Australian Team?

[Doomednow]

Moyza > Tomkins. England's gonna underestimate him and get reamed.

Serious, though. Will at least be an interesting comp. Much prefer a bit of uncertainty to make it interesting.

 

[mxlegend99]

The team of unavailable players looks ridiculous right now.

1. Slater
2. Morris
3. Morris
4. Hodges
5. Boyd
6. Hayne
7. Thurston
8. Myles
9. Friend
10. Scott
11. Lewis
12. Watmough
13. Gallen

14. Tamou
15. Fifita
16. Merrin
17. Gillett

If we can win with so many quality players unavailable it's hard to see us losing any time in the foreseeable future. We will never be this week again.. and will be better for the depleted run. We are going to be blooding a lot of new players, who will have the chance to put themselves in the mix for a full strength team.

 

[some11]

For all the crowing poms, England still have to get past NZ who have the ability to arse their way to a win just like last year.

At least the final wont be a complete and utter rout like last year..

 

[RedVee]

Thanks Hutch, didn't know. It only seems dates ago Lafai was saying he wanted to play for Oz.

 

[goodplayer]

lol Moylan would be a horrible winger.

yes or no . make up your mind

Hopefully Moylan gets calles in to replace him. Inglis will be needed in the centres without Hayne IMO.

;-) you hope

Inglis would be first string Fullback with or without Hayne and I think Moylan will definitely replace him but over Inglis? It won't happen.

He will be in the same boat as Johnston and Mata'utia

:lol:

hayne GGOOOORRRNNNNN



wow my week just gets better and better lol


beating australia just got a whole lot easier.........smash them up the middle,and kick to the inexperienced wingers and keep the ball away from inglis......simple

aus will be doing the smashing

 

[roughyedspud]

For all the crowing poms, England still have to get past NZ who have the ability to arse their way to a win just like last year.

At least the final wont be a complete and utter rout like last year..

crowing poms??

its only me....

 

[franklin2323]

crowing poms??

its only me....

1 is enough to make the victory more sweeter

 

[roughyedspud]

ditto lol

 

[franklin2323]

ditto lol

:lol::lol: I think it will be closer now but the rookies we have in. Atleast played in winning teams this year. So they have done the job at club level really so the next step is on the international stage

 

[BrisbaneRhino]

The more I think about it, the more I think there's a method behind Sheens selections, at least in terms of England. England will have a very strong powerful front row. The pack Sheens has picked would suggest he's not even going to try to match it up the middle, just move the ball around and negate the only area where England are strong.

I'm not so sure it will work against the Kiwis, but the only times I've seen GB/England really go toe-to-toe with Australia are when Australia play too conservatively. As soon as Australia start throwing the ball around England will really struggle. I can easily imagine a game where England's forwards have great stats - big metres etc - but they lose by big a margin.

 

[Mr Angry]

Meh the poms, will be lucky to beat Samoa.

The kiwis are the danger, our third string team would beat the poms.

 

[roughyedspud]

your 3rd string...lol

in 2006 you rested thurston and played ben hornby...and brought in jamie lyon for a injured justin hodges...and GB beat you fairly comfortably in the end.....

and that australia team was a damn sight better than this australia team....and this england team is a damn sight better than that GB team!!

like i keep saying....we are going to see if the " australia could field a 2nd string and still win everything" myth holds up...

in the main a full strength australia team is normally 2-3 tries better than ENG & NZ,we all know that.....but the players that usually supply the difference between you & nz/eng aren't playing...no slater,thurston...lockyer has long since gone.....that leaves just GI....and he can't win a game all by himself,especial if you keep the ball away from him,kick to the wingers,kick it dead over his head for all i care...but we can come up with a plan to keep him quiet..

we don't have to worry about the rest of your 3/4s...they've done nothing at this level...infact they should be worried about ours...

 

[franklin2323]

your 3rd string...lol

in 2006 you rested thurston and played ben hornby...and brought in jamie lyon for a injured justin hodges...and GB beat you fairly comfortably in the end.....

and that australia team was a damn sight better than this australia team....and this england team is a damn sight better than that GB team!!

like i keep saying....we are going to see if the " australia could field a 2nd string and still win everything" myth holds up...

in the main a full strength australia team is normally 2-3 tries better than ENG & NZ,we all know that.....but the players that usually supply the difference between you & nz/eng aren't playing...no slater,thurston...lockyer has long since gone.....that leaves just GI....and he can't win a game all by himself,especial if you keep the ball away from him,kick to the wingers,kick it dead over his head for all i care...but we can come up with a plan to keep him quiet..

we don't have to worry about the rest of your 3/4s...they've done nothing at this level...infact they should be worried about ours...

I think Inglis will be in the centres. no one will get past him if that's the case. Defend Bird/Scott on the other and go from there.

2 years ago even we didn't have the depth. We do now with some quality juniors getting 1st grade and quality stuff aswell

 

[Bobby DIGital]

With all these rookies, it will be interesting to see if Australia still use the illegal line speed they used in the WCF/2013 Anzac test.

 

[roughyedspud]

when GI played opposite kallum watkins at the millenium stadium last year...aside from snatching a bomb off tomkins to score watkins kept GI quiet...and charnley scored down GI's wing too boot..

 

[Joker's Wild]

Easily the weakest Australian side in a decade, maybe more. The Kiwi side is not the best either thanks to some glaring omissions due to what we can only guess at being Kearney's personal issues with certain players

If the Poms dont win it Im not sure their hardcore fans will ever recover

 

[Joker's Wild]

With all these rookies, it will be interesting to see if Australia still use the illegal line speed they used in the WCF/2013 Anzac test.

The beginning of the end...

:lol:

 

[Joker's Wild]

It has nothing to do with his talent. It's his experience that bothers people. 7 games. and he's suddenly representing his country. Even taking into account the players missing, there are still some players who are more experienced and at the moment better players who deserved selection ahead of him.

We just have to hope being thrown in too early doesn't damage his confidence if he has a poor game.

Like who? Im struggling to think of any wingers eligible for Aust who are better than him and arent in the squad

 

[Son of Minto]

Will Chambers.

 

[Allstar Knights]

I personally find Klemmer's selection much worse. No doubt he's got plenty of potential, but I'm yet to even see him have a great game at NRL level. He's had had plenty of good games but none that I've seen where he's been close to or the best on the field.