Yes your right. Obviously 12,000 mile flight, the jet lag, the freezing conditions they ain't used to and the fact not had full contact game in 5 month worked in our favour.



We should be asking to play the next world series games in Australia as it's not fair they have the advantage of travel, jet lag and unfamiliar weather conditions every year

The roosters wouldn't have suffered any jet lag on two 6 hour flights going east to west. Jet lag is suffered going west to east as you are flying against time not with it. They will suffer it on their return to Australia as would any Brit team going to Aus for a WCC. Even then jet lag lasts a maximum of 72 hours before the body is adjusted to the new time zone.

Australia to Britain in 12 hours, what's that in, a Tardis?



They would have jet lag both ways. One way is worse than the other but they will still get it.

When I flew it took us 19 hours and all of us suffered bad from the flight 48hr later it hit us.



Also didn't the Aussie National side used to blame jet lag on them constantly losing the first test ?

They didn't fly in one go they stopped in Dubai. I may have underestimated each flight a little, each flight should take around 6-7 hours from take off to landing. Which is when jet lag starts/finishes. This means that on both flights the players days would experience an extension of 2 hours to their day, this is not a long enough period to bring on jet lag.



Aussie players will always have an advantage in comparison to Brit players in this respect, especially if they have a camp half way

Roosters didn't fly Sydney to the UK in one go though, they wanted to eliminate any jet lag by setting up a training camp in Dubai. They then got a daylight flight to the UK to reduce jet lag and where in the UK for around 60 hours before match play. They only had a 4 hour time zone adjustment to overcome.

Like I said Sydney Roosters were well prepared and analysed it as an easier focus option.



Quote from the coach:=#BF0040Robinson, who had taken his squad to Dubai for a training camp as part of their pre-season preparations, saw his side quickly shake off the rust against a side already feeling wear and tear from the opening fortnight of Super League.

"It's hard for the Australian teams coming over but we've only had one focus," Robinson said. "The Super League teams have to play a couple of games. I f you train a whole off season and play that game as your sole focus,

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We really needed Luke Walsh to have got over his issues at the start of this season. Right now it looks like he hasn't (although I did think his defence was much improved). Which leaves us in a tough situation because last season Jon Wilkin was our best playmaking option. By using him in a supplementary role when Walsh isn't offering anything better we lose twice over.



I feel some sympathy with Cunningham bemoaning Sydney City's fortune with the bounce of the ball. It really is mentally tough when the opposition scores two or three tries in such fashion. That said, you've just got to deal with it and some of our players looked beaten before the halftime hooter.



I just don't understand all this messing about with Turner. He's not a stand-off. He's not a loose-forward. Yes - he can PLAY THERE. But only as a fill-in. By moving him out of his favoured position we lose the attacking threat he unquestionably possesses for no gain whatsoever. Indeed, I'd say it's a net loss. With Percival out we just can't afford to be weakening our back line even further.



As for Cunningham's tactics. I don't know what he's telling the players - but the fact that the opposition seem to gain every time we try to expand the play to a completely flat backline suggests that something is going wrong somewhere.



To be honest I'm not fussed about us keeping the ball tight. We don't have exceptional strength in the backs so it's simply crazy to think we should be throwing it about like a basketball team. But if we are going to stay narrow then it's imperative that the forwards interlink with each other - either offloading repeatedly or working little off-the-shoulder passes to the back-rowers running in close support.



Cunningham is inexperienced. But I can't imagine he's instructing his players to be this conservative. I think questions need to be asked about our playmaking unit. It isn't functioning. Which brings us right back to Walsh & Wilkin. Of course it doesn't help with Roby out. But worse still is the perennial problem at full-back. It's such an influential position and yet again we aren't offering anything. I'm not going to start bashing Owens because he's young and only has a couple of games under his belt for the club. But you have to question the sense in putting someone like Owens in such a tough spot when we have so many issues in the creative department.



The club seems to be putting an awful lot of faith in Lomax and McDonnell's abilities to overcome what are very serious injuries. I just hope that faith pays off.

I should also add - it's probably not a good idea to make too much of a big deal over being outplayed by a good NRL side. Certainly Wigan don't seem to be proving that they are capable of offering a great deal more. Indeed, watching the game now Brisbane could easily stick sixty on them if they keep the pedal flat to the floor.

They at least have the excuse of McIllorum's broken leg and Clubb's injury at a time in the game when they were competing very well.



I think all SL sides are inferior to the NRL, but we'll get similar scorelines against SL sides as well.

They made more breaks than us. But then I'd expect them to. Wigan have more options outside than we do. But if folk thought our forwards looked bad against the Roosters - Wigan showed they had the same "soft centre" which has dogged them ever since they won SL.



I mean, at least our lads were getting knocked back by some quality forwards. I've never seen as many yards made by backs carrying the ball up the middle as I did tonight. Even Brisbane's wingers seemed to be making ten yards a carry against the meat of Wigan's pack.



Whilst we have some headaches to deal with it's patently obvious Wigan have plenty of their own.

Broncos winger Corey Oats is former backrow. He's 110kg and 6ft 3 in so easy to see why he's making 10 meters a carry.

Just showed the Aussie game is years head of ours now, are we going backwards? did feel that Wigan looked more confident before the injuries set in, but no way did they compete with the Broncos, watching them move into positions to trick the defence was a lesson how to play rugby league. Not really expecting much difference tonight?