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Message: [QUOTE="Lockysillegitimatechild, post: 2886946, member: 8814"] Come on mate. A girls under 9's halfback could play behind that pack IF it plays to its potential and still put up a challenge to most teams. If you want to look at the quality of the team, look at the players that won't make the top 13. Ofa will be lucky to make the top 17 and he's an nrl regular. Vatuvai or tupou will miss out and they are ex rep players. Hurrell or kata will miss out and they are destructive centres and nrl regulars. Lolohea and hingano aren't great but have good footwork that will trouble teams if the pack gets a role on (which it will against nearly all teams). Havili (before he got injured)and Katoa are both regulars as nrl bench hookers, if they can put together 40 quality minutes each (highly achievable) this side will trouble even the top teams. Will they win the World Cup? No But could they knock one of the top tier nations out in a semi or a quarter final? Definite chance.... they will have 1 shot at it, then they will get smashed by the next top tier team they come across because a game plan will enable them to be shutdown and the top tier teams have enough quality to shut them down. The nz team doesn't look bad despite this happening, which has surprised me. This might actually make them harder to beat because they often seem to lose heart and determination easily. If this + playing in nz doesn't stir them up they should all be dumped. The surprise packet may be England. No one has talked about them at all. But their coach won nz a World Cup and burgess + graham would be fuming after their teams' seasons. And they finally have a quality halves pairing to help put the work their forward pack does together in luke gale + Widdop. Italy and Lebanon look solid too. They won't get near the top tier teams but they won't be humiliated by them at all. Samoa will probably be the same. Most interesting World Cup in memory. I will e attending a game or 2 for sure... [/QUOTE]

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