Stop talking to yourself you strange strange bore

Foran is out for anyone interested in rugby league! Surely an easy romp for England now?

At home and NZ without Johnson and Foran, I would have England down as favourites, not sure about easy, they are still ranked number 1 in the world.

Series will be a cracker..,.....

You haven't mentioned the one-trick pony Farrell playing poop tonight and getting sent to the bin for his pathetic 'tackle' and costing England any chance of winning the game, but of course form isn't something you notice is it?

Threads like this bring in advertising revenue so the mods will be told to leave them up and not to interfere. It's sad really as this used to be a good, busy forum but these days, mainly due to one very odd poster from New Zealand derailing thread after thread via his numerous aliases, it's degenerated into an RU v RL borefest with hardly anyone posting any more.

If you want real RL talk probably best to find a different forum or use Twitter like many of us are doing these days.

I have one active ID on this forum and have always only had one active ID at any time.

I have already shown you that this thread was not derailed by me, but by numerous other posters who felt the need to continue with the flawed comparisons of 2 totally different sports with varying levels of popularity. The shooting of the messenger by you is proof enough that you have nothing to add to this debate other than to scream like a little girl and hope that the moderators come along and intervene.
The harsh reality is that the OP was wrong and this annoys you because you can't accept that the International game in RL is all about 3 sides who can win it, 2 other sides that have actual natives playing for their countries and 9 "countries" rammed with heritage players. That's not development and neither is having a contrived draw that will again result in the same 3 semi-finalist in 2017 that we had in 2013 and 2008 before that and in 2000....oh and again in 1995.

Do you fancy a wager on naming 3 of the 4 semi-finalists for RLWC 2021?

I care little for the RWC 2015 but the incessant need for some RL fans to constantly try to compare the sports management with a view to painting league in a better light is insanity. International RL is what it is...a 3 horse race and we should accept that. if we are serious about developing it further, then France should be a permanent fixture in the NH 4 nations and PNG should be permanent in the SH 4 nations.
Beneath this, there should be a second tier International tournament run along the lines of the B grade union 6 nations.....games home and away over a 2 year period with strict limits on the numbers of heritage players allowed.. The RLIF/RLEF would need to assist with travel costs etc but gradually you'd see the game grow in these countries, rather than just picking 23 Aussies/Brits who's mother once drank a Pint of Guinness to represent Ireland.

The Irish guys who travelled to Serbia last month are the guys who should be trying to qualify for the World Cup and representing their country.....not Pat Richards et al.....

I didn't drift this thread and nor did I make it about the RWC. It's a sad reflection on the standard of posters here that debate is dead and accusations are the new currency. You claimed I'd ruined the thread and claimed I'd made it about the RWC 2015 and that's all people want to hear......because they can't handle certain facts. ....here's a recap for you.

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SO HALF WAY THROUGH PAGE 3, WITH PLENTY OF COMPARING GOING ON AND I ADDRES THE ORIGINAL POSTERS CLAIMS:



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......and whilst you champion twitter, you still keep coming back here?

Its not something that the union loving media want to discuss.
The union loving media are very selective.

The double standards are breathtaking and something the USA would be proud of in foreign policy.

There won't be much advertising revenue if people leave the forum.

England RL posted on Facebook that 15k tickets have been sold for the England game at the KC, 30k for the Olympic Stadium and 13k for Wigan.

65% of sales in London are to London and South East postcodes.

I think selling out the Hull and Wigan games and getting over 40k for the Olympic stadium would be a great effort. A winning start for England against France and in the 1st test will of course help.

Great news. Why not for the four nations have Eng v Aus @Wembley, Eng v Scot @Headingley and Eng v NZ back at the Olympic.

So at the moment we have a decent turn out with 2 weeks till kick off.

Would be better if it was a good turn out. I'm sure many will say 30000 is not half full but it's still twice as many as for the other 2 games.

considering the marketing has been minimal so far I think 30k so far is pretty good.

30k is already over half full, as capacity at Olympic Stadium is now just over 50k. Some of the seats at the top on the ends have been removed or taped off for its future as a football ground, as the view isn't good enough. Also as they haven't put the top tier on one side on sale yet the other 3 stands facing the cameras will be pretty full already.

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I thought the capacity was 80,000

It took the top tier off after the Olympics to make it a manageable size for West Ham.

Cool, so won't look to bad on Tv, they could still sell another 10,000 in the next 3 weeks.

Considering these games are essentially friendlies I think the sales are decent. Would like to think there will be at least 20k at each of the northern games and 40k at Olympic but there is still time to go for tickets to sell. If we could sell out the northern games and get 40k at Olympic then we would be looking at a 30k average which would be brilliant and easily achievable!

sorry mate, but the RLWC should be seen as a celebration of the game, and that's what it should be marketed as, all matches except the final should be held in small stadia, if England v NZ would have bn held in Hull in 2013 I reckon England would have gone through. Obv. the final at Old Trafford.

Also, I'd like to get rid of the posts and the 10m, 30m and the half-way lines. 4 points for a try, and 1 for the extra-point, which would be a passing play starting roughly about 5m out from the try line 20m in form touch, on which side the team wanted. Have 2 refs if possible, start the match with a pass off the floor from the middle of the 40m line of the team passing the ball. And re-starts with a play-the-ball form the 40m line of the team scored against. So there would still be a 40/20. Have our pitch at Old Trafford 88m long, with 6.5m in-goal areas. And as I said no posts. But refs should use the sin-bin more often, though there should be an option for a 5 minute sin-bin.

And the 40m line only red, not red and white.

IMO there should only b 8 states in the 2017 WC. Australia, NZ, PNG, England, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and France.

if the nothern tests are not near enough sell outs then I see that as a very poor effort by the fans in the heartlands!

Meanwhile, 1,300 at Wales-Scotland in Wrexham.

That's the reality of international RL outside the big three and where the major challenge lies for the RLIF.

May as well go back to GB if we are going to exclude rest of the home nations.