Just seen on Sky that a friendly has been arranged in October prior to the four nations...now heres the bit that amused me..the week after the only Welsh based team in Super League moved to Newport, a friendly is arranged and will be played at (drum roll please..) Bridgend, Brewery Field..the place the only Welsh based SL team have just left!!!! I may be being a little picky and this may all have been arranged before Celtic moved and i am posting this slightly tounge in cheek. Hope its closer on the scoreboard than last time

Well, where is it being played, Brigend or Rodney Parade?

EDITED...

A basic ignorance of rugby league on display there

1)"..the week after the only Welsh based team in Super League moved to Newport, a friendly is arranged "

- a) Crusaders played one game at Newport. They're still based at Bridgend. They'll move to Newport for two years next year. After that, afaik, the plan is to move back to the new stadium being built in Bridgend.

- b) The friendly hasn't been arranged this week. It's been in the calendar since the beginning fo the year.


2)" … and will be played at (drum roll please..) Bridgend, Rodney Parade..the place the only Welsh based SL team have just left!!!!"

- a) Crusaders haven't just left Bridgend, see above.

- b) Rodney Parade is the rugby ground in Newport. Brewery Field is the rugby ground in Bridgend.

Already two threads on this.
One on Celtic's forum, other on International rugby.

Toys back in the pram "tb" (1) i edited it when i spotted my geographical error and more importantly..i did state it was a tongue in cheek post. Calm yourself down fella!!!

EXPLAINS WHY YOU WERE EXILED

Afraid you're wrong on that one tb - it's been in the pipeline, but it appeared to be a toss up between Newport, Bridgend, Neath and Llanelli with regards to the venue.

Thought the venue at Neath had been confirmed myself.

Boring match....Wales will be smashed. Just a competitive training session before we play France and smash them. We'll then get cocky and think we're all that before NZ and Aus whip us. All you have to do is repeat this process every year and you've got the 4 nations as it is and will be for some time.

Guess its the only option, we just need to see it out so France and Wales can get better and actually give us a contest. Then, maybe we'll have a competitive midseason fixture like they do down under!

Thats how it goes.



Thats the plan in time.

I can see it now, the match will be played at Brewery Field on a glue pot of a pitch, this will keep the score down.
The RFL will announce Wales have made good progress and congratulate themselves on the Crusaders being allowed into superleague.
Does anybody else think our professional game is run by amateurs.

Take it you'll be giving it a miss then.

I'll say it all for you right now.

"We were tired because we had to play that extra game against Wales as a warm up and we play so many games so our players were tired and saints and leeds and its just as hot in Townsville and...and...and.."

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fair enough to both counts. England need a warm-up game before the Tri Nations, it'll be a chance to give the Grand Finalists a week to freshen up physically and mentally, but also blood fringe players at the top level.

Resting the frontliners in a test match that's played away from home is sensible and logical. GB needs more depth, the fans want to see how the young players do.

Wales need and deserve a top-line game against elite European nations, especially against the regional power England, and this is the best way to develop the international game.

I thought we were talking about League

'Brewary Field is not at a good enough standard for Super League, however it is good enough for an international, ya know, the pinnacle of the game...'

When the international game in the rest of the world is going from strength to strength, the RFL continues to make a joke out of it in this country. This is just one joke in a series of jokes which makes me think the World Cup is going to be a disaster in the RFLs hands

Think the world cup will be a great competition, but that will largely depend on fans.
With some fans saying it'll be a disaster four years before it actually takes place you could yet prove me wrong.

The WC just gone was a great competition, but the RFL treat the international game with much less respect then even the Aussies do. The fans wont flock to most of the games. Not because they wont take to international RL, its just I can see the RFL making the competition seem so insignificant

Guess I'm just a half full person. Have started saving already. Hopefully a grand in the bank will get me all over the tournament and great final tickets.

For someone living in the north, it won't cost much to see all the games as most will be held on the m62, and while I'm not exactly saying we should go all out like the 2000 WC failure, a tournement held primarily on the m62 corridor in tiny grounds will barely do anything to expand the game

I would imagine a London will get at least a group game and probably the final.
Scotland, Wales and Ireland will get games as will the RFL's new favourite thing Doncaster's Keepmoat. With only twelve teams planned to be involved that suggests a fair percentage will be outside the M62 corridor.

The RFL said that most games will be in the heartland. That to me suggests that not all home nations group games will be in there own country (which they should) and not many games will be in London (and a few should). Also the venues announced for the upcoming 4 Nations, and every other international for a good few years now, suggests the RFL will be equally small time when it comes to the WC.
If the RFL go and prove me wrong when they announce the venues for the WC then I will change my stance but for the time been I'm wishing it was in Aus again