the decision not to drop a goal and draw the game with the kiwis now looks even more foolish, we would have already been in the final regardless of the result tomorrow had we done that.

You can't really say that though because if the first game had finished as a draw then the following games would likely have been different. Would New Zealand still have drawn yesterday had they only drawn with England? Maybe, but unlikely.

Noble's attempts at pronouncing Watene-Zelezniak were brilliant lol

Funny that, I thought they were ignorant and disrespectful.

Only in rugby league could a load of Aussies pretending to be Scottish celebrate a draw against New Zealand as though they won the World Cup

Regards

King James

Really.....

What about England cricket team with half its team multi-nationals?
What about England Rugby Union with half its team multi-nationals?
What about the French football team with half its team multi-nationals?
What about Australia and New Zealand at pretty much every sport with their multi-nationals?

Give it a rest - that's the way of the sporting world nowadays.

I'm not very keen on being able to swap allegiances - but I understand if we want to grow the international game, currently we have to rely on multi-nationals and heritage players to fill out the squads and make them anything like competitive.

Only in rugby league can we have fans crying out for a proper international calendar, yet focus on the negatives after arguably one of the biggest ever shocks in competitive international rugby league.

If we want he international game to grow, we need more nations playing at higher levels - to achieve that currently, we need heritage players and the ability to change allegiance. Hopefully the game will grow sufficiently in these lesser RL nations and that reliance on heritage players will drop, but in the time being, can't we just enjoy the moment?

Watched it on a video sharing site today - what a match. When two teams are evenly matched on the day then RL is a sport like no other. Highlight for me was when Adam Blair charged up screaming with rage and got stopped dead. Mind you his run did kick the Kiwis two tries that should have won it. That passage f play was just great.

Hardly celebrating as though they had won the World Cup, just managed a draw with a ragtag of a squad consisting of a few Championship players, and fringe NRLers against the No1 ranked team in the world.
Somthing that one of the great superpowers of RL, England, couldn't quite manage.

NZ are moaning, supposed fans are moaning. Some of the key comments I've noted are:

There gonna lose next year. No players from a Scottish team. Some of them might even play in the NRL. Some of them even play in this country in SL and the Chumpionship. Some of them have been ignored by England (but should be playing/not playing) for England but did manage to better England by a point. Workington is a long way from home (NZ and U.K). It rained. It was windy. It was less than 90 degrees. The weather was too weathery. The grass was err grass. It was a rugby field and not a bowling green. The ground was built before the players were born. We need something wider to win on. Workington isn't in Scotland. Workington isn't on my bus route. They cheated and had more fans than turned up in Hull. A subscription channel was prepared to show it live. The Beeb only showed highlights. Shouldn't be allowed to compete as other countries exist. Shouldn't play when other sports play or any other game is on. The shirts were too blue. The Kiwis only played the majority of their normal side therefore having a squad is rubbish. You have to walk from the station to the ground. And please don't enjoy the moment as living in the present is not allowed.

Apologies to all those who actually enjoyed the event and the moment.

Amazing how rugby league fans see the bad with Scotland Rugby League.

What's up with these people

Imagine how crazy people are going to get when Lebanon beat England in Sydney.

As opposed to some saints fan who probably lives in Warrington using the guise of an American basketball player to make snide comments always as a pathetic convention just as bad as jean capdouze but without the likeability factor?

Regards

Because they are not fantasists which is polite for liars - how that team could be legally called Scotland is beyond me.

Yes you can question or mock the 'Scottish-ness' of the Scotland team but it's what they need to get things going. If they can be competitive and get results like they did on Friday then if it gets 8/10/12 years old up in Scotland wanting to play the game and maybe representing their country in 10 years or so time and we are looking at a 'genuine' Scottish team then the ends justify the means.

It's what should've been 30/40 years ago so that we could've already had it and a fuller more competitive International calendar but people thought the way it use to be was perfect with just Great Britain and Australia playing club teams on tour.

excellent result for scotland led by talisman brough!

great team ethic in that team you can see it they way they try for each other, hope england take a leaf out of their book

look forward to seeing scotland in the world cup next year and keep building