i was in townsville and while it was'nt the greatest performance we were never in danger of losing it...

like i said on the VT...we could beat NZ and PNG but get flogged by OZ in the 4 nations and idiots like you will still say NZ are better than us and PNG were unlucky

Yes it would be great to play one of the Pacific Nations but Maori will have to do.

I suppose it will have to...............

Just a little word of advice?

You know those eyemasks they hand out on the plane along with some cheap socks and a tiny tube of toothpaste?


Next time you travel to Oz to watch England play remember to remove the eyemask you wore on the plane before you start watching the match.

I can get my head around that Cata but if it's such a milestone game then why is it a curtain raiser to NZ v Samoa ironically? England should be playing Fiji and Australia should be playing Tonga.

Its just a warm up game...nothing more, nothing less.

I just hope England dont use it as an excuse. England are pretty poor, we all know that.... but even Barry McKenzie realises they should beat an NZ Maori side easily.

What might happen is England pick up some injuries. Those Maori are pretty bulky units. I spoke to one once at a Wallabies v All Blacks game and he was wider across the shoulders than a Maloo Ute.

Then we will get all the 'We didnt beat PNG because *insert your favourite player here* was injured after being smashed by a bloke who was the size of a small continent' type posts.

They could play any real nation.

How about an invitation Lebanon XIII to help their profile, plenty of good players out here to give them a very good warm up game?

Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji?

And funny they'll play the Maori but never the Aboriginals.

Thats because they would get a flogging



Imagine how pumped the Aboriginals would be for that one!

lol

I agree actually.

That wouldn't be the brightest idea on the first game of a tour!

especially if England had a player called Cook

And if he was the Captain

200 years of anger in 80 mins

Muhahahahaha

It'd be either murder or man shaming.

lol captain cook.

They could play it on the Block

if they played it there they wouldn't get to the ground unless they carried 15 cartons of smokes and plenty of loose change.

I wouldn't call a warm up to the Four Nations a 'high profile international match'.
I think it's good to see the sport recognising the events of 100 years ago. Only in rugby league....?

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And I wouldn't call a curtain raiser to a real international match much of a commemoration either. We've missed the boat again. Yes it's "just a warm up game" but it's a game we could have used for the betterment of rugby league in one of the PI nations. If the big reason we're playing the Maori is because it's 100 years since we first played them then make it a stand alone game not an aperitif to another match.

So we played a game against a tribe 100 years ago - big deal. Maybe we should play the Austro-Hungarian Empire in four years time in a tribute to Franz Ferdinand?

9/10 for ignorance.

With England also playing Cumbria will this actually count as a international type match? TBH I would have preferred them to play Wales

Should be playing Samoa, Tonga or Fiji.

This where I'd have played the games:
2010 Four Nations fixture schedule:
Saturday 23 October - New Zealand v England (Perth
Sunday 24 October - Australia v Papua New Guinea (Nth Queensland
Saturday 30 October - New Zealand v Papua New Guinea (Auckland
Sunday 31 October - Australia v England, (Melbourne
Saturday 6 November - England v Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby
Saturday 6 November - New Zealand v Australia (Sydney
Saturday 13 November - Four Nations Final (Brisbane

Only one game in Perth?