17 stone giant
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I've only been to a handful of games, so it's an easy choice for me. Tri Nations final 2004 at Elland Road: Great Britain 4 - 44 Australia. I knew the Aussies were top dogs in RL, but GB had had a good tournament until then, so I was optimistic of it at least being a decent contest. Unfortunately Australia just blew us away in the 1st half.
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Good Friday RL triple header
17 stone giant replied to Gerrumonside ref's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Will probably watch live some of the Hull derby and then the whole Wigan v St Helens game after the football has finished. I don't follow the NRL. -
League Express Podcast 24
17 stone giant replied to Martyn Sadler's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Love anything involving the GB players from especially the late 80s early 90s. -
Is it time for some silly season threads
17 stone giant replied to Dunbar's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Is it February that the season restarts? I'll see you all then. -
England v Tonga series
17 stone giant replied to Just Browny's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Is the RFL really that low on money that it can't pay for a few players to travel business class on a couple of flights to and from Australia? I know they're expensive for the average person, but these are top sports people playing for England (and it's not as if we play that often). How many players was it anyway? 5? I'm curious now how the Tongan's got here. Did we put them in some big crates and transport them as cargo? -
England v Tonga series
17 stone giant replied to Just Browny's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I'd be happy with that. Near Bletchley Park too, which is a great place to visit, and fits nicely with the rugby codebreakers thing. -
Although I initially opted for a London game, upon reading this I'm now thinking of changing my mind. Plus the additional point that someone made about the Fulham stadium only just being ready in time (and maybe not at all, if they have any further delays), means that it's probably Brentford or nothing (which is a good option, providing it's available). I then added the uncertainty about what matches in London we'd be following it up with in 2025 and 2026, in order to keep the trend going. At the moment I believe it's an Ashes tour to Australia in 2025 and a southern hemisphere world cup in 2026, so will there be any England matches in those two autumns at all, let alone any in London? If not, then we'd be putting the Samoa game in London, and then nothing else.
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Headingley Fulham/Brentford Wigan Undecided about whether London should be first or second.
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England v Tonga series
17 stone giant replied to Just Browny's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Against Australia and perhaps New Zealand, I would agree. But I think Craven Cottage would be fine for Samoa. -
England v Tonga series
17 stone giant replied to Just Browny's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Would love that. It's one of the few London stadiums that I haven't been to. As you say it fits the bill nicely. -
Is it time for some silly season threads
17 stone giant replied to Dunbar's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Mr Blobby. -
It's not compulsory to pick him or any Welsh player. It's having the option to do so. Plus he's only 26 now and was only 22 when GB last played in 2019, so who knows if he'd ever have been picked had he stayed. He was just an example anyway. The point is that without a GB team, the best Welsh and Scottish players are potentially going to be tempted by the opportunities in rugby union. Even if they prefer playing league, the chance to run out regularly in front of 60000 at Murrayfield or 75000 in Cardiff, is going to be quite a draw. And if you can't retain the best players, how will you ever get Wales and Scotland to a decent standard anyway?
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I'm also in favour of playing as GB. If GB had been playing Tonga this autumn, there could have been a warm up game for Tonga against Wales. Or a game afterwards, whatever is best. Or they could have played Wales v France as a curtain raiser before one of the tests. Or even before two or three of them if they wanted to make a series out of it. (obviously they'd have had to play the women's match elsewhere). There's so many options. Have a summer event with some combination of Wales/France/Ireland/Scotland/England/Yorkshire/Lancashire. Currently GB/England don't have many options for matches in the summer, so come up with something. Wales in particular (but also Scotland with Alan Tait and Fairburn, I think) have contributed a lot to the GB team in the past, so I want to celebrate that history and also try and encourage future Welsh players to play RL and hopefully represent GB. Without a GB team, I just feel that the top talent from Wales and Scotland will always be snaffled up by rugby union (e.g. Regan Grace has gone). Ireland wouldn't be part of GB for me. If you include them, you have to go down the rugby union Lions route of not having an anthem a flag etc. Otherwise you're showing absolutely no respect to their inclusion.
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I thought the system they used in the rugby union world cup was good - yellow card the player and then have a closer look at the incident during the 10 minute sin bin, to see if it should remain as a yellow or be upgraded to a red. Pundits at half time seemed to think that should have been a red, but either way I think having more time to assess things without needing to stop the game, is a good system.
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New Zealand coach wants more games
17 stone giant replied to Mathius Hellwege's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I think people want to watch competitive matches, not blow out scores against poor teams.- 104 replies
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