It comes as no suprise to me and many others, we are not good enough and I do not think we will ever be. We have had years of picking the wrong players and a whole raft of other built in excuses, face we are crap. Lets not forget that was not even the Aussie first team of choice and its a good job it was not or the score could have been 80 or 90.
Our game is dominated by the domestic scene and if we could restrict the oversea's content we could have at least tried to keep up. There is no way the laws of this country or the EEC will permit a it and the chairman of the SL clubs will continue to pay big bucks to Aussies stars.
Its time to consider the international rugby league and its benefit to the game. I like it and have always supported it, but I question the wisdom of investing money constantly into a system that is clearly failing.
I hope we do not reach the final, I really do
International RL against the Aussies is now dead and buried
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Joined: Jan 10 2007 Posts: 6766 Location: Stalking Jerry Langford
manu knighted wrote:Calderwood is just about the best player in an England shirt which shows just how bad we are.
He set the ball rolling for Aus, he had a simple high ball to take with little pressure and made a right c**k up of it. The only major thing he had to do all game, you can rave about his good marker tackles but when it came down to one key area you need your winger to be solid in, he messed up!
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Joined: Sep 19 2005 Posts: 826 Location: The Algarve
[quote="The Kings of Hull"]Gleeson should have played ahead of Senior and boy does this country need some half backs.[/quote
Too right, if Burrows and Price are out, who do we have?it'll be McGuire and Roby, which is an embarrassment to our game in general, we really are poor at developing youth, too much spent and invested in overseas players,
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