England will win 3 games - and I include the final in that.

Looking at the schedule I think;

Round 1 - England lose to NZ, Aus beat PNG

Round 2 - England beat Aus, NZ beat PNG

Round 3 - England beat PNG, NZ beat Aus

Eng vs NZ final, with Eng winning.

Aus are seriously weakened by their missing players - their forwards aren't as good as the other packs, and whilst the backs are better than the other two I don't think they are good enough to make up the deficiencies in the forwards. In previous years the likes of Lockyer/Inglis/Falou/Thurston have managed to carve open any defence and get the team on the front foot. The forwards haven't and wont in 2010.

NZ have the strongest squad, and I expect them to go unbeaten until the final.

But you would have said that even if we had beaten the Kiwis by 20 points.

If England had beaten the kiwis by 20 points I would have asked if England would win any games in the 2010 4 nations?


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You would have said no. You would have said no if we'd won the lot. You're contributions are that useful to discussion when it comes to England RL.

Well we have now.

Perhaps having shown you how to play winning cricket (and Rugby Union) we can now turn our attention to Rugby League!