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| On more serious note, you have to make a decision. Do you want a RL World Cup to consist of 4 or 5 teams i.e GB, France, Australia, NZ and PNG? Because they are the ONLY countries that have their own domestic competitions at any sort of standard.
Surely you don't want to see teams from Serbia or Spain getting smashed 200-0 by New Zealand or GB? There's actually a 'duty of care' issue with such games, because the standard is just so enormous.
So we have 'heritage' players, which enables us to have a 12 or 14 or even 16 team World Cup. By doing so we create a viable competition which attracts sponsors, TV coverage and fans. 463K people watched the last world cup in 2013. Would that have happened with a 5 team World Cup? Because that would be the reality if you eliminate teams like Ireland, Scotland, Wales (and by implication Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Italy etc)?
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| GB/Ingurland doesn't matter. We'll never beat the Aussies when it matters.
Hasn't happened for over 40 years. It's never going to change.
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| Sburgess having a pop at the ref post-match says it all. Well beaten and unlikely to change whilst there are holes in s.
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| Quote: Bullseye "GB/Ingurland doesn't matter. We'll never beat the Aussies when it matters.
Hasn't happened for over 40 years. It's never going to change.'"
Well, yeah - never is a long time, but I tend to agree.
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| mentality. Pure and simple. The key men on the field for Australia (well, pretty much all of them) know what to do, and 95% of the time they execute it. So you spend swathes of time on your own line.
We have players who aimlessly dolly the bal to defenders, who can't find touch from penalties, and who can't catch or apss the ball.
The rest of the time they can do these things passably, but at the level of Australia, they shiit their pants and play like ts. Not all the time, but enough to gradually and comprehensively lose the war of attrition, and then start to deflate and implode.
Seen it all before. Need players who can play up to A-game in a Test match, not ones that can't execute at that level. The basic errors were frankly embarrassing. If I'd been an Aussie, i'd have been loking forward to that game, hoping at last the Burgess boys and the fetef backs would make it into a keen contest, even if I'd still expect Aus to win. The Aussie speccies must have been as mystified and disappointed as the rest of us that England couldn't play IN THAT KEY GAME at a level to even approach competing with Australia, who ended up winning at a canter.
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| I just assumed the Aussies would go easy on them, because the Kiwis would be a harder game in the final. But they obviously want to defeat everybody, all the time, which is a winners attitude.
On the plus side, the amount of progress Scotland made over the 3 games, was amazing. You could see the improvement across the board for the England game after the Aus game. And then they upped everything again, for the Kiwi game.
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