Jaqua Pori-Makea-Simpson

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The Documentary Podcast · The spirit of Tala: The rapid rise of Tonga's netball team · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Sixth would be a dream.

Seventh I'd be extremely proud of.

You know, they say that money buys medals.

And I think that's very true in a lot of sports, not just netball.

But it is very, very difficult, I think, to break into competing against a tier one nation.

And that also is probably, it's another challenge and barrier for us.

But it's not just us.

It's, you know, several other countries have the same issue.

But

I know that a lot of European countries have the luxury of having their athletes in program for lengthier periods of time than we do.

And even to get us into camp to train costs an incredible amount of money that Tonga and Nepal have done an amazing job at being able to put us in a position where we can compete.

But I also worry that it's not sustainable either long-term.

For Pacific Island nations that are still developing within their own economy,

priorities aren't always going to be your national teams.

You know, it's actually a bigger picture than us.

It's way bigger than sport.

And developing nations have far bigger and different challenges than others.

And Tonga have done an incredible job.

You know, they also didn't see us coming.

They have this amazing rugby union team and a super famous rugby league team, and they were not expecting us to kind of hit the world stage.

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