The rugby league world cup has started the day, with England V Australia on now, good game by the way, but is there any point for this competition which since 1968, Australia have won all but twice (Great Britain 1972 and New Zealand last time out 2008)
Only 2 teams capable of winning in this, in Australia and New Zealand with home advantage giving England a slight chance. When compared with its other rughy sinuous, this event comes in a poor second
Rugby League is a ball of shite, be like something the Aussies would love.
When comparing both rugby games, they're both the same - shit.
New Zealand beat France 48-0 last night, England trimming Ireland 30-0 after 30mins here, got to be the most 1 sided world cup event currently running A tri nations between New Zealand, England and Australia would be more realistic, New Zeland don't even have a league though they have Auckland playing in the Aussie league
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 02, 2013, 03:13:38 PM
New Zealand beat France 48-0 last night, England trimming Ireland 30-0 after 30mins here, got to be the most 1 sided world cup event currently running A tri nations between New Zealand, England and Australia would be more realistic, New Zeland don't even have a league though they have Auckland playing in the Aussie league
Are any of the Irish Team Irish born? Strange to see an Irish team on TV and hardly anybody would know about it.
Not sure about the irish team, i presume most are English born, i dont know any of them,
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 02, 2013, 03:32:36 PM
Not sure about the irish team, i presume most are English born, i dont know any of them,
From this website and links to each players wiki page, there are no Irish born players. Most seem to be from Australia and Warrington?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_national_rugby_league_team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_national_rugby_league_team)
Check out the wiki link for Captain Liam Finn. Thought it was ironic and funny! ;D
Slurry
Quote from: From the Bunker on November 02, 2013, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 02, 2013, 03:32:36 PM
Not sure about the irish team, i presume most are English born, i dont know any of them,
From this website and links to each players wiki page, there are no Irish born players. Most seem to be from Australia and Warrington?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_national_rugby_league_team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_national_rugby_league_team)
Check out the wiki link for Captain Liam Finn. Thought it was ironic and funny! ;D
Matthew Hadden was called up late to the squad to replace an injured player. He was born in Belfast.
Bad result for us today.
Have repeatedly tried to watch and get into Rugby League over the years and just can't. It's absolutely shite.
fun like most sports i do tend to watch it and know most of the rules, club level is fairly even and better to watch than this, but the standard of goal kicking in this version of rugby is very poor. The only sport i couldnt watch was cricket, it literally bored me to death
Cricket..the sport where both teams wear the same colour strip and where the game stops for lunch.
Sufferin f**k is there a worse sport in the world.
(Pains me to even refer to it as a sport)
Quote from: Brick Tamlin on November 02, 2013, 10:07:10 PM
Cricket..the sport where both teams wear the same colour strip and where the game stops for lunch.
Sufferin f**k is there a worse sport in the world.
(Pains me to even refer to it as a sport)
Yes. American football.
American football is a brilliant sport.
Watch alot of NFl myself, it is very stop start and you can get a great game (normally involving Denver this weather) or a piss poor game normally involving one of the NY teams lol
I was at the England v Ireland game yesterday. What a massive pile of dung, rugby league is a pretty crap sport really and mismatches like this are too frequent. Also, I'm getting a bit annoyed that Ireland's Call is being dressed up as our national anthem these days!
A lot of gaels in my club in Irelad are seriuosly wetting themselves over American NFL at the minute. What a pile of shit.
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 03:50:10 AM
I was at the England v Ireland game yesterday. What a massive pile of dung, rugby league is a pretty crap sport really and mismatches like this are too frequent. Also, I'm getting a bit annoyed that Ireland's Call is being dressed up as our national anthem these days!
Is it not better to have an anthem representative of all those on the team?
Quote from: michaelg on November 03, 2013, 10:51:07 AM
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 03:50:10 AM
I was at the England v Ireland game yesterday. What a massive pile of dung, rugby league is a pretty crap sport really and mismatches like this are too frequent. Also, I'm getting a bit annoyed that Ireland's Call is being dressed up as our national anthem these days!
Is it not better to have an anthem representative of all those on the team?
Advance Australia Fair then ;D
Quote from: Rossfan on November 03, 2013, 12:42:30 PM
Quote from: michaelg on November 03, 2013, 10:51:07 AM
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 03:50:10 AM
I was at the England v Ireland game yesterday. What a massive pile of dung, rugby league is a pretty crap sport really and mismatches like this are too frequent. Also, I'm getting a bit annoyed that Ireland's Call is being dressed up as our national anthem these days!
Is it not better to have an anthem representative of all those on the team?
Advance Australia Fair then ;D
Exactly - they'd have been better off playing no anthem at all.
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 12:51:05 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on November 03, 2013, 12:42:30 PM
Quote from: michaelg on November 03, 2013, 10:51:07 AM
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 03:50:10 AM
I was at the England v Ireland game yesterday. What a massive pile of dung, rugby league is a pretty crap sport really and mismatches like this are too frequent. Also, I'm getting a bit annoyed that Ireland's Call is being dressed up as our national anthem these days!
Is it not better to have an anthem representative of all those on the team?
Advance Australia Fair then ;D
Exactly - they'd have been better off playing no anthem at all.
Ah stawp. Why people still get roiled up about flags and bland inoffensive anthems is beyond me.
Oh, and poppies.
Poppies.
Quote from: Syferus on November 03, 2013, 01:27:27 PM
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 12:51:05 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on November 03, 2013, 12:42:30 PM
Quote from: michaelg on November 03, 2013, 10:51:07 AM
Quote from: BennyHarp on November 03, 2013, 03:50:10 AM
I was at the England v Ireland game yesterday. What a massive pile of dung, rugby league is a pretty crap sport really and mismatches like this are too frequent. Also, I'm getting a bit annoyed that Ireland's Call is being dressed up as our national anthem these days!
Is it not better to have an anthem representative of all those on the team?
Advance Australia Fair then ;D
Exactly - they'd have been better off playing no anthem at all.
Ah stawp. Why people still get roiled up about flags and bland inoffensive anthems is beyond me.
Oh, and poppies. Poppies.
Exactly - that's why I wonder why they have to have a makey uppy anthem.
Quote from: Brick Tamlin on November 02, 2013, 10:07:10 PM
Cricket..the sport where both teams wear the same colour strip and where the game stops for lunch.
Sufferin f**k is there a worse sport in the world.
Ulster football.
The father of James Hasson, the Manly Seaeagles and Ireland player, was born in Dungiven.
Having played both union and league I will concur that League is shite to watch but, in my opinion, waaaaaaaaay better to play.
Mini-me is now playing both club and representative "districts" cricket at u-13 level. It is the equivalent of County level. But sweet Jesus it is a boring game, no matter what level. The one saving grace about the wanes at that age is that they are all wanting to be the next fastbowler, and trust some of those lads can launch the leather at a quare rate.
And re. the anthems etc., at least the Four Provinces Flag is used, not that feeble attempt by the IRFU.
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 02, 2013, 09:35:16 PM
fun like most sports i do tend to watch it and know most of the rules, club level is fairly even and better to watch than this, but the standard of goal kicking in this version of rugby is very poor. The only sport i couldnt watch was cricket, it literally bored me to death
Hmm. The posthumous first-person past-tense. The dead are speaking to us!
Within a week I have seen an Irish Football team play in a makey up international game and I have seen a Makey up Irish team play in an international game. Gas! ;D
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on November 03, 2013, 11:09:38 PM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 02, 2013, 09:35:16 PM
fun like most sports i do tend to watch it and know most of the rules, club level is fairly even and better to watch than this, but the standard of goal kicking in this version of rugby is very poor. The only sport i couldnt watch was cricket, it literally bored me to death
Hmm. The posthumous first-person past-tense. The dead are speaking to us!
:D
Ireland are ranked 9th in the world at this game!
Imagine if we took it seriously.
Same goes for cricket.
Sorry to hijack but seeing as you're talking cricket..I saw an advert on Sky this morning for The Ashes in November. I thought that was on during the summer just gone?
Quote from: Jonah on November 04, 2013, 01:08:06 PM
Sorry to hijack but seeing as you're talking cricket..I saw an advert on Sky this morning for The Ashes in November. I thought that was on during the summer just gone?
Ha - I was asking about this only yesterday. Was told that the Aussies are due to host the next World Cup at a time when the Ashes would have been scheduled to be played there, so they're moving the schedule around. Obviously the commercial solution is fit two in quickly rather than cancel one and have an extra long gap between series. Think of how they played the African Cup of Nations twice in just over a year recently.
Likely to be a very damp squib indeed considering how muck the Aussies are at the minute.
Quote from: gallsman on November 04, 2013, 01:19:29 PM
Quote from: Jonah on November 04, 2013, 01:08:06 PM
Sorry to hijack but seeing as you're talking cricket..I saw an advert on Sky this morning for The Ashes in November. I thought that was on during the summer just gone?
Ha - I was asking about this only yesterday. Was told that the Aussies are due to host the next World Cup at a time when the Ashes would have been scheduled to be played there, so they're moving the schedule around. Obviously the commercial solution is fit two in quickly rather than cancel one and have an extra long gap between series. Think of how they played the African Cup of Nations twice in just over a year recently.
Likely to be a very damp squib indeed considering how muck the Aussies are at the minute.
Apologies on hijacking this thread but the Africa Cup of Nations, how often is it played?? Seems like every year or two.
if you think Rugby league is rubbish now, you should have watched it in the late 70's early 80's before they changed it about a bit. was chronic.
IMO Rugby league is a fantastic game to watch. but only when the top three teams play it. it has suffered as a lot of players go to rugby union due to better pay. but I remember a gang of us Irish lads in london all looking forward to the GB v Australia series ech saturday (or every second saturday ) in the winter of 1990 - rushing home from a half day at the respective building site, picking up kebab and chips on the way home to cheer for big Mal Menninga and his aussies just about beat the GB team 2-1 in test series.
brilliant games and brilliant play. Way more exciting than anything Ive seen in rugby union.
I thinkthe first rugby league workld cup, the 'Irish team' full of st helens, leeds and top flight english RL clubs lads - gave the english team a tight enough game . the score might not have reflected it, but I remember that it wasnt a tanking like the other night. McDermott and a few other top rated players played for us.
Cricket is an ok game to watch, 20 20 is best.
love American football. too. Its just motor racing and horses that I dont believe are proper sports!
Well this is a first, finding myself agreeing with LB (to an extent).
League has suffered poorly over the last 5-10 years due to the money in Union but I used to love watching Super League on a Friday night and State of Origin (NSW v QL) games.
Some of the most gifted rugby players in the last 20 years have indeed been league players. From Martin Offiah, Jason Robinson, Sean Long for GB to Darren Lockyer and Andrew John for the Aussies they were very exciting.
Modern day Union is played very much along the lines of league and not just defensive set ups, but attacking strategies and off loading in the tackle.
For all the cricket haters - when the GAA was being formed, cricket was one of the games considered to be included in the association. If I'm not mistaken, it was only narrowly defeated. So the lot of us could easily have been stopping to have lunch during our games.
Essentially the GAA was formed to get the Irish people playing Irish sports, and away from foreign games such as soccer, cricket and rugby. Yet, cricket was considered. That has always confused me, so it has.
Quote from: BennyCake on November 04, 2013, 03:06:47 PM
For all the cricket haters - when the GAA was being formed, cricket was one of the games considered to be included in the association. If I'm not mistaken, it was only narrowly defeated. So the lot of us could easily have been stopping to have lunch during our games.
Essentially the GAA was formed to get the Irish people playing Irish sports, and away from foreign games such as soccer, cricket and rugby. Yet, cricket was considered. That has always confused me, so it has.
Correct. Michael Cusack was a big fan and Kilkenny famously had nearly 50 Cricket Teams.
Imagine, we could have had Tommy Walsh playing at silly mid off and Davy Fitz at backward square leg.
Quote from: gallsman on November 04, 2013, 01:19:29 PM
Quote from: Jonah on November 04, 2013, 01:08:06 PM
Sorry to hijack but seeing as you're talking cricket..I saw an advert on Sky this morning for The Ashes in November. I thought that was on during the summer just gone?
Ha - I was asking about this only yesterday. Was told that the Aussies are due to host the next World Cup at a time when the Ashes would have been scheduled to be played there, so they're moving the schedule around. Obviously the commercial solution is fit two in quickly rather than cancel one and have an extra long gap between series. Think of how they played the African Cup of Nations twice in just over a year recently.
Likely to be a very damp squib indeed considering how muck the Aussies are at the minute.
Thought it was down to the fact that the English were due to host it last summer but it was postponed for a year because of the Olympics
Quote from: stephenite on November 05, 2013, 10:32:53 AM
Quote from: gallsman on November 04, 2013, 01:19:29 PM
Quote from: Jonah on November 04, 2013, 01:08:06 PM
Sorry to hijack but seeing as you're talking cricket..I saw an advert on Sky this morning for The Ashes in November. I thought that was on during the summer just gone?
Ha - I was asking about this only yesterday. Was told that the Aussies are due to host the next World Cup at a time when the Ashes would have been scheduled to be played there, so they're moving the schedule around. Obviously the commercial solution is fit two in quickly rather than cancel one and have an extra long gap between series. Think of how they played the African Cup of Nations twice in just over a year recently.
Likely to be a very damp squib indeed considering how muck the Aussies are at the minute.
Thought it was down to the fact that the English were due to host it last summer but it was postponed for a year because of the Olympics
Nope, it would be in England during the summer every four years - '05, '09, '13.
I feel if half them English lads weren't playing rugby league they be in jail, come across very loutish, never listen to the ref instructions, always ready for a fight,and never seen as many chav tattoos outside a episode of prison break. Calling Rugby League a working mans game but there some difference in a appearance to their rugby unions cousin (the snobs of the 2 parties)
ps watching new zealand hammer these boys will put a smile on my face next sat
Quote from: Walter Cronc on November 04, 2013, 02:38:54 PM
From Martin Offiah,
I was a regular at Central Park, Wigan from 1987 to 1995 and I have to ask, man are you serious? Offiah was very quick and give him a clear run at the goal and he would inevitably score. But he was a shite tackler. When he left Widnes to join Wigan there was always some crack when Widnes came to town cos he was usually belted.
Re. the Ashes, the series has been brought forward by a year as the 2015 World Cup would otherwise clash/start shortly thereafter and it was felt that the English wouldn't get a fair run at the World cup.
Seen the greatest pass ever in the new Zealand V England Game the game today, it be shown on TV rugby league for years to come, On the game its self, England come down in style, had the game won only for it cruelly be took away at the end. just put a smile to my face !!!
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 23, 2013, 05:15:01 PM
Seen the greatest pass ever in the new Zealand V England Game the game today, it be shown on TV rugby league for years to come, On the game its self, England come down in style, had the game won only for it cruelly be took away at the end. just put a smile to my face !!!
Quality http://t.co/uWZbdxZiEY
Quote from: hardstation on November 23, 2013, 10:01:25 PM
I caught the last 2 minutes of that game and it was feckin brilliant.
I ended up watching most of the second half. It was not bad at all. The best part was the two boys counting down the number of tackles in the last two minutes. They had it won, there wasn't enough time to lose it. One high tackle later and they were fucked. Loved it.
And now next Saturday its down to the final 2 horses as expected. Australia smarting from the last upset in the world to the new Zealanders will probably lay down a marker in the final, expect it to be tight with the Aussies pulling clear to win in style after half time