Why cant great britain win the tri nations and what can we do about it?
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For the benefit of some people, there are 2 tri-nation tournaments.\n1 for Rugby Union, played between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.\n1 for Rugby League, played between Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain.  This is the tournament the asker is talking about.\n\nYou cannot win the tri-nations this year, as you are not in the final.\n\nWhat can be done.  It is a more difficult problem than you think.\nThe first problem could be caused by the climate in Great Britain (GB) compared to Australia and New Zealand (NZ).  The fields / pitches in GB are heavier due to the more rain and snow that falls on them, then in fields / pitches in Australia and NZ.  This stops GB players from being able to play at a higher pace that Australia and NZ play with.\nThe second problem comes from the first.  Due to the game being played differently in GB than Australia and NZ, the players are not used to the bigger hits that come about from the more firmer ground.  The firmer ground allows for more balance between attacker and defender and can result in big hits.\n\nOne way that I can think of to combat this would be to have better drainage facilities on the fields, or selected fields, in GB.  This may simulate the ground conditions in Australia and NZ, enabling GB to use the much firmer ground.  This may have draw backs of when playing on the heavier grounds, ones that do not have the drainage, the players may experience more injuries.
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its the old act. scotland wales or northern ireland do well, they're british. they do bad, theyre scottish welsh or norn irish. need more good players cos their squad is just average in depth
615360
The USA don't get to play many competitive games that affect their rating outside of their own group region and because the quality of their opposition is lacking, then they win a lot which gives them the points to move up in the rankings. For instance, if Scotland or Wales were regularly placed in groups that contained teams made up of dead people, girls and the elderly then they would shoot up the rankings also. Mind up, they probably still would struggle in some of those games.
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iTS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD,AS AT THE MOMENT WE ARE WATCHING OUR GREAT COUNTRY DIE.\n\nWE CAN ALL STOP THIS BY VOTING BNP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.
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no, thats mission impossible for them. there will b too many fights. at least 10 a game so it would take a couple of world cups for england to try to win more games than they do fighting.
925823
It's not just teams from the antipodes. Just look next door to Ireland or France. Being Irish, I think that the introduction of soccer and rugby were probably the most positive results of the past 800 years. Thank you sincerely.\nThere has been a decline in British standing in the sports that it gave to other countries. While I'm not Au fait with the situation but I think you should look at your youth policies over the past , say, 20 years. Have you noticed any trends that distract youngsters from sports other than computer games.\nHaving taught so many of us to play your games, should you come and see how we have developed them. Ask why Rugby has flourished in countries with relatively small populations - N.Zealand, Australia, Ireland.\nIs Rugby Union still classbound in UK?\n\nCome on. Get back to your old standards. We don't really like beating the "Auld Inimy" when he's down.
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as can be sen in history occuping countries never works. look at IRa now. Algeria when the french tried to ocupy them. America being occupied by britain. it never works. coutries what there own soverignty. they want to be able to make there own decisions.
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Sorry, I'm not a Brit, and couldn't resist answering.\nPlease, we (U.S.) are still your friends.  Don't aim it at us, aim it at the French.
766814
It never should have been made a country in the manner it is anyway. It shold have been three separate countries to begin with. Unfortunately the British just drew country lines to suit the oil companies. Oh well.\n It will be difficult to split as the oil is not throughout the whole country. It will be interesting to see how this ends though.
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The problem is that Bliar caused the mess in the UK do you actually believe he can solve it?.\nMaybe it is better if he stays overseas and does not come back.
1069108
Just not good enough to match the higher International standard, as defeats to Portugal and Argentina showed.\n\nThe Confed Cup is a friendly tournament, this is the REAL thing.
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In short... they are insanely jealous of our footballing skills. Their team is poo and ours is not.  It's all nonsense and banter. Say for example the swedish were invading our shores what would the Scottish do?... They'd get their act together and come and batter anyone trying to invade England... They love us really & most of us these days have a relation from one of our neighbouring nations.. \n\nIts all crap and to be honest, you should hold your head up and high fly your St George Cross with pride. Make them even more envious.. muhahahaha
358508
vote. What a pointless waste of time, get rid of this Head Of State rubbish, you need one democratically elected leader and that's that.  The Yanks do it, and it seems to work for them.  I guess you can tell I'm a Brit who wants a republic, but I wouldn't replace the queen with a president, just keep the role of PM
1088428
just have to say this to scatz, the first answerer, maybe good GRAMMAR - thats how u spell it! but not good spelling! they're alot of mad ppl here that is not me! im not supporting england!
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After they won the Rugby World Cup in 2003, the English carried on as if they had beaten Australia in just about anything and everything (the opposite was the case) and that we antipodeans were a bunch of losers.\n\nThis sounds like the rantings of a people so starved of joy that the smallest thing must be blown up. Now they're carrying on about 1966, good win but in the days when fewer nations contested the World Cup.\n\nI guess it's just not much fun being English. The weather is crap, the country is being swamped by EU migrants, the sovereignty of their governments and courts is being eroded every day by the EU, the food is crap, the beer awful (Danish brew Carlsberg is the official beer of the English team) and their pop groups are getting worse and worse. So wherever there's a little glory, they cling on to it like a child to lollies.
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There was no coalition.  Britain sent the most troops.  Poland a few, Spain a few, Italy a few.  Spain withdrew first after the train bombings in Madrid.  Poland is out.  Italy too. Only Britain is left and they are pulling out. \nThe whole thing was a scam
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out in semis\n\nlebron can only carry his team so far, unfortunately\n\ni wish they would do better tho and win it all...