Samoa vs England

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  1. Acido Tyke

    Acido Tyke Well-Known Member

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    They were always going to be up for this and had a point to prove etc, but we/England have only got ourselves to blame.
    The tournament draw favoured us for a start, by letting us avoid those other two teams until the Final (if we got there). And I think our lot just thought they would walk it again today.
    As a neutral, I hope Samoa can give the Aussies a game in the Final, but I doubt it.
     
    Acido Tyke, Nov 12, 2022
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    Loads saying it on social media and folk I've spoken to today. But each to his own.
     
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    Shepley Red Well-Known Member

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    No flair, really? They kept offloading and keeping the ball alive. Not sure what you were expecting. I don't agree that it waa the best game ever but IMO it was a decsnt game with quality on show feom both sides. What were you expecting? I thought the Aussies were very tough but they don't play an expansive game.
     
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    they kept just dropping players off down the middle especially second half. I understand importance of completing sets but they never looked like scoring once Aussies took lead. Once Aussies started wrapping ball up they were couldn’t break them down
     
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    if I’d have been neutral I’d have enjoyed todays game a lot more.
     
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    Shepley Red Well-Known Member

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    Who does like scoring against the Aussies though? :D. I'm glad England won't be humiliated in the final because IMO Australia would have destroyed them. I don't know what changes can be made to super league to make it more competitive. I try to watch some NRL and that is by far and away the premier club competition in the world. Week in week there seems to be competitive matches. The same can't be said about some of the sides in SL.

    I See St Helens are going to travel to Australia to take on Penrith in the world club challenge! They may as well not bother.
     
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    Totally agree that we've only got ourselves to blame, if only we'd took the tackle and then set up for a drop goal instead of doing a silly pass at the very end of the match.
     
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    Rugby league as one too many players on the pitch to be exciting now,if they made it twelve aside you might see the odd line break,who wants to watch 13 bouncers wrestling each other to the ground for 5 tackles then a kick
     
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    I've been banging on about it for years SR...it doesn't matter how many times players or the crap commentators on Sky say ''we've got a great product''...''an elite competition'' ...repeating it ad infinitum does not make it fact.
    . Since that parasite Lindsay got involved it's been all downhill, I tried to argue at the time that putting all your eggs in the Sky basket, giving them childish names and cutting the numbers of clubs down or making old hardcore traditional clubs as irrelevant as possible, in the hope that they would go away and die slowly... whilst at the time funding chancers in new startups in non rugby areas would only be damaging...the way the money's drying up part time Rugby might return.
    As far as I can see the only thing to celebrate recently has been getting rid of Ralph Rimmer as CEO of the RFL.
     
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