{"id":224626,"date":"2025-10-19T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:29:07","slug":"rugby-league-live-updates-nz-kiwis-v-toa-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224626\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby league live updates: NZ Kiwis v Toa Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZA6VO_251019NZKiwisSamoa_016_JPG\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Kieran Foran of the Kiwis kicks during New Zealand Kiwis  v Toa Samoa,  round 1 of the Pacific Championships at Go Media Stadium, Auckland.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nKieran Foran kicks ahead for the Kiwis against Samoa.<br \/>\nPhoto: Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>Five-eighth Dylan Brown has scored the gamewinning try, as NZ Kiwis survived a torrid Pacific Championships encounter against Toa Samoa, winning 24-18 at Auckland&#8217;s Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Centre Casey McLean scored a first-half try double, as the home side roared out to a 12-0 lead, but Samoa levelled midway through the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Brown provided the winning moment, when he chased a high kick from halfback Kieran Foran, leaping to take the catch near the goalposts and spinning over in a tackle.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the action with RNZ&#8217;s live blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kieran Foran kicks ahead for the Kiwis against Samoa. Photo: Photosport Five-eighth Dylan Brown has scored the gamewinning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,760,85],"class_list":["post-224626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}