World Cup 2022

[Blair]

France 34 - Greece 12
Debut for Greece in world cup.

The French used to be quite a power in league. I'm talking at least 45 years ago. It would be great if they resurrected that.

South Africa? There was something OK happening there in the '90s.

 

[Blair]

Tonga beat PNG 24-18. The first close game of the Cup.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Tonga beat PNG 24-18. The first close game of the Cup.

good game too. Kumuls unlucky with a disallowed try, should have been a draw

 

[Philip_Smith007]

good game too. Kumuls unlucky with a disallowed try, should have been a draw

Was a good one.
That disallowed try was a shoulder charge as well. The views that could be seen it was one of those frame by frames near impossible to call if line touched at same time as ground so have to go with the refs call.

The ground looked pretty chopped up as well by halftime.

Another team that scored first losing the game.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Wales 12 - Cook Island 18
Close finish with a Wales charge down, but they just looked gassed!
Another team to score first and lose.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Australia 84 - Scotland 0

Adocar with 4 tries.
A great last try for him kick and chase after Burton saved it from going out.

Not sure what it does to help Scotland league.

Aussie relentless! Players playing for spots in semis.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Comeon, we couldn't get a Pom, Kiwi or Frenchman to ref the game Aus vs Scot?

 

[Philip_Smith007]

So Fiji 60- Italy 4
A pretty 1 sided game.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

England 42- France 18
France showed up for 20 mins.
Another England try off an obvious forward pass in the game as well.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Lebanon 32- Ireland 14
Got a bit heated with sin bins on half time.
Then a late hit on Moses had Irish bad boy back in for final 10mins.
Pity these teams don't play each other more often.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Samoa 72 - Greece 4
Greece fullback with a couple of good defensive stops.
A great try by Greece with a couple of chip over the tops in the play to score.
Sua hasn't learnt with a high shot giving him 10mins.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

PNG 32 - Cook Island 16
A couple of 10 mins 1 stiff arm by PNG and 1 tackle past horizontal by Cook Islands, looked like a scoop slam!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

England 94 - Greece 4
Nearly cracked 100.
England looking good, England v Aussie final by all accounts.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Fiji 30 - Scotland 14
Bit of spite in the game with 3 red cards. Kikaou for 3rd man in.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Australia 66 - Italy 6
The devils game!
Cleary missed a couple of conversions.
Tedesco played for Italy in 2 world cups before.

 

[Blair]

England 94 - Greece 4
Nearly cracked 100.
England looking good, England v Aussie final by all accounts.

I'm so glad there hasn't been a 100 points rained on any team (well, apart from Australia!) at this tournament. International league doesn't need that.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

I'm so glad there hasn't been a 100 points rained on any team (well, apart from Australia!) at this tournament. International league doesn't need that.

Would like to see a 4 team tournament, with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams in each pool making up those teams next year

Eg.
Group 1:Australia, NZ, England and Tonga.
Group 2: Samoa, Lebanon, Fiji and PNG.
Group 3: Italy, France, Ireland, Cook Island
Group 4: Scotland, Greece, Jamacia, Wales.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Kiwis vs Fiji
5.30am AEST on Sunday 6th

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Australia to good for Lebanon. 48-4
Fox's first of 5 tries looked forward from Mitchell.
Munster strip as player in ground felt like tackle completed.
1st half Australia looked scary, 2nd half looked beatable.

I don't think you should be able to host a world cup if you can't provide regulations length fields!!!

 

[Philip_Smith007]

Stop calling man of the match before the game is finished! Did they not learn from the 2008 world cup???