FORMER champion Great Britain rugby league star Ellery Hanley admits he can't envisage England surpassing Australia on the international stage in his lifetime. Link www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6396876786 Maybe with more English players going to the NRL this will change. Need some backs though, especially Half's and 5/8s even if they have to work their way into grade.

FORMER champion Great Britain rugby league star Ellery Hanley admits he can't envisage England surpassing Australia on the international stage in his lifetime. Link www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6396876786 Maybe with more English players going to the NRL this will change. Need some backs though, especially Half's and 5/8s even if they have to work their way into grade.

We need less teams in the league as a matter of urgency.

Rubbish we do not need less teams years ago and i know its faster now but years ago their was more teams and they used to work and play rugby we beat them loads of times so why do we need less teams

Move over Sherlock Holmes

Two leagues of 10, with P+R -one up, one down

have you ever talked to that suicide helpline in the uk? could help you out. but i would like to point out your talking poopie again, im sure the aussie school boys have been beaten by the english school boys a good few times over the years. the problem isn't the youths mate.

There's nothing wrong, they just have a better starting position in culture with the Aussie public. We're going in the right direction, trust me. I think we'll win something before 2020, i'm sure of it.

tell us something we don't know Ellery

Ex-Rugby League player in pointless limelight grabbing rant shocker.

Maybe Hanly should stop chelping to the Aussies and get involved in the game in this country to try and improve it?

He is making a play at Maccas job, its called the lowest common denominator theory.

We're going nowhere as long as the Wood is running the RFL. If he put half as much energy into his job as he does justifying himself every 5 minutes we might have something to show.

I don't tihnkwe're too far behind. In the 4N we comfortably beat NZ and we gave OZ real scare at Wembley and probably comfortably beaten in the final.

But lets look at the facts, we had a resonably young squad whereas the Aussie have had their back bone playing together for 6+ years. Thats not going to last forever that back bone will eventually split up. We have some superb young players coming through the system, Lomax, Clark, Bateman, Currie. We are having some exceptionally talented youngsters coming through the system who i believe can match it with Australia