7 Mar 2009

Give Islanders a Super go, says Boe

7:21 am on 7 March 2009

Well-respected former Samoa and Pacific Islands rugby coach John Boe wants the winner of the annual Pacific Tri-Nations series between Samoa, Tonga and Fiji to become the new team in the Super 14's expanded competition in 2011.

Boe, who took Samoa to the brink of upsetting eventual champions England in the 2003 World Cup, said it was time SANZAR stopped ignoring the talent-packed island nations.

He denied a hybrid fifth Australian team boasting a host of Islanders - as spruiked by ARU chief John O'Neill - would work.