Samoa has easily beaten a very poor French team by a scoreline of 42-10.
The game marked Tony Puletua's last game at Penrith Football Stadium as he captained the Samoan team to an easy win.
Samoa will have to wonder what might have been. They went from eying a place in the semi finals to having to settle for 9th place in the World Cup instead.
Samoan coach John Ackland has called for a four nations tournament to be formed featuring Samoa, Tonga PNG and an Australian A side. I personally think we might see a bit more then that, I think we'll see both Tonga and Samoa getting regular games, possibly in a Four Nations competition with Australia, New Zealand and England.
As for France, after a great win over Scotland to start the tournament they fell away badly.
Its hard to know what went wrong, sure they had a few key injuries, but I have to say I was disappointed with how they turned up to the World Cup and surely John Monie has to take some of the blame for what has to be the worst French performance at a World Cup.
After the game Monie called for more French teams to be included in Super League, and while that will be a huge help, I think its time for the French federation to look at hiring a top of the line coach next time around.
We saw a few years ago when the United States had John Cartwright coaching them, a top class coach can make a massive difference to a teams performance.
League Freak 01/08/2010 04:11 Ridiculously, it all resets after every World Cup. Or the WC doesn't count. One of the two.
fazerino 30/07/2010 06:46 Ref Willie Manu. Didn't Hayne play for Fiji in 2008 WC then tour with the Kangaroos 2009??
League Freak 21/07/2010 03:27 Solid buys. Finch is a handy play maker, Lima a good prop. Hoffman has had injury probs though.
wiz66 20/07/2010 22:34 Lima, Hoffman and Finch signed for Wigan next season back with Mcquire good buys or not
League Freak 03/04/2010 04:05 People like you keep my fires burning. That and the Deep Heat I rub into my genitals.
john 02/04/2010 15:12 very funny,you nearly had me, keep up the garbage you prick
League Freak 01/04/2010 01:39 Hes not bad. Good mobility, gets stuck in. Doesn't mind playing in the middle of the field, unlike Gareth Ellis!
wiz66 31/03/2010 23:29 Freak - Have you seen and what do you make of young Flanagan that signed for the West Tigers from Wigan at the end of last year
League Freak 06/11/2009 02:13 Rich backers, the exchange rate and relaxed salary cap monitoring.
fazerino 06/11/2009 01:03 Fair enough, so why does SuperLeague have more cash than NRL? (if it's only played in grotty Northern towns in England?)
League Freak 03/11/2009 23:21 A Nation Comp means a bigger TV deal and bigger sponsorships. The NRL's deals are smaller because they don't have the national reach on a weekly basis.
fazerino 03/11/2009 07:24 Freak- why does AFL have more cash to lure players from league when there is absolutely no international scene?
League Freak 06/10/2009 22:14 To be honest all I know about him is that he is an assistant coach at Melbourne. He should be pretty good though.
wiz66 06/10/2009 15:28 Freak - what is the form of Micheal Mcguire who is supposed to be coming to replace Noble at Wigan as coach
League Freak 12/08/2009 13:09 You know, they can blame Smith all they want, they are just playing dumb, soft football.
NEWCASTLE 09/08/2009 21:58 I dont want to talk about how awful the knights have been playing lately its like they have lost all hope
League Freak 26/07/2009 22:29 Saw a bit of him against Leeds, he played well!
wiz66 26/07/2009 18:28 Seems Kris Rads has been coaching his full back play at Wigan to great effect
wiz66 26/07/2009 18:26 Cameron Phelps is turning into one of the best imports in SL at the moment
NEWCASTLE 22/07/2009 11:02 I bet newcastle are gonig fall back to their old culture next year.
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