RLWC 2021 Week 2 Discussion

[NSW stables]

The opposition isn’t as good but this is clearly a better Aussie team than last week. The Panther additions are already making a huge statement. Cleary is a magician.

Poor Scotland are making like 15m per set.

The line speed is awesome. I am disappointed only carrigan from our squad made it. If we had a few more players in there they may see how much easier it is to defend against teams when you have aggressive line speed. They may have brought it back to the club.

I have noticed that the enforcement of holding down in tackle is a little lax, and the top tier teams are taking full advantage.

 

[Sproj]

This is why world cups are boring

Agreed but did you see the last try?

 

[Fernando]

I'm excited to see Cleary against NZ/England.

 

[Sproj]

I'm excited to see Cleary against NZ/England.

He’s a class above DCE isn’t he.

 

[Super Freak]

Goddamn.

That was a nerve-wracking game. So close! Australia got there in the end, though!

 

[Xzei]

Will do wonders for growing the game in Scotland

 

[Nashy]

International league is a joke.

 

[Super Freak]

This is why world cups are boring

I think World Cups are still good to have, but there needs to be more on the International calender.

I would love for them to bring back the International tours and also bring back the Four Nations but include two more teams and make it six nations instead.

Australia, England, New Zealand automatic selections and Samoa, Lebanon, PNG, Fiji and Tonga to battle it out for the remaining spots.

 

[ZTop]

Agreed but did you see the last try?

Yeh it was cool but I hate Addo carr and burton

Let's go England

 

[Sproj]

Coates is out of the world cup with another hamstring injury.

 

[Wolfie]

Too many teams that will never be competitive. Other sports try to copy the Football world cup but they will never have the amount of competetive teams to make it work.

 

[Kimlo]

Too many teams that will never be competitive. Other sports try to copy the Football world cup but they will never have the amount of competetive teams to make it work.

It's not like there's 20 competitive football teams either. Only 8 countries have won a FIFA world cup.

 

[Wolfie]

It's not like there's 20 competitive football teams either.

I reckon they are competitive enough though. I think there would be 10 teams that would be genuine contenders to win the tournament, then you would have another group who with a bit of luck would challenge. In league there are still ony 3 teams that are going to win the thing.

 

[theshed]

I reckon they are competitive enough though. I think there would be 10 teams that would be genuine contenders to win the tournament, then you would have another group who with a bit of luck would challenge. In league there are still ony 3 teams that are going to win the thing.

Yeah and even the lesser teams are just competitive enough to dream of an upset over a heavy weight and that’s pretty exciting - eg Aus v Italy years ago.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

It's not like there's 20 competitive football teams either. Only 8 countries have won a FIFA world cup.

That's a good 6 countries more than Rugby League

 

[Sproj]

The problem is expounded by the fact some of these countries are into rugby, its just union. So imagine if these countries' citizens are interested and then, if you are Scottish and used to having a pretty competitive union team, seeing what happened this morning. You'd switch it off within 5 minutes.

On the world cup thing @Wolfie, union's one is pretty competitive. Any given year, all of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia (well sort of), France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England can all dream of making it deep in the comp and being competitive. Then you have reasonably competitive teams from Argentina, Japan, Italy and Fiji. Samoa and Tonga also can usually hold their heads up albeit never in contention of course. You then have legit comps in places like Serbia, Romania, Canada, etc.

 

[Wolfie]

The problem is expounded by the fact some of these countries are into rugby, its just union. So imagine if these countries' citizens are interested and then, if you are Scottish and used to having a pretty competitive union team, seeing what happened this morning. You'd switch it off within 5 minutes.

On the world cup thing @Wolfie, union's one is pretty competitive. Any given year, all of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia (well sort of), France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England can all dream of making it deep in the comp and being competitive. Then you have reasonably competitive teams from Argentina, Japan, Italy and Fiji. Samoa and Tonga also can usually hold their heads up albeit never in contention of course. You then have legit comps in places like Serbia, Romania, Canada, etc.

Union is a lot better than Leagues. Just none of them have the volume of players Football has.

 

[Fernando]

He’s a class above DCE isn’t he.

Yep, class above everyone he's amazing