: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:37 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i hope Manly win.

Aussie RL fans really need a boost.

how long is it since an Australian rugby league team (at club or national level) won an international competition??? 3 years now isnt it. at least you have State of Origin though.

yes but I think a big shake-up is clearly needed in the Origin series, it used to produce the goods in that the players kicked on to international success from there, but of late . . .

Where did it all go wrong?

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:42 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i hope Manly win.

Aussie RL fans really need a boost.

how long is it since an Australian rugby league team (at club or national level) won an international competition??? 3 years now isnt it. at least you have State of Origin though.

The English game needs the boost ,not us !

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:51 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i hope Manly win.

Aussie RL fans really need a boost.

how long is it since an Australian rugby league team (at club or national level) won an international competition??? 3 years now isnt it. at least you have State of Origin though.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:16 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

i hope Manly win.

Aussie RL fans really need a boost.

how long is it since an Australian rugby league team (at club or national level) won an international competition??? 3 years now isnt it. at least you have State of Origin though.

3 years vs 40 years.

yeah i know who needs it more.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:11 am  

i'm sure we won a series in 2007...

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:58 am  

dally messenger wrote:

3 years vs 40 years.

yeah i know who needs it more.

England won a series in 2007, plus the World Club Challenge in 2007 and 2008. New Zealand won the World Cup in 2008.

The last thing that an Australian team won was the 2006 Tri-Nations.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:59 pm  

the last time england beat australia in a series, we were talking about landing a man on the moon

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:49 am  

Jonesy wrote:

You do that mate.
Nobody in Australia gives a rat booty about the game.

From the Horses mouth....
Manly will play their strongest team for the second half on Sunday. The first half will be used to give everyone on the touring party a run out.
Either way....no rookie team

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:11 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Either way....no rookie team

There's always one person who has to spoil an entertaining argument by introducing facts. Shame on you gutterfax.

: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:03 am  

dally messenger wrote:

the last time england beat australia in a series, we were talking about landing a man on the moon

Maybe so but the last time GB beat the current world champions in a test series was under 2 years ago, the fact remains GB have won more in the last few years than Australia.