**Official** Rugby League Four Nations Tournament

[BoyBrumby]

Graham over for the third try and Sinfeld keeps up his 100% record. 22-6 to the good guys. Must be enough now with seven mins left, surely?

The Scouse ranga has put in a massive shift tonight. Be interesting to see how he goes for the Dogs next year. As a rule every Pom who's gone down under has improved massively.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Try from forward pass.
Try from 2on1 strip.

About a million incorrect plays of the ball.

A couple of dirty mongrels.

Awesome sport, this international league.....

Reffing generally has been utterly crud, yes.

Best team's won tho & Tomkins nails the lid down with that.

 

[Jacknife]

The Kiwi's thought they could win by brawling and should have been at least one down, reffing has been 50/50 for both sides but at the end of the day the best team won and won comfortably in the end. Issac John is one of the biggest **** houses playing RL.

 

[Hurricane]

England seem to grow and arm and leg against us at home.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lockyer's final final game then. Be nice if we could send the great man into retirement with a loss, but can't quite see it.

 

[steds]

Australia to win by 22. Wilkin to get done for 14 high shots, knock on 9 times and slice 3 kicks out on the full. Useless french pile of ****.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Stedly!

Sheesh. Piss poor effort from Briscoe.

Thaiday maybe offside, but we were deservedly punished.

 

[Prince EWS]

Definitely not offside IMO.

 

[BoyBrumby]

**** me that's horrible.

Has to be red.

EDIT: Hmm. Penalty try. Can't believe Lockyer's complaining to the ref. Thurston should be gone for that.

 

[steds]

A fantastic defensive effort (and a terrible decision by video ref in disallowing that try from the kick Tomkins spilled) by us to be level. Can't see it lasting long though.

Edit: There we go. Natural order of things restored

 

[BoyBrumby]

Thaiday's put in a shift tonight. Made the yards every time he's taken it up.

Faintly disturibing our best back has been an Aussie too. Reed's looked class.

EDIT: Stick a fork in her.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Final try for Lockyer. Fitting.

Better side has won, can't say much more.

Oh, bugger. The great man Don Fox's the conv.

22 points; stedly take a boo.

 

[steds]

I should have put money on that.

Faintly disturibing our best back has been an Aussie too. Reed's looked class.

It's the way to go. Just look at Trott, KP, Prior, etc.

He does look a bit special. Not impressed with Widdop, though. Don't really get to see any NRL, but I've seen nothing at all from him in, what is it now, 8/9 games (?) for England.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I should have put money on that.


It's the way to go. Just look at Trott, KP, Prior, etc.

He does look a bit special. Not impressed with Widdop, though. Don't really get to see any NRL, but I've seen nothing at all from him in, what is it now, 8/9 games (?) for England.

Me neither, but inclined to agree. Lacks gas and not impressed with his game management either. PEWS has made encouraging noises about him, but I still reckon we picked him more because we could rather than anything else.

NRL back on Sky for 2012 tho, so hopefully see more of him.

 

[Prince EWS]

Me neither, but inclined to agree. Lacks gas and not impressed with his game management either. PEWS has made encouraging noises about him, but I still reckon we picked him more because we could rather than anything else.

NRL back on Sky for 2012 tho, so hopefully see more of him.

He's had a really funny role in the side so far; I don't think he's really going to add anything as a bench player. He's a quality player though.

 

[Jacknife]

He's had a really funny role in the side so far; I don't think he's really going to add anything as a bench player. He's a quality player though.

He is a quality player and has been awesome for the Storm this year, it's just that McNamara hasn't used him properly while he's played for England. Bringing him off the bench with a few minutes to go is stupid, he should have been in the starting 13.

When are we going to learn that Sinfield is not a international No.6, time and time again he's been found wanting and tonight was no different. His kicking was really poor to say the least and he never managed to split the full back and winger on the last tackle, always kicking straight to the oppo is just ****e. Ball in hand he offers nothing and his control of the game just isn't up to it at this level.

Chase, why oh why did we pick him, he just goes missing too often and is crap in defense, just because he had a decent year with Cas doesn't mean we should have gone down this root, especially when he was wanting to play for the Kiwi's up to very recently. We should have picked Brough imo a much better player at srum half and who can actually defend, with a brilliant kicking game and imo with Widdop at stand off, they would have made England a far more dangerous outfit.

Definitely some positives to take from this tournament but tonight our big name players just didn't show up at all. Before the next comp we need to sort out our half back pairing and Yeaman and Briscoe are just not good enough, as well as the likes of Peacock and Morley have come to the end of their careers.

 

[Jacknife]

Me neither, but inclined to agree. Lacks gas and not impressed with his game management either. PEWS has made encouraging noises about him, but I still reckon we picked him more because we could rather than anything else.

NRL back on Sky for 2012 tho, so hopefully see more of him.

NRL has been on premier sport's all year, not bad value either. Like I've just said watching him play for the Storm this year there's no doubting he should have been picked, he had a brilliant season along side Cronk. McNamara just didn't utilize him properly and with the right partner England would have been much stronger imo than the Chase/Sinfield one.

 

[Mister Wright]

Great to see Lockyer go out a winner (and a try scorer). Definitely wasn't his best game in the Green & Gold, but he still played very well. He will be sorely missed at all levels of football,mostly by his club

He has said he won't go into coaching, but I wouldn't be surprised if he does. Definitely doesn't have the voice for commentary.

 

[Ausage]

Definitely doesn't have the voice for commentary.

Not going to disagree with this, but his voice sounds much much worse in the post match on field interviews. Once he gets his breath back he almost sounds human.

 

[ripper868]

From what I understand he is having an Op to have have his voice fixed. Just didn't do it while playing as a decent knock would mean the surgery pointless.