pozbaird Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 1 minute ago, peasy23 said: 3 minutes ago, pozbaird said: Starting to feel sorry for the Scotland rugby league team now. They’re getting hammered. Christ knows what might happen if Australia keep their foot on the gas when Scotland really tire. Referee should stop this to save them from further punishment. My 60-70 points in my previous post could be a severe underestimate. Would have been a good guess for the first half score. Nothing, absolutely nothing the Scotland guys can do. It would be like me getting a bunch of guys from the P&B golf thread together, and taking on the European Ryder Cup team. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 On 16/10/2022 at 15:49, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Australia could hit treble figures when we play them. HA!!! WRONG! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 that must be not but close to the record defeat for Scotland 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 On 21/10/2022 at 22:05, ajwffc said: that must be not but close to the record defeat for Scotland All-time record defeat actually - surpassing New Zealand 74-6 Scotland at RLWC 2017. We've never actually had another losing margin beyond 40s, and only 3 of those: 2 v Tonga at WCs and 1 v Australia in Four Nations. Disastrous tournament thusfar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Improved performance in a 30-14 defeat to Fiji but still exit the tournament with 0pts, only 4 tries (3 of them today), and -124 points difference. Hard not to say the side continues regressing. Returning in 2025 still attainable as European qualifying will have 4/5 slots: but Wales, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Serbia are all capable so 1/2 miss-out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 (edited) On 13/10/2022 at 23:16, HibeeJibee said: I'd tip 6x Oceanics + England + Lebanon for QFs. Full house... Quarter-Finals Fri 4 Nov Australia v Lebanon BBC3 (at Huddersfield) (7:30pm) Sat 5 Nov England v Papua New Guinea BBC1 (at Wigan) (2:30pm) Sat 5 Nov New Zealand v Fiji BBC2 (at Hull) (7:30pm) Sun 6 Nov Tonga v Samoa BBC2 (at Warrington) (2:30pm) Semi-Finals Fri 11 Nov Australia/Lebanon v New Zealand/Fiji BBC2 (at Leeds Utd) (7:45pm) Sat 12 Nov England/Papua New Guinea v Tonga/Samoa BBC1 (at Arsenal) (2:30pm) Final Sat 19 Nov BBC1 (at Manchester Utd) (4pm) Edited October 31, 2022 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 Qualifying for RLWC 2025: Qualified automatically (9 places) France (hosts), England Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga Lebanon Europe (4.25 places) Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Wales Germany/Greece/Netherlands/Norway/Russia (or Czech Rep)/Ukraine Americas (2.25 places) Canada, Jamaica, USA, Brazil/Chile Africa & Middle East (0.25 place) South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria Pacific (0.25 place) Cook Islands 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Is it quarter places on the basis that 75% of the team will be Australian? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 6 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Is it quarter places on the basis that 75% of the team will be Australian? Seems to be some sort of 'world repechage'; though elsewhere suggested maybe a straight Africa v Pacific playoff. For this tournament Cooks beat South Africa then USA, with no European participant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Always liked the randomness of Papua New Guinea having a competitive rugby league team. Hope they put England out tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 5 hours ago, ICTChris said: Always liked the randomness of Papua New Guinea having a competitive rugby league team. Hope they put England out tomorrow. Since 2014 they’ve had a team, PNG Hunters, in the Queensland Rugby League although they haven’t played a home game since 2019 due to COvID. They won the QRL minor premiership in 2017 going on to defeat Sunshine Coast Falcons 12-10 in the Grand Final. Six Hunters players are in their WC squad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Some good PNG players in the NRL - Coates, Olam, Johnston. England should be too good for them though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigiemack Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 That was a great game between Fiji and NZ, lots of training session games this WC as expected so was great to watch a real competitive game. As I posted earlier I was at the Fiji-Australia game and thought the Fijis more than matched them in parts. Tonight they probably should've knocked NZ out, some soft tries conceded and they really should of went for a drop goal at 18-12 to make NZ score twice in the last 15. Samoa/Tonga tomorrow and the two semi finals sould be great watches. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Managed along to a few games of this. Tonga 32-6 Wales @ St Helens Papua New Guinea 32-16 Cook Islands @ Warrington Australia 66-6 Italy @ St Helens Off to the QF in Warrington between Tonga and Samoa tomorrow which looks like it'll be a cracker. Sadly that'll be the last one for me. Have tickets for the final but looks like they are going to end up as generous donations to my in-laws as the wife has booked us to some bint from her works wedding on the same day. Bloody woman! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 17 hours ago, Christophe said: Off to the QF in Warrington between Tonga and Samoa tomorrow which looks like it'll be a cracker. First surprise result of tournament IMO: plus a relative rarity in competition so far being a close tie, an exciting match and before a relatively full ground. Samoa much-improved since opening game. Bit odd that sides from same group meet again in SFs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: First surprise result of tournament IMO: plus a relative rarity in competition so far being a close tie, an exciting match and before a relatively full ground. Samoa much-improved since opening game. Bit odd that sides from same group meet again in SFs. Yeah I don't agree with that, two teams who've played in the group should be on opposite sides of the bracket until the final. It was done so that the group with the 1st seed would play the group with the 4th, and 2 v 3. Good idea in theory but the problem with that is there are not enough international RL games to have a decent system where the best team is the top seed! NZ are 1 and Australia inexplicably 4, so that's why they were destined to meet. Tonga and England being 2 and 3. So that's why Samoa are meeting England again, having nicked Tonga's path Edited November 6, 2022 by Christophe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Wondered if it was more cynical than that: ever since became a proper tournament in 1995 you've had Australia-England in Final... or Australia-NZ after latter beat England in Sfs. So is underlying motivation to keep Australia and England apart? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 14 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: Wondered if it was more cynical than that: ever since became a proper tournament in 1995 you've had Australia-England in Final... or Australia-NZ after latter beat England in Sfs. So is underlying motivation to keep Australia and England apart? Or England definitely avoiding both the big boys so they should make the final 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 On 06/11/2022 at 22:34, HibeeJibee said: Wondered if it was more cynical than that: ever since became a proper tournament in 1995 you've had Australia-England in Final... or Australia-NZ after latter beat England in Sfs. So is underlying motivation to keep Australia and England apart? Almost certainly so, sorry didn't come across on my post but i believe that is simply the "reasoning" they are hiding behind! As an aside, i see that they want to take England to a game in London (the Emirates semi), but surely for gates they'd have been better of doing AUS-NZ in London where presumably they would get a decent crowd through ex-pats and having the ENG-SAM game at Elland Road? Reckon you could get close to two full houses that way round 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 I’m sure they’ve also booked the Aussies flights but https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-league-world-cup-tournament-organisers-book-flights-home-for-kiwis-for-day-after-semifinal-against-australia-report/3GVVNPHGHBAU7BVHYJW5RB2EEI/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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