{"id":101532,"date":"2025-10-26T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101532\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:56:09","slug":"live-updates-tonga-v-samoa-rugby-league-pacific-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101532\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Tonga v Samoa rugby league Pacific Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonga take on Toa Samoa for a hotly anticipated clash in Pacific Championship rugby league at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Samoa will need to win by at least seven points to ensure they qualify for the 9 November final.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Toa Samoa were reportedly struggling to field a fully fit team, after Jazz Tevaga, Ata Mariota and Jaydn Su&#8217;A were all ruled out with concussion during the 24-18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/576404\/rugby-league-toa-samoa-vows-to-bounce-back-against-tonga-after-kiwis-defeat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loss to the Kiwis<\/a> in their first game of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff is at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4JZA0RD_251019KiwisSamoa_053_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Toa Samoa Jarome Luai during the Paci\ufb01c Championships rugby league test between New Zealand Kiwis v Toa Samoa at Go Media Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand.  Sunday    19  October  2025       Photo: Brett Phibbs \/ www.photosport.nz\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nJarome Luai in action for Samoa against the Kiwis.<br \/>\nPhoto: Brett Phibbs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonga take on Toa Samoa for a hotly anticipated clash in Pacific Championship rugby league at Suncorp Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-101532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}