 The first, an 84-10 win at the Marathon Stadium in Newcastle against ARL aligned players representing Fiji, and the second, a 52-6 win over an ARL-aligned Papua New Guinea at the Lloyd Robson Oval in Port Moresby.Larson's final match in the green and gold was in 1997 for a game against the "Rest of the World".With the ARL struggling to play international matches against other countries as most had signed with the Super League, a composite international side of ARL aligned players was put together for a match against Australia at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.