Part of me feels sorry for the English fans.

They deserve better at international level than the garbage they have been seeing.

Well I think I am going to have to return the favour Barry and put that in the old signature.

Barry_McKenzie in empathising with English fans shocker.

Despite what I may or may not think about England, SL and their national RL side I will admit that the fans do deserve better at the international level.

I was home for a few weeks during the last World cup and my flight to Sydney was full of England RL fans off to follow their team whilst having a good time. I doubt very much if the same amount of Aussies will fly to England for the next one.

If nothing else I do admire their dedication!

It was admirable the support we took over to Australia. I guess it just proves that the interest and support for the International game is there which makes the way our game is run at the moment more annoying!

I wonder if the same amount of supporters would have gone if it had been held in France or somewhere?

As well as knowing deep down that Aussies are the best people in the world and you poms aspire to be just like us (hence your compulsion to buy and wear NRL shirts and drink in Walkabouts

)I think most Poms love Australia almost as much as we do.

I've seldom flown home on a flight thats not full of tourists .......yet coming back to London I was once on a Qantas 747 that had 90 passengers.....on the whole plane

I wasn't complaining though....along with most other passengers I had a row of 4 seats to myself.......I got 9 hours uninterrupted sleep between bangkok and Heathrow

You're from Heckmondwike really aren't u?

Not unless that place has a Tube station with 'Dollis Hill' written on it

In response to your original post I agreed at one point regarding France, of course they're gonna get tonked.
But if you think about it, it's not that bad a thing, it puts them on the international stage and in the Union 6 nations, Italy used to get tonked all the time, shows them where they need to be.
Being involved regularly against the big guns will only help them improve and so what, they get tonked for a few years, its not like Aus arent capable of sticking 50 on England is it.

But since Italy joined the 6 nations exactly WHAT have they ever won???

Franc ewould be competitive at RL but for 2 things.

Their players are pretty poor.

Their 'coach' is not really a coach.


Id sooner have seen Wales play in this 4 nations rather than the French.

See IMHO the reason France look so poor shows how far the Aus/Eng game has come over the last ten years or so.
They've now got more full time and better players than they had years ago and look worse than ever.
It will take time and yes Italy are really poor but they're improving year on year, you should have seen em a few years ago Barry, only need a bitta Benny Hill music and you could watch it for comedy.
France will really improve if they get a second SL team, as it stands at the mo, give it 5 years and Wales will be much better

The French need a big name decent coach.

Bobbie Goulding?? That guy was never destined to be a coach. How on EARTH he got that job I will never know. I suspect it was so it makes France actually look worse at footy than England


If I was in charge of the French RL I would do whatever it took to get Wayne Bennett as national coach.

I'm not saying France will win but they have the potential to give teams a bit of a headache.

Their teams is a lot better than the one that was at the World Cup.

What was their excuse in June, then?

Don't get me started.

If you believe that.....and a lot of people think that England are actually WORSE now than they were last November......are you concerned that England might finish bottom of the 4 nations table?

No. England will beat France and NZ but I doubt they'll beat Australia. I think France had a bad World Cup.

I can't see England beating anyone in this other than France.

But as always with NZ...it depends which team turns up.

If they put in a good performance against Australia on Saturday then they will take on England full of confidence, especially if France play well against England tomorrow.

And a confident Benji Marshall playing well is bad news for anyone

Big hit on his shoulder, problem sorted.

Watch this space

Im loving this so far

And Aussie Clint Greenshields is having a rip snorter

carrrn you frogs

The Continuous Call Team here in Sydney said they watched it this morning and were thoroughly unimpressed apart from James Graham. Reckon he's a Ben Hannent look-a-like.

Can this thread be made a sticky so anyone threatening to take Barry McKenzie seriously can quickly see the error of their ways?

Poor first half from France 12-4.

Moron.

Don't comment on things you don't understand...

Lets have a look at my original post



Not bad was it??

You wrote off the French before the game.

Like the majority of people with no clue.

I don't see the comments regarding France leading at half time.

Amateur hour...

But everyone knew that the French wouldnt win that game.....not even against a poor side like england

So they were 12 - 4 up at half time....so what??

You just KNEW they were going to capitulate in the second half.


Everyone knew that

All you confirmed is your lack of any idea.

Well done.

Your knowledge of French rugby league would easily reside on the head of a pin's grandchild.