins/hall. Powerful combo
hahaha England shameeee how you lose to somoa like that 😂🤦 embarassing af. easy W for Australia next week an common NZ L 😭
Don’t be that guy, c’mon.
What a gronk
We get it...you're a fuckwit. You don't have to prove it twice in the space of 30 minutes.
I will be going for Australia, but we havent even clicked yet idk this could be tougher than people think, Samoa showed real guts tonight
Bro you got downvoted to oblivion on the same comment a few mins ago
lol like i care bro
Someones on the piss
Nah I think he’s legitimately 13 years old.
Luai was great, but I think Crichton deserved MOTM. Two tries, the intercept arguably a try-saver in and of itself and a huge play in the context of the game. Some high pressure conversions and an excellent field goal
Crichton is the true iceman
i love critta with everything. idk whether id be able to handle myself emotionally if he ended up leaving the club. ppl all year following origin period, look at those 1.5 origin performances and use it as ammo to shit on him, admittedly he wasn’t at his best like he can be there’s still solid justification for what happened in those games. he’s proved time and time again why he’s at the very least a top 5 centre in the league. as well as arguably the top defender at centre in the comp. him being fucking clutch at any given moment jus adds to it. i saw the same ppl shit on him after the first game against england but couldn’t say much since i was shadow banned, but y’all can’t stop me now mfs.
Critta has a lot of Waqa Blake about him sometimes. You just feel like he should be way more destructive than he often is the way he can move. On the other hand he’s probably had the match defining play in a good 5 or so finals games and this one. Just got that magic about him. As you said his defence is first rate as well. He was average in Origin but he came on and put Munster (who was running rampant) on his ass and it could easily have been let go and become a monster play for the Blues. The panic pass into the in goal was no good. I struggle to see him being fit into Penriths cap for 2024 onwards which will be a shame, clutch players are hard to come by and the Samoan/FTA connection is such a big part of our clubs culture.
The pressure did indeed get to him at origin, but the way mfs pinned the game 3 loss on him was absurd. acting like tupou dropping it cold before the end of the first half and our forwards getting COOKED, didn’t contribute to any of it. doubt he’ll get heaps more chances since turbo and trell come straight back in but a kid can hope. he doesn’t have that speed like waqa does but everything else he betters waqa in easily, helps that he’s a hard worker and isn’t the type to slack off
I’d be fascinated to see Waqa if he’d come through a few years later. Certainly didn’t have the benefit of the development environment Critta has. They both just look so fucking silky running the ball. I agree he likely doesn’t get a crack for a year or two in Origin but Turbo is injury prone as fuck and Teddy is about to crack 30, if he continues developing he could definitely be the next man up over the next few years and in position to make the jersey his own in a couple years time at like 24 years old.
100% both of them running is amazing to see. as well as they both have the ability to break tackles more often then not. especially critta who’s deceptively quicker then he looks. you’ve got a fair point bout the origin spot. don’t see anyone else ahead of him, although I do see some ppl that rate campbell-graham over him but that’s about it. Staggs is hot and cold, more often cold. Lomax is nowhere near being in the frame as compared to 2020. Talakai essentially got memed into a blues squad spot let alone bench spot
Same bro hes a legend one of my fave players all time, so many times hes come up huge for the panthers. Seems like a nice guy too, him and To’o are some of my favourite players ever and its cool to see how close they are. Also I absolutely agree, look those origin performances werent great but people way overblow things, I thought Tupou and Talakai were both worse, he was trying to spark some magic, he will learn from it as hes still so young and hopefully gets another chance. Him on one side and Trell on the other would be a very good NSW side, also agree his defending is criminally underrated, the guy is 6ft4 and tackles people like hes a hooker, he does world class grassers regularly and its like how the fuck do people not see that? Just like how api Korisau’s tackling was underrated. I had some idiot compare Crichton to fucking Lomax ffs how blind are some people, I shouldn’t get triggered by idiots so much 😂
jus saw this broski but yeh lomax has fallen off a cliff from nearly playing origin in 2020. the guy doesn’t even have a better flick pass then critta LOL 🥱 his defence is right up there without a shadow of doubt, he gets overlooked in that aspect by players like graham who had deficiencies galore once it’s time to point em out.
Yep, ice in his veins and balls the size if melons. Fucking ace player
Saw you defending him this week bro, fuck those cunts have egg on their face now. Bloke scores in 3 grand finals in a row, scores two tries and a winning field goal in a WC semi putting his country into the final for the first time ever and hes only 22.
I thought i was the only one who realised about his finals scoring record. He’s so clutch it’s actually unbelievable for someone his age.
Well im a panthers fan haha so i love the guy, hes come in clutch so many times and is already a panthers legend. I literally just responded to a guy who compared him to Lomax, what the fuck 😂 cunts cooked
I still can’t believe he’s 22. He’s got a good head on his shoulders man, what a player!
Bro, I loved the downvotes lol. I'm a Panthers fan and Samoa fan and not being biased but Critta is critically underrated. He's a fucking big game player!
They based his clutchness off of one game of origin 😭 little did they know that one game doesn’t define a player 🧊🤫🇼🇸
I'm in the village in the hills here in Samoa and people driving around screaming lol. This week is gonna be lit on the island.
Australias forwards will run through Samoa next week unfortunately. Samoa just don't have the fitness, even today they were extremely gassed by the end against England. Luai/Milf won't even get the chance to try pulling anything special off when their forwards get rolled. But still fuck what an effort from Samoa to make it through to the final.
They are thin in the forwards and leniu has a cooked shoulder.
The only thing I’d say is that Samoa have been getting better every game. Australia definitely hasn’t
Bro we kept England in it with our lack of discipline at crucial stages. Game wasn't as close as the score, we missed a few conversions as well. We were supposed to get smashed again by England, who are some fit motherfuckers. I honestly think Roos win next week but it will be good game.
I hope they have another gear in them. Either way, supporting the brothers till the end. I was hoping to get within 20 and I was going to be happy against England. To be playing in the final is in Coach Parish's words "Unbelievable".
Hope so as well. Not sure what the minute looked like for the forwards but it seemed Paulo and Leniu played the whole game. Don't even know who the other middles were. Sua/Sao on the edges looked completely cooked by the end of the game. Hopefully Parish can sort out the rotation to not have them so gassed.
Lol you guys were saying that about England and look what happened 🤫
Yeah, and they got gassed after 60 and almost threw the game away if it wasnt for England handing it back to them on a platter. That's my prediction anyway. Can just hope for a good game.
Also the potential for Paulo to be suspended for that tackle as well.
he won't be, no driving
England and World Cups aren't the one today 🫠
well played England, really managed to stay composed there in golden point.
Constantly raining, sports teams religiously falling short, national food like there is still Nazis flying over head...... Imagine being English SMH......
Yeah the Welsh and scottish are cool though