As if the Aussies needed any more help for this weekend, Archer gets the Aus vs England Game.

How does that work then?
Why not Silverwood or even Shane Rehm?

Weren't the aussies the one's who would allow us to have an english video ref in the owrld cup and put in their own "observer"?

It stinks and brings the whole game into disrepute.
The RFL should be ashamed of themselves letting us be shafted yet again.

What a load of toss. More lenient!?! Hmmmm

A well reasoned post this I'm sure you'll agree

Far from it.

Any 50/50 decisions where the call could go either way and he will give England benefit of the doubt. He won't want to be seen to be giving Australia an advantage because he is an Aussie himself.

So I think the Poms should be reasonably pleased with that one.


Far better for all concerned than to have a kiwi or French one...who lets be honest...are pretty ordinary.

What utter cr@p! I've yet to see an Aussie ref favour England/GB in any games they've refereed(sic).

Just one word for it bazzer - [size"CHEATS"[/size I hope you are proud of yourselves and your fellow crims.

The fact you think an Aussie ref will be biased against and England team indicates you also think an English ref would be biased against an Aussie team.

Neither is the case.


It's not like they have dragged Mr Archer out of Shepherds Bush Walkabout or the Church and stuck him on the next Qantas flight to Melbourne. And even if he does dislike the poms... why would he discriminate against them? On live telly... in a game thats being broadcast around the world...and in front of a big crowd?

We all have prejudices in life. I have plenty...as I'm sure you do.

But I can safely say I am a prejudiced non discriminator... and I would hope any referee is... whether its a French one, a kiwi one, an Aussie one or a pommie one.

Anyone that says they dont have any prejudices in this world is either an Angel or they are lying.

The important bit is not to be a discriminator too.


If anything Mr Archer will call those 50/50 decisions in the Poms favour... purely so the likes of you dont consider him a 'cheat'


If you lose on Sunday (which hopefully you will) then it will be down to the fact your team is garbage... not down to Mr Archer.

What a load of toss.
Wipe your mouth with bog paper for emitting such crap.

He wasn't even fair when we played NZ so now somehow he is suddenly going to lean our way on 50/50 decisions when we play his own national team - yeah sure. And the moon is made out of cheese.

You seem to have forgot that your team threw its toys out of its collective pram when we wanted neutral refs from NZ in our world cup match with you but then you lot vetoed it in a fit of the sulks on the arrogant grounds that no other national ref could ref to aussie standards.
You even insisted on having bill harragan (an even bigger pom hater) as a VR observer!!!
Mind you then as now, we deserve all we get for letting Oz get away with it.

Other than being egotistic and self ed,no we don't Barry.

who gives a monkeys WHERE the ref is from - let's stop the whinging and judge the ref plus assistants after the game when the english will be emabarassed yet again cos' we're not good enough to compete with the best in the world - let's do as we always do,blame the RFL,McBanana,the uk climate etc etc

Classic good enough for Cons standards but not good enough for ours.

Translated means we know how he will ref it and we know it will give us even more of an advantage.

Return the favour next couple years, if we find the danglies

does seem a bit odd, aussie england game should automatically be a kiwi ref, dont know why you say they are not good enough! only reason you have no kiwi lads in the middle for NRL games is you insist they have to be aus based!! and if i am correctly informed Sydney

The better way of doing it would be the fair way Aus NZ games have a northern hemis ref, england games have a suitable ref for the opposition and same for PNG

I bet you lot would have whinged if they had announced Mr Silverwood as bloke in the middle

Why?

It doesn't matter. Get on and play the game.