He really would....but who could blame him for being where he is?

It takes two to tango - do you (Rogues) have a particular club in mind?



League doesn't really have an international aspect to occupy a top coach full-time - without treading on the toes of the club coaches - which I guess explains why we have a relative no-mark currently in charge of our national side.

Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Classic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgY6-rCIAAjcXM.jpg'" Lovely stuff Quote Rogues Gallery="tvoc" Quote Rogues Gallery="Harrigan"On another note too, who likes to see their national team lose at anything? '" How about this fella ? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/21795146 __________ My only real interest in Union is in hearing about England getting beat.'" It's always fun. I watched the last 20 mins of the Wales v England game, whenever I get dispirited about rugby league's or Leeds' lack of creativity or attacking flair* then I only need to watch a small amount of Union to bring me some perspective. * or tackling, defence, passing and handling, lines of running and even kicking these days

Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Classic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFgY6-rCIAAjcXM.jpg'" Lovely stuff Quote Rogues Gallery="tvoc" Quote Rogues Gallery="Harrigan"On another note too, who likes to see their national team lose at anything? '" How about this fella ? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/21795146 __________ My only real interest in Union is in hearing about England getting beat.'" It's always fun. I watched the last 20 mins of the Wales v England game, whenever I get dispirited about rugby league's or Leeds' lack of creativity or attacking flair* then I only need to watch a small amount of Union to bring me some perspective. * or tackling, defence, passing and handling, lines of running and even kicking these days

Of all the players from the world cup winning team the one player they miss the most is Will Greenwood, the current England centres offer nothing and although Barritt will tackle anything but you need more at this level and Tuilangi is a strong runner but again is very one dimensional. To be fair though the back three are average as well, Ashton has been terrible in this in this 6 nations and has been found out big style, Goode is a fat cart horse who offers nothing from full back and Brown is playing out of position. I'm also not sure why Owen Farrell seems so highly rated, the 'related to panface syndrome' perhaps?



On a side note I think George North would be a superb RL player.

Good goal-kicker apparently as his 1 from 3 bears amply testament to. What's Sinfield for Leeds since the start of the play-offs in 2012 - 48 from 49 (98%)



I noted as someone said earlier that the MOTM made 4 carries for 35 meters in total (most of those presumably came from the break for the second/final try) and a monumental 8 tackles....... outstanding effort





Meanwhile at the same time in a proper game of rugby taking place in Huddersfield, Danny Houghton was making 65 tackles and plenty of other as yet unstatified contributions.



Back at the other event the referee was penalising virtually every scrum and at one point was telling the England hooker the precise blade of grass he had to stand on and woe-betide him if he chose to stand on even the one next to it. It took three attempts and he still managed to find an infringement somewhere for something or other..... against England obviously.

I laughed when they flashed up a stat that showed one of the welsh forwards had made 4 carries for 4 metres.

It was Sam Warburton and it was 3 carries for 3 meteres.

I have just read this right?



England only scored 1 try in the whole competition?



Why do people watch this sport?

I hate to stick up for them (even slightly) but they got 5 tries in the competition. 4 against Scotchland and the offside one against France.

Oh...Ok.



So that's an average of 1 try per game.



All makes sense now. With that kind of strike rate I'm surprised the sport doesn't attract even more supporters.

In defence of RU forwards, unlike their league counterparts, they have to compete for the ball by rucking or mauling at evey tackle and they do have to push a bit at the scrums. I would love to see some league forwards stats for average metres per carry if the defensive line didn't have to retire 10 metres and there were 15 defenders on the pitch. We would see minus numbers for some of the Leeds pack.

Thats why those of us with half an ounce of common sense view it as a different game with a different viewing head on and its why those who p1ss and whine all the time about the two codes demonstrate admirably that they don't actually possess even the half an ounce of sense required.



Number of tries ?



Presumably the 70+ point thrashings that occur from time to time every season in superleague are the pinnacle of the season, for tries is what its all about isn't it ?



Its why 0-0 scores in football are obviously the lowest point in a season for most fans.