Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:52 am  

christopher wrote:

Less excited about the Ashes tour? I couldn’t be more excited, decent venues announced in good time, first time in over a decade the Aussies have toured over here properly. Final game in one of, if not the best stadiums in the world.

I can’t wait. Rugby League fans are a miserable bunch sometimes.

You've got the moaning having to go to London to come yet.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:22 am  

christopher wrote:

Less excited about the Ashes tour? I couldn’t be more excited, decent venues announced in good time, first time in over a decade the Aussies have toured over here properly. Final game in one of, if not the best stadiums in the world.

I can’t wait. Rugby League fans are a miserable bunch sometimes.

I can not wait for the Aussie tour brink it’s on I thought I would not see another one in my life time so role on next year

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Fri Nov 08, 2019 4:43 pm  

Carney is spot on here https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ald-ratner Sky Sports rugby league expert Brian Carney questions whether Great Britain head coach Wayne Bennett is the Gerald Ratner of the sport ahead of the Lions’ second Test against New Zealand on Saturday… The Great Britain tour Down Under has descended into a farce. I made the point previously how it was important to incorporate all of the Home Nations under the Great Britain brand - and let's remember, it is a brand. To have Wayne Bennett appearing to suggest Welsh star Regan Grace not being part of the England set-up has worked against him in terms of making this tour shows how far the head coach is from grasping what the Great Britain & Ireland Lions team should be about, and how rudderless the concept is. We've had 12 years to prepare for the Lions returning to the international stage and we have a coach who is calling it a training exercise for England's World Cup prospects in 2021. We'll wait to see if Blake Austin plays on the wing against New Zealand on Saturday, but the selections from the start have been perplexing. When we found out the reason was to prepare England's halves for the next World Cup, they needed to turn the plane around and come home. This was my worry from day 1. It always felt like it was just England in another shirt and that's what it has turned out to be. How the French Connection UK can there not even be a social media account for the GB Rugby League side. That is just disgraceful and only shows what kind of amateurs are head of the of RFL.

Carney is spot on here https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ald-ratner Sky Sports rugby league expert Brian Carney questions whether Great Britain head coach Wayne Bennett is the Gerald Ratner of the sport ahead of the Lions’ second Test against New Zealand on Saturday… The Great Britain tour Down Under has descended into a farce. I made the point previously how it was important to incorporate all of the Home Nations under the Great Britain brand - and let's remember, it is a brand. To have Wayne Bennett appearing to suggest Welsh star Regan Grace not being part of the England set-up has worked against him in terms of making this tour shows how far the head coach is from grasping what the Great Britain & Ireland Lions team should be about, and how rudderless the concept is. We've had 12 years to prepare for the Lions returning to the international stage and we have a coach who is calling it a training exercise for England's World Cup prospects in 2021. We'll wait to see if Blake Austin plays on the wing against New Zealand on Saturday, but the selections from the start have been perplexing. When we found out the reason was to prepare England's halves for the next World Cup, they needed to turn the plane around and come home. This was my worry from day 1. It always felt like it was just England in another shirt and that's what it has turned out to be. How the French Connection UK can there not even be a social media account for the GB Rugby League side. That is just disgraceful and only shows what kind of amateurs are head of the of RFL.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:10 pm  

Here is how it will play out. Like it has for the past 20 years. For the next year, rlfans posters will claim our forwards are much better than Australia’s whilst the more informed posters like myself, Jean and saddened will rubbish this claim. We will then suffer a whitewash.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:31 am  

Large cup of black coffee at the ready.

Lets hope for an encouraging performance.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:25 am  

It's a better refereeing performance so far.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:28 am  

Where is the crowd?

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:40 am  

Need some possession otherwise this could get messy.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:40 am  

Utterly embarrassing like everything about this tour.

Re: New Zealand v Great Britain 2nd Test : Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:40 am  

Johnson shows the way to the try line - pathetic attempt from Thompson