2019 Test Papua New Guinea V Great Britain: Teams and Game Day

[Ilanraiders]

G Williams looks lost, 2 mistakes since he’s been on

[The Greenhouse]

66th min TRY PAPUA NEW GUINEA to This is a MASSIVE BOILOVER! Lomax can't take the bomb and Nixon Putt picks it up easily and scores under the posts! Rhyse Martin converts. The last time the Kumuls beat the Lions was 1990. Probably the only other time!

Papua New Guinea 28
Great Britain 10

[edwahu]

Williams looks their most dangeeous half this series already.

[greeneyed]

Surely that was off side from PNG. It’s all too late in any case.

[The Greenhouse]

73rd min Blood streaming down Josh Hodgson's face. Error from Walmsley in playing the ball. This is going to be a MASSIVE UPSET, little doubt now.

[The Greenhouse]

77th min Good kick Hodgson, to force a line drop out, but it is all over. They can't score three tries in less than four minutes.

[The Greenhouse]

FULL TIME

Papua New Guinea 28
Great Britain 10

[julian87]

GB an absolute disgrace haha

[BadnMean]

Who would have thought selecting no centres and 7 halves, but refusing to change the two starters even thought they stink would have backfired?

Lomax bottled it this game. Blake Austin delivered a couple of highlights and a couple of crucial errors.

GB only look like they are allowed to start playing footy once they are 12+ points down.

On the evidence of the last 15 minutes, G Willy is streets better than Hastings and more likely to threaten an NRL defence than Widdop these days. An error or two but coming on in the final 15 minutes of a long tour, 18 points down of course he is going to push things a bit. He threw a couple of very nice passes, stepped a couple. Looks like he'll have some adjusting to do to tighten up/ride an aggressive defence coming at him but we have something to work with there.

[EJ]

Clearly very rusty, but I liked what I saw from Williams too.

At the very least, I don't get the impression that we're going to complain that he doesn't involve himself.

[-TW-]

Losing to PNG.. wow

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[julian87]

There would be some dismayed die hards in the old dart. Wayne Bennett has absolutely gutted them. Surely their coach needs to be someone heavily involved in the ESL and England based. The form of the Australian based players is pretty easy to follow and the main 4/5 are walk up starts anyway/

[Northern Raider]

GB coach would have to be under pressure after their recent performances

[greeneyed]

GB coach would have to be under pressure after their recent performances

He's absolutely driven that team into the ground with outdated tactics. They don't seem to be a team that wants to play for him.

[BadnMean]

GB coach would have to be under pressure after their recent performances

He's absolutely driven that team into the ground with outdated tactics. They don't seem to be a team that wants to play for him.

Certainly doesn't look like our trio are enjoying the footy under him. Each one of them could run, throw a nice ball, kick, create a bit off the cuff or 2nd phase for the Raiders. They don't seem to get to do that under Bennett.

Look at the passion Tonga and PNG generate when they get to express themselves and feed off it. Bennett has jumped the shark.

[-PJ-]

Losing to PNG.. wow

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I reckon me and you..with boney..could beat PNG Tim.

Terrible stuff from GB.

[BJ]

Losing to PNG.. wow

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I reckon me and you..with boney..could beat PNG Tim.

Terrible stuff from GB.

I don’t reckon you could!

But that’s only because the winning field goal kick was incorrectly deemed by referee to have sailed under the crossbar.

[Northern Raider]

Losing to PNG.. wow

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I reckon me and you..with boney..could beat PNG Tim.

Terrible stuff from GB.

I don’t reckon you could!

But that’s only because the winning field goal kick was incorrectly deemed by referee to have sailed under the crossbar.

Boney is lacking match condition. Better off with just the 2 of you.

[-PJ-]

Losing to PNG.. wow

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I reckon me and you..with boney..could beat PNG Tim.

Terrible stuff from GB.

I don’t reckon you could!

But that’s only because the winning field goal kick was incorrectly deemed by referee to have sailed under the crossbar.

Boney is lacking match condition. Better off with just the 2 of you.

I've got boney as our yardage/hit up man.

I'll play dummy half..

And Tim scoring all the tries.

boney will be the goal kicker

PNG...shakin in their boots.

[Northern Raider]

Losing to PNG.. wow

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I reckon me and you..with boney..could beat PNG Tim.

Terrible stuff from GB.

I don’t reckon you could!

But that’s only because the winning field goal kick was incorrectly deemed by referee to have sailed under the crossbar.

Boney is lacking match condition. Better off with just the 2 of you.

I've got boney as our yardage/hit up man.

I'll play dummy half..

And Tim scoring all the tries.

boney will be the goal kicker

PNG...shakin in their boots.

Boney will be gassed after a couple of runs. A defensive liability from that point. I recommend a contingency plan at least.

[-PJ-]

There's a spot on the bench to give boney a breather.

If you're up to it NR, you're in.

[radicalraider]

We're gna miss sezer.. Williams won't live upto expectations

[-TW-]

Based off 25 minutes in a game that didn't matter



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[Seiffert82]

Didn't watch the game. Wayne Bennett though...wow...

[greeneyed]

Elliott Whitehead concedes Great Britain players 'let themselves down' during dismal tour whitewash

Elliott Whitehead accepted Great Britain’s tour had been a failure before stressing the need for a mid-season Test before England’s Ashes series against Australia next year.

"It has been a disappointing tour all round and we didn’t turn up like we should have done. I think all the boys know we’ve let ourselves down. We’ll go away and hopefully we can come back next year as a group and fix stuff up."

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-leagu ... et-dismal/

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