Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Brisbane : Sat Dec 02, 2017 11:07 am  

Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Brisbane As dawn broke on another sunny Brisbane day, judgement day had finally arrived. After twenty-seven group and knockout games the best two sides in the World, Australia and England, would meet at the Suncorp Stadium to decide the World Champions.   The bookies and the pundits gave England slightly less chance than that of a ‘snowball in hell' and with considerable disruption to the side through the loss of skipper Sean O'Loughlin and hooker Josh Hodgson, Wayne Bennett knew his side would need to play not only their game of the tournament, but that of their lives, to win the ultimate prize.   The question on everyone's lips was whether England would roar like lions or go like lambs to the slaughter. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Brisbane As dawn broke on another sunny Brisbane day, judgement day had finally arrived. After twenty-seven group and knockout games the best two sides in the World, Australia and England, would meet at the Suncorp Stadium to decide the World Champions.   The bookies and the pundits gave England slightly less chance than that of a ‘snowball in hell' and with considerable disruption to the side through the loss of skipper Sean O'Loughlin and hooker Josh Hodgson, Wayne Bennett knew his side would need to play not only their game of the tournament, but that of their lives, to win the ultimate prize.   The question on everyone's lips was whether England would roar like lions or go like lambs to the slaughter. READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:47 am  

Now will I be listened to? Bennett to go,also all his back room staff,bring in Powell as head coach,he’s had his day in the sun at cas,get McDermott and radders as his assistants and kick out all Aussie based players and bring in new blood,players that the Aussies don’t know much about ,we have four years to do this,if we get hammered along the way,well tough! England footy have shown the way,lets be brave!

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Sun Dec 03, 2017 3:43 pm  

oldmanbarlow wrote:

Now will I be listened to? Bennett to go,also all his back room staff,bring in Powell as head coach,he’s had his day in the sun at cas,get McDermott and radders as his assistants and kick out all Aussie based players and bring in new blood,players that the Aussies don’t know much about ,we have four years to do this,if we get hammered along the way,well tough! England footy have shown the way,lets be brave!

One of the sillier things I've read on here.

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:55 pm  

Bennett f'ckd up, left behind players that were better than those in the 17, played Currie who was injured, no replacement for SoL, Heighington brought on too late and as per was ineffective. Burgess junior not fit to lace Watts or Taylor's boots, attacking tactics were gash and execution poor, panic play too often, that's down to the coach for the most part.
Needs to go with immediate effect.

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:15 am  

After having a couple of days to digest the defeat,I still think we need to totally rebuild,Gale is not any where near world class,I think the abject showing in the grand final proved this, yes he’s good on castlefords shittylittle pitch but goes missing in other games,a lot of the players picked,were to me chosen on the advice of Betts& p45 cock,I still say get rid of the lot& surely if we have to rely on oloughlin and bringing assistant ref Tompkins back,then we can look forward to another decade of being 3 rd in the world!

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Mon Dec 04, 2017 7:31 am  

wow, two posters who clearly need to up the dosage of sanatogen!

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:30 am  

for me, the biggest mistake was bateman at Centre, Watts for tom burgess , and houghton on bench instead of lomax and we'd of won that game

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:44 pm  

Half backs gash & Bateman at centre a JOKE.

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:50 pm  

Some of the replies on this thread, deary me.

Re: Australia Crowned World Champions After the Battle of Br : Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:01 pm  

PCollinson1990 wrote:

wow, two posters who clearly need to up the dosage of sanatogen!

Blah blah blah, you attack posters opinion and yet cannot even rebuff the arguments as to why you think they're wrong, frankly you should get back on the seven seas yourself!

DGM wrote:

Some of the replies on this thread, deary me.

see above