Yeah screw this concept of lesser nations being given the opportunity to compete against the top nations idea, let's go back to England and Australia playing each other a couple of times a year, that ought to interest the media, and those bloody sheep shaggers shouldn't be given the chance to keep New Zealand to under 40 at Wembley, they should be forced to play Serbia and the Cook Islands for the next five centuries.

Would it? Would it really?

I could guarantee most of them would say bring back that word competition and stop selecting which clubs development you stifle.

Most fax fans could give two hoots about a London club.

Most fax fans would be more worried about views like this from people like you who are so far out of touch with clubs like ours but still feel you can dictate how we feel and what is best for ours.

Super League? You're having a laugh! For the sake of the sport remove your head from Lewis' and Wood's booty

Jog on

Actually Dan - just read some of your posts and you talk some sense - the same things most fax fans would say.

It appears you're just a bulls fan having a pop! Standard.

I'm getting the word......................DORK

Actually I would kick out Wakefield, Bradford, Salford before London, as least London actually benefit the game and are involved with getting thousands of people playing the game. They also help promote the game to a wider audience and have been responsible in part for bringing through a number of decent players like Mcarthy-Scarrisbrook, Chubb, Worrincy. The solution goes much deeper than which clubs to have in the Dream world of SL and most fans at any club know this. Sadly the people running the game dont and would rather play silly buggers trying to create a Sub Standard version of the NRL than actually sort the real problems to the game out at a number of levels

Like most on this forum I am browned off with the RFL and super league but the game needs occassions like yesterday. It was broadcast live on the bbc , it made the main news bulletins , and also had radio coverage. One of the reasons why rl is in a mess is due to a lack of free to air coverage so any transmissions must be viewed as positive I would be interested to see the viewing figures for both bbc and sky - I bet the bbcs figures were higher

Yesterday's game was won in last weekend's press conferences, Tim Sheens bought that referee into refereeing how he wanted his team to play, & for the first half England battered them around the ruck. I feel the Aussies bench won them the game up against a bench of half fit players for England, Peacock toiled despite carrying a knock to his credit. Ginger Graham was yet again pi$$ poor at this level, get Carvell in for next week & the final. Which brings me round to the coach & his team selections. McNamara was a rubbish player & he's a rubbish coach as far as I'm concerned, the Rangi Chase love affair was exposed yesterday, it's a total joke. What is the point in folks coaching youngsters, nurturing them, getting them picked by SL clubs in this country for the greedy SL clubs to pick Johnny foreigner in front of them at both club & national level ? Hang your head in shame McNamara, you are a flop, you're gonna have to win this tournament for me to change my opinion.
The RFL are a bigger joke than ever, first they can't sell out the national stadium for the prestige challenge cup final & now they claim 42,000 attended yesterday, that'd be over half of the capacity, first i don't believe that figure & second they should be able to sell it out for an England fixture nevermind a double-header !
Well done to Gaz Widdop for smacking Watmough, some of our forwards should have had that desire in the first ten minutes and after the Tony Williams attack on Westwood which went unpunished, that should have been the licence for any player to take liberties without getting punished, we're too soft.
Don't expect NZ to play nicely next week either, unfortunately i see them knocking us around, get Bailey & Carvell in there and give it to 'em and rotate Sinfield with Roby at dummy half with Widdop at half back, we should approach next week as as if we're going to war cos it's international rugby league & once again we're proving we're miles off what it takes to be successful.

I was with you Colin but then you went and ruined it with "get Bailey"

No i wouldn't do that. SL is just getting better and better and is producing players to match the Aussies. London in particular is taking the game by storm. Leave things as they are.

Not enough foreigners in't team. Rubbish. McNamara!

How is the most in form ENGLISH half back in SL not picked???

Rob Burrow has to play, we lack that incisive edge in attack Rob will give us that not some NZ reject!

RFL = massive digraceful fail.

What must the Kiwi's be thinking seeing Rangi chase run out with an England shirt on, embarassing.

I thought I was watching Leeds, as every play had to go through Sinfield. He'll never be international class. Missed a certain try in first half when he hesitated with the pass then threw it forward, made at least 3 other errors. And what's was the point of having Widdop on the field, when Sinfield continued to try and take control all the time. For all the territory we had, other than Sam Tomkins we had no creativity, whereas the Aussies get in our 20 and score almost every time. The gap in class is still there!!

Oh and there must be a better centre than Kirk Yeoman, although Reed isn't one of them!!