Lea'aetoa faces punishment over Kiwi remarks

A Tonga forward is to be punished for suggesting the islanders would deliberately set out to injure All Black players in the World Cup.

With Tonga and New Zealand clashing in a group match at Brisbane on October 24, prop forward Tonga Lea’aetoa told a Sydney newspaper that he and other Australia-based members of his team planned to hurt the All Blacks “to soften them up for the Wallabies”.