Re: Watched the Rah Rah tonight Wales vs Ireland : Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:11 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

MY point is that it isn't exactly a significant achievement.

What's YOUR point?

You claimed that they get the plaudits for winning a mere 5 games. My point is that had England won 3 in the World Cup, or should they win 4 in October/November then they will rightly get the plaudits as Tournament winners.

Had we won the World Cup would you have deemed it insignificant as we only won 5 games?

Alternatively, is New Zealand's win insignificant due to them only winning 4?

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:13 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Playing internationals in the national stadium is important imo.

Rugby league doesn't have a national stadium.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:15 pm  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote:

Rugby league doesn't have a national stadium.

Well Wembley is the de facto RL National Stadium. Wouldn't you agree?

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:17 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Well Wembley is the de facto RL National Stadium. Wouldn't you agree?

No. Wembley is the national football stadium.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:23 pm  

in fact , Wembley is 'Operated by Wembley National Stadium Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of The Football Association'

more football than national ...

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:25 pm  

Maybe eventually the RFL could invest in our own stadium to play all our finals at and have the magic weekend there maybe and rent it out for concerts and varioous other things, it could make lots of money.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:28 pm  

odemwingie wrote:

Maybe eventually the RFL could invest in our own stadium to play all our finals at and have the magic weekend there maybe and rent it out for concerts and varioous other things, it could make lots of money.

Re: Watched the Rah Rah tonight Wales vs Ireland : Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:31 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Give over.

For a start 2 of those are Italy and Scotland.

So that's the "Cas and Wakefield" of the Six nations taken care of.

The same Italy who pushed Wales all the way last week or Scotland who performed well today and pushed England well into the last ten mins? Or the same Scotland who beat England last year? There are no 'easy' games in the 6 nations even tho you may think there is.

Essentially there are just 4 teams in the Six nations that have a chance of winning.
So essentially win 3 games and you are guaranteed the title.

So that's two more than who can win the RL world cup but yet everyone goes crazy over NZ winning the thing? Same difference is it not cause in my book it looks a hell of a lot easier to win in RL? If it was easy as what you say to win the grand slam why is it such a big deal to do it? Surly if everyone did it every year it wouldn’t be such a big deal?

Add to this the fact that the skill on display was at the best "average" and more realistically "rubbish".......

Did you see England at the WC and you want to call that skill level rubbish? Put it this way so called world class players like Wellens, Gardner or Senior wouldn't have got in either of the Wales or Ireland backlines today.

So what actually is your point? Cause it looks like RL is miles behind RU on the international stage?

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:35 pm  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote:

Rugby league doesn't have a national stadium.

Wembley is the closet thing we have to one you have to admit that right?

Maybe we can't fill out an international stadium of 70-80k but we could probably get 50k imo which is still a dam sight better than using the JJB isn’t it?

Would it be feasible to build our own National RL stadium for use for internationals, CC and the GF? How much do we spend a year do you reckon renting out different stadiums?

We need something like that tho to take us forward.

: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:39 pm  

Wigan/Leeds Andy wrote:

No. Wembley is the national football stadium.

Can I suggest that you research the term "de facto" then come back to this thread?