Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 11:16 am  

post wrote:

Spot on, Bennett has been very naive with this 9s comp.

We played Test Match cricket in a 20/20 match.

Why pick props? Then pick 3 and 3 halfbacks and 2noversize wingers who are out of form and slow?

Ridiculous in my opinion, we should have played a normal team without a 6, without the props and the 13. We should have thrown it around more and kept the ball alive but we seemed to want to play the percentages and the game was over before they had chance to do anything. The worst part is we had zero speed, does Bennett watch Superleague? By the his squad picks I doubt he does.

Theres umpteen players in Superleague who would have done well in 9s but not so well in the 13 a side 80 game.

Players with speed like Liam Marshall, Oliver Gildart, Dan Sarginson, Mark Percival, Tommy Makinson, Adam Swift, Josh Charley, Nial Evalds, Josh Griffin, Jake Bibby, Stefan Ratchford, Brad Dwyer, Mike McMeekin, Joel Tomkins, Ryan Hampshire, Johnny Lomax, Joe Burgess, Zak Hardaker, Jamie Shaul, Jack Walker, Danny Kirkmond,

Yep. The only reason I can think of for going with the team he has is he’s going to use most of them in the test series and is using the 9’s as warm up

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:02 pm  

rollin thunder wrote:

Continuous casual racism by the commentators, constantly referring to England as “the Poms” yoy would not teger to a Jamaican team as the N***s or An Indian team as the W*gs but then again its Australia would expect no less than that backwards bigoted nation.

Pom isn't a derogatory term. It is equivalent to you saying Aussie - which we don't have any problem with.
In fact, my father was born in Cambridge, and my nickname for many years was little pom, because my father was big pom - and it never even occurred to me to be insulted by that.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:14 pm  

Him wrote:

Yep. The only reason I can think of for going with the team he has is he’s going to use most of them in the test series and is using the 9’s as warm up

Or it’s a cost saving exercise.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:57 pm  

roopy wrote:

Pom isn't a derogatory term. It is equivalent to you saying Aussie - which we don't have any problem with.
In fact, my father was born in Cambridge, and my nickname for many years was little pom, because my father was big pom - and it never even occurred to me to be insulted by that.

Offensive or not, it's not the same as calling you guys Aussies. That would surely be calling us Brits? Pom is rhyming slang for immigrant isnt it?

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:30 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Well Chris Kendall just pretty much gave the title to Australia with a terrible call there. No idea how they gave that try, I could tell in real time Feldt lost the ball.

Good to see he's exporting his undoubted skills down under, after trashing Salford at OT.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:32 pm  

Property Of (his/her) Majesty.....deported convicts.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:41 pm  

Samuel Tomkins, formerly of Wigan Warriors, now with the Catalans Dragons, was the star of the England side, and showed why he is one of the greatest open field attacking players that England has ever produced. Only the immortal Roger Millward comes to mind as a better attacking half. What a pity that Australians and New Zealanders did not see the best of him during his injury hampered NRL years.

Samuel Tomkins is truly sublime in attack, and worth every euro that M. Guasch paid for his services.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekendko : Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:31 pm  

post wrote:

Spot on, Bennett has been very naive with this 9s comp.

We played Test Match cricket in a 20/20 match.

Why pick props? Then pick 3 and 3 halfbacks and 2noversize wingers who are out of form and slow?

Ridiculous in my opinion, we should have played a normal team without a 6, without the props and the 13. We should have thrown it around more and kept the ball alive but we seemed to want to play the percentages and the game was over before they had chance to do anything. The worst part is we had zero speed, does Bennett watch Superleague? By the his squad picks I doubt he does.

Theres umpteen players in Superleague who would have done well in 9s but not so well in the 13 a side 80 game.

Players with speed like Liam Marshall, Oliver Gildart, Dan Sarginson, Mark Percival, Tommy Makinson, Adam Swift, Josh Charley, Nial Evalds, Josh Griffin, Jake Bibby, Stefan Ratchford, Brad Dwyer, Mike McMeekin, Joel Tomkins, Ryan Hampshire, Johnny Lomax, Joe Burgess, Zak Hardaker, Jamie Shaul, Jack Walker, Danny Kirkmond,

Great post! Until I saw kirkmond mentioned mind

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekendko : Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:43 pm  

thepimp007 wrote:

Great post! Until I saw kirkmond mentioned mind

I had to throw another Yarkshire player in for appeasement purposes. He was the only one off the top of my head and I based it on previous seasons.

Re: International Nines in Aus this weekend : Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:29 pm  

I just want to know wtf Kirkmond is.