Add Willie Mason to the Melbourne squad thats coming over for the World Club Challenge.. www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -lit4.html

Add Willie Mason to the Melbourne squad thats coming over for the World Club Challenge.. www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -lit4.html

Quote ="Frosties."Add Willie Mason to the Melbourne squad thats coming over for the World Club Challenge.. www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -lit4.html'" Round 2 between him and Peacock then

Quote ="Frosties."Add Willie Mason to the Melbourne squad thats coming over for the World Club Challenge.. www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -lit4.html'" Round 2 between him and Peacock then

I dunno what the fuss is about the media make mountains out of mole hills all the time and more than often tend to stretch the true anyway.

Both teams will want it and will try their best to win the WCC. People left out of the quad because of injury and recovery is fair enough. You have to work with what you have if you want to win and not complain about "we where missing X thats why we lost."

Should make a classic game no matter who wins



(I'm backing the Rhinos) SSSSHHHH!!!!

mason not signed for the storm they dont want him

Quote ="redcliffe rhino"mason not signed for the storm they dont want him'" This would certainly seem to back you up: www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 66,00.html

Quote ="redcliffe rhino"mason not signed for the storm they dont want him'" This would certainly seem to back you up: www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 66,00.html

Lets hope so

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another player to miss out of the game... Melbournes new signing Chase Stanley. www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=16370 Quote Australian internationals Greg Inglis, Adam Blair and skipper Cameron Smith are definite starters while Billy Slater is leading the public vote for the final spots.'" Somethings telling me that these players may miss out also.

another player to miss out of the game... Melbournes new signing Chase Stanley. www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=16370 Quote Australian internationals Greg Inglis, Adam Blair and skipper Cameron Smith are definite starters while Billy Slater is leading the public vote for the final spots.'" Somethings telling me that these players may miss out also.

be a good game for the neutral, well more towards melbourne because "we hate rhino's"


Im looking forward to watching it, might even be going yet. You see when you played them last time they were down a few key players in cam smith and G.I and it was close but they are playing now which will be a great game to watch, 2 massive rugby teams who play great rugby league, good luck guys.

Will you be there in your Melbourne shirt then ?

Quote ="Frosties."another player to miss out of the game... Melbournes new signing Chase Stanley. www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=16370 Somethings telling me that these players may miss out also.'" Their coach Craig Bellamy has been moaning about the All-Stars game because it was meant to be one player from each team in the NRL and he's got 4 involved in the game and all 4 have only been back in training for 3 weeks because they were all on 4 Nations duty. Plus Cronk and a few others are already injured so i'd expect we'll see an understrength Storm team.

Quote ="Frosties."another player to miss out of the game... Melbournes new signing Chase Stanley. www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=16370 Somethings telling me that these players may miss out also.'" Their coach Craig Bellamy has been moaning about the All-Stars game because it was meant to be one player from each team in the NRL and he's got 4 involved in the game and all 4 have only been back in training for 3 weeks because they were all on 4 Nations duty. Plus Cronk and a few others are already injured so i'd expect we'll see an understrength Storm team.

I clicked on one of the links above and it took me to YT . There was a thing about biggest hits of '09 . There were a few replays of the tackle on Bailey after he had flattened Mary . Two Saints players appear to turn him in the tackle and hold him up so FGB can take a huge charge at him from behind . Dirty FGB . The action he took in that tackle was definitely aimed at causing injury . Ban him . The game would be better off without the red-faced freckly sunburnt fker.

nah probably not.

I don't see the game as a full on legit WCC because its simply too early in the Aussie's season. However, it is a fun game, and very interesting to see the contrast in styles - and strengths and weaknesses - of NRL and SL sides. I still think the Bulldogs game was one of the most entertaining I've seen in recent years.

Some of the tries scored it that game were superb, McGuire's in particular was superb.

Very entertaining game indeed, although a tad embarrassing that it was so competetive given the respective teams (although my dodgy memory may be exaggerating the Bulldogs absentees . . . .)

Unfortunately I think the Leeds v Manly game last year was a pretty fair reflection of the respective strengths of SL and the NRL. If Melbourne turn up with a decent team including Slater, Inglis and Cam Smith - it could get a bit messy. Having said that, they've pasted plenty of NRL sides too in the recent past . . . .

It might be earlier in the season by 3 games, but Melbourne have been back in training for this game long long before the Leeds players that will take to the field in the game.

They will hardly be undercooked for the match.

Our World Club Championship games have always been far from embarrassing. They've been entertaining, tight affairs. We were well beaten last year but still made the score respectable.

I can think of a few WCC games that didn't involve Leeds that were embarrassing though................

Leigh v Wigan was an entertaining, tight affair at the weekend which Leigh won. It was still pretty embarrassing for Leigh though.



No doubt about that, we've had a couple of pastings. We've also beaten Brisbane at full strength. But I suppose that serves only to support my point about the NRL being stronger generally.

Perhaps, although we've played loads of games that turn out to be more competitive than might reasonably have been expected. I'd suggest the term embarrassing only really applies to those that are ultimately lost.

Why was it embarrassing for Leigh to beat Wigan?


I don't want this to sound too sarcastic but............this years award for stating the bleedin' obvious goes to FearTheVee.

Why is the fact that the NRL so clearly much stronger than Super league in any way embarrassing for Leeds if they go out and beat an NRL team in a World Club Challenge?

I suppose I just wanted to see the Dogs ground into the dirt (particularly Luke Patten and Steve Foulkes, both of whom I can't stand).

Because they barely scraped a win over an academy team and were taking drop goals to do so. Most of the Leigh fans' comments I've read suggest they found it pretty embarrassing.



It's not embarrassing for Leeds to beat an NRL team, it's pretty embarrassing for British RL that our best team struggles to beat an NRL team putting out lots of reserve graders and is clinging on at the death. In the same sort of way it was pretty embarrassing how England toiled against PNG in the last world cup.

Not much I can do about the state of British RL. All I can do is hope the other clubs match the efforts of Leeds and Saints on the field and in junior production.

In the meantime I pay my money and watch the games. I paid and watched the Canterbury game and they were not as under strength as you recall and, even if there were, given the supposed superiority of the NRL so what? I left that happy we'd won a title, satisfied with the matchup I had seen and with feelings pretty much far from embarrassment.

This aint a cheap dig but I'd have felt embarrassed had I come away with my team suffering a 38 nil defeat.

Absolutely - not a great night. Perhaps Leeds may have suffered similar agonies had the Dogs sent a proper team, but I suppose we'll never know.

By the same "ain't a cheap dig" token, until Leeds beat a full strength NRL team (i.e. in 2001 the Broncos team beaten by Saints contained the likes of Lockyer, Tuqiri, Sailor, Berrigan, Prince, Webke, Priddis, Civoniceva, Tallis, Carlaw etc) then their WCC record will consist of beating reserve graders and losing comfortably to a Manly side with the cue on the rack.

Here's hoping you can turn over Melbourne.

The conclusion being that all NRL teams only have 13 really good players, the rest just making up the numbers and not therefore counting in any assessment of their team as a whole - presumably the same people who follow this mantra don't therefore include those games throughout the season when those 13 ace players are injured ?