Kick Off 6:30pm so streaming till about 8:15pm. An Official Stream BTW - done by French RFL: www.dailymotion.com/video/x1623s ... -usa_sport

Kick Off 6:30pm so streaming till about 8:15pm. An Official Stream BTW - done by French RFL: www.dailymotion.com/video/x1623s ... -usa_sport

France 14-10 USA HT

Enjoying it upto now... Both teams look a bit rusty

USA leading 16-14

granted its a friendly but either france are so bad they making usa look good or usa arent as bad as first thought

Really quite worried it's the former tbh. Tight match though, France clearly needed this warmup to get their minds focused anyway. They have a very tough group.

even with terry halibuts help france are bereft of ideas memories of 08 wc come to mind ...but usa defence is good

Agar working his magic with the French!

Finish 14-16?

22-18 to USA.

The equivalent of an Aussie pub team beating a Top 8 Super League club!

Let's hope this isn't a pointer to further embarrassments during the RLWC itself.

Worrying when what is normally ' hopefully ' the 4 th best RL playing nation is beaten by a team of 3 rd rate antipodians



Not good

It's too late, the embarrassment here is already too much to take. The World Cup is ruined.

France were pants in the last World Cup in 2008 as well... finished last! Every team with a high contingent of SL-based players got belted back then. Only Ireland gave a reasonable account of themselves.

I'm rather hoping home advantage will swing things in favour of the SL-based players against the NRL-based ones this time around. We shall see.

Not like the USA would ever challenge a truly decent RL side, is it?

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Lol, I can't believe people are using a pre-WC experimental warm up match to get a dig in about Super League ... this forum never fails to amaze...

Surely strong competition between teams is a good thing for a WC?!

I would say the truth lies somewhere between the USA being better than people have given them credit for and France, without the direction of experienced players like I Hendo and Scott D, which the players have at club level, are not as good as people on MB's give them credit for.

If America have success it's great for the game, regardless of how many Aussies are in the team. It will never happen but the best thing that could happen is that USA win the World Cup, then it might finally get a bit of publicity over there. Besides, 8 in a squad of 23 is better than most countries in this World Cup.

Only on RLFans could a win for an emerging nation (and not just any emerging nation, the worlds economy) be seen as a bad thing.

It depends how you see it

Is it improvement by the USA ( primarily the US based players, did they all play? ) ?

Or is it France not improving how we all hoped they would after the introduction of the Catalans to SL?

If it is the latter then it is surely not good news for International RL development

But dont let that get in the way of making your mind up that some posters are being overly critical before you engage your brains as to what is being stated

People who didn't watch it,pass their 'expert' comment - standard for this site.

Why not applaud America,rather than be critical of France - unless you have a preconceived agenda ofcourse.

If this result had occured in the other sport

it would be heralded as a great result for the progress of the USA.

I'm not sure you can decide Catalans have failed based on one international friendly.

true, it does highlight the catalans club biggerst problem though, that none of the key positions are taken up by french players when they play a full strength side.

having backup players at club level being starters at international level is going to make it difficult for them to progress

Escare at full back.
Bosc in the halves
Pelissier at 9 (interchanging I know)

Was just a bad game, it happens.