Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 4:18 pm  

Williams and Welsby excellent today with some great passing and short kicking plays. The whole back line is very well balanced and loaded with lots of smarts.

Our pack was massive in getting our halves on the front foot.

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:28 pm  

You could tell half their team had been on the grog for a fortnight , but you can only beat what is in front of you

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:47 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

Not could, will easily turn England over

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:04 pm  

His 2nd best prediction of the week after "I told you all weeks ago Wardle isn’t signing. Despite what jonh and his source down the pub says" the day before Wigan signed Wardle.

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:05 pm  

43k is a great crowd considering it was a against Samoa, only 2k less than 2013's opener but that was against Australia and also a double header with Wales involved.

[Durham Giant]

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:49 pm  

Lots of locals there today and many at their first game of Rl who had not been to magic before but went because it was England

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:03 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

Lots of locals there today and many at their first game of Rl who had not been to magic before but went because it was England

Hopefully that continues.

The good thing about the BBC showing every game is that we had RL stories on the homepage where you could see them rather than needing to be a high level hacker to find them.

If we can have a strong tournament it could be the shot in the arm the game needs.

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:33 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

Lots of locals there today and many at their first game of Rl who had not been to magic before but went because it was England

I noticed that, lots of England rugby union shirts in the crowd, hopefully got lots of locals and first time fans engaged. The big win today will hopefully boost ticket sales for the rest of the tournament too.

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:21 pm  

ploinerrhino wrote:

You could tell half their team had been on the grog for a fortnight , but you can only beat what is in front of you

Samoa's attitude and approach to the game was a disgrace. It was either a protest performance to show how unhappy they are with Matt Parish being their coach, or it was a thoroughly distasteful display of unprofessionalism. Are you telling me the likes of To'o and Luai would put in a performance as gutless as that for Penrith? I doubt it.

You could see a few of their players were shocked during the game. It seems like a group of their players at least were of the opinion they could just turn up and beat England.

Re: The World Cup : Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:36 pm  

TheWarringtonWolve69 wrote:

Not could, will easily turn England over

Hey Aussie Troll you are Gus Gould "England can't beat Samoa" !! do you even care how stupid you continually look ?