You're from Heckmondwike really aren't u?

Not unless that place has a Tube station with 'Dollis Hill' written on it

In response to your original post I agreed at one point regarding France, of course they're gonna get tonked.

But if you think about it, it's not that bad a thing, it puts them on the international stage and in the Union 6 nations, Italy used to get tonked all the time, shows them where they need to be.

Being involved regularly against the big guns will only help them improve and so what, they get tonked for a few years, its not like Aus arent capable of sticking 50 on England is it.

But since Italy joined the 6 nations exactly WHAT have they ever won???



Franc ewould be competitive at RL but for 2 things.



Their players are pretty poor.



Their 'coach' is not really a coach.





Id sooner have seen Wales play in this 4 nations rather than the French.

See IMHO the reason France look so poor shows how far the Aus/Eng game has come over the last ten years or so.

They've now got more full time and better players than they had years ago and look worse than ever.

It will take time and yes Italy are really poor but they're improving year on year, you should have seen em a few years ago Barry, only need a bitta Benny Hill music and you could watch it for comedy.

France will really improve if they get a second SL team, as it stands at the mo, give it 5 years and Wales will be much better

The French need a big name decent coach.



Bobbie Goulding?? That guy was never destined to be a coach. How on EARTH he got that job I will never know. I suspect it was so it makes France actually look worse at footy than England





If I was in charge of the French RL I would do whatever it took to get Wayne Bennett as national coach.

I'm not saying France will win but they have the potential to give teams a bit of a headache.



Their teams is a lot better than the one that was at the World Cup.

What was their excuse in June, then?

Don't get me started.

If you believe that.....and a lot of people think that England are actually WORSE now than they were last November......are you concerned that England might finish bottom of the 4 nations table?

No. England will beat France and NZ but I doubt they'll beat Australia. I think France had a bad World Cup.

I can't see England beating anyone in this other than France.



But as always with NZ...it depends which team turns up.



If they put in a good performance against Australia on Saturday then they will take on England full of confidence, especially if France play well against England tomorrow.



And a confident Benji Marshall playing well is bad news for anyone