He's not a Queenslander. Very different bar.Originally Posted by Lewis
He's not a Queenslander. Very different bar.
Yeah I just meant club level.
Yeah, I just corrected myself. Let's see: James Tedesco, Matt Moylan, Jarryd Hayne, Josh Dugan, Brett Morris, Jack Wighton, Tom Trbojevic, Will Hopoate (no Sunday matches), Bevan French... Tenth choice.
Too many good old football men around club maybe?
I did some gym classes with this guy the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sione_Finefeuiaki
I have never seen anyone that huge in my life.
Yeah, possibly. Might need to be swept out from top to bottom, but you feel like that'll crash the club before it fixes anything.
At any rate, Step One is Hold Onto Tyson Frizell.
It's disgraceful how he's turned his back on Wales.
Yeah that's fair. If I could sign any Queensland fullback it would be Munster.
I'm looking forward to watching him fumble around at centre next season as Billy Slater chews up half of the salary cap being worse than him.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ital...by_league_team
The 'Italians' should have a good team as well.
Lebanon could put a half-decent side out these days, unlike when it was Hazem El Masri catching his own kicks.
Im definitely going into this League World Cup more excited by the tier two nations than Mal's Kangaroos. Im really sour on him after all the bullshit he spewed trying to justify Semi's call up.
I was perhaps slightly pessimistic about the NSW squad (as history has conditioned me to be
I'd have Coote sitting about fifth in Lewis' list, but there's still a bunch of strong players in the position. But Coote's a little bit utility, isn't he? I think he can shift around, and therefore should pop up on the bench.
Utility sub?
Penrith apparently see Moylan as a stand-off in the long-term, but he was a bit underwhelming there in game three, and I would pick Mitchell Moses if I was selecting now (especially now he can play for New South Wales and Lebanon).
Yeah. Apparently he can play in the halves if necessary? Probably need someone who can do that on the bench. Although Moylan can do the same with higher long-term upside.
Ive just realised I only really follow Queensland Union and League at the moment. I could not accurately name a form NSW Origin Team and Id struggle to name half the Waratahs.
Im dry as paint with my knowledge of Brisbane Premier Grade.
He bombed about (at least) four very good opportunities, the bald cunt.No Australians in the England squad, we're only really crap in one centre position, and West Hull Twitter is in tears because their favourite players missed out.
Is it too early for you to have an opinion Mr Bennett?
We were actually very good in most areas. It's just that Dan Sarginson is shit (see above), the laws of the game stipulate that we have to concede at least one stupid try per test match, and Shaun Johnson decided that today was the day to stop being a lazy cunt and living off his 2014 performances. I think the plan was to win today and hope New Zealand beat Australia, so that's that out the window.
Any young blokes that could come in for next year?
Apart from Sean O'Loughlin being injured (he would have played loose forward, with Sam Burgess second row) that was pretty much the full-strength team, and you would expect everyone to keep their places for next year, which will come too soon for our better up-and-coming players. Maybe Oliver Gildart in at left centre, and Ben Currie/Stevie Ward off the bench if (when) he out-plays Mike Cooper all next season; but then Burgess going into second row would force John Bateman onto the bench, which might relegate Currie/Ward. Basically, most of the depth is in the forwards, where we're good to go, and the promising young backs aren't promising enough (yet) to be causing Gareth Widdop any problems.
We could always play as Great Britain again and call up Lachlan McCoote.
One thing Bennet is brillian at is creating depth. Eg QAS training squad for Origin.
Probably doesn't have enough time but Wayne coaching for 5 years could massively help in the long term.
His brief is basically to eliminate the stupid shit that normally costs us these tight games, since we have the forwards and big wingers to play his sort of rugby. In other news, I saw Tommy Raudonikis in Beverley today (or at least his absolute look and sound-alike). I was too busy eating to say alright Tommy mate, but he called the dog a 'beauty'.
Tommy: cool:
Many Australians live in Hull?
I got the option of a ticket to watch England v Australia rugby league at the 'London Stadium'. I declined, firstly because I can't go and secondly because rugby league, but what deludes them into thinking it's ever going to catch on in London? London looks to shit foreign sports like NFL because that's the sort of city it is and they are spectating-only, it doesn't look to embrace the dirty Brexit-voting northern provinces with a sport you'd actually want to play.
The telly numbers are always said to be strong in the South East, and they always boast about x test match/Challenge Cup tickets being sold to people down there, so common sense would suggest that there must be ten thousand people in a city of ten million who would - in theory at least - go and watch a rugby league side. The problem is that they have never really had the funding that you need for a newer, less-established venture to thrive. They had their best period in the late-nineties when Virgin were the main owners (which sounds a bit bizarre now), but, with the league itself being unwilling to support it like the NRL did with Melbourne and the Gold Coast, it will only ever take off with some wealthy idiot who can secure it a proper home ground and stop moving them around South London every three years (which always halves whatever supporter base they have managed to build). With all that in mind, the ruling bodies figure that having the odd test match down there and 'encouraging' the Southern teams is enough to be seen to be doing something, which is probably about right when there isn't really enough money going spare to sub London a million quid a year with no guarantees that it won't just disappear into a hole. The NRL could do a lot worse than offer to help, but why would they (and the RFL would find an excuse to reject it, probably on the grounds that they would be expected to accept all of their rule changes, which they do two seasons later anyway)?
I always wonder though whether there is a lot of unexplored potential down there player-wise though. There must be hundreds of 'rejects' (for lack of a better word) leaving the union academies every year, and a few of them must have particular skills that might make them more suited to league. Martin Offiah was twenty-three and playing sevens when Widnes signed him, and teams are scouting the lower leagues and university leagues more intensively than ever looking for kids who escaped league academies (both wingers from yesterday were spotted playing Sunday league when they were nineteen); but you wonder whether the inferiority complex prevents anybody thinking about having mass trials of players discarded by the other code, when we could be rolling in mixed race three-quarters. The Canadians are doing something similar looking for freakish athletes left behind by college football, so the idea is clearly sound.
As for Australians in Hull. However many are playing for the two teams, and that poor bastard fifteen year old I met at the gym last year whose parents ruined his life moving to Burstwick. Maybe Tommy was over counselling him.
'Mate, fair dinkum. Mate, fair...'
I'm going to the game at Olympic Stadium. I thought it was being played here just as advertising to the dingo population of London.
People like to think they're being clever by saying put the London team wherever Australians congregate, but we probably only get the gay ones.
We could send you AFL supporters?
Ben Tapuai is a very good signing for Bath.
Wales are hopeless. Good job nobody was there to see it.
Why are New Zealand playing games in the USA now? Are they that big a draw that they're just touring around like big European football teams?
Because someone paid them enough to go there.
So basically a yes would have done.
They whacked the Americans a couple of years ago in an exhibition, but I think this is the first time they have played a proper team (presumably carefully-selected to get the NORAID lot out).
Only if you assume I know anything about football tours, it's flattering but I really don't.
I would never doubt you.
Seemingly there's a heap of posh Dubliners and huns over there for it, but not enough to even half fill it I'd reckon so they'd need some passing interest in the All Blacks to make a few bob on it anyway.
This England vs England D will be a bit crap (and we need to batter them on the off chance it goes to points difference), but Australia vs New Zealand should be mega.
Perfectly timed to play in Chicago when the Cubs have won the World Series for the first time in 108 (?) years.
It's good to see literally everybody vindicated in their belief that Coventry was a terrible place to host this.
This hasn't been a bad game. Australia look tidy.
Are England just basically the GB team or is it a different selection process when they're split up?
In the other one, are New Zealand precious enough never to risk a neutral venue again if Ireland see this out?
Just seen yhr score in that on twitter. Is it a real NZ team or some Maori/youth/B selection?
It's the proper one. Adidas will call in a bomb threat with five minutes to go and get it abandoned.
New Zealand have been rubbish here. Maybe Stephen Kearney was actually some sort of genius. In the other one, Ireland are BOTTLING IT at an alarming rate.
Hang on. Shaun Johnson has woken up (with two minutes left).
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