[size=150It's going to rain and that'll favour the English. [/size Maybe it never rains here in Oz and that people in the UK and even NZ have special magic adhesive hands and webbed fingers or summink. Because when it rains, it allegedly favours us. www.foxsports.com.au/league/davi ... 6185200211 Sheens dismisses claims, but who made the claims in the first place?

[size=150It's going to rain and that'll favour the English. [/size Maybe it never rains here in Oz and that people in the UK and even NZ have special magic adhesive hands and webbed fingers or summink. Because when it rains, it allegedly favours us. www.foxsports.com.au/league/davi ... 6185200211 Sheens dismisses claims, but who made the claims in the first place?

Sydney has nearly twice the amount of rainfall than Manchester. They really are a set of whiners

That's because when it rains it rains. Frequency of rain is another thing.

To deny that British players have the edge in wet weather would be a bit ridiculous. Rain would limit Australia's strike power and give us better chance of keeping them at bay.

The general rule is that rain hurts the superior attacking team most. I don't know where you're sat but from where I am that's definitely Australia

I seem to recall one of last times people got excited that the rain might favour us they played the conditions way better and trounced us.

I actually think rain will favour Australia primarily because their handling skills are better. If you went back 40 years our handling skills were better, but that simply is not the case now. Our passing accuracy is way behind theirs. If it rains we're stuffed - the only thing is it may be by less points because of the conditions.

It rained in Melbourne last year IIRC

I think you'll find that Kevin Sinfield plays for England

Don't worry, if Australia loose it'll be the refs fault.

Doubt it'll happen anyway

How exactly?

Check ou this website where a number of amateur physicists try and explain what the Ausies are getting at. www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=204749 So it's not really a whinge there is actually a science behind their thinking.

Check ou this website where a number of amateur physicists try and explain what the Ausies are getting at. www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=204749 So it's not really a whinge there is actually a science behind their thinking.

The weather is against Australia. The referees are against Australia.

Jesus Christ. What next? The gravity pull of the earth? The oxygen levels in Manchester? The green kit colour? Ghosts? They're supposed to be the best team in the world. It's one of the main sports in Australia, the number one sport in several major cities, something we can't nearly say. They don't need excuses to be better than us, the priorities of the aussie public pretty much guarantees it. They have advantages over us from the offset yet they could moan for the commonwealth.

Grow up kangaroos. We all saw how neutral an aussie ref has been in recent years, you want to bias the tournament at a cost to its credibility just because you need to win.

Quote ="Rooster Booster"[size=150It's going to rain and that'll favour the English. [/size Maybe it never rains here in Oz and that people in the UK and even NZ have special magic adhesive hands and webbed fingers or summink. Because when it rains, it allegedly favours us. www.foxsports.com.au/league/davi ... 6185200211 Sheens dismisses claims, but who made the claims in the first place?'" Probably Sheens who put the seeds of doubt in the journalists head in the first place, then denys it. I'm sure if they lose they will blame something or someone for the loss, and not give England any credit.

Quote ="Rooster Booster"[size=150It's going to rain and that'll favour the English. [/size Maybe it never rains here in Oz and that people in the UK and even NZ have special magic adhesive hands and webbed fingers or summink. Because when it rains, it allegedly favours us. www.foxsports.com.au/league/davi ... 6185200211 Sheens dismisses claims, but who made the claims in the first place?'" Probably Sheens who put the seeds of doubt in the journalists head in the first place, then denys it. I'm sure if they lose they will blame something or someone for the loss, and not give England any credit.

Now its a thread whining about The Australian Coach whining, Sheens is not the mouth piece of the Nation and is disliked by many Australian fans.

It seems every year its the same old same old.

We will win we have better forwards.

The Aussies are not as good this year.

The Aussies want it all their own way.

They will find an excuse if they lose.

I do not recall too many Aussies whinging when they lost the final last year or in the last World Cup, the Coach may have moaned because his job is on the line and he has a view that is affected by every small decision and every rub of the green, but the fans accepted the result of the day.

How about if we wish for a good game and the best team on the day wins and the Ref is almost invisible?

It rained in Melbourne in 92. The whining from the Aussies all the following week made news of the death of Princess Di seem insignificant.

Did it?
If that's what you can remember from 19 years ago you need to get out more.

Princess Di's death, why the comparison?

The rain won't do them any harm at all. As somebody pointed out their handling skills are better as are the majority of their 'basics' like a kicking game, a kick chase and general defending.

None compare to their moaning skills though. They're simply the best at that and I don't really see why they feel the need to be.

Fair enough Jonesy. I do tbh. It's just a regular occurence and quite unnecesary to make any comments about British people (and kiwis) love of playing in wet weather. As I tell players here. Look at my hands, we have much bigger webbing as we've evolved them whereas Australians didn't evolve this amazing bodily function.





Your memory appears to be a bit shady about the "dodgy" penalty try call though. Or you live where you didn't see any media after that final. Do you recall ads in the Daily Telegraph where you could buy a limited edition Kangaroos World Cup Winners memorabilia. Thing is, it was in the paper on the day of the final itself!

Close the roof and they'd complain about claustrophobia.

Ooh let me see, a thread about whether we have an inherent advantage against the Aussies in the rain. Probably our biggest win in over 30 years where ET was falling over like a circus clown might be relevant.



Because I wanted to. HTH.

I don't see how we're any better equipped to deal with wet conditions than the Aussies, unless the weather has got significantly worse since I left. I can count the number of times I got -wet through at a Superleague game on one hand. Honestly the way some people see it you'd think we played in the rain every week!

Having been to aus in their summer.. it rains more there, trust me.
I think people forget last years 4N, EVERYTHING went in their favour that day.. and they still moaned. That's sport though, I just wish the aussies would shut up about it. Such. Bad. Losers.

Who are these Aussies you are talking about?
Just the Coach or people you know?

It rains very hard for a short period in Australia, its either Tropical or Sub Tropical the rain is nearly all in the Summer months.
Its not Manchester drizzle it often like a monsoon for a couple of days, that's what gets the rainfall average up.
The Winter (when the NRL season is played) is the "dry" season.

Climate and geography is complex I know.

They wont need excuses, they will win by 30+

Unless it rains or the Ref does not like us........

Will the crowd only be 20,000 as well?

You can't have been at the Suncorp for the last World Cup Final then Jonesy. I nearly got knocked over by Australians fighting amongst themselves at the end and whinging about other States players letting them down, etc.