World Footy News

Sketchy details have come to hand that show as expected that PNG have taken out 1st place. However, the other matches have provided an ordering that probably was not to be expected heading into the tournament.

At the time, the two undefeated sides, PNG and Tonga met on Saturday in the last of the pool matches. PNG won and won convincingly, restricting Tonga to just one goal whilst accumulating 7 of their own. Early reports indicated that the First Place final was much closer with Tonga improving their offensive effort, but the final scores we've received since then show that PNG was still a long way ahead of the field.

PNG 8.5 (45) def Tonga 1.1 (7)

In the 3rd place playoff - Fiji maintained the tournament form by nudging out Nauru.

Fiji (35) def Nauru (25)

For Fiji, Jeffrey Pauli was awarded "player of the tournament" by Fiji Power coaching staff.

In the final match, the 5th place play off it appears as though tournament debutant, the Solomon Islands have reversed the earlier result and managed to get up over the more fancied New Zealand. WFN is still awaiting scores for this match.

Also, details have been hard to come across for Saturday morning's 2nd outing of the Flying Boomerangs. Todays News Ltd is running a story on Andrew McLeod that states :

The Boomerangs easily defeated an Oceania team last week but were outmuscled by a bigger and older South Pacific representative team on Saturday.