I was at the Tonga v Samoa game, each side was at full tilt/speed in the collisions, not for one minute do I think we, England, cannot beat them, but, what I am convinced of is English RL players do not run at full yes full speed into collisions & certainly not for a full game, the supporters all around the ground ouud & ahhd, all the brutal contacts that could be heard only for players to rise & get on with things.
There was no thought given to safety !
These two teams players mostly play NRL, they never beat Australia/Australian players - So, in my opinion, Super League British players can match the skills of NRL players but NOT the 80 minutes constant high speed collisions.
However I would love us to do the lot of them !

I think that is the Fifita style. He doesn't go looking for the work. The consensus seems to be that he needs to be in a team where those inside do the work so he can the more devastating stuff against a stretched defence. Unfortunately, he's always played for a team that isn't that good, and they hope he'll work some magic.

Too chilled? Too lazy? Not played in a good enough team? A mystery, but he's young enough to find his place. The day isn't far away, however, where he'll get paid an awful lot less.

Worst career move Fifita made was taking the huge money to go to the Titans.

Gone from a future legend to a lazy player because he took the easy option to join a club with a poor culture rather than take less money to go to a club that would develop him further as a player. Only young though so still time for him to turn it around.

I think Taumalola may have been playing injured spent a lot of time with the physio in the warm up and he certainly wasn’t at his block busting best.

I have no doubt some cock up has been made by someone. However what is now being done is to sensationalise it to create click bait.

It’s much more newsworthy for Fox Australia to make out that it may have been pommie arrogance or incompetence than to state it was a clerical error by someone in the NZ camp.

I think when it comes to running big sporting events we do ok in this country. A few gremlins in this WC but nothing massive, so I reckon we could book flights if that’s our job.

May be wrong, but stinks of Pom bashing to me.

It might depend on who is paying.

I'm more impressed that it only costs $350 to fly to New Zealand! As cheap as Malaga.