Sat 29 Oct: RLWC: Australia v Italy KO 19:30

[bratman]

No way was that forward from Italy just before Aus score.

[GeordieSaint]

Just now, DavidM said:

Tell ya their defence is far from watertight

Plenty of mistakes in them too. Lebanon will be tough game but they’ll be undercooked for the Kiwis. It’ll be a great game. 

[DavidM]

Refs often seem to give those pens on the reaction of the player

[tiffers]

Some of the defensive antics have been very liberal... quite frustrating that they get away with it time and time again.

Yes, their kicking game has been very good. But I am struggling to see how the forwards can lay that platform against Burgess and Hill... I'd fancy England to be dominant in that scenario. Perhaps less so when they aren't on the field. England look just as good out wide too.

Interesting to see Italy exposing them out wide and getting numbers on them several times over. They are not as well refined yet as some of the previous Aussie teams we have seen...

[shrewsbury roughyed]

Aussie number 18 does more lying on than my duvet 

[DavidM]

I like Campbell Graham , he’s a real goer

[Chrispmartha]

I think the Italians have done pretty good in this game 

[Futtocks]

4 minutes ago, DavidM said:

I like Campbell Graham , he’s a real goer

He quietly over-achieves, week in, week out.

[Szymala]

Am I the only one who thinks this Australian team is extremely beatable ?

[Futtocks]

1 minute ago, Szymala said:

Am I the only one who thinks this Australian team is extremely beatable ?

Let's see them pressured and pushed before we write them off, okay?

[Chrispmartha]

2 minutes ago, Szymala said:

Am I the only one who thinks this Australian team is extremely beatable ?

I think it’s difficult to tell from these early stages, if you look at the ‘big 3’ England look far and away the best of them, but I think it will all look a little different in the QF and semis

[Northern Eel]

5,586 in attendance.

[Szymala]

31 minutes ago, dkw said:

How was that a penalty?  Why do English refs constantly feed tge Auusies decisions, its so weird.

Because they're all fanboys - and eager to be appointed for the final/semi-finals.

[Dunbar]

2 minutes ago, Szymala said:

Am I the only one who thinks this Australian team is extremely beatable ?

Yes, I think they are beatable.  Maybe not extremely, but beatable.

I still have them as favourites but I think both New Zealand and England are very capable of beating them and they will have to beat both (or whoever beats England if they don't make the final). That is not an easy ask.

[Szymala]

1 minute ago, Futtocks said:

Let's see them pressured and pushed before we write them off, okay?

I'm not daft enough to write them off. Far from it.

But they don't give me that sense of hopelessness that former Kangaroo touring teams did.

[Davo5]

Liam Moore dishing out plenty of cheap set restarts.

[bratman]

Just now, Davo5 said:

Liam Moore dishing out plenty of cheap set restarts.

There's hardly anything in some of them. Need to ditch it.

[ehbandit]

6 again is sh@t! Bring back penalties for PTB offences, then at least we would know what they have been given for.

[Dunbar]

4 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Let's see them pressured and pushed before we write them off, okay?

Very true. But as I type this they are beating Italy 60-6 after 79 minutes which is the scoreline England beat Samoa with all their NRL Grand Finalists.

We are allowed to have some confidence and not be awe inspired. 

[graveyard johnny]

66-6 is it halloween or something? oh crikey - hang on!

[Desert Skipper]

Third world?

[graveyard johnny]

big mal putting all the praise on Italy  from the start of the interview and obviously not 100% happy with his team - great man - a real legend 

[Szymala]

13 minutes ago, Northern Eel said:

5,586 in attendance.

Poor effort to see 'big Mal' back at St Helens, surely.

[Old Frightful]

On 27/10/2022 at 08:42, StandOffHalf said:

Australia 66-6

Holy smokes!

Very impressive.

 

[DavidM]

Just now, Szymala said:

Poor effort to see 'big Mal' back at St Helens, surely.

Sorry but i agree it really is with Big Mal and The Kangaroos team in town