I dont know whether Danny Brough is a Scot, he doesnt sound very Scottish but, he's desperate to play well and perhaps show the England set up that they made a mistake (a bit like Bennett in his England coaching role ?).

No doubt that they played with amazing spirit and passion and they were "together" as a team.



It's superb for the game to have a 2nd tier international team doing so well.



As far as funding goes, surely, on the backk of that result, they should get an increase, which may give them chance to improve and compete even more in future ?.

they'll be working closely with the RFL on a date and time that hits that sweet spot of clashing with an England football game on TV, a stadium miles away from a train station and a kick-off time that means most fans won't be home before midnight. As much as we knock Union i'd love to have the RFU's organisation and planning.

Rugby League people never learn (neither the people who run the game nor the fans).



The biggest problem with our sport is the non-playing/coaching people in the game or who watch the game who are continually trying to or wanting to change this that and the other. Something they don't like after seeing it once or twice and they want it changing. What this sport needs is to get a format for everything and stick to it for a few decades.

Even if they stay together, in the WC next year it'll be warm on big pitches and teams will play their best team and they'll get absolutely hammered by all of the big three.



Let's not get carried away here, the pitch was tiny, the conditions were poor and the Kiwis didn't play full strength and it was a one-off leveller that you'll never see again.

the decision not to drop a goal and draw the game with the kiwis now looks even more foolish, we would have already been in the final regardless of the result tomorrow had we done that.

You can't really say that though because if the first game had finished as a draw then the following games would likely have been different. Would New Zealand still have drawn yesterday had they only drawn with England? Maybe, but unlikely.

Noble's attempts at pronouncing Watene-Zelezniak were brilliant lol

Funny that, I thought they were ignorant and disrespectful.

Only in rugby league could a load of Aussies pretending to be Scottish celebrate a draw against New Zealand as though they won the World Cup



Regards



King James

Really.....



What about England cricket team with half its team multi-nationals?

What about England Rugby Union with half its team multi-nationals?

What about the French football team with half its team multi-nationals?

What about Australia and New Zealand at pretty much every sport with their multi-nationals?



Give it a rest - that's the way of the sporting world nowadays.



I'm not very keen on being able to swap allegiances - but I understand if we want to grow the international game, currently we have to rely on multi-nationals and heritage players to fill out the squads and make them anything like competitive.



Only in rugby league can we have fans crying out for a proper international calendar, yet focus on the negatives after arguably one of the biggest ever shocks in competitive international rugby league.



If we want he international game to grow, we need more nations playing at higher levels - to achieve that currently, we need heritage players and the ability to change allegiance. Hopefully the game will grow sufficiently in these lesser RL nations and that reliance on heritage players will drop, but in the time being, can't we just enjoy the moment?

Watched it on a video sharing site today - what a match. When two teams are evenly matched on the day then RL is a sport like no other. Highlight for me was when Adam Blair charged up screaming with rage and got stopped dead. Mind you his run did kick the Kiwis two tries that should have won it. That passage f play was just great.

Hardly celebrating as though they had won the World Cup, just managed a draw with a ragtag of a squad consisting of a few Championship players, and fringe NRLers against the No1 ranked team in the world.

Somthing that one of the great superpowers of RL, England, couldn't quite manage.