Thread: Rugby league World Cup, masterclass given by Australia

Atleast we have beaten the Kiwi's in something.... Dont seem to beat them in anything else.

Cheers Ean

Certainly was a lop sided score. Definitely was not the Kiwi's night as they are normally a competitive team!!

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Atleast we have beaten the Kiwi's in something.... Dont seem to beat them in anything else.

Cheers Ean

Try cricket, netball, sailing, golf, baseball, iron man/person? , surf lifesaving , basketball, soccer, ......etc,etc. The list of Aussie World champs? It's funny, if I say it , it's arrogance, but if certain kiwi/poms say it, well, that's ok.
Is Australian sport on the downturn?
REIGNING AUSTRALIAN WORLD CHAMPIONS

• Australian cricket team – Test and one-day internationals
• Australian rugby league team – from 2000 world cup
• Opals – women’s basketball
• Libby Lenton – 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly
• Leisel Jones – 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke
• Jessicah Schipper – 200m butterfly
• Australian women – 4x100m freestyle
• Australian women – 4x100m medley relay
• Australian men – 4x100m medley relay
• Casey Stoner – motorcycle GP
• Jana Rawlinson – women’s 400m hurdles
• Nathan Deakes – 50km walk
• Kate Bates – women’s point race cycling
• Anna Meares – 500m time trial cycling
• Sam Hill – men’s downhill mountain bike
• Tom Slingsby – Laser class sailing
• Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page – men’s 470 sailing
• Drew Ginn and Duncan Free – coxless pairs rowing
• Amber Halliday and Marguerite Houston – lightweight double sculls rowing
• Anthony Mundine – WBA super middleweight
• Michael Katsidis – WBO interim lightweight
• Sharon Anyos – WBC women’s featherweight
• Layne Beachley – women’s surfing
• Dale Begg-Smith – dual moguls skiing
• Torah Bright – superpipe snowboarding
• Kurt Fearnley – wheelchair marathon

Originally Posted by Ausfree

Certainly was a lop sided score. Definitely was not the Kiwi's night as they are normally a competitive team!!

They came up against a professional side that burst their bubble. They did their best, & were not really disgraced, but, they were not in the same class. They had their bums smacked, Sonny Bill? was he even on the field? Bob

Rugby League 'WORLD CUP', ho, ho, ho...........................(must be getting close to Christmas), you've got to be kidding. A second rate abortion of American grid iron and Rugby Union popular in Queensland, NSW and some interstate expats given 'WORLD CUP' status , give me a break. I'm sure the game was 'competitive' and of interest to its limited audience but of International interest and Importance ? Whatever you're smoking, I'll have some too. About as relevant as 'WORLD CUP' AFL, you've got to be kidding, even less relevant actually as people actually go to AFL games.

I'm sure a team of Qld/NSW/others beat another team of Qld/NSW/others and as far as the rules of the game went it may have been 'interesting' or even considered skilful but of 'WORLD CUP' level, interest or standard, ho, ho, ho..................Christmas is coming.

A Merry and fanciful Christmas to all...............................

Deano

Originally Posted by DeanoH

Rugby League 'WORLD CUP', ho, ho, ho...........................(must be getting close to Christmas), you've got to be kidding. A second rate abortion of American grid iron and Rugby Union popular in Queensland, NSW and some interstate expats given 'WORLD CUP' status , give me a break. I'm sure the game was 'competitive' and of interest to its limited audience but of International interest and Importance ? Whatever you're smoking, I'll have some too. About as relevant as 'WORLD CUP' AFL, you've got to be kidding, even less relevant actually as people actually go to AFL games.

I'm sure a team of Qld/NSW/others beat another team of Qld/NSW/others and as far as the rules of the game went it may have been 'interesting' or even considered skilful but of 'WORLD CUP' level, interest or standard, ho, ho, ho..................Christmas is coming.

A Merry and fanciful Christmas to all...............................

Deano

You fool. Bob

Hmmm..........................................not exactly the informative and incisive level of debate/discussion I had hoped to engender.

My tongue in cheek criticism of the game not withstanding (frankly grid iron, union and league are virtually indistinguishable and of little interest to me) what makes a WORLD CUP competition ?

I would have thought an internationally arbitrated (ie FIFA ) nationally played game/sport at different levels eg. age/competence/state/county, would be a good starting point. Play off a dozen or so other countries at equal highest level and meeting the same criteria and away you go, you've got a WORLD CUP.
AFAIK this is what happens with WORLD CUP cricket, soccer, rugby union etc. Is this the case with rugby league WORLD CUP ? Perhaps I'm sorely misinformed.

This is not a diatribe against rugby league, I just find it a bit pretentious to have a WORLD CUP in a non national sport. To be considered international I would have thought being national would be a prerequisite. Sure you can have demonstration games to raise the profile of different sports but when you have 56-0, 46-10 and worse ? score lines it's hardly an even high level comp. and definitely not what I'd expect of a WORLD CUP series of any kind.

Deano

Naa the aussies where just lucky

and DeanoH is just on drugs or some thing