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17 stone giant

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  1. 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.
  2. Decent first half at Headingley. Poor defending for that Clark try though. Got to keep him out there. Coverage is about what you'd expect for Red Button. Not as polished as when it's on BBC 1 (e.g. no tackle count), but the commentators are doing a decent job.
  3. Looking forward to another dose of Leeds vs St Helens. It was a good game last week so hopefully more of the same this week.
  4. 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.
  5. Very good try but Leigh will be disappointed with that defending, particularly against Dodd. He got through a bit easily, I thought. Excellent play initially by Conrad to get the offload when surrounded by three or four players.
  6. Love anything involving the GB players from especially the late 80s early 90s.
  7. Is it February that the season restarts? I'll see you all then.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Headingley Fulham/Brentford Wigan Undecided about whether London should be first or second.
  12. Against Australia and perhaps New Zealand, I would agree. But I think Craven Cottage would be fine for Samoa.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. Well, we did really in 2019, albeit in GB shirts. We lost them both. Had we not fluffed the semi final last year, we would have had a chance to test ourselves against Australia. I do agree with you though that we need more games again the best teams. Won't be until 2025 though. Then we'll see.
  17. I'd forgotten it was as late as that. I was thinking more 15 mins to go. Had we lost that game it would have been the bottle job of the century!
  18. So what's the rules on that disallowed try? The video ref was saying something about it slipping out/off the hand and down the wrist/arm. I could tell he was going to give No Try, based on what he was saying. Either way, Whitehead will be gutted not to have made a cleaner job of grounding it.
  19. Lovely pass by Welsby. Smart play by No. 4 to slow down a bit so that Johnstone could catch up and not risk making a forward pass. Composed finishing by England.
  20. 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.
  21. I think people want to watch competitive matches, not blow out scores against poor teams.
  22. If only you were allowed to pass forward and there were no offsides, the Aussies would have been in there. Bless them.
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