Thanks mate - nice avatar who is it ?? havent seen him play for hull before or did i miss it ???

Part of me really REALLY (and I do mean REALLY) wants the NZ Maori to tear England a new one tomorrow morning.

But I must be getting soft in my old age... because I feel kind of sorry for the England supporters.

I genuinely do.


Like or dislike the poms no one could deny that the ones who love rugby league really do love rugby league. Clearly a lot of them feel passionately about the sport and their national side.


Everytime the England side get their árses served up to them by teams like Australia and NZ I laugh out loud. Especially when Billy Slater went the whole length of the field in the 2008 WC in Melbourne before owning the final defender...and still mouthing 'Your shiit mate' at him after he scored...and then Greg Inglis scored immediately from the failed England short kick off restart.











But then I feel bad about it.

I've only been to a few RL games in England but I can honestly say no one I have ever met at any of the fixtures has been anything other than friendly towards me.


All I will say about the England v NZ Maori game tomorrow is that I hope the best team will win.






But no way will I be getting up at stupid O'Clock to watch it

Cutting.

Got the Maori with +12 on the handicap.

Easy money

So... is anyone up?

I reckon ive had maybe 2 hrs sleep

I'm up but not from choice. My little rugby fan obviously wanted to watch the game hence him refusing to sleep!

Glad I set my alarm for 515 because I thought KO was 6

Any chance we can have score updates as it's not on TV in oz. The NZ v Samoa one is though.


Ta. Or maybe even a link???

Sam Tomkins with a couple of loose passes early on that has cost us possesion but so far theres only 1 team in this.

Still 0-0 though

10 gone

Erghhhkk..

Nnnnnn.

I think I'm up.

I'm not sure on 'Whispering' Stuart Fielden.

Goal line drop out forced by England. As expected the forwards are very dominant but the backs arent really doing much

Morley off after 5 mins. Westwood on.

Aye, full of excitement isnt he.



Video ref time BTW!

Ellis drops the ball over the line after attention by Locke. Decent build up though.

Is he injured ?

I cannot hear him because of his quiet mic. I think he'd sound more enthusiastic if it was working right!

Commentators and thus everyone have no idea.

I think it is turned up now

Well in Atkins, good pass from Tomkins.

Atkins in after a couple of nice offloads by Crabtree, then Ellis before a nice half break from Stomkins and another offload to Atkins.

Super try. Some lovely offloads from Eorl and Ellis.

dupe.

Rob Green style mistake on the restart from Tomkins.

Looks to be Eorl on for Griffin.

Hauraki has been linked with either Giants or Leeds btw.

It was a blessing IMO.

We havent had any pressure on our line and it was good to see us cope with it well.

We seem to rush things but was a good try