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totally agree.. thats what i'm saying here.. people want them scattered around other areas but we cant.. however, i am not saying we couldnt have picked better places and tapped into local communities better.. just trying to put an end to the "spread it around the country" arguments.

but the point is not what you would do.. its what were they allowed to do. you can stick whatever you want wherever you want it but if the deal is that all but 1 must be in the north of england then your hand are tied.. and frankly (and 20:20 hindisght says even more so) they would have been stupid not to take the funding.

Its worth pointing out as well that while there may have been some better places to put the games on "around the country" the hosting of the event was helped by money from the Northern Powerhouse which means that pretty much the whole tournament needs to be hosted in the North so we were limited in what we could do.. ie not being able to take loads of matches to London. Perhaps there were better locations in the north but those locations also have to be interested to host which not everywhere will be.

Definitely... but maybe not the way you were expecting... someone needs to really get hold of that bunch in training and sort them out.. terrible showing. England though did look really good, samoa didn't help themselves but they were poor.

Christ I'd hate to get on your bad side... thats a hell of a punishment!

I don't have any legal background bit I do wonder whether this is why a class action lawsuit happens? It's then not an individual thing, maybe the breakdown of the compensation within the class then comes down to the above?

By the way many are talking (especially a lot of aussie press i have seen/heard) England beating samoa tomorrow?

I don't necessarily disagree but re the conditions, have Australian players just finished a season that they play through, what can be, a very wet and sometimes cold winter? Not sure the conditions will matter too much but I do think England will sneak it due to the warm up game.

Or perhaps, and shocking as this may be... he knows something we dont? maybe Oledzki is the one with the niggle mentioned before... or Cooper is absolutely training the house down..

there we go... rather than kick out teams, build them up.. thats exactly the way we should be doing it and is the way we should have done it since 1995 (wales anyone?).. sadly it doesnt seem the RL way

phew just another t-shirt... but another "why not keep the old shirt" moment

there are blow out scores in ALL world cups too... they are supposed to be a fine balance between a celebration of the game (having as many nations as you feesably can) and finding the best team in the world and crowning them champions.

why, everything coming out of the world cup organisers is pretty positive and you have no idea what they have produced the predictions on in the first place. I am assuming the tournaments themselves will do well but may be a loss maker due to the changes from last year to this and potential issues in lost revenue in sponsors etc.. not really an issue with the teams (unless we count the aussies for being a bunch of wooses last year)

no its in number order otherwise Tom Burgess is playing 7... and I know we have a history of playing players out of position but no, just no!

wouldnt be so sure.. Young yes.. then its 3 from Welsby, Tomkins, Williams and Sneyd to start with the other on the bench I would think, as there is no ackers.

what the, where the, who the.......

please define the difference then between rubbish and disaster... if anything Eddie has underplayed how bad you think it would be surely... disaster is pretty much the worst it could be outside of apocalyptic..

no. no... no-one is their friend..

Hang on.. how does that work, surely as a prophet you should be answering other peoples questions before they ask them.. how can it work that you have something that answers your questions before you ask them, isnt that just God? or is that an ecumenical question?

Yep there is 2 weeks to give people a go or rest any knocks that are picked up in the first big game.. if this were second or third you may try to play some games and cotton wool some players but not game 1 surely. the only one i can thin is maybe tomkins who you may play into form in france and greece but go for the gun player now..

its because you keep having to delete your browser history..

anything else?

I did spend longer thinking "that Welsh lad needs to buy new trainers" than really looking at the shirts.. I assumed greece and Lebanon turned up in suits with wedding shoes hence not wearing any... surely they had some shoes that would work ffs!

Yes, good film that..

luckily according to Oxen and the RFL everyone loves blue...