With nothing else on TV I reluctantly agreed to watch the Yawion to see how Sonny Bill Williams fairs in his debut for the All Blacks.

I must say it gave me a massive lift - if you thought Englands backs were bad... You see how desperate England RU backs are!

With all the resources, money, expert coaching etc etc in the world their backs are pathetic!

Shanontaye Hape (a kiwi) in 1 centre, a 36 year old cart horse (Tindall) in 1 centre + Chris average Aston on the wing. Hilarious!

Dont even get me started on their halfbacks.

Sam Tomkins + Kyle Eastmond, Michael Shenton, Ryan Atkins are world class in comparison to these over paid amatuers.

Sonny Bill Williams must be having an absolute laugh - paid a fortune and touched the ball once.

The whole game is so over punctuated with stop starts - Yawion is the perfect name for such tideous viewing.

And if you think are scrums are a joke - they cant get a proper scrum set without a penalty for some ridculous infringement.

Stuart Barnes and his Rah rah team of commentators sound like they know what their talking about - but they are as clueless as Stevo they just have posh accents!

Oh I wish our game could get its act together and show the world how good our game is!!!!! 2013 is our perfect opportunity. I just worry the RFL are going to blow another perfect opportunity.

Ashton, Hape and Monye would all start for England.

And I'll bet there were 90,000 people there excitedly lapping up the kicking.

Totally agree with you

Never had that many in London for union.

Ashton probably would have been Englands fullback if he hadnt gone for the money but his still isnt anything special.

Hape wouldnt start for England because hes a Kiwi!

All I'm saying is that we sent the worst England squad of all time down under for the 4 nations and we were all moaning how poor our backs were.

England RU with all their experts, money, resources and player pool have a backline that are way worse than ours.

It just put a smile on my face thats all.

Unfortunatley, just like all RU games, England being as bad as they are are kicking their way back into the game and just scored a plucky try which was a blantant double movement.

I'm watching Wales-Aus... god its dull. Technically Aus are rubbish! They can't scrummage, line out or any of the other intricacies of the Yawnion code. But, they are completely dominating the Welsh. Its League lads taking on a Union powerhouse at their own game.

I cant beleive Brad THorn is still getting a game.

But SBW looked lost..... but wowed the crowd with his one handed tactics!

With so many stoppages in a game, no wonder players go to Union to extend their career.

Daniel Carter has played 10 years + at international level and has only been tackled half a dozen times. They rave about him but he would get mudered in RL.

Players like Lockyer and Thurston are miles ahead of anything in RU.

I didnt think SBW looked lost. He just didnt have to do anything playing as a outside back. In league however he never had the greatest workrate.

He only got the ball twice and made a simple offload - the rah rahs thought it was best thing since Wilkinsons drop goal!

I thought he played centre.

It's funny how you league fans wonder why union fans hate you.

You are classless.

lol @ Mike Tindall.

My earlier post today seems somewhat apt:



As an aside, I see that RL in England is starting to mirror them.