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  1. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    Not contending with that, just saying that the way the each country and code treats internationals is very different, and I don't see the Kiwis seriously having that good a record if our boys treated it with more respect. But on player pools, the Kiwis are now providing more players to the...
  2. strong_latte

    Lions tour and expanded 4 nations....yes really

    The whole concept of a Great Britain team just lacks meaning in League at the moment... I'd love to see it revived, but not until Scotland, Wales and Ireland are all home to at least 1 Super League team each with a solid development base to support it. Otherwise GB in League is really just...
  3. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    Yeah, but to be honest mate, I reckon the League would look a little different if the NRL treated its 4N as seriously as the ARU/NZRU treat their internationals... I mean, something like 20 players made themselves unavailable for Australia, yet were playing in the NRL finals FFS, and we still...
  4. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    Agreed. Seriously don't rate Cherry Evans either to be honest. The guy's option taking is just plain awful and I honestly don't get how he stayed in the run on side through the whole series... in fact some of Sheens' selections in general have just been plain weird. Walker is another one who has...
  5. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    I suppose the question is will we now see the Kiwis win a mid year test?
  6. strong_latte

    4nations Final | New Zealand v Australia | Wellington Stadium | Satuday 15th Nov

    Yeah I was watching this in a pub and didn't realize a forward pass had even been called. Very rough call - replay shows it pretty well in line. All the same, the Kangaroos looked like a team who'd spent the week in recovery from illness - they fell off more tackles than I can remember and their...
  7. strong_latte

    4nations Final | New Zealand v Australia | Wellington Stadium | Satuday 15th Nov

    Epic finish - can't work out why they didn't at least check Matatau to see if he grounded it though. Still very poor work by Australia through a lot of that game
  8. strong_latte

    4nations Final | New Zealand v Australia | Wellington Stadium | Satuday 15th Nov

    I have to admit I'm a little disappointed that the interest has been so poor for this game. International League has been genuinely brilliant for the past few years, but people continue to denigrate it and carry on about state of origin in spite of the fact that in terms of titles the...
  9. strong_latte

    4nations Final | New Zealand v Australia | Wellington Stadium | Satuday 15th Nov

    Fingers crossed. I reckon DCE has looked pretty ordinary through most of the tournament to be honest ... Even against Samoa he looked a bit all at see a lot of the time (though he did score a great solo try).
  10. strong_latte

    4nations Final | New Zealand v Australia | Wellington Stadium | Satuday 15th Nov

    Very much looking forward to this one. Still don't think Walker is international standard and am a bit worried about all this virus crap, but barring another major stuff up we ought to better than last time
  11. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    Bingo. Although I would argue that Aussies respond better to a bigger Ashes style rivalry with England than NZ because the relationship is effectively the reverse of the Aus NZ and because England has its own competition.
  12. strong_latte

    4nations | Australia v England | aami park | sun 2nd nov

    Granted. But that still doesn't explain why they don't have an option for a jersey without them. After all, plenty of other team merchandise comes sponsor free, so why not a jersey? As I said, they could even charge more for it.
  13. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    Well if we're judging it on the administrators, then soccer still has Union beat - the slave labour that FIFA seem so happy to turn a blind eye to in Qatar is projected to result in an excess of 4000 construction related deaths by the time their World Cup is ready. So in terms of evil...
  14. strong_latte

    Rugby League Needs An Answer To The Bledisloe Cup

    Disagree mate. Growing up playing league and union I know plenty of "normal" union guys who played it out of state schools like me, but even the "normal" soccer fans I've come across always need to crap on about how there's is the "world game" and that normal Aussies are somehow culturally...
  15. strong_latte

    4nations | Australia v England | aami park | sun 2nd nov

    Wasn't Hahn bought out by Carlton United in the 1990s?
  16. strong_latte

    4nations | Australia v England | aami park | sun 2nd nov

    The sponsors pay their money to have their brand appear every time the team runs out, and that's how they get their exposure, not by guys like me wearing it to the pub on game day. I agree with RoosTah - it's fine to have them on the basic fan jersey, but you ought to have the option to buy...
  17. strong_latte

    4nations | Australia v England | aami park | sun 2nd nov

    That's an interesting way of looking at it. Personally it makes me feel like a corporate whore. I mean if I were a player and it was my job, then I'd have no problem with it, but as a fan I'm not really interested in advertising a brand like VB everywhere I go... James Squire, maybe, but not VB.
  18. strong_latte

    Spanish Rugby League

    Very good stuff. I notice that Sweden also has 4 teams now too - something that I'd have thought would never happen before too. Would be good if the NRL and ESL could contribute a bit more to help all these Euro leagues get going more.
  19. strong_latte

    4nations | Australia v England | aami park | sun 2nd nov

    Yeah I saw that - that was a bloody good match too actually. Both League and Union England v NZ matches tend to have something special about them. The whole White verse Black thing kinda looks cool - something that looks better in the Union because the kits are solids. While I'm on that, NZ...
  20. strong_latte

    4nations | Australia v Samoa | Win Stadium | sun 9th nov

    Yeah, that wasn't going to happen. Great performance by Australia in the first half, but the second they let themselves down a bit - even if they scored a couple late tries to blow the score out more. That said, this Samoan team should have beat both NZ and England, so perhaps this bodes well...

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