Samoa demolished the Kumuls by 50 points to all but cement their spot in the semi-finals<\/a>.<\/p>\nMelbourne Storm fullback Sua Fa\u2019alogo was among the stars, equalising the record for most tries by a Samoan player in a single World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow and Shawn Blore both crossed for doubles and seven other players crossed the line for tries.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the atmosphere of playing in front of a sold-out stadium in Papua New Guinea, Paulo was lost for words.<\/p>\n
He described the scenes as some of the best he has ever witnessed throughout his professional rugby league career.<\/p>\n
Samoa blitz PNG is 2nd half smashing | 01:30<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was unreal. On the bus ride here, the scenes outside of the stadium (is hard to put into words),\u201d Paulo said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing the kids and the smiles on their faces you just can\u2019t get that anywhere else besides here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of guys who are new to this experience, but it was all about soaking it all in and enjoying the experience as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we got out there, seeing a packed Santos stadium, it\u2019s one of the best things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The laughs returned later in the press-conference when the veteran forward as asked if the atmosphere would be even better for a home team such as the PNG Chiefs.<\/p>\n
\u201cMight have to ask Romey [Jarome Luai] that question,\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hilarious moment has unfolded during Samoa\u2019s post-match press conference with the lights suddenly going out in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-939871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939871","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=939871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}