what as water boy not a bad call ,stop livin in the past

Hock

Got them to the final which is more than most could of done, now had can focus on us which is great.

Yehaa!

Great news for Wires.

Anyhoo why is this O/T

Said months ago that he would quit at the end of the Four Nations.

I'm glad really........now he can concentrate on Warrington full time without morons scrutinising his every move as National coach.

I would wish luck to the next person who gets it.....but they'll need a hell of a lot more than luck to get close to the Aussies in the next 20 years.

I see the pie eaters are chuffed he's gone, the bitterness on there forum to all things Wire is laughable, and apparantley now, no Wire players will be in the international set up again.

Well, me personally, I couldn't give a flying crap what the crust munchers think.

If they want to jack off at the thought of no Wire players being in the next England squad, then that's up to them.

Doesn't matter who is in the squad, they are still light, light years away from the Aussies and will always be.

Yep true, when the camera panned into the crowd last night and it showed you the players who the Aussies had in reserve, Cooper Cronk and a few other top players, it shows you how far we are behind.

Should Micky have played last night, soft lad?

I'm not sure if we are light years behind. Rugby League is a game that at the very top level punishes every single lapse in concentration and that's what happened last night.

If you go back to 1982 and 1986 then that was when the British game was truly light years behind. After 50 minutes of the game last night I thought England has a very real chance of winning that game. One single individual error at the play the ball and six tackles later the Aussies are scoring at the other end of the park. A couple of minutes later and a momemt of individual brilliance took the game away from England. I was then disappointed that England then fell away and into what I consider the "traditional northern hemisphere game" of going off-script with short kick-offs etc.

The difference was when they had a chance the Aussies played at 110 mph. As a team they were able to step-up a gear and throttle the life out of the opposition. That is what the NRL conditions them into being able to do. Encourage British players to follow the lead of Morley, Ellis and Burgess and test themselves and challenge themselves to raise their games. The more that do it the better our chances will be to match the Aussies at international level.


As an aside I can't follow the logic of more English players in Super League sides will raise the standard of the international team. Surely the best 17 will still be the best 17. All the restrictions will do will dumb down Super League further in comparison with the NRL and make the northern hemisphere more insular just as it was pre-1982.

Anyway I enjoyed the game last night for waht it was an opportunity to see the Greatest Game being played by its greatest exponents.