Big surprise...

You claim rugby league players aren't great athletes. I gave you a brief list with players who have been great athletes in two sports including rugby league.

And you say you had no idea...wow, knock me down with a feather.

25-30 years ago?

Off the top of my head, Jessica Ennis, Philips Odowu & Christine Ohurougu are all current world champions or olympic gold medallists in track & field. There's probably others.

Yes it was the most recent international multi-sport event.

Are you aware of another more recently?

Didn't think so...

I said nothing of the quality of the event you may note.

No they can't.

But they are desperate to get a point off me if they can...









Unfortunately not this time.

I'd put Australia's world record in sport over the last 25 years against any country with comparative population...

So, unless the British Empire raped and pillaged your country, you can't play.......yeah, that's International

1949 was when Ireland became a Republic, but by then we had already stopped ATTENDING Commonwealth meetings for 12 years.......it was because they would play hurling at the games





......how is an appointment ready? You really do talk b0ll0x.....



exactly......Commonwealth Games.......

You didn't even notice originally...

lol

Care factor if you criticise the Commonwealth Games? Zero and falling.

Write some letters to the organisation if you like...

And I'll take it as a given you agree with the original point: Australia is a sterling sporting country and anyone deeming otherwise is an idiot. If the cap fits, get it on little doggy.

The trolling in this thread has to be seen to be believed...

lol

As for the thread, which I did start, the points differential across 10 tests in tournament play now favours Australia...

193 + 20 = 213 pts (10 matches) NZ
192 + 34 = 226 pts (10 matches) Aust

21.3 points per game NZ
22.6 points per game Australia

Massive differential.

Less than a field goal and a half per game.

See you didn't actually answer the question; why? because you know diddley squat about Brittish RL in its CURRENT guise.
You just roll off some random facts that have nothing to do with what was said.

Either you need reading glasses or you're squirming, I think we all know it's the latter.
You're obviously a smart guy; but your inability to read whats directly in front of you is astounding.

Nice try. Read the thread from the start and suck on the result today.

lol

Update.

229 pts NZ (20.82 av per game)
238 pts Aust (21.64 av per game)

Under a point per match differential over 11 tournament games.

Same period...

Kiwis - 2005 3N, 2008 WC, 2010 4N
Kangaroos - 2006 3N (extra time over NZ), 2009 4N

137,524 attendance over tournament.

19,646 average over 7 games.

(22,921 av across 6 "match-days" with Auckland DH)

Like the RLWC 2008, imagine what it could have been with a little exposure...and the engagement of Australian NRL fans in particular.

If you look at the sports we are very good at they all have a highly technical element too them - Cycling, motor racing, rowing - they require high degrees of technical/intellectual input - it is no surprise that the majority of F1 teams are based in the UK and that we lead the way in cycle design - are there any F1 teams in Australia - no - I wonder why?

Winning by whatever means is an mind set in Australia that is not the case here - if we win it is despite rather than because of it. Today was funny watching the Arrogant Aussies take a beating - not even with their own ref and their own field could they win - top day

You missed a bit. Like the thread.

Continue to try and sidetrack as much as you like.

What you know about me - and my knowledge of rugby league in Britain or elsewhere - would fit on the head of a small pin balancing on the head of a slightly larger one.

Because the money's not there? I agree. Without the international congestion and relatively small population that has to stretch resources across such a large and arid land, it's common sense. Plus someone from a certain nation racing a machine made by an international company means nothing in particular.

Our cyclists just trounced your lot at the Commonwealth Games.

our top cyclist did'nt go thats why

archer is gonna dick ya

Other counts have it at...

139,101 total.
Thus, 19,872 average (or 6MD average 23,184).

Good tournament.

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[iLeague on the Shaky Isles is booming on the back of their 2008 World Cup triumph and last Saturday's double-header at the rugby union citadel of Auckland's Eden Park attracted a crowd of 44,432, while 20,668 fans turned up for the match against England in Wellington and 7,500 crammed into Rotorua International Stadium for the game against Papua New Guinea. The attendance total of 72,600 for the three matches in New Zealand was greater than that for the three games in Australia. The 36,299 crowd at Suncorp Stadium last night took the total to 66,501.[/i www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... tlead.html

That is a most unkind thing to call folk who've gone to the trouble of trying to estimate attendances...

great user name.

Not sure "crammed" would be the word I would have used!



and 7,500 crammed into Rotorua International Stadium for the game against Papua New Guinea.

That is the union calculator you are thinking of...wrong sport.