1. Result means zip in terms of who will win SL (sadly as I really wished that it counted for more............but it doesn't)

2. Go's to show how SL is miles behind the NRL (as if we needed proof)




Scrap the CC and let clubs invest in the product before it's too late.


No doubt the Pro Cap brigade will get on their liberal high horse.

The reality is that in that first half Leeds were made to look like a decent RL side.


They were embarassed by Manly.................

Personally, i couldn't give a sh[iit[/i about the NRL. I used to like watching it back when you had skilled players like Sterling, Lewis, Langer, Lamb etc.... but quite honestly it's a big sleeping pill at the moment so i avoid it. I'd rather watch SL any day - much more exciting. If the by-product of this is a spanking in International matches then so be it - it's not as though this hasn't been the case in recent history anyway.

NRL's a bore-athon mate - you're welcome to it.

Well their teams are light years ahead of SL in the SAME SPORT

If you consider it "boring" then you have to accept that when we catch up (IF we catch up) then SL will be boring too.


The reality is a very average RL team is being made to look good tonight.

Only from your lofty superior perch. To us mere mortals - it's just a good open game of Rugby League. Plenty of breaks, plenty of skills. I aint losing sleep over the fact that 12,000 miles away an army of beefcakes are partaking in robot wars and calling it Rugby League.

But is IS Rugby League. That's the point.

But not as we know it Jim.

Or more accurately not as you like to perceive it.


SL is not producing teams that can compete on the world stage.

I am not happy with that.


If you are content to watch second rate RL go and watch the amateurs.

or wigan

Good one

the overall standard in super league so far this season has been poor.
you may not give a monkeys about what's going on in the nrl, but come the autumn you will when both the kangaroos and the kiwis take us and france apart yet again.

Absoloute sport on. Look at the last two grand finals? the two best teams in Superleague and it wasnt even a great spectacle.

The quality in the NRL is miles infront of what we watch every week.

What level would Salford be playing in Australia???

We will never get anywhere near the Aussie test side as long as im alive and there's at least another 50 years in me.

How is the NRL boring?

Its not,its a complete myth.

The NRL doesnt look as fancy as their defences are much tougher unlike super league were the defences are so poor that its a lot easier for teams to score fancy looking trys that look good when in reality most of the fancy trys scored are the result of poor defence.

This fact is highlighted when GB meet Australia and the Aussies score some lovely trys wheras the British players who are used to playing against poor defence cannot do it when faced with a tough defence.

If you think SL is genuinely more entertaining then your kidding yourself,its an illusion due to the poor defence.

It just shows how big the gap is between 1st/2nd at mid table (which is probably what we are).

We need some forwards !

This isn't about Wigan, or Leeds, or any other SL team.

This is about the state of RL in the UK.

It is very very poor, and the blame for this can be placed firmly at the door of the CC.


I can assure you I feel absolutely no pleasure in being proven right over the last 3 years.

1 wcc win over a 50% strength leeds team not taking it seriously and you think the nrl's better



leeds wanted the wcc last year, this year they want the treble gf.

NRL is so in front of us oh yes, over the past 6 years how many times has an English club won it? hmm let me count im sure its 5-1 to the English?????? If you want to bum NRL and its so superior players to Superleague just don't watch SL nobody is making you. im sure the majority of people are content watching the rugby they do.

goes to show how bad Wigans team is and Leeds team of mainly British talent is head and shoulders above you

Doesn't Australia also have a salary cap. and has for many years?

The NRL is light years ahead. The ptb over here has slowed this season, which is a positive step. Regardless of Cunningham et all bleating about it.

Defensive structure will always win the trophies, which is why we are so far behind.

Lets not include the WCC in this, cause we all know Manly were the first side to really "put in" since the Roosters did Saints a few years back.

But it's been like this FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS FOR FACKS SAKE !!. You all talk about it like we used to be any good on the International arena. We were sh[iit[/i before the advent of Super League.

And XBrettKennyX - i don't think i'm watching second grade rugby and i don't give a flying one what you think of it - you're obviously not happy about the game so stuff off and watch another sport you whinging douchebag.

Exactly

I can recommend balley dancing?

Quality

Losing by 8 points with 4 or 5 first team players missing is embarrassing> What was your performance then??







The sour grapes on this board is unbelievable, just becuase Wigan are not winning everything every year, and because 3/4s of the England team is not made up of Wigan players you and the rest of the bitter "the world hates the Cherry & Shites" brigade have to blame British RL as a whole. And it precisely this attitude thats holding you back. You need to stop living in the past and move on.

really hope you're not letting those consolation tries at the end make you think it was an 8 point game.
you've made some good points, dont ruin it by claiming leeds were only a converted try and a penalty off manly.