Just how bad are wales ?.

[LeagueXIII]

Maybe they played a better team.........

 

[Irish-bulldog]

It's up to the Irish and the frogs to restore NH pride. Scotland are shot ducks before this thing starts lol

 

[Wheeled Warrior]

Mate no doubting png will push for a semi final spot. Png on the rise. But honest wales offered up nothing. They need massive help.

Quarter finals for PNG they won t make it in the Semis

 

[grouch]

I'm old enough to remember the 2000 RLWC, when Wales played Australia in the semis and opened up a decent lead, and seemed poised to pull off the upset to end all upsets

Papua New Guinea were fantastic, and showed clearly the benefits of having a team in the Queensland Cup. So many of that squad deserve to be playing NRL.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Sadly, or excitedly, the home nations are in my view, not the future of international league. It is the Lebanons, Serbias, Canadas, Jamaicas etc

 

[hutch]

I remember the 2000 World Cup semi, Wales through absolutely everything at the Aussies that day and almost pulled off the biggest upset of all time.

Wales have a future, they have had a heap of juniors sign up with super league clubs recently and still have 2 teams in league one, west wales raiders seem to have some good intentions in developing welsh players. They just got ambushed big time! Like the other home nations they need more games throughout the year.

 

[Springs09]

Couldn't expect too much from Wales. A heap of players missing and they get to play PNG in their first home World Cup match fresh off the Hunters QLD Cup premiership. Fiji and Samoa would have struggled with PNG's intensity on Saturday,

 

[Irish-bulldog]

72-6 , wales please have some kids coming through, man Scotland and wales f**king sent real bad teams.

 

[hutch]

Horribly sh*t. Way off the pace at the moment.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The northern hemisphere in general is looking woeful.

Against Southern Hemisphere teams so far it's 8-0 and the points add up to 378 - 50. That's with Samoa v Scotland, Fiji v Italy, PNG v USA and Australia v Lebanon to go. At this rate the only group game they might win is Italy and Fiji. Maybe.

 

[KokoRugbyLeague]

Couldn't expect too much from Wales. A heap of players missing and they get to play PNG in their first home World Cup match fresh off the Hunters QLD Cup premiership. Fiji and Samoa would have struggled with PNG's intensity on Saturday,

Yeh, nah with that performance against the irish i think fiji and Samoa have nothing to worry about png.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

The correlation between number of full-time pros to quality of national team is very strong.

If there was an U18 world cup it would be much more evenly matched.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Pity USA didn't get a the group with Wales and Scotland, they quite possibly could have had a few wins. They have impressed me with their local players.

 

[kdalymc]

I'm old enough to remember the 2000 RLWC, when Wales played Australia in the semis and opened up a decent lead, and seemed poised to pull off the upset to end all upsets

Papua New Guinea were fantastic, and showed clearly the benefits of having a team in the Queensland Cup. So many of that squad deserve to be playing NRL.

Wales (did) and France both have teams in the ESL. And they both suck. Must be more problems than being in a comp

 

[Perth Red]

Wales (did) and France both have teams in the ESL. And they both suck. Must be more problems than being in a comp

There's probably about 15-20 FT French players at best. And you expect them to compete against teams with full FT squads that have 40-50 FT players to pick from? Theres even less FT welsh players. Png may be in qland cup but they are FT and playing at home which is worth at least 12 points. The PI are mostly kiwis and Australians playing in nrl teams. Equivalent would be every English SL team having 3-4 French and welsh eligible players in them. Thengap,is only going to widen as even more PI eligible p,ayers come through the nrl teams in years to come.

 

[axl rose]

I remember the 2000 World Cup semi, Wales through absolutely everything at the Aussies that day and almost pulled off the biggest upset of all time.
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[StadiumXIII]

These days they have more Welsh born players. Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams, Regan Grace, Ben Evans etc.. WRL need to keep feeding youths to to Super League clubs maybe even have a team in the SL U19s. Back then they had about 2 Union players but were mostly English and Aussies not to forgot Chris Morley who didn't even have Welsh heritage according to his brother Adrian.

 

[StadiumXIII]

It's up to the Irish and the frogs to restore NH pride. Scotland are shot ducks before this thing starts lol

they were more like the duck on the dinner table by then.

 

[LeagueXIII]

These days they have more Welsh born players. Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams, Regan Grace, Ben Evans etc.. WRL need to keep feeding youths to to Super League clubs maybe even have a team in the SL U19s. Back then they had about 2 Union players but were mostly English and Aussies not to forgot Chris Morley who didn't even have Welsh heritage according to his brother Adrian.

And lost about 10 players before the tournament.

Welsh born players Ben Flower, Ollie Olds, Lloyd White, Rhys Evans and Calvin Wellington.

Also heritage players Jake Emmitt, Gil Dudson, Larne Patrick, Dan Fleming and Daniel Brown.

Most would have been in the starting team.

This is a big loss for a nation with not a lot of depth.

 

[adamkungl]

Relevant - Wales coach admits there is a lot of work to do

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/rugby-league-world-cup-painful-11484552