Re: 2022 | RL World Cup : Sat Oct 29, 2022 1:20 pm  

If I was wane I'd be wanting my settled spine getting time together in this game, preparing for the real games. Not great prep I feel mixing it up at this stage. Game 2 to rest rotate the key positions, game 3 to rest rotate edge and middle.

Re: 2022 | RL World Cup : Sat Oct 29, 2022 2:06 pm  

Wane won’t pick Leeds players unless he has to, Oledski can’t get in but hill and cooper can?

England Slay the Greeks : Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:21 pm  

England Slay the Greeks With England already qualified for the knockout stages, and likely to finish at the top of the group, there was just the matter of despatching Greece in the remaining group stage game and sending them home pointless. England coach, Shaun Wane, could be forgiven for resting some of his players for next weeks endeavours, but that´s not the way he rolls, and he named a string outfit capable of doing some real damage on the Greeks. For the second time in this World Cup a female referee had been appointed to the game, Belinda Sharpe from Queensland. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

England Slay the Greeks With England already qualified for the knockout stages, and likely to finish at the top of the group, there was just the matter of despatching Greece in the remaining group stage game and sending them home pointless. England coach, Shaun Wane, could be forgiven for resting some of his players for next weeks endeavours, but that´s not the way he rolls, and he named a string outfit capable of doing some real damage on the Greeks. For the second time in this World Cup a female referee had been appointed to the game, Belinda Sharpe from Queensland. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: 2022 | RL World Cup : Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:27 pm  

christopher wrote:

Wane won’t pick Leeds players unless he has to, Oledski can’t get in but hill and cooper can?

Incomprehensible. However, being parochial, on the plus side he's less likely to pick up an injury.

Re: 2022 | RL World Cup : Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:31 pm  

Cooper and McMeekan shouldn’t be anywhere near an England jumper, both garbage.

Why are they banging on about winning the World Cup? With a spine of Tomkins, Welsby, Williams or Snede, and McIllorum/ Ackers we’ve no chance.

Fiji Battle Through Against Scotland : Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:11 pm  

Fiji Battle Through Against Scotland Fiji took to the field in tonight's penultimate World Cup Group B match knowing that their expected victory would see them join Australia in next weekend's quarter finals - barring the shock of the tournament if Italy pulled off an unbelievable victory over Australia later tonight. Scotland had lost both their opening games, conceding more than a hundred points, including 80 by Australia last weekend. They weren't realistically expected to do anything else tonight. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Fiji Battle Through Against Scotland Fiji took to the field in tonight's penultimate World Cup Group B match knowing that their expected victory would see them join Australia in next weekend's quarter finals - barring the shock of the tournament if Italy pulled off an unbelievable victory over Australia later tonight. Scotland had lost both their opening games, conceding more than a hundred points, including 80 by Australia last weekend. They weren't realistically expected to do anything else tonight. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: 2022 | RL World Cup : Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:43 pm  

Swoggy Loiner wrote:

Cooper and McMeekan shouldn’t be anywhere near an England jumper, both garbage.

Why are they banging on about winning the World Cup? With a spine of Tomkins, Welsby, Williams or Snede, and McIllorum/ Ackers we’ve no chance.

IMO Tomkins, Cooper, Sneyd, Micky Mac or McMeekan shouldn't have been in the England squad but Waney has his favourites.

I don't agree with you naming Welsby in this Swoggy as this kid is all class, and also in any position too
Williams has been very good for England tbh despite his poor season for Warrington

Some folk are getting giddy about England's results, but NZ or Australia will beat us by plenty if we actually make the final

Australia March On : Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:26 pm  

Australia March On There was little doubt about the result of this game, between the champions, who have dominated the World Cup throughout its history, and the minnows of Italy. Both teams got through their opening sets cleanly, but Australia made far more territory in their first six tackles than the Italians did, which was no surprise.  What was a surprise though, was Jeremiah Nanai making the first mistake of the the game, knocking on at the play-the-ball in the Kangaroos second set. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Australia March On There was little doubt about the result of this game, between the champions, who have dominated the World Cup throughout its history, and the minnows of Italy. Both teams got through their opening sets cleanly, but Australia made far more territory in their first six tackles than the Italians did, which was no surprise.  What was a surprise though, was Jeremiah Nanai making the first mistake of the the game, knocking on at the play-the-ball in the Kangaroos second set. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: 2022 | RL World Cup : Sat Oct 29, 2022 9:12 pm  

Yeah despite any scorelines the consistent ruthless performance is way off and NZ or Aus beat us by 18+

Lebanon Sprint Into the Quarter Finals Against Brave Jamaica : Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:57 pm  

Lebanon Sprint Into the Quarter Finals Against Brave Jamaica The Cedars and the Reggae Warriors went into the first clash of the third Sunday of the 2021 World Cup with it all to play for as any of the three remaining sides in Group C could join New Zealand in the quarter finals and set up a game against Australia next Friday evening. A win of any description for the favourites Lebanon would see them progress, but should Jamaica win by seven or more points then it would be Ireland who move forwards to next weekend. An almost unthinkable and unobtainable win of ninety-nine points or more for Jamaica and it would be they who jump from the bottom of the group, over Ireland, into second place. The bookies gave the Jamaicans no chance as they handicapped Lebanon by forty-two points on the coupon, they were confident that it would be Lebanon who would be Australia´s opponents. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Lebanon Sprint Into the Quarter Finals Against Brave Jamaica The Cedars and the Reggae Warriors went into the first clash of the third Sunday of the 2021 World Cup with it all to play for as any of the three remaining sides in Group C could join New Zealand in the quarter finals and set up a game against Australia next Friday evening. A win of any description for the favourites Lebanon would see them progress, but should Jamaica win by seven or more points then it would be Ireland who move forwards to next weekend. An almost unthinkable and unobtainable win of ninety-nine points or more for Jamaica and it would be they who jump from the bottom of the group, over Ireland, into second place. The bookies gave the Jamaicans no chance as they handicapped Lebanon by forty-two points on the coupon, they were confident that it would be Lebanon who would be Australia´s opponents. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...