Odsal Outlaw

Very late notice for the BBC coverage. I wonder if a conscious choice to maximise Premier subscriptions? Or an IRL reaction to the realisation of invisibility in the UK. Would hope England games would get highlights on the main channels.

Team lists are out. Englands looks about right, maybe a bit light on the starting pack. Knew Currie wouldn’t be in tho when he was at the photoshoot in Sydney! I’d perhaps have Lewis for Welsby on the bench. But overall looks a very agile and quick team for England.

No, if we win the other two then we can still go thru. If you read back the last few pages and see the tournament structure then you’ll see that group b & c are effectively combined with top 2 going thru.

Is it not? I thought it was two teams with most points go thru, from the overall 6 teams. Not the top of each group.

Also clearly the first game between Eng vs Tonga is huge. If we win that we are effectively qualified. However if we lose but then Tonga also beat Samoa then it comes down to a points difference shoot out for us. In that scenario we could be ok!

Yeah it isn’t bit bizarre. The more I look at it I tho I think easiest to explain group B and C as one group of 6 where you play 3 games and top 2 qualify.

You would hope that non GF players would already be there and have flown out under the radar. But the prep for this WC (for all teams) seems way off. I’d also have had a warm up game for players knocked out before the GF

Nottingham Outlaws beat Coventry Bears 44-0 in a Grand Final in 2008

That takes Wakey to 120 mins of near on perfect rugby. Great effort from them. Without going too off piste, Wakey should surely have worn a traditional white shirt with blue and red hoop round the middle for this!

Looks like this may kick off a few minutes late. Good build up tho.

More good news for the Bulls finances … kit manufacturing deal with Hummel and extended sponsorship agreement with Bartercard described as a multi year seven figure deal! Pleased we’re getting rid of Ellgren, awful quality. https://lnkd.in/p/eDkBFpzK

the World Cup shop on NRL has all the shirts and a good collection of Hawaiian shirts for each team as well!! Good to see that even the World Cup products seem to have proper logos on, in the past the organisers always make up logos for teams as they don’t have the rights for the main ones. World Cup Shop

I believe they plan to lengthen it as part of the new stand being built at the empty end. Anyone know why it wasn’t made full size originally? as it was a new build rather than legacy ground.

Still some way off Huddersfield’s record 5 super league wooden spoons.

Never great to finish bottom, but I think a decent season for the Bulls, we’ve won at a rate of more than 1in4 games and were within a win of being a few places higher. We’ve had awful luck with injuries but have still played some entertaining rugby and where we’ve been a bit weak down the middle we’ll be much stronger next year.