Bula, Ma’lelei, Talofa and Welcome to Season 07 Episode 10 of Breakfast Bites, by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on a bright and sunny Wednesday morning 11 October 2023.

Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

And we start with SportsBiz at the RWC2023: Some 1.8 million fans have attended RWC2023 pool games the length and breadth of France, surpassing the 1.7m set at Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan.

Official social media accounts have attracted 1.8m new followers with more than a third from Spanish-speaking nations and 400,000 from USA, highlighting the rapid growth in fans across the Americas in particular in recent years.

And more than 1.1 billion views of Rugby World Cup content have been achieved so far, thanks to collaboration between World Rugby and the teams.

In rugby league: The Best and Fairest Award Winners for 2023 at the Roosters - Lindsay Collins won the Jack Gibson Medal, the Raiders - Joe Tapine – the Mal Meninga Medal, Rabbitohs - Latrell Mitchell – the Ken Stephen Medal, and at the Eels - Clint Gutherson won the Ken Thornett Medal.

In Football: What has gone wrong with Erling Haaland?

The deadly striker started the season with a flurry of seven goals in five EPL games, but since then the Man City striker has scored just once in his last five appearances in all competitions, including three in a row without a goal.

Pep G will have a few sleepless nights as he ponders City’s slump during the international break.

In Combat sports: Should he defeat American knockout artist, Brian Mendoza on Sunday, the promoters of Australian champ, Tim Tszyu - No Limit Boxing, have promised to chase down three of the planet’s greatest pound-for-pound fighters – Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jnr or Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez for a fight.

And that’s a wrap!

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