Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nUtoikamanu was making his debut for Tonga after playing a couple of Tests for their rivals, but his first match was over after just one carry when Molo\u2019s shoulder smashed him in the head.<\/p>\n
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The Storm star missed the rest of the tournament while Molo copped a $390 fine for the incident and wasn\u2019t sent to the sin bin. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think I said it last year, I felt like it was a bit s**t that I get knocked out and out for the game and he got nothing for it,\u201d Utoikamanu told the NewsWire. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut you know it is what it is, that\u2019s the game, and I think I can only look forward from now. I\u2019m glad I\u2019ve been able to try to play my best footy and I\u2019m looking to do that again this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Utoikamanu has been named on the bench for Sunday\u2019s showdown in Sydney which means he may not even cross paths with Molo who will start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI shook his hand after the game, it was all sweet,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just I felt like it was a bit s**t, refereeing wise and all that kind of stuff. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I know in a game, you can\u2019t really control that kind of stuff. S**t happens in the game, but I was still disappointed because I was out for the rest of the campaign, so that was s**t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Utoikamanu doesn\u2019t need much motivation to fire up, with the star forward infamously lighting the fuse for the 2025 Grand Final when he called out some of the Broncos players. <\/p>\n
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But he knows he can\u2019t put all his energy into one opponent given what\u2019s at stake. <\/p>\n
\u201cStuff like that is always a bit of motivation,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I really need to get too motivated going into most games. My mentality is to go out there and try to dominate the other pack, and that\u2019s what I try to do every week at club land. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like over here with the forwards we have, everyone\u2019s got the same mentality every week; we have to go out there, lay the platform, and try to dominate the other pack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans are desperately hoping that Tonga coach Kristian Woolf makes a late switch to his starting pack so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-946921","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\/946921","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=946921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}