No way, that’s scandalous

If true I suspect it’s logistical incompetence rather than the over dramatic Fox interpretation. Have they booked Samoa’s flights?

Been a while since I’ve said this but imho fake news.

Fake news astonishing. It's on the internet it must be true.

Cheers Donald

Would the organisers even book their flights? I'm sure they would book their own.

Two of the worlds most high profile players , Fifita and Taumalola were big disappointments for me in this game , Jason ran it in a few times but Fifita didn’t look interest and was skulking wide out well away from the play the ball . Expected a lot more from these two big earners .

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“Reportedly” says it all for me , the mind games are up and running

Yes, you might be right, but it is Fox Sports, who broadcast the NRL, so it is akin to the Sky Sports page, much different to some of the websites. It has some credibility.

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.