Quote kinleycat="kinleycat"You can only play whats in front of you, sadly NZ are a shadow of the side they were, attacking rugby was almost non existent from them, and at times the only game plan they had appeared to be smash up tomkins and rattle chase.
I thought in parts we played very well, as I did last week, but NZ have gone backwards and Aus never got out of third gear.
If Aus are up for the final, I fear a drubbing, but at least we made the final, if I was a New Zealander I would be hugely concerned as to what's gone wrong!!'"
Give over!
We played as well yesterday as we did the week before, but this time the bounce of the ball and a couple of 50-50 calls went for us instead of against us. We look as good as the Aussies based on the last 2 games we have both played - and we have a real chance of beating them next week if we perform again.
Our pack was immense and very professional, they bullied them from the start and never let benji get a look in, and when they started to try and goad us we didn't rise to it as we had them beat where it counted.
Anybody would think you wanted us to fail, weren't you one of the posters who seemed to take some sort of pleasure in what some thought was a poor crowd last week and also that we got beat? Shame you can't go on a McNamara rant, or a RFL rant, or a expansion is crap rant cos the best team one last night and we seem to be making strides at international level, still - suppose you can trot out the old range chase rant.....
You're English (I presume) and a rugby league fan, and the English Rugby league team has just well beaten the world chaps, ergo you should be proud as punch like the majority of us are........