Re: England team for PNG. : Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:31 am  

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... ew_Guinea/

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... ew_Guinea/

Re: England team for PNG. : Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:32 am  

Builth Wells Wire wrote:

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/15670240.How_the_Wolves_players_fared_for_England_against_Papua_New_Guinea/

Spoke to Kevin he said he would be fine for next week.

Re: England team for PNG. : Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:39 pm  

Good to have made it through to semi finals!,

On the whole the teambplay did well when not giving possession away which has been an issue all tournament Tonga can punish us more than png did. I think the errors are often the players tm going for the ball that if comes off will create a break but it's a 50/50 ball. We need to be making better choices than that to overcome Tonga and then Australia.

I think as we seem to get through each game there's a moment tum a day confidance building in the team both ourselves and Tonga will have been in tough games come this final whereas Australia will have had a relatively easy run through to the final this too could play in our favour.

Again after today he had to start with Roby??

Re: England team for PNG. : Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:04 pm  

Dezzies_right_hook wrote:

Good to have made it through to semi finals!,

On the whole the teambplay did well when not giving possession away which has been an issue all tournament Tonga can punish us more than png did. I think the errors are often the players tm going for the ball that if comes off will create a break but it's a 50/50 ball. We need to be making better choices than that to overcome Tonga and then Australia.

I think as we seem to get through each game there's a moment tum a day confidance building in the team both ourselves and Tonga will have been in tough games come this final whereas Australia will have had a relatively easy run through to the final this too could play in our favour.

Again after today he had to start with Roby??

The only tough game we have had is Australia... all the rest have been comfortable wins against poor teams. We just beat PNG by 30 points when our completion rate was close to 50 percent, they were hopeless.

Tonga actually have 5-6 players who could get into the England team, so it should be a decent game.

Re: England team for PNG. : Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:06 am  

As a question regarding the World Cup generally, what is the thinking behind scheduling any semi-final (particularly one England were always likely to play in) for a 5am kick off in the UK, when they have even managed (and this is quite an achievement for 5am in November) to set up a clash with the first Ashes cricket test? Would a kick off at 9am not be the obvious thing to maximise TV views and even possibly attract some casual sports viewers after the cricket has ended? Doesn’t the game need to help itself sometimes?

Re: England team for PNG. : Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:18 am  

MarginMeter wrote:

As a question regarding the World Cup generally, what is the thinking behind scheduling any semi-final (particularly one England were always likely to play in) for a 5am kick off in the UK, when they have even managed (and this is quite an achievement for 5am in November) to set up a clash with the first Ashes cricket test? Would a kick off at 9am not be the obvious thing to maximise TV views and even possibly attract some casual sports viewers after the cricket has ended? Doesn’t the game need to help itself sometimes?

I think you are assuming they give a t0$$ about the comp. You are correct though gain maximum exposure, I read somewhere maybe on here that in and around Melbourne there was hardly any promotional stuff regarding the England v PNG game until you approached the stadium.