Yes.

Not selecting worse players on the basis better quality players haven't produced the goods is the problem.

Well why can NZ produce players like Johnson and Marshall, they have less people playing than we do?

We invest in our young players, we invest in our coaches, we invest in our facilities, we do that even if it is at the expense of another small northern club spending on another hundred grand on another queensland cup player, or another 35 year old has been. We force clubs to make the best of what we have and not let them rely on other clubs or other countries or other leagues doing the hard work.

Smiling and Swapping shirts with them.....I'd swap shirts with one of them and throw it on the floor and spit on it.

Great idea!

How many millions do you want to pump into it?

about 5-6m more per year.

wish Bateman had hit Cronk so hard it bent his nose the opposite way, pig sick of engine player in awe of aussies and letting dicks like corn think the billy ten men.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

What 'different' players?

Your argument is ridiculous. If we stopped selecting players that haven't beaten Australia or produced the goods, the quality of the team selected would rapidly decline as poorer quality players came in and copped even bigger beatings.

On the whole we just about select the best players we can, based on their performances over time in super league. If we select worse players on the basis the other ones have failed our chances go from 1 to 0.

yep.

we are a punch of pussies, genuinely think players like Karl Harrison, fairbanks, Paul Dixon, kevin ward must themselves. we looked scared and in total awe of the aussies, sick of it

No, I mean you personally. Where else is the money coming from?

Aside from bringing in Pinhead, I'd like to know what Betts brings to the national side.

Williams should have been picked to start, with Clarke on the bench.
Brown, although a good player, is getting towards the end of his career and Williams is going to improve.
This was a good opportunity to give him the shirt and let him show what he could do.

We look really one dimensional with Hodgson at 9, Clark would have given us some different plays.

Having said that, I though our pack would match theirs and we clearly didn't.

Oh sorry, I forgot it was my personal financial responsibility to improve the game. Of course it should come from a fan of the game and definitely not from the money the game earns itself and those who own it and that's definitely not something only a moron would suggest.