‘Man of the tour’ outshines ‘quiet’ Cleary<\/a><\/p>\n1. Roger Tuivasa-Sheck<\/p>\n
Solid under pressure at the back and clocked up 150 run metres but mainly from deep inside his own half as Samoa had little ball in the red zone. Rating: 7.5<\/p>\n
2. Brian To’o<\/p>\n
Ran for 150 metres and scored his customary try. If only he had more chances… Rating: 7<\/p>\n
3. Izack Tago<\/p>\n
Never quite able to get into the game with just eight runs for 57 metres and missed a worrying eight tackles. Rating: 4<\/p>\n
4. Deine Mariner<\/p>\n
Unlucky to be denied a try by the Bunker in a big moment. Finished an unlucky day with a HIA. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
5. Murray Taulagi<\/p>\n
Luckless winger lasted just over 20 minutes before being forced off with injury. Rating: 2<\/p>\n
6. Blaize Talagi<\/p>\n
Didn’t create much with the ball but proved a handy stand-in goal-kicker, landing some pressure goals. Rating: 5.5<\/p>\n
7. Jarome Luai<\/p>\n
Tried his best to lift a possession-starved Samoan team in a lively performance. Rating: 7<\/p>\n
8. Francis Molo<\/p>\n
Worked hard to stem the black and white tide but took a heavy knock late and finished with a HIA. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
9. Jazz Tevaga<\/p>\n
Shifted to the bench, he had trouble finding his way into the game, making just five runs for 34 metres. Rating: 4<\/p>\n
10. Payne Haas<\/p>\n
A machine yet again, topping the tackle count for both teams and running for more than 100 metres. Rating: 8<\/p>\n
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Payne Haas on the charge.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
11. Jaydn Su’A<\/p>\n
Returning from concussion, had a strong game but found himself on report for a hip-drop tackle. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
12. Simi Sasagi<\/p>\n
Moved to the centres after Taulagi’s injury. Shone with an intercept try, a great try-saving tackle and some smart offloads. Rating: 8<\/p>\n
13. Junior Paulo<\/p>\n
Made 125 hard yards up the middle and managed to get away some handy offloads. Rating: 7<\/p>\n
14. Chanel Harris-Tavita<\/p>\n
Very disappointing in his 46 minutes with just two runs for six metres. Rating: 3.5<\/p>\n
15. Benaiah Ioelu<\/p>\n
A late elevation into the starting side, the young Rooster put on some good plays at hooker. Rating: 6<\/p>\n
16. Terrell May<\/p>\n
Did little in his 23 minutes off the bench. Should probably have had more game time. Rating: 4<\/p>\n
17. Josh Papali’i<\/p>\n
The Samoans had virtually no ball in his time on the field, making it hard for him to make an impact. Rating: 3.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Payne Haas, Simi Sasagi and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck were among Samoa’s best in a gutsy performance that ultimately fell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-273202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273202","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=273202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}