Jeba
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Benji at 5/8th for sure. But for NZ to be a chance he needs a damn good halfback with him. None of the others are any good.
The Rock said:NZ are gone. If England can't make it to the final against Australia then the international arena is even poorer.
Losing SBW and Asotasi is like Australia losing Civoniceva, Price, Smith, Lockyer, Thurston, Slater and Inglis and Folau. NZ have a good skeleton pack but SBW and Asotasi were their real enforcers. Without them, they are nothing.
spoonbled said:that makes for a hell of a team
Scotty said:The Rock said:NZ are gone. If England can't make it to the final against Australia then the international arena is even poorer.
Losing SBW and Asotasi is like Australia losing Civoniceva, Price, Smith, Lockyer, Thurston, Slater and Inglis and Folau. NZ have a good skeleton pack but SBW and Asotasi were their real enforcers. Without them, they are nothing.
Fixed your typo [icon_razz1
The international scene is so one sided in league it's a joke
mick! said:Scotty said:[quote="The Rock":6ll2jye7]NZ are gone. If England can't make it to the final against Australia then the international arena is even poorer.
Losing SBW and Asotasi is like Australia losing Civoniceva, Price, Smith, Lockyer, Thurston, Slater and Inglis and Folau. NZ have a good skeleton pack but SBW and Asotasi were their real enforcers. Without them, they are nothing.
Fixed your typo [icon_razz1
The international scene is so one sided in league it's a joke
The historic win by the Kiwis over a mistake-prone Australian side put an end to the Kangaroo's dominance in international rugby league. It was the first time Australia, hot favourites for the match, had failed to win a series or tournament since 1978. It was also the first time New Zealand had beaten their rivals twice in a year since 1953.
Jebadude said:Fact of the matter is though we still only have 3 competitive teams and at times 2 of those teams aren't even competitive. Compared to other World Cups where you can't safely predict the winner at the start of the tournament.
mick! said:Jebadude said:Fact of the matter is though we still only have 3 competitive teams and at times 2 of those teams aren't even competitive. Compared to other World Cups where you can't safely predict the winner at the start of the tournament.
Absolutely. But to then call off everything international because of it will never help that situation.
I still can't stand the fact that the RL World Cup gets SO much bad press compared with the RU one... where you still routinely see 150-point routs over the likes of Georgia and Namibia.
And I agree with Rod to an extent - there needs to be CLARITY in the international eligibility rules. ATM, they're a joke. But I still can't stand people who use the likes of Hunt as an example. If I moved to NZ when I was 12 or 13, I reckon by now I would definitely consider myself to be right to pull on the national jersey. I would've experienced all of my adult and adolescent life there, probably never had a girlfriend before NZ, finished high school in NZ, voted in NZ for the first time, only ever driven in NZ, got married in NZ...
Hell, if we're making it where people are born, then Mason himself should be playing for the Kiwis! I wish the big, useless lump would do just that, come to think of it [icon_lol1.
Do you forget 1 Alf born in NZ? [icon_nonCoxy said:Yep. Until they let you play for your country of birth and still be eligible to play Origin if you grew up here we'll have Kiwis, Poms, Fijians etc wanting to be Queenslanders and Australians.
State of "Origin" already refers to where you played your first senior footy. Hell, Peter Sterling, one of the greats from NSW, was born in Toowoomba. So Origin is not about birthright.
Internationals should be.