2026 Rugby League World Cup fixtures - October/November

user118245 said:
For the Australian team? ✅
For fans of the game? ❌

2-3 good games, rest snooze fests or blowouts. And the group format was stupid, PVL has 4 years to fix it up tho
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The fans loved this World Cup. It could have been formatted better, but the crowds showed up and created awesome atmosphere and saw some really top notch footy as well as some entertaining games.
  • Australia v New Zealand
  • Tonga v England
  • Tonga v Samoa
  • Tonga v New Zealand
  • Australia v Samoa
  • Australia v New Zealand
The Lebo’s and the French put on an entertaining game as well.
 
Flippedy said:
Ours has to be the most shittiest national anthem, the music is rushed, the words are rushed and cut short, there is no feeling in it whatsoever, no wonder some of the players don’t want to sing it.
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You dont understand the other langauges so you have no idea what is being sung?

Put a John Williamson type with a guitar to sing the anthem and it changes everything. The anthem is fine.
 
Tomatosoup912 said:
I thought the kiwis were putrid tonight. Literally from the kick off, failed to execute everything.

Australia was clearly the better team but they still made 18 errors and missed 20 tackles. I just think the kiwis were so poor they made Australia look unbeatable.

The first time they made Walsh make a kick return was in the 70th minute. The constant errors, mainly exiting their own half, meant they never even entered the contest.

Anticlimactic end to a World Cup that had some really good moments.
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Yeah it’s always a let down when Australia wins eh?
People said the same thing when we smashed Samoa n the last WC Final and before that when we smashed the Kiwis in England.

New Zealand were very poor because Australia’s defence was brilliant they defended their line for set after set multiple times then took advantage of dropped ball, caused by their defence once again.
 
Tucker said:
Yeah it’s always a let down when Australia wins eh?
People said the same thing when we smashed Samoa n the last WC Final and before that when we smashed the Kiwis in England.

New Zealand were very poor because Australia’s defence was brilliant they defended their line for set after set multiple times then took advantage of dropped ball, caused by their defence once again.
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Mate I am Australian, I wanted us to win.

I just think international Rugby League needs these games to be a better spectacle to grow the international market.

I thought Australia did a lot of things well, ruck speed was outstanding and did a great job attacking the NZ 3 gap which they obviously identified as vulnerable.

Really disappointed that the Kiwis just failed to show up. A lot of the errors they made were garbage unforced errors.

Australia would have put 50 on them if they were firing all cylinders. 67% completion rate, 20 errors and 27 missed tackles is not great for any rugby league side, World Cup win or not.
 
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Tucker said:
Almost being the operative word.
Lost every decider he played in lol.
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Yes, Ponga lost all three of these deciders.
This time last year;
- Almost everyone would have had Walsh as the QLD Origin fullback after his form at the backend of the season
- Very few would have predicted a grand final appearance for the Knights
- Had never played for NZ

Not bad of a year for him
 
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I thought Gee was.pretty hard done by to be dumped...Atkins had a fair game but he was no better or worse than Gee last week.

This whole.series has been reffed differently to NRL.and its been pretty good imo.
Fairly free.flowing even.if.most games were.lopsided
One.game i forget which one the pommy ref got quite a bit wrong but over all not bad
 
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