Fast Eddie
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Light years in front huh? Yeah in one of tests, sure you are light years in front, but when it comes to a series against us or the Poms you hardly light years in front.
Fast Eddie said:Light years in front huh? Yeah in one of tests, sure you are light years in front, but when it comes to a series against us or the Poms you hardly light years in front.
PARRA_FAN said:Light years?
No way, Australia is still the no.1 side. But are you forgetting that Great Britain, ranked in 3rd can also match it with Australia.
Great Britain actually beat us last year, (no excuses), even though they struggled in other matches, I think with the talent they have got, they can match it with Australia.
Problem is their comp has too many imports, which doesnt allow many of the younger up and coming players through. Mind you I did see a few players in the GF last night, but 1-2 players aint enough.
You can't base the state of the International game on one test. NZL were crock ordinary, and didnt have their best team on the paddock.
They will bounce back cause they have got so many good players. As long as we continue the quad nations, pacific up and european cup the game can only get better.
And as mentioned we should play the NZL A Vs Aus Invitational, PNG Vs PMs 13, and Junior Kangaroos vs Tonga, Fiji and Junior Kiwis more often.
btw speaking of Kiwi halves, was Rangi Chase considered, too young perhaps?
ozbash said:It is sooo obvious that Australia is light years ahead of any country in the world when it comes to Rugby League.
its sooooooooooo obvious you are full of the brown stuff tubby.
aussie are the champions of pointless one off tests. apart from the tri nations series (which you dont have such a sh*thot record) when was the last time aussie promoted the game and toured ?
before the w/cup you have 1 test - probably the ANZAC (cant be f**ked looking it up). big deal.
ozbash said:i dunno what is.
agree, you dont know.
Kurt Angle said:China has more people that countries like Holland, yet China doesn;t perform as well as Holland at soccer.
Holland just has good coaching set ups.
Manu Vatuvei said:lol no, they're just Poms, they're useless at everything
NZ and Australia are both great sporting nations,
really, except of course that Australia has approx 5 times the resources for everything except union. Australia would have to go backwards badly for NZ to ever catch up when it comes to league.
As it is I think NZ are capable of overachieving in most sports against most opposition.
Australia consistently set the standard for achieving to your maximum in sport, and even if NZ matched Australia, we'd still be 1/5 of what they are. I'm not a fatalist and I'm all for trying, but Australia has to do something WRONG for NZ to get close.
Kurt Angle said:You can only put 17 players on the field at any one time. That is the challenge.
The Kangaroos don't select 85 players in their team.
NZ just has to make sure their 17 is as good as Australia's 17. With lesser resources, it means from their smaller pool they have to do better to get the right 17.
Proper coaching and training will improve their chances of doing that.
No they don't.
NZ just has to do something right... the 17 men that walk out on the field only face 17 Australian players.
That is the challenge.