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[i"I'm really pleased, fullstop, with the whole exercise.
"We've come across 12,000 miles, we've done things slightly different this time, we've got an extremely tough game under our belts.
"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/p ... 5939640380
If I was an England supporter it's the last line of that quote that would bother me
[i"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
England are allegedly the third best side in the world right now.
Yet they were made to look very ordinary by a side that arent even a country in their own right.
So maybe jet lag was to blame? I'm not sure when they flew... someone said about a week ago...on Air New Zealand.
Sure, Air New Zealand is not Qantas. But I'm sure they all went business class.
I've done Sydney to London and back business class before and I felt fine by the next day. The food is good, you can lie down, your ankles dont swell up and its a nice experience. Sure, economy is a bit of a grueller and it takes a week or so to feel totally back to normal... but when you are down the pointy end you can sleep for most of it.
Stacey Jones managed it ok a few years ago. He was backwards and forwards between the northern and southern hemispheres weekly from what I remember.
And Jarrod Sammut hopped off the plane and got man of the match for Crusaders on his debut if I'm not mistaken?
So how on earth can the england coach be 'really pleased'?
They have played 2 games so far... both of which they realistically should have won at a canter.
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[i"I'm really pleased, fullstop, with the whole exercise.
"We've come across 12,000 miles, we've done things slightly different this time, we've got an extremely tough game under our belts.
"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/p ... 5939640380
If I was an England supporter it's the last line of that quote that would bother me
[i"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
England are allegedly the third best side in the world right now.
Yet they were made to look very ordinary by a side that arent even a country in their own right.
So maybe jet lag was to blame? I'm not sure when they flew... someone said about a week ago...on Air New Zealand.
Sure, Air New Zealand is not Qantas. But I'm sure they all went business class.
I've done Sydney to London and back business class before and I felt fine by the next day. The food is good, you can lie down, your ankles dont swell up and its a nice experience. Sure, economy is a bit of a grueller and it takes a week or so to feel totally back to normal... but when you are down the pointy end you can sleep for most of it.
Stacey Jones managed it ok a few years ago. He was backwards and forwards between the northern and southern hemispheres weekly from what I remember.
And Jarrod Sammut hopped off the plane and got man of the match for Crusaders on his debut if I'm not mistaken?
So how on earth can the england coach be 'really pleased'?
They have played 2 games so far... both of which they realistically should have won at a canter.
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McNamara's team throws away a winning position and is lucky to scrape a draw.
He then goes on about how positives taken from the game and blah blah blah
I'm a Bradford fan and we've put up with the rubbish he comes out with for the last 4 years
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| Quote Roofaldo="Roofaldo"McNamara's team throws away a winning position and is lucky to scrape a draw.
He then goes on about how positives taken from the game and blah blah blah
I'm a Bradford fan and we've put up with the rubbish he comes out with for the last 4 years'"
Lets be honest.
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England were very impressive for the opening half of the game. Who knows how much of the second half was tiredness, how much was McBannana experimenting as reserving the energy levels of key players and how much was the usual inept rubbish we see from England.
The little scrotey Tomkins had a good game, his brother though looked completely out of his depth.
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Quote Barry_McKenzie="Barry_McKenzie"[i"I'm really pleased, fullstop, with the whole exercise.
"We've come across 12,000 miles, we've done things slightly different this time, we've got an extremely tough game under our belts.
"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/p ... 5939640380
If I was an England supporter it's the last line of that quote that would bother me
[i"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
England are allegedly the third best side in the world right now.
Yet they were made to look very ordinary by a side that arent even a country in their own right.
So maybe jet lag was to blame? I'm not sure when they flew... someone said about a week ago...on Air New Zealand.
Sure, Air New Zealand is not Qantas. But I'm sure they all went business class.
I've done Sydney to London and back business class before and I felt fine by the next day. The food is good, you can lie down, your ankles dont swell up and its a nice experience. Sure, economy is a bit of a grueller and it takes a week or so to feel totally back to normal... but when you are down the pointy end you can sleep for most of it.
Stacey Jones managed it ok a few years ago. He was backwards and forwards between the northern and southern hemispheres weekly from what I remember.
And Jarrod Sammut hopped off the plane and got man of the match for Crusaders on his debut if I'm not mistaken?
So how on earth can the england coach be 'really pleased'?
They have played 2 games so far... both of which they realistically should have won at a canter.
Shocking.'"
Come on Baz, we all know you can troll better than that. That was just a boring rant. The match against the Maoris was a warm up and nothing more. The first half was a run through of set plays and formations, so the players can get used to each other. They went 18-0 up without even trying. Second half they took their foot off the gas and played around with formations.
You can never judge a team in a warm up match. Wakey beat Leeds on Boxing Day every year in the Cravendale Cup or whatever its called. This doesn't mean we're going to finish top and win SL.
We'll see next week how out of depth players are and how much we lack talent. Personally, I'm pleased with the performance and am looking forward to the tournament. |
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Quote Barry_McKenzie="Barry_McKenzie"[i"I'm really pleased, fullstop, with the whole exercise.
"We've come across 12,000 miles, we've done things slightly different this time, we've got an extremely tough game under our belts.
"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/p ... 5939640380
If I was an England supporter it's the last line of that quote that would bother me
[i"We're absolutely where I thought we would be."[/i
England are allegedly the third best side in the world right now.
Yet they were made to look very ordinary by a side that arent even a country in their own right.
So maybe jet lag was to blame? I'm not sure when they flew... someone said about a week ago...on Air New Zealand.
Sure, Air New Zealand is not Qantas. But I'm sure they all went business class.
I've done Sydney to London and back business class before and I felt fine by the next day. The food is good, you can lie down, your ankles dont swell up and its a nice experience. Sure, economy is a bit of a grueller and it takes a week or so to feel totally back to normal... but when you are down the pointy end you can sleep for most of it.
Stacey Jones managed it ok a few years ago. He was backwards and forwards between the northern and southern hemispheres weekly from what I remember.
And Jarrod Sammut hopped off the plane and got man of the match for Crusaders on his debut if I'm not mistaken?
So how on earth can the england coach be 'really pleased'?
They have played 2 games so far... both of which they realistically should have won at a canter.
Shocking.'"
Come on Baz, we all know you can troll better than that. That was just a boring rant. The match against the Maoris was a warm up and nothing more. The first half was a run through of set plays and formations, so the players can get used to each other. They went 18-0 up without even trying. Second half they took their foot off the gas and played around with formations.
You can never judge a team in a warm up match. Wakey beat Leeds on Boxing Day every year in the Cravendale Cup or whatever its called. This doesn't mean we're going to finish top and win SL.
We'll see next week how out of depth players are and how much we lack talent. Personally, I'm pleased with the performance and am looking forward to the tournament. | |
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Exactly, a few years ago Manly came over to England (a proper team who play with eachother week in week out) and in their first match only just scraped through against Quins in a warm up....then went on to play well in the World Club Challenge (winning it if I remember correctly)... lets just see how England do when the matches matter shall we?
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I agree on the point that jet-lag can't be used as an excuse. I read someone say they played 4 or 5 days after arriving, if this is true, then how many bloody more days does one need to get over jet-lag?
The real excuse is reasonable enough, that the players who came off, particularly S. Tomkins, affected England's play too much for the worse.
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| I flew to Tenerife in August, and I still don't think I'm ready to play International RL.  |
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Jet lag is supposedly worse when you go from west to east, and I've done the long haul from London to Auckland. Let me tell you that it's no fun whatever class you're in. For much of the trip I had three seats to myself, call me greedy, and even that took a few days of re-adjustment. It has been suggested the ratio for successfully catching up with jetlag is 1 day to 1 hour of time difference.
Forget the jet lag, though, I'd rather we had a tough encounter against the Maori's and work on some set plays, rather than thump Wales/France again and get nothing out of the match. Lets not forget, the back line is still very inexperienced, at international level, we hadn't included Graham or Fielden in the front row and Morley went off quite early on.
Considering the season Gleeson has just had and the inexperience of England's backline, it seems strange he wasn't taken out as part of the squad.
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