Again saints had "no chance" against penrith then the excuses came out

I hate football but Premiership football is a million times bigger than nrl fact

Got to the point jake Connor isn't the best full back in Super League anymore........

How's your hookem doing? you know the "superstar youngster" who you banged on about for ages

We know this. Even people living in Burundi with no real interest in any sport know this. Although it’s more like 10 to 15 times bigger by revenue, based on some very rudimentary internet research… which is less than I’d have guessed.

The NRL is still some distance behind Korean baseball though, which I also wouldn’t have guessed. I suppose the AFL is dominant outside Eastern Australia and has revenue almost twice that of the NRL.

SL revenues are approx. 10-12% of the NRL’s. Just slightly lower than the third division for Association Football in Japan.

Is your point that we should recognise and accept the disparity, and just enjoy what we have? Not put too much weight on an Ashes series that’ll likely be a dispiriting whitewash? I’m pretty much on board with that. Or is it something else?

Was at that match in Melbourne which was one memorable experience. Several thousand Liverpool fans were "taken'' but the vast majority like me were there for the opportunity to watch Liverpool and bellow out their team song!
There was also a sizable Asian contingent of Liverpool fans who flew in for the match.

Attendance records and TV viewing figure records were smashed when the Aus Women's soccer team went on a run to the semi finals during the recent World Cup competition showing Aussies will attend good football when it is on display here.

The meltdown from the Rovers fans is great, can't believe Wane has dropped Lewis for Williams, can't think of a reasom why, except Williams is the captain, was our best player in the world cup amd 5 times better than Lewis.

Don’t usually disagree with your posts Dave, but on this occasion I would say Lewis is incredibly unlucky to lose his place in the team, looked the most threat with ball in hand, and seemed to frighten the life out of the opposition, they couldn’t handle him.

The recall of George probably sums up the failings of Wane as a coach, in a series already won, he stifles the emergence of a young player playing well, with the opportunity to look at him in more detail without the worry of losing the series, unbelievable parochial decision in my humble opinion.

I see your point, whilst Lewis was great in the first game he was poor in the 2nd, the aim has to be to win the 3rd test and build for bigging games, so building partnerships is key, Lewis while a good SL player and a good runner is limited and a poor defender and isn't good enough to play against Aus or NZ.

Even Wane said in his pre match interview before the 2nd test that Lewis wasn’t mom in 1st test and told him what he needed to do more.Lewis is bigged up by the pundits and commentators on both sky and bbc.He is a good SL player and no more.I wouldn’t be surprised to see Williams and Welsby in the half’s going forward after this series.

Good to see Mulhern called up as he has had a superb season and does big minutes but Ben Currie….he is bang average and that’s being kind to bang average…we have enough props to move McMeeken back to his best position of 2nd row imo.

Not really a meltdown is it? Williams hasn’t been 5 times better then anyone this season at all he’s been ok when not injured, in your post below you state that Lewis was good first game but poor second, everyone could see that Lewis was very good the first game and he gets bums off seats every time he touched the ball, but then Shaun Wane did what he seems to do with certain clubs players he played it down said he wasn’t that good and challenged Lewis to improve his defence which he did massively in the second game and defended really well but with that structure Wane took away a lot of what we saw in the first game, it’s poor coaching for me Lewis has done what the coach wants him to do and then dropped him for following the coaches orders,
The guy should of gone after he made a pigs ear of a home World Cup

no meltdown anywhere i can see most are glad hes finished his long season in one peice,you would like him in your team whether hes an international or not

Errr…No I wouldn’t….and it’s not because he plays for Rovers,I just think he is overrated.

i suppose you know more about overated players only time will tell

All teams have overrated players and yes FC have had some so what’s your point?…It’s my opinion that Lewis is overrated and is bigged up by sky and bbc commentators.For me Lewis goes missing in to many games and is a running half…not got a good passing game and his kicking game is hit and miss.Where will he play now you have Abdull and May for half’s as well?