Well its hard not to really

I likme how you reply to this thread immediatly but ignore the 'england will get drilled into the ground' thread.

You dirty, stinking, short, fat australian.

He loves England really, 22,000+ posts tells you everything. Skippy is well and truely obsessed. Of course he will turn it around and tell us he's just here to annoy us but we all know he's a closet englishman.

He hates Widnes. Really hates them. He's said so on many occasions.

TBH I think Australia are the most boring Int team around. They grind, grind, grind and hope for a mistake. With a team with the likes of Thurston. Slater, Hayne, Inglis etc their backline movement and 2nd phase play is poor. NZ showed that of you lock the middle up and cope with the grind they are def beatable. Having said that we don;t have the committment of MZ so we won't be able to knock them over like the NZ pack did.

There are certainly some flaws with the Aussies but two things immediately spring to mind ..

1) More often than not they get stronger as tournaments progress
2) I still don't think that the current English team will match the intensity of the Kiwis last night

I soooo want to be wrong though.

Here is the difference between Australia and England......


Wow, the left front tire on my Ferrari needs a little more air in it.

Wow, my Penny Farthing has lost its front wheel, and is one fire.

That, and spelling of course.

Plus, Ferrari's are driven by total cock heads whilst Farthings are admired in Museums as things of outstanding beauty.

Maybe in northern England.

It'll need more than air in it when it comes up against our English tanks.

That's the spirit !!!

Last nights game was honest, true honest rugby league. (Bar Paul Gallen who is an out and out thug and rarely took the ball up after trying to decapitate a NZ head).

It's how the game should be played, thunderous tackles every tackle from both sides.

Junior Sau and Inglis could easily be prop forwards, the size and speed of these two are amazing.

It will be embarrassing if England decide to play Tom Briscoe against Inglish/Sau.

The speed of the play the ball is lightyears ahead. That game was just pure quality, and every young English player should aspire to watch the two greatest test teams in the game.

England to win next week.

No more embarrassing than any of the other candidates.

And please don't say that Fox would be better. My sides couldn't take it.

What ever it is your on, I want some.

Eastmond at FB will be a disaster of the highest magnitude, you must be on something from the 60's to think he will cope against the Aussies out of position, I doubt he will cut it in his usual position. We are going to need a full back who can tackle and attack against them, but I am sure the emphasis will be on defence and the man for that is the man who has the No1 jersey already.

And when da posse gets up der faces, innit, we will bang 'em big time.

right on all counts, there is no way England can defend that well for the full game like the Kiwi's

high intensity and a few flashes of skill which is nothing England can't match, as long as we can defend as a team. Peacock, Ellis and Morley can cope with both sides. Bit concerned about Westwood though, he's not international class. And our hookers are over-rated.

Right.... fair enough then

We could spring one hell of a suprise but to do that Peacock, Morley, Graham, Burgess and Ellis will have to get their heads together and promise each other they'll all have the games of their lives.

If those 5 really fire together and get Sinfield and the 2 halfs some room to move in you never know nut it's the longest of long shots with the outside backs we have in comparison to theirs.

Eastmond must start in place of Shenton for me.

Basically fcked then.

I'm sorry if sounds pessimistic but any English fan who thinks were gonna win must have had their head baptised in the pacific ocean.

Australia will steam-roll us, they play a totally different ball game, which is far superior and on last nights showing, they can scarily get better.

Predictable reply from a Hull Fc fan. I apoligise for not putting Shenton as an example, but yes your right, there's no-one that can deal with the threat of Inglis.

NZ were awesome, and kept Hayne quiet for most of the night. We just can't keep that work rate up for the full 80.

England have got to play as if the next game is their final... you never know, we have beaten them in a game before and not too long ago. If we win, then they're out and we won't have to play them in the final (assuming we don't really cock up and let our 2nd string beat the Kiwis the week after).

So, just one game guys... come on the game of your lives!!!

Also, sod Smith giving them the pre-match talk... play the DVD of Pacino's final talk to the players in "Any Given Sunday" (I think that's the title, I saw it a long time ago).

unsurprisingly...i think we'll do it....

Found it on utube...

[urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFx6OFooCs[/url

Not quite as good as I remember it but

Ahh i was talking about that with a mate the other day funnily enough and i couldnt remember the film or what the speech was called.
Sweet, good find