Jun 15, 2000: Tonga's South Africa-based, New Zealand-born coach Dave Waterston told Scrum this week that his side was 'on target' in preparation for the one-off test against the All Blacks at Albany on Friday
Jun 15, 2000: Tonga has vowed the All Blacks will know they've been in an almighty scrap regardless of the result of tomorrow night's one-off rugby Test here at North Harbour Stadium
Jun 14, 2000: With the Alatini brothers, Pita for New Zealand and Sam for Tonga, opposing each other at first five eighth
Jun 14, 2000: Halfback Justin Marshall, back to the starting line-up for the first Test of the year against Tonga in Auckland on Friday, hinted the All Blacks would be going for a different approach this year
Jun 13, 2000: New All Black coach Wayne Smith has put scoring machine Andrew Mehrtens in cotton balls for the first Test match of the southern hemisphere winter
Jun 6, 2000: Political unrest to blame for United States' refusal to travel for July 1 fixture in Suva
Jun 3, 2000: 1999 champions' second half comeback not quite good enough as they lose 25-26
May 26, 2000: Fiji's rugby team gave their nation a brief reason to smile by snatching a dramatic 25-22 Epson Cup victory over Tonga in Nuku'alofa on Friday
May 23, 2000: After initially cancelling the Fiji Tonga game this Saturday due to the continued unrest in Suva the IRB have now reached agreement with all the Pacific Rim Nations to play the game in Tonga on Friday
May 22, 2000: The political instability in Fiji following the coup attempt has put next weekend's match between Fiji and Tonga in doubt
May 16, 2000: An administrative bungle in the Tongan rugby Union offices will delay the side's arrival in Vancouver for Saturday's Epson cup opener until Thursday evening
Apr 1, 2000: England want to act as sole hosts of the Rugby World Cup in 2007 - but could be challenged by France for the rights to stage the tournament, the International Rugby Board confirmed on Saturday
Rugby World Cup 1999
Oct 16, 1999: England put an underperforming Tonga side to the sword at Twickenham
Oct 16, 1999: Tongan prop Ngalu Tau'ofo has been banned for 28 days following his dismissal in Friday's World Cup clash against England at Twickenham
Oct 15, 1999: A Tongan radio station has reported that the Tonga World Cup side threatened to quit after the country's Police Minister Clive Edwards influenced team selection
Oct 11, 1999: Tongan coach Dave Waterston believed his side had lost their chance of victory over Italy at Welford Road on Sunday night before Sateki Tu'ipulotu launched his amazing drop goal
Rugby World Cup 1999
Oct 10, 1999: Italy slumped to a last-gasp defeat against Tonga at Welford road to leave their World Cup in tatters
Oct 10, 1999: Tonga coach David Waterston claims his team is ready to take over where New Zealand left-off against England
Rugby World Cup 1999
Oct 3, 1999: New Zealand got their World Cup campaign underway with victory over Tonga in Bristol
Oct 1, 1999: Tonga have been forced to make a change for their opening World Cup game against the All Blacks on Sunday
