sidelined

It is a pity that the highlight of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup has already occured. And that was the Australian Indigenous Dreamtime team facing down the haka of the New Zealand Maori side.

Awesome stuff. And the game itself was a better spectacle than the main event.

Australia, as to be expected, weren’t really troubled by New Zealand. And unless there is a big improvement by the Kiwis and England, they won’t trouble the Aussies.

The joy in the World Cup will be watching the “younger” teams fight it out. Already PNG have shown some fearsome mettle and will be exciting to watch. Some of the so called lesser games have the potential to be exciting contests. I’ll be going to see the Scotland v Fiji at Gosford next week and am looking quite forward to the game.

I hope I am wrong in my prediction that Australia will romp it home. But there is hope that we well see signs of improvement in the other nations. And that, with careful nurturing, the World Cup will become a contest once more.