Rugby League World Cup
-
The reaction of Clare Balding, President of the RFL.
https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1418118191147061251?s=19
-
@bones said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
@sparky I'm guessing $$$£££
I’m guessing the administrators said ‘fucked if I’m looking after these mongrels in iso’
-
RFL chairman Simon Johnson is not happy:
-
More from RFL boss Simon Johnson.
https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1418150884844965888?s=19
-
More from RFL boss Simon Johnson.
https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1418150884844965888?s=19
@sparky said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
More from RFL boss Simon Johnson.
https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1418150884844965888?s=19
Same sort of fuckwit that is ok with old fashioned League tackles. Going from bubble to quarantine to bubble to quarantine to pretty much straight back into bubble for pre season is shit.
-
A spokesperson for Boris Johnson has said that he is surprised and disappointed with the decision of the Australia and New Zealand associations to pull out of the Rugby League World Cup.
https://twitter.com/SophiaSleigh/status/1418168300538941445?s=19
-
Statement from the UK Minister for Tourism, Sport and the Commonwealth Ganes
https://twitter.com/HuddlestonNigel/status/1418129879158214656?s=19
https://twitter.com/HuddlestonNigel/status/1418129880408014849?s=19
-
Aussie and NZ League authorities have been accused from the Speaker's Chair of the House of Commons of lacking bottle. Looks like the competition is going ahead even if certain teams have decided to stay at home.
https://twitter.com/JudithCummins/status/1418213146808881170?s=19
Don't really like League but here's my five cents anyway. Given Covid cases are already going down in the UK more than three months before the League World Cup starts (after a rapid vaccine rollout) and the coaches and players were keen to go, this is a poor decision by the Aussie and NZ League authorities. It looks really arrogant and shows contempt to the competition organisers. I'm afraid Australia and New Zealand as countries will lose a lot of friends and respect in the Rugby League heartlands in the North of England if the players are made to stay at home.
And I'm calling "bullshit" on the argument given of player safety. Seriously? Even at the height of the pandemic, young fit people were at more risk of death by road accidents in the UK than from Covid. Given the players have been offered double vaccination ahead of the Rugby League World Cup, their risks of serious injury on the coach out of Heathrow would be much, much higher than that from Covid.
-
I think NZR should send a squad of Super Rugby players to represent New Zealand at the Rugby League World Cup if the League authorities don't let the Kiwis go. Great chance to showcase talent, give experience to players and most of all win back friends.
-
I think NZR should send a squad of Super Rugby players to represent New Zealand at the Rugby League World Cup if the League authorities don't let the Kiwis go. Great chance to showcase talent, give experience to players and most of all win back friends.
-
@bones said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
@sparky bro, your emotions are getting the better of you again.
Not really, I'm not much of a follower of League. I think I've only watched one League World Cup game in the last ten years, so I don't really have skin in the game this time.
But if the All Blacks pulled a shitty stunt like this then that would be a different matter.
-
If you can't be bothered competing, then there's always some else more than willing to take your place:
https://twitter.com/BrasilRugbyXIII/status/1418118353630031873?s=19
-
@bones said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
@sparky bro, your emotions are getting the better of you again.
Not really, I'm not much of a follower of League. I think I've only watched one League World Cup game in the last ten years, so I don't really have skin in the game this time.
But if the All Blacks pulled a shitty stunt like this then that would be a different matter.
-
considering there has been two instances of players breaking Covid bubbles in Origin this year by bringing women back to the hotel, and that's like a week, then i am not surprised officials threw their hands up and said "fuck taking those kids away for 6 weeks"
-
According to this piece, 75% of the players want to go the RL World Cup and have no concerns about Covid.
@sparky said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
According to this piece, 75% of the players want to go the RL World Cup and have no concerns about Covid.
75% means "I asked four players and three said yes". Who gives a a flying fuck? The only thing more pathetic than a league world cup is a "World Series".
-
@sparky said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
According to this piece, 75% of the players want to go the RL World Cup and have no concerns about Covid.
75% means "I asked four players and three said yes". Who gives a a flying fuck? The only thing more pathetic than a league world cup is a "World Series".
@antipodean said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
@sparky said in 2021 Rugby League World Cup:
According to this piece, 75% of the players want to go the RL World Cup and have no concerns about Covid.
75% means "I asked four players and three said yes". Who gives a a flying fuck? The only thing more pathetic than a league world cup is a "World Series".
NSW + Munster would have won by a really large margin anyway
-
In two year's time, when NZ and Australia finally work out what Boris Johnson has -- that once you've vaccinated the oldies and vulnerable then any more restrictions are merely attempting to hold back the tide -- we'll open our borders. And then we will, inevitably, get a surge in cases.
At about that time will the UK League nations want to visit us? Because if I was them, I'd say no.
