Scubby Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I hope this is a joke? Could there be anything more stupid than this premise? We are a corner shop organisation - end of! So GB are England after all?? FFS Does this mean Australia and NZ also get ranking points because they had some test players in the Tongan Squad? What about Marty Taupau defecting from NZ to Samoa - does this hurt NZ's ranking? It is not difficult!! This idea sounds right out of the Nigel Wood "second half winners" playbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleD Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Does anyone really care about rankings? The GB squad is England plus Coote so don’t see the issue tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Kevin Sinfield Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 7 minutes ago, DoubleD said: Does anyone really care about rankings? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I must admit when I read the thread title my immediate reaction was "Oh yes they can." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmduck Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I'm more confused about their new rankings - more accurately about how the assessments are expressed. Under their old system, teams got points for games played and results, Now they get % ratings, where the #1 Country is deemed to be 100% and the others are all ranked accordingly: ENG 96.86%, NZ 94.47% and so on. Surely they need to keep the points system to calculate these relative percentages so why not just express them as points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulga Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Yep, they certainly can. I've voiced my opinion on this topic elsewhere. It's Mickey Mouse. They count towards Golden Boot also which I'm not happy about. Shouldn't be counted as a test, count towards rankings or Golden Boot. Absolute joke. There are other groups of nations like Latin Heat, Africa United and ASEAN that play games, do they get this treatment? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewWoody Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Why no golden boot? It's international rugby league. By the way, I seriously doubt any British player will win it this season Toronto Wolfpack Global Ambassador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 What about Joe Philbin - never played a senior game for England but has played 3 World Cup games for Ireland. Are their rankings impacted? TIN POT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulga Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 4 minutes ago, MatthewWoody said: Why no golden boot? It's international rugby league. By the way, I seriously doubt any British player will win it this season international /ɪntəˈnaʃ(ə)n(ə)l/ adjective existing, occurring, or carried on between nations. "Great Britain is not a country; it’s a landmass. It is known as ‘Great’ because it is the largest island in the British Isles, and houses the countries of England, Scotland and Wales within its shores." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewWoody Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Toronto Wolfpack Global Ambassador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Picture Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 58 minutes ago, Scubby said: I hope this is a joke? Could there be anything more stupid than this premise? We are a corner shop organisation - end of! So GB are England after all?? FFS Does this mean Australia and NZ also get ranking points because they had some test players in the Tongan Squad? What about Marty Taupau defecting from NZ to Samoa - does this hurt NZ's ranking? It is not difficult!! This idea sounds right out of the Nigel Wood "second half winners" playbook. Of course they can. They were stupid enough to put three Internationals together as a triple header weren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubby Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 33 minutes ago, Spidey said: What about Joe Philbin - never played a senior game for England but has played 3 World Cup games for Ireland. Are their rankings impacted? TIN POT WTF? Forgot about that. Also, a number of these players have never played for England like Hastings and Austin and still technically qualify to play for Australia in 2020. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave T Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Even the relatively simple, normal stuff is a mess in RL. If England RL cant be passed to play games, surely they get no points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSaint Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Spud will be along in a minute to tell you to stop listening to journalists on Twitter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roughyedspud Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 So when Queensland beat NSW does that affect Australia's ranking points? OLDHAM RLFC the 8TH most successful team in british RL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayCee Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I was wondering how GB was going to affect the rankings. If NZ get a ranking score for playing GB, but GB don't get anything because they are not on the list, that would be ridiculous. How can you gain a ranking score playing a side not even on the rankings list? The team has to be classed as England to do that. While there are people that want a GB team, I would prefer the home nations all play separately. This is for all intents and purposes an England side and should have been called such. Switching from England to GB and back again sends out a confused message IMO. My blog: https://rugbyl.blogspot.co.nz/ It takes wisdom to know when a discussion has run its course. It takes reasonableness to end that discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langpark Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 The RLIF/IRL Can't Be This Stupid Can They? My thoughts exactly when I realised they paid all that money to fly a British ref out, only to ref GB matches and have Aussie refs reffing the Australia matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubby Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 15 minutes ago, langpark said: The RLIF/IRL Can't Be This Stupid Can They? My thoughts exactly when I realised they paid all that money to fly a British ref out, only to ref GB matches and have Aussie refs reffing the Australia matches. Now the Aussies have finished their programme, Sutton will be allowed to be a neutral ref again. Looks like agent Sutton didn't work out for Mal this time. Really like Sutton as a ref btw but the NRL has too much power about who does what. Ref appointments should be nothing to do with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadera78 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 16 hours ago, Scubby said: I hope this is a joke? Could there be anything more stupid than this premise? We are a corner shop organisation - end of! So GB are England after all?? FFS Does this mean Australia and NZ also get ranking points because they had some test players in the Tongan Squad? What about Marty Taupau defecting from NZ to Samoa - does this hurt NZ's ranking? It is not difficult!! This idea sounds right out of the Nigel Wood "second half winners" playbook. This whole sport is such a joke it's scarcely believable. "Just as we had been Cathars, we were treizistes, men apart." Jean Roque, Calendrier-revue du Racing-Club Albigeois, 1958-1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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