John Afoa

And then if you don't perform, and if you're not up to scratch, they're more than happy to give you a bad name, sit you on the bench, let your value die, and then get ready at the end of it.

You know what I mean?

It's tough work over the seas.

It's definitely a place to go, and I recommend guys to go, but there's definitely challenges and expectations, especially if you're going as a big marquee or you're going as a top player, be ready to be ringed out and use the game.

Yeah.

that's it you know what I mean and talking to I remember talking to Owee and going you know post world cups when you're going mid season and I talked to some of the other boys who were going who were looking to go after MPC I was like oh maybe go now

if you play in bc which is amazing you get to give back to your province but when you turn up there mid-season and if you've got family or partners you haven't met anyone it's middle of the winter and there you don't know any of the moves um you're going to get off that plane you're going to be expected to be at training you're going to be playing that week and you're in a foreign country you know what i mean like that's just the way it rolls so you know i always recommend the boys to go pre-season meet everyone talk to the families you get the

view the houses, connect with the community, and then you build into your season there.

Going mid-season is very difficult.

Yeah, it's a sad day.

I think they brought a different fillier to the competition.

Results-wise, didn't go their way.

But you thought about last year when they did play well, just added another dynamic to the competition.

When we've already lost to Africa, that was tough enough, you know what I mean?

Losing them to the URC.

We don't want this carbon copy competition of us playing us and the Australians.

There's gonna be no growth for our players there.

So having the draw there and having the Moana there gave us a little bit of a difference in the competition.

So losing them's gonna be difficult and we're gonna see

you know, young players from New Zealand, you know, if they're playing football or academies, maybe getting squeezed out if they're from Pacifica Heritage that there's no super jobs for them, well, we might as well go overseas and we're going to lose those guys as well.