'13 WC | Group A | England 34-12 Fiji | KC, Hull

[NrlCoach]

Loved that. Which bright spark came up with that?

i think it was Kevin Naiqama but not sure :lol:

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Hate how it cuts straight to an ad, would like to see the end of game activities.

 

[Misanthrope]

i think it was Kevin Naiqama but not sure :lol:

Just one more reason that I'm gutted to see him leave us.

 

[Patorick]

Hate how it cuts straight to an ad, would like to see the end of game activities.

 

[Springs]

England aren't far off. Since they'll most likely be playing France next week they should experiment one more time with line-ups
Tomkins, Charnley, Watkins, Cudjoe, Hall
Widdop, Sinfield
Hill, Roby, G. Burgess, S. Burgess, Farrell, O'Loughlin
Burrow, Graham, Ferres, Westwood

Briscoe has been good but Charnley deserves one more chance to show what he can do. Widdop deserves an 80 minute chance, especially after how inconsistent Chase has been. I think Hill and George Burgess are instrumental to England getting on top, while Graham would come on at 20m and play the rest.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Cheers, great to see again.

 

[kiwileaguefan]

What a joke the standard of refereeing....you can tell they were picking on one side....

 

[Steve Davy]

An a Pom, I thought Fiji were hard dome by, but England were the better team.

 

[DC_fan]

I hear the crowd was 25,000. Was their really that many people there?

 

[deluded pom?]

I hear the crowd was 25,000. Was their really that many people there?

Yes.

 

[Moffo]

Herp aderp

 

[Tone83]

Fiji robbed in the first half, deflated there-after. England very lucky to even come away with a win IMO, let alone such a massive one.

 

[roughyedspud]

England aren't far off. Since they'll most likely be playing France next week they should experiment one more time with line-ups
Tomkins, Charnley, Watkins, Cudjoe, Hall
Widdop, Sinfield
Hill, Roby, G. Burgess, S. Burgess, Farrell, O'Loughlin
Burrow, Graham, Ferres, Westwood

Briscoe has been good but Charnley deserves one more chance to show what he can do. Widdop deserves an 80 minute chance, especially after how inconsistent Chase has been. I think Hill and George Burgess are instrumental to England getting on top, while Graham would come on at 20m and play the rest.

nah time for experimenting is over..


we need to play our 1st choice team from now on...we need to be settled so we don't get ambushed by the kiwis in the semis

 

[Springs]

nah time for experimenting is over..


we need to play our 1st choice team from now on...we need to be settled so we don't get ambushed by the kiwis in the semis

Well then I think players like Charnley and Widdop have been very hard done by. Briscoe has been good but Charnley could have been just as good against Ireland and Fiji. Widdop never got a chance to partner Sinfield.

Chase has f**ked up so many times. If he thinks his best game in an England jersey was against Ireland then he's in trouble. Won't trouble us or the Kiwis at all with his stop-start, dummy and flick pass nonsense. He's like Benji Marshall has been the last 2 years.

 

[no name]

No wonder touchies don't have a dig anymore.
That touchy made a call, scrum was packed and then they bring it back.
It was a touch and go call, and that touchy was in the best position to make the call and it gets overturned.
If that was an NRL game and the original call was no try I reckon it would have stayed no try.
Expect the touchies to be even more useless now.

 

[Tone83]

Touchy was wrong, getting those kind of calls wrong really pisses me off because it's punishing players for doing something amazing. Imagine if michael jordan or dr J had their dunks called violations just because the refs couldn't imagine doing it themselves?

I was going for fiji all the way but was glad that play from the english winger got looked at again and awarded. Sometimes it's like the refs are too uncoordinated to even comprehend the skill they are seeing so they assume it can't have been legal. That's how that touchey's poor call came across to me.

 

[no name]

Cummins is a terrible ref, especially when games get heated.
All of the NRL refs have struggled without having someone there to hold their hands.

 

[no name]

Touchy was wrong, getting those kind of calls wrong really pisses me off because it's punishing players for doing something amazing. Imagine if michael jordan or dr J had their dunks called violations just because the refs couldn't imagine doing it themselves?

I was going for fiji all the way but was glad that play from the english winger got looked at again and awarded. Sometimes it's like the refs are too uncoordinated to even comprehend the skill they are seeing so they assume it can't have been legal. That's how that touchey's poor call came across to me.

I still don't know if he is wrong or not, I reckon that some part of his boot may have touched some part of the white line.
The biggest thing I got out of it was that the ref didn't believe him. Right or wrong he made a call, that should be it.

 

[adamkungl]

lol people getting upset because they actually managed to get a close call right for once.

 

[Springs]

I don't think the touchie could even see it. His call was late and he had a diving player in front of him.