Great Fijian turnout today at the game, was great post match with all the celebrations in the North East corner of the ground, especially with some of the Fijian players coming in to the crowd to celebrate with the fans and pose for pictures etc, makes you love rugby league even more!

Went to Espania this year always fancied going to 日本 preferably Tokyo or is that 東京 ?



If you're English it's Samoa if you're Samoan it's Sa-moa.



I bet RHP puts an Italian accent on when ordering food in an Italian restaurant.

Another thing to come out of this World Cup is that Samoa has a great player pool to call on. Half the NZ team are Samoan as well.

If a firstgrade coach wanted to make a name for himself he could do worse than to take on Samoa for the next WC. A decent coach putting in time to get the right squad together and Samoa will threaten the top 3 by next WC.

And Fiji naturally create fantastic outside backs.

The kid with the fantastic back story who scored 27 tries for Penrith in the NSW cup this year in his first season of League could be better than all of them.



The story is that Andrew Johns and Brad Fittler went to Fiji to look at some players and do some coaching, and their 6'5" hotel porter caught their eye. They took him out to a field and kicked some balls to him. Johns said they asked him what game he played and he said "Union" and they replied, "you play League now" and they rang Gus Gould and got him a contract with Penrith.

I only saw him play once last year. He is massive, fast, and I saw him leap way over the top of Josh Mantellato to score a try - and no one out leaps Josh.

Gould said on TV during the finals that he would have played firstgrade this year if the salary cap had allowed it, and that's in his first year playing League.

what about the Italian RLWC 2013 Squad

Surely Fiji would only finish 4th if they lost a play off between the 2 losing semi-finalists?

Fijian hotel porter who will be one of the best in the NRL next year. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6532782944 www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6731894528

Fijian hotel porter who will be one of the best in the NRL next year. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6532782944 www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6731894528

they've already lost to England

Quote roopy="roopy"Fijian hotel porter who will be one of the best in the NRL next year. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6532782944 www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6731894528'" Great story! Andrew Johns and Brad Fittler are doing what the RLIF should be doing.

Quote roopy="roopy"Fijian hotel porter who will be one of the best in the NRL next year. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6532782944 www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6731894528'" Great story! Andrew Johns and Brad Fittler are doing what the RLIF should be doing.

So?

That is quite an incredible story and just shows how much the Aussies are as introverted in development if it takes two ex players to do this off their own backs.