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"Full credit to our boys, and huge, huge respect to Tonga. They came out firing and we knew it was going to be a physical match. I know a lot of these boys from playing with and against them, and I expected nothing less from them, so huge respect to them. "Hopefully they go out in the next couple of weeks and leave everything out there and best of luck to them."Assessing his own side's performance, the former Waikato Chiefs centre remarked;
"There were good things, but there were a lot of other things that we'll need to work on. As a team I know we weren't as clinical as we wanted to be. There were a lot of dumb penalties given away so we will look at that and try to rectify it. "I know we got the points we wanted but we're still not happy with the way we performed, and next week will be an even bigger test for us. But we will go out there and give it our best."Heading back to the RTE studio after Aki's interview, Munster back Simon Zebo was asked for his thoughts on Aki's World Cup outings against Romania and Tonga, to which he replied;
"He could be player of the tournament at this rate!"Related Articles:
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