Football is the greatest Team Sport? millions will tune Into the World Cup and will talk about it non stop whether it be the turgid drivel Bosnia v Iran will spew out with 20 odd players that no one has ever heard of. Or whether it will be the one sided Argentina v Bosnia. Even the whole world of Football can only produce 4 teams capable of wining this tournament.

I hate how Rugby League fans run down our own game at every opportunity we've been unlucky that Salford and London have been on TV a bit recently and When Saints played Wire they became for one night only the worst sporting side ever. But even My union watching mate at work although he laughed at the Salford v Wigan game realised it wasn't the norm.

The football World Cup isn't dependent on great football, its only really the hardcore fans that are bothered about 'the beautiful game'. The World Cup that really kicked off football to another level in England was the 1990 World Cup which was probably the worst in my lifetime for the calibre of matches: every game was 0-0 or 1-0, littered with fouls. Jack Charlton's great Irish heroes that made the quarter finals were the most boring side in history and didn't win one game. I think the only game England won in 90 minutes was against Egypt and we made it to the semis.

In rugby league the complaints you are hearing about the style of play are from hardcore rugby league fans that have seen better in recent years. They aren't comparing RL to other sports, but comparing to RL they have seen in the past. You must know yourself where they are coming from: if you have watched the great teams of the past where Warrington with John Woods, Brian Johnson, Mike Gregory and so on played in a league where they were only mid table, and other sides had the likes of Hanley, Edwards, Andy Gregory, Offiah, Davies, Schofield......and look at what is on offer today. When you see the Saints side of today battling for top spot and the reigning double winners Wigan do you look down that team and say this is an era that will go down in history or do you say, RL has seen better days...

The end product of SL is basically no different to the Premier League in football with 4 or 5 teams in with a realistic chance of lifting a trophy ,the real excitement for teams outside these levels is only felt at local levels & in the relegation dogfight. I think that is why football in particular is awash with pundits to try & talk up a bit of interest in the games.
What seems to be happening in RL at the moment is that the crossing rule is being applied so vigorously that it is stifling open play by producing too many penalties ,may be the game is crying out for coaches to avoid this by changing styles of play. Using dummy runners at the minute is crying out for a penalty & maybe the RL, the refs & coaches need to get round the table.

Did you watch Chelsea and the reigning Champions of the premier League this season and think these are two sides that will go down in history or did you think the premier league had seen better days..

When you see a team that has been Rank average for years with a coach who has done nothing of note in his career take his side near the top of the league do you think Castleford are in a false position in the league and RL has seen better days or did you think Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool were making the premier league look bad and it has seen better days.

It was annoying that James Graham and Sam Tomkins bitch slapping each other last week was in an NRL game and not a wigan saints game. yes we have a problem losing our big stars, is our game ..not as as other sports...

just my opinion though..

The rugby league show on sports net world at Wed nights.
Top commentating lol.
It's Canadian I think, trys are touchdowns and a sidestep is a fake.
The try line area he calls the glory area.

Wire on now

Lol
Currie spices it up.
And
Currie, vindaloo how are you?

Got to admire Wigans youth set-up and their ability to develop players, we're on a similar path.

Good game v pies from hudds.
Hudds to win for me.
Bet double result hudds ht hudds ft 7/2.

Great ball ferris. Cullen tried to sign him for us just before his departure.

Lol....Eddie says Wigan fans will be heading for the exit soon.

No celebration from Brough on his dg this time... a very determined look on him as he kicked it.

Wane looks like he has conceded this game as he has took Lockers off.

Weighed in. Nice buttie.

Does Rubber Duckie know he is talking to himself on this thread???....

I was until you took the bait Dita's

.... Looking at this thread, you have been setting bait for the last 24 hours, so I'm happy to have put you out of misery.

Whether I'm a lone poster or not. I was quite impressed with Luke Robinson tonight. He was regularly going in to hit first in tackles however big the Pie was and he did miss either.

what are you betting on the rest of this weeks matches..go on put them on here

Warrington ht Warrington ft.
Have a double riding on this too.

Catalan ht Catalan ft 7/2
and also bet Draw ht Cats ft at 25/1

although many wire fans are putting leeds to trash wire the bookies don't think so.

They will only go +2 wire and strangely +2 on the draw hcp also. So perhaps +2 is too generous

I think the Wigan youngsters just ran out of steam, and perhaps lacked the nous to frustrate Huddersfield at 0-12 and instead invited them back into it. They also seemed to picked up some more knocks and their squad is now at breaking point.

I certainly didn't see anything that special about Huddersfield. They capitalised on WIgan's errors and took advantage of their sudden lethargy but they are a team that often raise more questions about themselves than providing answers. For me, they still look like soft-bellied pretenders who go missing when the tackles start to fly in. Yes, they'll make the play-offs but that means next to nothing.

Come on Leigh.

Would love to see a Championship side in the semi's!

Come on leigh

Looks to me that Hardaker is lacking confidence