I think basicly,it is he is as pi**ed off as the rest of us at the Aussies continually ripping us a new one.

Aren't we all I just couldn't understand what he meant, barring a rant.

It's the same old same old. Our players have barely any brain cells between them and can't concentrate for more that 20 minutes at a time. It's a malaise in our game to varying degrees. Watching England against the Aussies is like watching FC against a top 4 side , you know we'll blow it in the end even if we play to our potential. Briscoe and Yeaman absolutely typified why we keep getting beat at club and International level when they'd clocked off. Hall was doing his damndest to find a way to make something happen whilst Yeaman and Briscoe were waiting for the next play the ball. We see it time and again where players aren't ready for the offload even where the player throws the offload every week in every circumstance. Until we start to unearth players that have sharp brains AND the skill to execute ( we have Sinfield who undoubtedly has the mental capability but is just short of world class ability ) we will always be just behind the Aussies.

We need to keep developing our young players, that's the way forward. However the way the quota system works makes a mockery of it.

Reduce SL to allow more International games but the clubs will never allow this to happen .

Why would you have to reduce Sl?

The fact we need a quota at all speaks volumes.

A demand-side problem to a supply-side problem will raise prices not quality. Not likely by enough to greatly incentivise different behaviour, in this case, IMO.

Australian starting 13 average age - 26.46
England starting 13 average age - 26.53

Not much in it...

Don't know why this is useful.

More space for International fixtures within the season.
Higher intensity of Games more competitiveness with the league.
More quality , Less quantity.

Sky tv wouldn't allow it anyway.

No , The clubs would veto the idea.

The trouble with us is we've not natural born leaders in pivotal roles sinfield chase or roby never pulled us around the pitch on satdy. Look at the Aussies smith thurston Lockyer all do it at the same bloody time. To try an catch up to there level we need hard quality high intense games every week which in S/L we don't! Then just to keep them on there toes is origin football the most competitive rugby in the world. Look at our playoffs first 4 games was crap! massive scores should never happen in them games there should always be tight games that's why there called playoff rugby. Rant over.X

Who would we play in these international breaks? Wouldn't be oz or NZ so we'd be down to Wales or France and they're as competetive as round 3 of the challenge cup.

We need to get something to equal origin and unfortunately if we tried it would just be a novelty event.

I agree - we need a proper Yorks/Lancs series that is followed through and marketed correctly. It's probably too late for 2012, but 2013 we could do with at least 2 high intensity games (and not just trials to see who is possibly going to get in the WC squad). One at Hull, one at Wigan (then moved around to other grounds in following years), promoted to hell and with cheap (ish) tickets. We've had half d events in the past. Now is time to go for it properly.

Something in my mind tells me that Origin wasn't earthshatteringly popular when it started, but they stuck with it and now it's the biggest event in RL.

I quite liked the Exiles concept. If they stick with that for a few years it might take off and it would be more use to the England side than a Yorks/Lancs game.