Final tickets still available! Get your tickets for the British & Irish Lions tour here<\/a><\/p>\nThey have called a host of players into the squad for this fixture, which bodes well for the First Nations Pasifika side in the hooker\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that they’re not really focused on us, and\u00a0that’s okay,\u201d Paenga-Amosa said to the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just want to show\u00a0them what we’re made of and what we can do and what we’ve got essentially.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paenga-Amosa knows the challenges of bringing a group together in a short period after the Lions took care of AUNZ.<\/p>\n
However, the hooker believes the strong bond built and the similar situation the Lions face will even the playing field.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s tough, it’s not easy, but it is special, and there’s going to be high emotions, but\u00a0what I’ve learned is just to have a crack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s everybody come together\u00a0and let’s just give it the best that we can for 80 minutes, that’s the biggest thing\u00a0for us, is an 80 minute performance.\u00a0So coming together this whole week, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on that.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026In the end, we all know as rugby players, you just take them for face value once we face them on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paenga-Amosa was enjoying the opportunity to mix and mesh with a bunch of cultures, hoping the concept could continue into the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s something special. We want to represent our culture, where we’re from,\u00a0our families, so it’s been a real special week,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve really dived into that and learning more about where we’re from, learning who we are, and it’s exciting to be able to\u00a0represent that aspect of our lives.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026We\u2019d love to get around this.\u00a0I think a good performance from us tomorrow night would give some good momentum for that potentially happening every year.\u00a0I’m a huge advocate for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would be amazing for our First Nations, All Star team or even the Pacific Island team every year.\u00a0That would be good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Nations Pasifika hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa believes the unique nature of Tuesday\u2019s match can allow the hosts to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,2634,760,85],"class_list":["post-9797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-first-nations-pasifika","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797","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=9797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}