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[Lantana]

www.rlif.org

 

[roopy]

Hmmm - they claim 40 affiliate nations with 11 full test nations - and are calling South Africa a full test nation.
How are South Africa stronger than USA, Lebanon or Japan who have had good domestic comps for years and have played many internationals?

 

[pcpp]

I reckon they took all the info off Wikipedia.

The site looks decent enough.

Needs World Rankings (first they need to devise a system).

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Hmmm - they claim 40 affiliate nations with 11 full test nations - and are calling South Africa a full test nation.
How are South Africa stronger than USA, Lebanon or Japan who have had good domestic comps for years and have played many internationals?

South Africa became a full member when they played in the 1995 WC I think and I guess they were expected to go onwards and upwards from there but of course they didn't.
But what about the Cook Islands? I wasn't aware they were a full member. Surely Wales should be though. As far as I was aware the full 11 member nations were the 10 that played in 1995 plus Russia which was added around 2000 or 2001.
It'll be interesting to see which nations they list as affiliates.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The fixtures section also still has the Atlantic qualifiers listed while the Euro qualifiers to be played next month still don't have venues listed.

 

[brendothejet]

at least the f**ker is online....albeit sh*t.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

I wouldn't say it was sh*t. It's something to build on and yes at least it's there now. This is something we've all been whinging about for years, the lack of an RLIF website. Now we've got it and should be very happy. The site looks good, features a good, new logo and promises to deliver the information we all want people to be able to access. The problems are as a result of deeper problems within the internationsl game. There's no venues listed for Euro games because, most likely, no venues have been found even though the games are only a month away. The calander also only goes till November because that's about as far ahead rugby league seems able to plan.

 

[roopy]

It will be a valuable contributer I'm sure

 

[bartman]

Good god, it's finally online... don't see why this wasn't possible a year ago, and despite errors and ommissions at least it's there as a starting point.

 

[deluded pom?]

I was under the illusion that only G.B. , Australia , New Zealand , PNG , France and Russia were classified as Test playing nations . Since when were the Cooks , Fiji , Samoa and Tonga given full Test status let alone South Africa ?

 

[screeny]

I was under the illusion that only G.B. , Australia , New Zealand , PNG , France and Russia were classified as Test playing nations . Since when were the Cooks , Fiji , Samoa and Tonga given full Test status let alone South Africa ?

A couple fo years ago Ricky Lewis suggested every nation resigning from the federation until new criteria could be debated and implemented, at which time everyone would reapply for membership.

Nothing ever came of it unfortunately, but some of those full members are a trifle embarrassing.

 

[Kurt Angle]

I think of the 11, 10 were awarded tests status by being the nations that particapated in the 95 world cup.

Russia was given 11th in abuot 2002 or 2003.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The 11 are "full members" of the RLIF. That does not mean they are all "test" nations. The test nations are still Australia, NZ, GB (England?), France and PNG. The affiliated nations may even include nations where the game isn't played (anymore) but were given affiliation at some time.

 

[Kingbunny]

I was under the illusion that only G.B. , Australia , New Zealand , PNG , France and Russia were classified as Test playing nations . Since when were the Cooks , Fiji , Samoa and Tonga given full Test status let alone South Africa ?

I know that the Cooks have played 2nd level test matches against the NZ Maori in the past few years. These matches rated really well on the Maori TV channel in NZ and should be an annual event.

I think the last time Tonga played in NZ is when Stacey Jones broke his arm. That was about 4 years ago ?

Samoa (or Auckland Samoa) have play matches in the pass few years as a curtain raiser to the trans-tasman test. Usually against an Auckland Maori team.

 

[screeny]

The 11 are "full members" of the RLIF. That does not mean they are all "test" nations. The test nations are still Australia, NZ, GB (England?), France and PNG. The affiliated nations may even include nations where the game isn't played (anymore) but were given affiliation at some time.

My understanding was that full members = Test status. The latter was defined by the former.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

My understanding was that full members = Test status. The latter was defined by the former.

I don't think so. If Australia played Russia it would not be a Test but if they played France it would be (and then it wouldn't be and then it would be again :roll: ).

 

[East Coast Tiger]

I think the last time Tonga played in NZ is when Stacey Jones broke his arm. That was about 4 years ago ?

Samoa (or Auckland Samoa) have play matches in the pass few years as a curtain raiser to the trans-tasman test. Usually against an Auckland Maori team.

Time flies. The NZ v Tonga game when Jones broke his ram was in 1999, 7 years ago.
Tonga and Samoa played in NZ in 2004 in the Pacific Rim Championships (won by the Cook Islands).

 

[East Coast Tiger]

when Jones broke his ram

:lol: :lol: :lol: Broke his ram. I swear that was a typo. He may have "broken" his ram (bloody Kiwis) too but he definitely broke his arm.

 

[Kingbunny]

Time flies. The NZ v Tonga game when Jones broke his ram was in 1999, 7 years ago.
Tonga and Samoa played in NZ in 2004 in the Pacific Rim Championships (won by the Cook Islands).

Time does flies. f**k I'm getting old.

I forgot about the PR games. There was also a RLIF tournament earlier this year with some of the Pacific Islands. I think it was in late February and games were played a Waitakere and North Harbour. Don't remember who won but it was arranged by the RLIF.

 

[Kingbunny]

The 2006 PR championship was won by Tonga.http://www.nzrl.co.nz/page/pacific_cup_2006_results.html