So can Samoa make a mark? | Rugby World Cup 2023 Preview 

You are doing a much better job of promoting the RWC than World Rugby are doing Squidge. 👏👏👏👏👏

Squidge has got me thinking every teams gonna win the world cup

All I want for Christmas is a Samoa-Fiji RWC quarter final

Fritz Lee is also a brilliant addition. He's been one of the best 8s in top 14 for a decade. Great poacher, super experienced, great handling... He's a very well rounded player

I wish this was a musical

Dont forget they made the RLWC final last year. I know its different from Rugby Union, but our community thrives off other brothers success. They will want to emulate the performance the Toa Samoa did in the League World Cup! Making the final. Big ask but hope its motivational.

I don't have enough praise for Lima Sopoaga, a fantastic number 10 that was sorely missed when he left the Highlanders and should of been given more than the 5 seconds he was mentioned in. But thanks for adding the interest towards Samoa in this coming World Cup

This is a solid video. It’s hard to keep track of an international team with so many international pieces. It’s good to get a run down of how the boys are going in their respective clubs and what their current form is. Great research mate!

These videos are probably my favourite part of the Rugby world cup. I vividly remember watching everyone four years ago, and am enjoying doing so again. Thank you for being the Rugby nerd I wish I could be.

Diehard Fiji Fan but Il be going to the RWC 2023 to support all my pacific Brothers.

I love how proud and encouraging you are about world rugby, how much joy you have in seeing the potential in these rugby loving nations. You are the best ambassadors for rugby in English hands down, please never stop doing what you do, I have no doubt you make this brilliantly mad sport as brilliant as it can be

Yes Samoa!! (Tbf I'm on the hype train for several teams now after Squidge videos).

If I wasn't already hyped enough for thr rwc, Squidges videos certainly ensure the hype comes

9:05 Rassie's aspirational quotes are all timeless classics

Samoa are starting to show the signs of the benefit that Moana Pasifika is trying to produce with greater professionalism and a better pathway. Hopefully Miracle Fai'ilagi gets some game time and shows the same form he did for MP - he's a hell of a talent.

I love squidge rugby video's they are amazing also they are so in depth and are brilliant

Squidge rugby does more for this great sport than any player, coach, referee, or exec ever has (Except Nigel Owens, he's bloody great)

thank you for covering the smaller unions, love your content

Great post, I love Samoa, they get a rough time but like Fiji and Tonga, they have talented players who have every feature the fans love, good passing/offloading, big hits and big hearts. They also have some of the best and most passionate fans you'll see, win, lose or draw

this video is hyping me up for my homeland team great video

This is killer Squidge 🤘 can’t wait to watch Samoa now!

Used to watch Mapasua for London Irish, he was such a great player

You have a way of electrifying a narrative that is worthy of a novelist.

17:12 "he could probably play any sport in any position", he plays basketball and american football for Samoa lol

Amazing analysis Sir. Love it, and will share it with some friends.

Love you Squidge ❤ Up the Manu!! 🇼🇸🇼🇸

Beautiful! Goosebumps all over! Thank you!

i’ll never forget the Samoan Rugby musical but i was VERY happy to not find one this time

Another exceptional video, well done! And thank you

Your voice is soo soothing that I was soo interested in the way you tell the story of each player that noises myself to sleep😊

I'd love to see World Rugby do more to promote the Pacific Nations Cup. That would be amazing for the Pacific Island nations. Even if it's just providing a RU-vid stream

I waited for you guys to say Rugby at the end. More ruuuugbby😁😅great work as always 👍

I’d love for a very small nation to pull of a miracle I don’t know what but a miracle non the less

Great stuff Squidge once again. If I had one complaint: you have irreversibly reprogrammed my brain. Whenever I hear Rugby World Cup, I see Lea Seydoux. I’m afraid it will probably stick until RWC 2047 in Uruguay.

Love the use of the Folau knock on against Argentina, absolutely timeless.

Hit the notification quicker than Steve Borthwick dropped Tom Pearson after the weekend

Squidge is from Sale'aumua fun fact...

Fantastic video - totally agree with you in terms of the Somoan threat: with 2x legit options at tight head & 10 if the rest of that team can gel they could cause a massive, massive upset.

Thank you so much for this series. I love knowing a but about what and who to look out for

Great work again Squidge.

As a Fijian, looking forward to watch Samoa this year because of this video

3:47 B-roll of a Prime Minister who precipitated a constitutional crisis in their country following an election, in an attempt to save their own power, signing a treaty with the PM of Samoa

Really looking forward to Ireland playing these guys, itll be a good game and tougher than the England one next week

Can you do an analysis on the current state of the Brave Blossoms? After seeing their last few games and surprising player omissions, I'm feeling very pessimistic. Really doubt they will be able to live up to what was accomplished in the last World Cup

Was loving this video until 15 minutes in when you reminded me Samoa are in England's group 😢 oh dear

Such a cool RU-vid channel, no other tops it when it comes to enjoyment and excitement.

Ohhh i almost forgot what a win on Saturday. I would love to see a video about what has changed with Wales? They looked like the Wales of Sam Warburton but were the Wales of Sam Costelow and Jac Morgan. Amazing performance. I also think the handling errors for England cost them that game. England's look great in attack when it worked. Just to many dropped balls. Great video tho be interesting to see where Samoa, Tonga and fiji. Finish with the new look teams

Rewatching this after the Ireland warm up match and I reckon they'll be runner ups, think Argentina(assuming their discipline holds up) will be a mountain to high but Japan, England and Chile will be crushed

Bring on Moana Mondays - this got me HYPED!

Going to be a good pool. England are not the same team. Japan have dropped in form at the wrong time. Argentina should win the the pool. But Samoa....we don't know what to expect. If they can win their set pieces (lineouts aren't looking great), this could give them more continuity and flow to show Samoan flair and showcase island rugby.

You've convinced me that Samoa are beating Japan and England

Up the boys

Wow! This story could be made into a musical!

Shout out to Matufau doing the Uso's finisher when he scored against Tonga

Jeff toomaga allen is my favorite player right now

Great analysis. Thank you. I miss the fast hands and passion of the 1991 world squad under Peter Fatialofa. Miss the giant killers of 2010s but excited for this current squad. If only money greedy Samoan politics would stop politicking and pay our guys their real worth. Go Samoa! 🇼🇸🌺

Theo McFarland also played Basketball for Samoa at the 2019 Pacific Games held in Samoa. He was their best player. That’s where he gets his ball skills from. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qpzSMwRDnu4.html

That your mum joke killed me 🤣

Theo McFarland straight out from Moamoa Rooster in Samoa ❤💪👌🐓

Excellent analysis on the pacific island teams starting with Samoa, looking forward to your Fiji video once you've gotten over what happened in the very same host country 16 years ago since you're Cymru lads. 😅😂

Samoan chiropractors are going to be busy in this World Cup, odds are one would expect them to take a higher ranked team and iron out a few players in the process.

I didn't know who Keith Chegwin was(12:30)...looked him up and ran into Ricky Gervais,Keith Chegwin bloopers Nice one Squidge, Very funny Uce😂😂😂

Titi Lamositele doesn't appear to have made the Samoan squad, but having played 3 minutes in a warm up game he's now no longer ever eligible to play for the US, the country he was born in and learned to play rugby in. Thanks, World Rugby.

I’m an argie and I’m scared now

Their issues lie with their management and rugby union, often leaving their players unpaid and shorthanded. As a team, they should be the equivalent of Fiji and were actually around the top 10 early 2010s

Hopefully once the money hungry tuilepa is gone, Samoa can then properly develop into a golden era that was long overdue. I really want Samoa or even a pacific nation to win a rugby world cup but it will most definetly be past my lifetime. Never know, anhthing can happen. UptheManu! ALWAYS.

I hope Mapasua shows this to the team! This will hype them up! 😤 🦾 🇼🇸

Great video. Come on MANU SAMOA

hahaha, what am I watching at the end?!!

Can't wait for the Tonga video!!

Yea Theodore MacFarlane used to play basketball for the samoan team he was always played basketball, but he was chosee in Manu Samoa A, and he been good then.

Subtle Tana Umaga dig “dropping players on their heads” 😂

Judging by yesterday, England are going to be in trouble against Samoa ...

Great vid! Aus next?

Fiji are the team to watch out for

Yo squidge! Are you going to watch Chile v Samoa in Bordeaux?

Samoa men they hard playing young men,trying everything the best to please the Country and Nations,

Is there any chance of a prediction video on how you see the pools might go ?

The caption at 9:05 is fantastic 😂

Bro please do a video on the wallabies!!! I absolutely love your content and I think it’s time for a wallabies video 🦘

Can you do a video on the wallabies. Would like to see what you think.

I'm so torn about aforementioned episode of the pod, my memosays nono, my completion isn't says yes yes...

You may want to watch Romania v USA from Saturday and revisit your compliments of the Romanian maul, Squidge.

McFarlane reminds me of Vaea Fifita at the Scarlets

As a Quins fan and an England fan Theo continues to emerge to give me nightmares

Fearful and fearsome are pretty much the opposite things.

seeing as Samoa pushed Ireland to the last minute recently, its looking like Samoa might have a shot

The real value of Moana Pasifika is that Samoan and Tongan players have an easier path to professional Rugby without resorting to playing for exploitative French clubs who threaten to not resign them if they play Test Rugby, generally the only time they can get something that resembles a full strength team is during World Cups but they've spent such little time together that they could never gel, just a group of talented athletes rather than a true team. Really looking forward to watching the Pacific Island teams this year, especially with the influx of former All Blacks and Wallabies, that high level test experience will be a massive boost and with a relatively weak pool I can see them making the Quarter Final, I wouldn't put money on it but I wouldn't be surprised.

Okay. I'm genuinely worried they could beat England. Should I be?

I think the Pacific Islanders play some of the best looking rugby, my favorite being Fiji, unfortunately the issue I think is their match fitness, they don’t compete as consistently as the Tier 1 teams , so lack that cohesion and match fitness. It’s a shame, because watching them play is a joy.

Great ending.

Chile is indeed the greatest rugby team

Love your preview but I would say that 'fearful' does not mean the same as 'fearsome'.

Everytime Samoa beat Tier1 nations (Australia, Scotland, Italy in 2011, Wales in 2013), or came close to beating one (South Africa 2011), the World Rugby stepped in with Propaganda and threats Sanction the Local Union in order to ro keep them down. Dont forget Samoa also won the IRB 7's circuit in 2010 with completely Local players and coaches. Manu Samoa today is run by World Rugby, NOT Samoa. Samoa needs to Nationalize Manu Samoa brand in order to keep the Money in Samoa and build up local Rugby.

Love all these. As an Englishman im fairly sure we wont make it out of the group.

Fritz Lee. That's my comment. Can't wait.

great video, but how many of those amazing tackles are illegal. so many shoulder charges, clothes lines and no arms and recklessly high

Calling New Zealand the Pacific Isles 👏

Good luck trying to work out what Eddie Jones is doing with the Australian Wallabies.

That your mum joke changed my life