kiwileaguefan

Jan 17 2010, 05:18 PM

To be honest i cant see any other European nations challanging France or Wales during the Euro Cup. So does France still have to much class for Wales??

Would be great to see Wales win and make it through to the Four nations and play the Kiwis and Australia

I would almost wish it was a Five nations tournment!

Warrior

Jan 17 2010, 06:08 PM

kiwileaguefan

Jan 17 2010, 05:18 PM

To be honest i cant see any other European nations challanging France or Wales during the Euro Cup. So does France still have to much class for Wales??

Would be great to see Wales win and make it through to the Four nations and play the Kiwis and Australia

I would almost wish it was a Five nations tournment!

Welcome aboard kiwi, good to see another from the land of the long white cloud here.
You're right, it'll more than likely be a wales-france final, no other country will be able to match them, france will probably be too strong for wales.



A wee bit off topic, but do you support the new zealand warriors?
Iv'e supported them ever since they became part of the NRL.

kiwileaguefan

Jan 17 2010, 06:19 PM

Warrior

Jan 17 2010, 06:08 PM

kiwileaguefan

Jan 17 2010, 05:18 PM

To be honest i cant see any other European nations challanging France or Wales during the Euro Cup. So does France still have to much class for Wales??

Would be great to see Wales win and make it through to the Four nations and play the Kiwis and Australia

I would almost wish it was a Five nations tournment!

Welcome aboard kiwi, good to see another from the land of the long white cloud here.
You're right, it'll more than likely be a wales-france final, no other country will be able to match them, france will probably be too strong for wales.



A wee bit off topic, but do you support the new zealand warriors?
Iv'e supported them ever since they became part of the NRL.

Hey Mate,

Thanks, yup i am a mad Warriors fan...just spent $650 on the new Warriors range for me and my boy! Was a Penrith fan till the Warriors arrived! Where are you? Im currently in Palmy moving to Wellys.

sportsmad

Jan 17 2010, 06:51 PM

$180! f**k that! after xmas here all 2009 NRL jerseys were $50 at Rebel Sport. I went to Peter Wynn's Store aswell where they had "most 2009 NRL jerseys $50" but the warriors were the exception. i asked why and the guy said that its because their 2010 jersey is exactly the same as their 2009 one. Thus i bought a warriors snow jacket that was reduced from $130 to $50 haha. I have the white away jersey already though.

back on topic; i really hope France and wales are the finalists. they deserve it more. theyre the two teams using actual french and welsh players. as people on this forum would probably know by now, i think there should be a high quota of domestic players in each team.

i agree, these two teams are definitely the best outside of the 2010 four nations. they would clearly be the teams included in a 6 nations tournament. i also agree with nut that until someone starts beating aus, nz or england a 5 or 6 nations tournament cant come about.

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$180! f**k that!

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i really hope France and wales are the finalists.

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i also agree with nut that until someone starts beating aus, nz or england a 5 or 6 nations tournament cant come about.

Warrior

Jan 17 2010, 06:55 PM

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i also agree with nut that until someone starts beating aus, nz or england a 5 or 6 nations tournament cant come about.

Same, it would be pointless having an expanded comp when it will be just the same 3 heavyweights winning it all the time.

sportsmad

Jan 17 2010, 07:08 PM

the RLIF have stated that there's no chance of changing the format of the four nations in this cycle (up until the 2013 rlwc)

Rugby League Nut

Jan 17 2010, 07:05 PM

Warrior

Jan 17 2010, 06:55 PM

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i also agree with nut that until someone starts beating aus, nz or england a 5 or 6 nations tournament cant come about.

Same, it would be pointless having an expanded comp when it will be just the same 3 heavyweights winning it all the time.

To expand before teams are ready will only damage the 4 Nations product and international rugby league. I think the powers that be realise that international rugby league is a fragile beast and needs time for nations to grow.

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international rugby league is a fragile beast and needs time for nations to grow.

Warrior

Jan 17 2010, 07:11 PM

Dead right there, it does need time to grow in other countries, hopefully within the next few years more countries become competitive.
Having the same 3 nations at the top year after year can't be good for the sport.

Rugby League Nut

Jan 17 2010, 07:19 PM

Warrior

Jan 17 2010, 07:11 PM

Dead right there, it does need time to grow in other countries, hopefully within the next few years more countries become competitive.
Having the same 3 nations at the top year after year can't be good for the sport.

We nearly had our wish in the 2008 WC when PNG just about beat England.

Much will happen in the next 4 years leading up to the World Cup.

Wales and France will be much better and I think the Pacific Nations will be full of NRL/Super League players.

So anything is possible come 2014

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We nearly had our wish in the 2008 WC when PNG just about beat England.

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Much will happen in the next 4 years leading up to the World Cup.

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Wales and France will be much better

Italia

Jan 20 2010, 12:45 PM

If Italia got a old of some of the pro ones than watch out.

Would have a awesome forward pack. E.g. Marco Ferrazzano (Current Captain) + Michael Minichiello + Laffranchi + Rocky Trimarchi (now with Crusaders) + M. Sands (Italian bred - in LER 2) + Ciraldo (Newcastle Knights)

Backs - A. Minichiello, Rovelli (NQ), Campese, Nero, Franze.

They are the major ones. Although it depend on if they are proud of their heritage and will step up (or the NRL/ESL ones)

Jake75

Jan 20 2010, 01:36 PM

Italia

Jan 20 2010, 12:45 PM

If Italia got a old of some of the pro ones than watch out.

Would have a awesome forward pack. E.g. Marco Ferrazzano (Current Captain) + Michael Minichiello + Laffranchi + Rocky Trimarchi (now with Crusaders) + M. Sands (Italian bred - in LER 2) + Ciraldo (Newcastle Knights)

Backs - A. Minichiello, Rovelli (NQ), Campese, Nero, Franze.

They are the major ones. Although it depend on if they are proud of their heritage and will step up (or the NRL/ESL ones)

That would be a good team!


I wonder if they will be approached by Italy before the Euro Cup. Players like A.Minichello won't make the Aussie team again but might want to represent his heritage.

canrai

Jan 23 2010, 12:35 AM

france should win comfortably but as for the losing team i'd bet on scotland to be there. wales may have played good at this euro cup but only a year before that they got their arse handed to 'em buy lebanon to miss qualification for the world cup. i dont believe the other euro nations took wales as seriously as they should've. also with having france in this years comp it should force the other teams to step up, i think they will wanna see how they rate.
so france and scotland

NBBlues

Mar 24 2010, 09:42 AM

I hope its televised in Aus.

Rugby League Nut

Jan 17 2010, 05:26 PM

I also which we had a 5 nations

As soon as one of the competing nations (france, Wales PNG, etc) beat on of the big three in the Four Nations they should be included from then on and then the 5th team qualifies.

NBBlues

Mar 24 2010, 10:54 AM

Funnily enough that had already happened back in the 85-88 WC series, PNG beat NZ 24-22 in front of 15000 in Port Moresby (don’t get me started on why they aren’t allowing PNG to host games this year when they were hosting them years ago), then backed it up in the 89-92 WC series with good results against Australia, comparable or better than either NZ or France could achieve. Aus 36 def PNG 14 in Townsville. These WC series were good for PNG/France as it gave them big nations to test themselves against every year, when it went back to a tournament, bang, nothing for the years in between.

It is also amazing how much damage the 2000 WC seems to have done, scaring organizers to aim for small crowds e.g. shutting a whole stand for the 4N Final at Elland road. Compare that crowd with the 89-92 Final of 73,630 and the '95 final of 66,500 both held at Wembley, hell, the '95 semi final Eng v Wales got 30,000 at Manchester!

I would love to see a 6 Nations, England, France from the north and Australia and NZ from the south plus a qualifier from each Hemisphere from the respective cups. After this years 6 Nation Union tourney, we should show everyone how good rugby can be.

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Funnily enough that had already happened back in the 85-88 WC series, PNG beat NZ 24-22 in front of 15000 in Port Moresby (don’t get me started on why they aren’t allowing PNG to host games this year when they were hosting them years ago), then backed it up in the 89-92 WC series with good results against Australia, comparable or better than either NZ or France could achieve. Aus 36 def PNG 14 in Townsville. These WC series were good for PNG/France as it gave them big nations to test themselves against every year, when it went back to a tournament, bang, nothing for the years in between.

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It is also amazing how much damage the 2000 WC seems to have done, scaring organizers to aim for small crowds e.g. shutting a whole stand for the 4N Final at Elland road. Compare that crowd with the 89-92 Final of 73,630 and the '95 final of 66,500 both held at Wembley, hell, the '95 semi final Eng v Wales got 30,000 at Manchester!

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I would love to see a 6 Nations, England, France from the north and Australia and NZ from the south plus a qualifier from each Hemisphere from the respective cups. After this years 6 Nation Union tourney, we should show everyone how good rugby can be.

Clarency

Apr 13 2010, 10:28 PM

I'd really like to see some NRL fellas go over to play for Italy. It really would boost the development and participation of the domestic league.


I hope.... >_<

kiwileaguefan

Jul 29 2010, 06:10 PM

Pitty Wales are not playing England again this year. They have been making good progress against them, and i think it will really help them for when they play France.