Mojo

The Samoans must've been devasted when they heard your friend wasn't impressed by them. Does your friend happen to be "King Charles"?

Damn did the samoans bully you at school or something? let it go man

15k tickets sold so far according to this article https://www.nrl.com/news/2024/10/26/six-nrl-guns-set-to-fire-for-england-but-smithies-misses-cut/amp/

18k last year was played in Townsville in an area where hardly any samoans lived there. A lot of the samoan fans complained about the venue because they wanted it in Sydney. And yes Samoa did have nrl players in the past but they were players just starting there careers or near the end of it. It's not like now where alot of those players are turning down the kangaroos and kiwi jersey to play for samoa in their prime.

You can't really compare those previous crowd numbers to the recent ones. You have to remember this samoan team came of age after the world cup. Next year they'll be in a tournament with the Kiwis and Tonga and I won't be surprised if every game out of those 3 nations gets sold out.

In nz and Aus team list comes out 4 days before kick off and then it gets finalized on game day. I've said it in a previous post. It helps with the build up of the game. Fans will know there fav players are playing and what the make up if their team will look like. You guys must be used to doing it that way I guess. But the fans here get pretty hyped when they see how there team lines up during the week to create a bit of excitement if whats to come on game day. Naming a 19 man squad without a clue on whos playing on game day is frustrating. Fans wants to get excited during the the week on which player will be facing who on the opposite side of the field.

So when do the final line ups get announced? Is it today or on game day?

Man that's annoying. The samoan team got named the same way as well.

Geez no line up??

Samoan teams line up gets named in one hour hopefully that's the same for the England squad

The game is 2 and a half days away surely it comes out today. The samoan coach already confirmed in an interview today that Luai is playing halfback and RTS is the fullback. I better wake up tomorrow morning with teams line up on the news feed

I was joking about the line up announcement before the players run out onto the field but it's looking likely at this point ffs

It's on skysportnz now. Awesome news for the fans on this side of the world to watch this series.

I guess Kayo finally listened to the fans. It's on kayo now so I hope Sky sportsnz shows the game too especially with the number of samoans in nz

https://x.com/ellisrugby_/status/1849395734388302215?t=udkfd979VyKTHGUVKEaE2g&s=19