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[miguel de cervantes]

Week 2 | Sunday 19th October , 1pm Remondis stadium
Liban Espoir 14 were beaten by Fiji u20s 24

 

[Bronco Rob]

Hungary v Bosnia-Herzegovina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QQAxNeMWc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7V7rrZIIY

Thailand v Norway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3681ocleg

Finally had a bit of time to watch them. Great stuff and the Thai v Norway video was really well done, couldn't stop watching.

The Bosnians were a better standard than I expected but some of the poor Hungarian backs have hands like digital watches.

Wow, I was expecting a bunch of expats but they really do look like legit Thais. Does anyone know anything about where these players have come from, their domestic activity etc?

Yeah some of those kids were impressive but I dare say there would have been a sprinkling of heritage players involved by the look of it.

This is the group that are starting a domestic comp and have run clinics in Thailand itself and plan on developing the game at school and Uni levels. They look pretty impressive and seem to have a 5 year plan, I hope they do well.

 

[mj9]

Thailand played Norway in Bangkok today.
Finished about 40 minutes ago.

Thailand won 46-6.

All Thai players are from their domestic comp and are Thai heritage.

So captian Steven Lesina and Mathew Colgrave are playing in the domestic comp are they. And the 4 team domestic comp are they. Which clubs are they playing for? Pretty sure both have never played RL in a Thai domestic comp. and according to the TRL fb page it was sanctioned by the RLIF, find that very hard to believe. From what I saw on YouTube there was a Norwegian guy ( to his credit played and had a real go) had only 1 and a half arms. If that norway team is 19th world ranked team ahead of the likes of the Greeks then I'll eat my hat.
Thai domest comp started last week in a double header where there was more than one guy who played in more than 1 team.
Owner of the TRL also retracted a ban he tried to enforce for people playing in the Thailand stars squads over the past 2 years in an attempt to fill his rosters for his domest comp.
1 game called off today due to kits being torn to shreds last week.
It's my understanding that he still owes a different manufacturer for kits he obtained last year.
I guess you get what you pay for. Especially in Thailand.
The truth is out there for those who care enough to find out.

 

[mj9]

What would you like to know. I was there I saw a committed Thai team take down a bunch of hung over so called Norwegians. Who were speaking english by the way.
Don't get me wrong the thais were good. Infact very good, ball control and completion rate was very impressive. But norway were rubbish. And from what I saw they played most of the second half with 12 people.
As for this group getting the game up and running in schools and universities we will see. They still need the support of the Thai community for that to happen.
By the way in 2020 there will be more people playing RL in Thailand than will be in Australia if there vision of their 5 year plan is sucessful. Lol what a joke.
While they did start a 4 team domestic comp the following week they relied upon players backing up to play 2 games and a bunch of temporary visitors keen for a run. A few uni pub players from sydney and a few from the usa.
While all this was going on the so called other group held a 9's tournament in Phuket where they hosted more than 50 Thai nationals playing league in Thailand for the first time.
But don't worry if the TRL is a sucess you will all have your chance to buy a franchise for an inflated price with the promise of making all your money back through contra sponsors that don't really exist.

 

[mj9]

Finally had a bit of time to watch them. Great stuff and the Thai v Norway video was really well done, couldn't stop watching.

The Bosnians were a better standard than I expected but some of the poor Hungarian backs have hands like digital watches.



Yeah some of those kids were impressive but I dare say there would have been a sprinkling of heritage players involved by the look of it.

This is the group that are starting a domestic comp and have run clinics in Thailand itself and plan on developing the game at school and Uni levels. They look pretty impressive and seem to have a 5 year plan, I hope they do well.

Legit thais they are. Was mostly local rugby players from various provinces around the country. The lock was their best. Plays in brisbane halfback and captian from cairns. 5/8 from sydney and has played with the "other" so called rebel stars. Even though the stars were first to play any sort of RL in Thailand. Hooker from nz and quite good also.
The real shame here is there was plenty of Thai talent that didn't play in this match due to either being threatened with bans and or being completely stuffed around by the TRL last year.
Put all the available Thai talent together and there is definitely a future for them. I believe the RLIF have a duty of care to see that the 2 waring groups sort out their differences for the good of the players and the integrity of the international game.

 

[Bronco Rob]

Legit thais they are. Was mostly local rugby players from various provinces around the country. The lock was their best. Plays in brisbane halfback and captian from cairns. 5/8 from sydney and has played with the "other" so called rebel stars. Even though the stars were first to play any sort of RL in Thailand. Hooker from nz and quite good also.
The real shame here is there was plenty of Thai talent that didn't play in this match due to either being threatened with bans and or being completely stuffed around by the TRL last year.
Put all the available Thai talent together and there is definitely a future for them. I believe the RLIF have a duty of care to see that the 2 waring groups sort out their differences for the good of the players and the integrity of the international game.

Obviously you have a bit to do with the game over there and not a fan of the TRL, what is the impediment in the 2 bodies coming together?

It annoys me when there are personal interests that get on the way of moving the game forward, it seems to be a trait of Rugby League folk.

 

[mj9]

Obviously you have a bit to do with the game over there and not a fan of the TRL, what is the impediment in the 2 bodies coming together?

It annoys me when there are personal interests that get on the way of moving the game forward, it seems to be a trait of Rugby League folk.

Bronco rob the main impediment is the TRL itself and their ambition to sell franchises to people like myself. A quick background check on the chairman and founder the self proclaimed unstoppable Entrepreneur will give you a little bit of an insight into the character of this group. Also the major reason why he doesn't have the support of the Thai community.
I have plenty of proof to back it up too but as I'm not at 20 posts yet I'll keep this brief in the hope that the TRL keyboard Warriors come out to play.
I'll be at 20 posts soon and will be happy to post links to back up anything I claim here.

 

[mj9]

Thailand played Norway in Bangkok today.
Finished about 40 minutes ago.

Thailand won 46-6.

All Thai players are from their domestic comp and are Thai heritage.

Thommo4pm don't you think it's strange that this group who talk up their domestic league so much don't post pics of the teams or name the line ups or scorers even though that can't wait to let everybody know every time a try has been scored.
Be great to hear what shayne Hayne had to say about the opening double header where there were blokes running out in both games to fill in the numbers. As one game has already been cancelled this week and another in round 5 I think it all points to they don't have the numbers on the ground in Thailand or the matches would have been postponed not cancelled.
As for Hayne being the number 1 ref in the ge I'm tipping Cowboys players and fans might have a different view on that.
By the way if the other group ever start a local league they are likely to use Mr and Mrs badger as their headline grabbing whistle blowers as they did for their first match back in 2012.

 

[winnyason]

So far euros
Scots 42 wales 18 crowd 2700 Workington, Ireland 4 scots 25 crowd 1500 Dublin, scots 22 France 38 crowd approx 2000 borders, France 44 wales 22 crowd 5500 albi, Ireland 22 France 12 crowd 1500 Dublin, wales 14 ireland 46 crowd 1293 wrexham. Winner scotland on for and against.
4 nations
Nz 30 Australia 12 and England 32 Samoa 26 crowd 48000 Brisbane, nz 14 Samoa 12 crowd 169791 northland, australia 16 england 12 crowd 20500 melbourne.
Png
Png xiii 16 Aussies 34 crowd 7000 kopoko, png 32 tonga 18 crowd 11000 lae.
Fiji
Fiji 40 Lebanon 28 crowd approx 3000 remondis, Fiji 16 Samoa 32 crowd 9000 penrith.
Canada, Jamaica, USA
Colonial cup canada 52 USA 14 crowd 7358 Toronto, Carribean cup canada 24 Jamaica 20 crowd 3129 Toronto, USA defeat samoa crowd approx 5000 Hawaii.
Anzac test
Aussies 30 nz 18 crowd 25429 Sydney.

Feel free to add boys.

 

[winnyason]

Euro b this year
Italy 22 russia 18 no figure genova, serbia 45 italy 6 crowd 500 belgrade, italy 54 urkraine 12 gemona crowd 1000, russia 20 serbia 6 no figure moscow, russia 24 urkraine 18 no figure (however games at this venue around 1000 to 1500 in past) vereya, serbia 40 ukraine 14 crowd 750 nis.
Balkans cup
Final serbia 22 greece 50 crowd 650 belgrade, bosnia 32 hungary 6 crowd 150 belgrade, greece 54 bosnia 4 no crowd figure belgrade, serbia 50 hungary 4 crowd 200 belgrade.
Africa
Gt britain pioneers 2 match series v ghana 4 GB 46 and ghana 6 GB 34 no offical crowd but reports of good turnouts.
Kenya 32 italia rfl 24 crowd 7000 kenya. Siere leone and nigeria observer status.
Nordic cup
Norway 10 denmark 16 oslo, denmark 44 sweden 6 lyndy, sweden 24 denmark 12 lund. No crowds to report.

Spain 12 belgium 10 brussels no crowd figure
Spain 54 belgium 10 valencia crowd 500


European c division
Greece 68 czech 14 crowd 400, greece 32 malta 18 crowd 300 pembroke, czech 8 malta 34 crowd 300 Havlickuv Brod.

Asia
Thailand defeated norway, vanuatu 16 phillipines 32 crowd 2021 vanuatu.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

I query your northland crowd figure...

 

[winnyason]

South africa and cooks seem to have no played any.