It's all a question of good judgement really. Something you obviously don't possess!

Great game. Really wanted Leeds to win, great defence in the second stanza.

At the end of a hard season fatigue and injury can come in. How would it be fair if a team has been strong all season then has one slight off game and loses and that means they lose the chance of being world champions after all that season's work! It should be over performance over the whole season IMO.

Congratulations to Leeds on a good performance, but as a 'competition' the WCC is merely on a par with football's Community Shield??



Play the game alternatively between Australia and England, play it 2 or 3 games into the Aussie season, and then maybe you would have a more realistic and serious contest.



At the moment, you have one side treating it as a Cup final, the other has a pre-season friendly.



Yes, Manly might have been giving their all, but match fitness-wise, they were yards behind Leeds.....Wire, Wigan, Catalan, Huddersfield and Saints would all have beaten that Manly side last night - In six weeks time, none of them would get within 10 points of them.

Credit where it due, leeds defence is pritty awesome at times ( play-off game at hj). BJB would be great in attack at fullback but could be bit shaky in defence can't really picture him stopping many people 1v1 , but i also didn't see leeds winning the GF last year or them winning this game so my judgement on RL has taken a knock recently.



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I wouldn't have said it is treated as a Cup final by English teams.



The only English fans that go on about the WCC as a major achievement are Widnes fans and to an extent Wigan about the time they won in Brisbane.



When Leeds, Bradford and Saints have won it it's been more a case of "yeah good win, who are we playing next week?"

That's a fair enough assessment, but if you listen to the Sky team, this makes Leeds the World's best??...





I think another thing (and its certainly a positive for the British game) is that British fans have embraced the game, as seen by last night's crowd and overall good atmosphere - However, you wonder how the Aussies actually view this match??....An inconvenience?... A nice pre-season holiday for the lads??



From the Aussies apathetic response to actually wanting to host the game anytime, you sense this is purely an exercise for the RFL and Sky to try and promote our game in this country, with the Aussies being a game participant.

The Aussies do view it as an inconvenience as they don't feel they have to beat an English team to prove themselves as best in the world.



It's like if there was a European Challenge to find the best team in Europe, played between the SL champions and the winners of the French Elite Championship. Would the UK public be that excited about seeing whether Leeds could beat Lezignan to show that they are the strongest side in Europe?

Simple answer to this is don't listen to the Sky team. I don't. 90% of their analysis is hype. The other 10% is garbage.

But at the end of the season, you actually play the team that won the final. Where was Hopoate, one of the best players in the NRL? Furthermore, doesn't your argument show a flaw in any final? Why should any side perform all season, only to lose the chance of being a champion when they're tired at the end? If we're to claim it a match between the 'world's best sides', then it should be the sides that won them their respective championships. Would last night's result have been different if Manly had Hopoate, or Robertson? You never know, but you would if it was played at the season's end.



Either way, if they don't play it at the season's end, it should be done during the season so the Aussies can at least be fit for it.

Hopoate isn't around for the next 2 years. He's gone to be a Mormon Missionary!

Hmmmmm, I think Sally was upto his usual trick of laying out a little bait and waiting for a bite...





His argument was one that many Wire fans were using when we got dumped out the play-offs by a Leeds side that bore little resemblence, form-wise, to what they had been for the 27 game league season.