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I would be delighted with chicken fried rice as a pre-match meal. Have to laugh at a professional footballer complaining about a 30min walk to a supermarket.

Let's all laugh at England Get it up ya Broad!

'Only have to play Tonga'? As Christophe has said, Tonga are a very decent team when they actually want to play and can beat anyone in this tournament outside possibly the big 3 of Aus, NZ and Eng. They are packed full of NRL stars but as Polynesian players sadly are they lack a bit of discipline which is their one main problem and has so far shown this tournament. I personally think they have rocked up to their games so far and just expected to win instead of working hard and showing why they are the favoured team. Italy on the otherhand were expected to be minnows especially over in the UK population but down here we know that a decent number of NRL players are in the side (like 6 or possibly 7 off the top of my head) that they weren't going to be pushovers. The game could go either way as this tournament has suggested but I still expect Tonga to lift last minute and win to help the Scots. USA on the otherhand have performed way above their expectations but that's as far as it goes for them. The Scots should be very pleased of their performances and have shocked quite a few. I still think you will get your money's worth from the GF ticket than 2 pool games in Workington as you will see a much better level of Rugby League and far better players out on show and who knows it may even be a cracker of an end to end game.

It's alright pal, you wont have to worry about not seeing much of the playoffs as in Leafs fashion this season they will do good enough all the way up till the playoffs and then capitulate. Hope it's not the case but it is the Leafs we are talking about.

Decent result by Scotland against Italy, well done to them, leaves it all up to the USA game now which by the results should be a cracker. It's good to see decent crowds at all the games so far.

Great result by the scots this morning, probably will be the biggest upset of the tournament! Tonga were very disappointing and their defense was terrible, a very rusty start for them considering the way they played and blew away Samoa earlier this year. Hopefully Scotland can kick on from that and upset Italy too, if Wallace and Brough in the halves can step up and put the team into good field positions then they have every chance if they play like they did this morning. For fuctifano, the team as far as I know has one or two actual scottish born players and the rest are english with scottish bloodline and there is a couple of Aussies linnett and the experienced halfback Wallace in the team too.

I hope you enjoy it mate, I would love to be over there for it all at the moment but have to settle for watching all the games in the morning before heading to work. Will be hoping Scotland can pull of a major upset in the tournament but I really can't see it especially with this Tongan side probably the best they have ever assembled and full of NRL players and Italy are minnows but they have about 6 NRL players in their side with decent pedigree, the game your going to against the USA I think they can win though, lets hope they can pull of a major upset against the other two teams also! I was going to ask on here what channel are they broadcasting the world cup matches on over there, I assumed maybe Sky Sports would have picked it up. That NZ-Samoa game you mentioned was a belter by the way.

Hate to say it to you but we will be all out to win this world cup especially after what happened last time and with the squad we have we are the favourites to take it home. As for Scotland the only match they have that they have any real chance of getting something out of is the inter-group match against the USA as Tonga and Italy will be too strong since they have a decent number of NRL players in their sides.

Cant see past an Australia vs NZ final aswell. As for Scotland I don't see them fairing well at all, Tonga should walk that group and Italy have a fairly decent side with quite a few NRL players in there like Minichiello, Guerra, Tedesco and Gower. USA will struggle in that group too.

Lehmann shouldn't feel sorry at all for his comments about Broad as I think they are 100% spot on. Broad will cop alot more when he steps foot in this fine land. For the record I couldn't care less if the poms pissed, shit or even set fire to the wicket after that last test in London. Can't say I'm the biggest fan of Warney as a person even though he is a fellow Victorian but to be fair to him he didn't really do much wrong in that incident, was all fair game.

I'm not saying they aren't a better side but they aren't THAT much better than what the media and numpties like you over there would try and have you believe. I can say yes we would have won that last test if it wasn't for rain stopping play, there you go plain and simple and that's also very well respected people in cricket who share that view down here say that. Down here will be a different story come our summer, feel free to bring your bats with silicon on them too Typical, they can't hold any sporting event without rain ruining it.

There really is no helping you is there, maybe take those rose tinted specs off first. The poms were expected to run wild and annihilate us in every test yet struggled in the 1st, 2nd won easy and would have lost the 3rd if it wasn't for rain, yet you see that as a pumping, deary me Yeah the poms are that good that they lose a toss and go out to just scrape a draw and pray for rain and your calling us shit. One deluded man, Anyway enjoy watching the rest of the ashes, that's if the rain holds off

Bit pointless staging a test in a city that has rain basically every single day of the year isn't it. Poms got belted around in the 1st day and then just prayed on the rain coming, pointless and boring, feel sorry for the fans who shelved out their hard earned for a ticket for it.

You seem quite oblivious to what I'm saying, I was talking about the test in rainchester but if you say retaining the ashes in three tests which one ended by rain is a pumping then clearly your deluded, that's no pumping. Poms struggled in the 1st test and rain saved them in the 3rd, hardly a pumping

Didn't realise a test that was called off for rain when the poms were well behind was regarded as a pumping. Good to see the anti-aussie chip on the shoulder is still going strong on P&B.