Mattrhino

By sending everybody off

How did you come to that conclusion? England haven't played either of them for 4 years.

They have nobody close to the quality of Lockyer in this squad. This Aussie squad is the worst I have seen in 25 years of watching RL. They have alot of errors in this team that they just never had in years gone by. I think its 50:50 if Eng get through to the final.

Yep even when the ref seems to do well, the Kangaroos still never get penalised. You've literally got to play the perfect game to beat them.

It was a great game, and the ref did well in my opinion on the whole. But it does go to show how hard it is to beat Australia when they don't get penalised for anything.

There not even a dot of what they were even 10 years ago Slater, Cronk, Smith, Thurston, Inglis and Lockyer. They have no one close to these players now.

This will be interesting because this Kangaroo side is pretty poor relatively to the sides of previous era's but also the Kiwi side looks poor. Going life and death with Fiji is a little telling. But historically NZ do seem to play at the level of thier opposition.

Just trying to get my tickets for ER tmw. Of course I can't get on the page to buy it. I will persevere but how many people would have given up because of this shambles?

NZ have regressed in recent years, not sure it will be that close tbh

Exactly was so stupid. I assume it works with proper RL director in charge. But even so whats good about stopping the game for 2 minutes for a folly challenge.

Captains challenge is so stupid, obviously Australia knocked it on. They didn't even look at the right thing.

Ikind of tally's up with those Headingley press releases of only 150 seats left. Really weird as there was at least 1000 seats available on the night.

Yeah its funny how much derision it gets but when the hooter goes it always a tough game.

I don't get why everyone gets so worked up. Its only a competition akin to the Super Cup, Charity Shield or the FIFA club world cup etc... Just like those games, its a bit of fun but ultimately worthless. Doesn't mean it should be scrapped though. It doesn't need to be the greatest achievement in RL it can just be what it is. Which is an exhibition with some silverware at the end.

wasn't saying you did, just a rant about this early bird fallacy. Not many businesses can rely on oversubscribed events. We certainly can't so being flexible on prices is a must.

Good hit, what was the 6 again for?

Not been many other games since then mate

Watch the France v Lebanon match from 2017. It was laughable.

What a joke that set restart was.

Yep, That bit of Wales pressure had Tonga all over the shop and nothing was penalised. Loads of offsides and ruck infractions.

pulled up Wales with a couple really soft set restarts while letting Tonga off with the same.

That works if you have a in-demand event that is likely to sell out x times over. But whats the incentive to buy a ticket to an event a year in advance that won't sell out and because of some dogmatic reasons you refuse to be flexible on pricing when you have 10,000's of empty seats. Sometimes 75% of the stadium is empty.

I don't really get this. Why is it a bad thing to be dynamic and flexible on prices. If your the kind of person who buys a ticket a year in advance then you'll probably always do it. Just like the people who pay high prices on holidays 2 years in advance. Because these people like to have things organised. I'm the opposite. I like to float around at the last minute or a few months prior and look for sales or bargains. Whats wrong with trying to get the "floating voter's" cash.

Exactly, the last thing I want is a English ref. They get starstruck by the Aussies and give em everything.

Problem is the strongest French team is going to involve loads of Catalan players. And quite rightly they shouldn't have to release 10 players mid-season. Its quite a large disadvantage.