For my sins I watched the majority of the NZ v France match,usual union type of game. What is really my point is how can you have a game where one side can literally freeze the match while the clock counts down, it was pure comedy, every body just frozen in time. Might have been good tactics, but sporting? How on earth does this game get the support and coverage that it does? it's beyond me.

The last four or five minutes should have been the most exciting of all the match. Instead we were treated to nothing but one long continuous pile on. Surely some rule needs to be put in place to stop the ball being killed for such a long period of time.

You aren't supposed to be able to do it but refs seem to let it go

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I have not watched a single minute of this competition. I had better things to do like tidying my sock drawer.

Moi aussi. I've started ironing my underpants. Any other RU World Cup avoidance tactics?

Agreed total bore !

have been a rl supporter for over half a century i can honestly say it was a far far better match than the france england rl match on friday night which was an absolute joke.

Comparing a rugby league warm-up friendly to the pinnacle of international union? Really?

ditto

A game with only one try per team in it as well.

Take away the media (and that nauseating ITV commentator that jizz's over the slightest thing), take away the crowds who mostly havent a clue what the hells going on during the game and youre left with a very very very poor product.
If it was being played on Fosters fields I guarantee the residents of The Grove would close their back curtains (after theyve rifled through the players Bentleys and Range Rover Sports.
Its Kack, Bizz, Pooh, Turd, Crud and thats an understatement!!!

some very narrowminded people,everyone is entitled to their opinion,but sometimes there is a lot of drivel without much thought.

More often than not there is.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aos9c5opp4 Many a true word spoken in jest. It truly is kack.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aos9c5opp4 Many a true word spoken in jest. It truly is kack.

That's enough about the ITV commentary team.

It was shocking wasn't it? Only just now been able to uncurl my toes.
Rah rah rah b0llocks!!

i only caught the last 20 minutes but decided to keep it on. Up until that last 5 minutes it wasnt to bad tbh. france had the ball for i think something silly like 19 plays and where really going for it. but then as soon as nz got the ball the game was as good as frozen and just inevitably fizzled out to a disappointing end. I'll be quite honest. I'll never ever enjoy watching union simply because rugby league has a lot of things union doesn't, excitement being the main one. League is simply not stop entertainment and because of the way union is played, its something that game can never really have.

This just shows how much you know about the game.

The reason why it is well supported is because it is a 'middle class sport'.

Like all the other boring middle class sports such as golf and tennis that nobody really likes, but people follow suit, like lemmings, because the middle class 'mass media' tells them to. To be 'middle class' and 'respectable' is their [i'raison d'etre'[/i. They have made it socially if they are middle class.

I gave up on playing Union when in the Army, with their bloody kicking duels that we got rid of in the 1930s.Used to drive me mad, running one way then the other, every two seconds.

Their applauding kicking the ball into touch just shows there is a form of collective madness here.

i've watched bits here and there

some of the backs would go ok in league
2 welsh lads Jonathon Davies and James Roberts (i think was his name)
Dagg, corey jane, nonu
oh and someone by the name of sonny bill warming the bench

If i am been honest i felt sorry for the frogs i thought they were the better team.

What gets on my nerves is when you can see the team with possesion might have 5 on 3 on one side of the pitch with loads of space, just pass it out and make a break!... but no. Because they cant risk being tackled without anyone near them to back them up when tackled... they just give it on short pass inside and have another ruck and continually do that until a penalty is given.

Talking of world cups, the USA are about to qualify for the 2013 RLWC. They'll be in group D with Wales and the Cook Islands unless Jamaica can turn around a 30-4 deficit in ten minutes.

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USA qualify for the Rugby League World Cup 2013 with a 40-4 win over Jamaica. They'll face Wales, the Cook Islands and Scotland in two years time.

Rugby union, like football appeals to the masses because there are massive gaps in the flow of the games where you can eat prawn butties, drink beer and chat to your mates. Most Union or Football matches have so little happen in them that you need to have these other distractions to fill in the time. Most Union "fans" will have never been to watch a "club" game, even if they play for a local club, but may have attended an international. After a game of RL, where do you start. I will confess to having watched a little of the world cup thingy, and my conclusion is just as it has been for as long as i remember.


Why the hell do people watch that garbage!!!... That goes for modern football too, since it was made a no contact sport....