RL World Cup Discussion

[Parkway_Drive]

My wife would be impressed with your listening skills. Hahaha

lol, its selective hearing, I am deaf to other sounds when the footy is on hahaha....

[Parkway_Drive]

Axe, here is the link to the article re Gary Lo and his move to Castleford.

[The Axe]

Gotta say I’m really enjoying this RLWC. With Tonga, PNG as certain finalists and FiJi, Samoa starting to develop competitive teams, the World Cup is a true competition. Throw in the passion and colour and I love the product. Also not ruined by rabs, Gus and their fellow egotists

[Mickie Lane]

Geez the Papua New Guineans run hard. I would hate to play against them.
I got admit though the Irish are tough & better than I thought.
There has been alot of mistakes but its still an exciting game to watch.

[Tommy Smith]

Is Teddy killing it at 5/8?

[Kingbilly]

Went out to the England Lebanon game last night, I really enjoyed it.
Lebanon certainly outclassed (mainly NSW Cup and Ron Massey Cup players ) but you can't fault their effort

[The Axe]

Went out to the England Lebanon game last night, I really enjoyed it.
Lebanon certainly outclassed (mainly NSW Cup and Ron Massey Cup players ) but you can't fault their effort

They are well coached by next nsw coach in waiting. Sure they’re enjoying themselves

thinking of heading out on sat. How was crowd behaviour?

[King Salvo]

the great man Adrian Morley is part of the channel 7 coverage.

be wondering how many understood him though :-)

[King Salvo]

Geez the Papua New Guineans run hard. I would hate to play against them.
I got admit though the Irish are tough & better than I thought.
There has been alot of mistakes but its still an exciting game to watch.

Ireland were not that good in attack and worked over time in defence in 30 degree heat in front of a partisan crowd - could have won that game with some better options- if they scored that try from the kick near full time they would have won - My relo ( Kyle Amor) went all right - not his fault the last PNG try - poor pass

[King Salvo]

Julian Bousquet looks the goods.

French prop. 26years old
113kg and 1.93cm

He looked fu^king awesome in the first game. Off loads and big hits.

Robbo may have a word to him I hear - speaks fluent French at least

[King Salvo]

Gotta say I’m really enjoying this RLWC. With Tonga, PNG as certain finalists and FiJi, Samoa starting to develop competitive teams, the World Cup is a true competition. Throw in the passion and colour and I love the product. Also not ruined by rabs, Gus and their fellow egotists

Not Really -don't know how you can say that - Be hard to keep it going under the current format - Tonga population is a tad over 100k/ Samoa just under 200k/ Fiji a tad under 900k- more Rugby union /Cook Islands just over 21k/ American Samoa just over 65k - compared with PNG over 8 million - need to really think about how the game is going internationally to make it a true World cup as Rugby League is not considered a world sport as is pole dancing and foot golf are .

Should be Great Britain combining England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland- Ireland republic standalone - need to develop the game in Italy and Japan as both play international rugby- USA too - the Key to making it an International sport one has to say - developing the game at the domestic level in a range of countries too so they have a decent domestic comp- Had hopes for Russia but seems the game has gone backwards there- needs more coaches and funds going to these countries to develop the game one has to say for a proper world cup

[Kingbilly]

They are well coached by next nsw coach in waiting. Sure they’re enjoying themselves

thinking of heading out on sat. How was crowd behaviour?

Great, a lot of families in the lebanese supporter groups.
It was interesting to see some changes by Lebanon in the second half as far as tactics go, very smart and it worked

[King Salvo]

Great, a lot of families in the lebanese supporter groups.
It was interesting to see some changes by Lebanon in the second half as far as tactics go, very smart and it worked

How did you handle the constant drumming all game if near it - never liked it when we played the Dogs and glad they banned the drums from the Footy stadium - gave me a headache even if on the other side of the ground.

[King Salvo]

Moot point because Pearce isn't good enough to be considered for selection as the test half.

Sorry I didn't see your name on the list of Current/Former NRL/NSWRL/NSW SOO players- oh that`s right you never played as what - you couldn`t play and were never good enough to play that level other than being a reserve for under 7`s- figures

[theGman]

Is Teddy killing it at 5/8?

a snippet from NRL.com.au


Five-eighth James Tedesco had an excellent game in a relatively new position for him, and his coach commended his focus on his own role.

Tedesco played smart and patient, never over-playing his hand and was rewarded with two tries, while his kicking game worried the United States for 80 minutes.

"I thought [Tedesco] was really good… I thought he was really patient when he went out there, he was really calm and had some classy touches," the coach said.