GEORGE Williams wants to silence the Aussies’ superiority complex after having it rammed down his throat.
The Wigan man heard it all when he was part of England’s World Cup squad, and it was not complementary.
Pretty much every Super League player was pestered with questions of ‘When are you heading the NRL?’ and winger Jermaine McGillvary was hung, drawn and quartered on TV before being cleared of biting Lebanon’s Robbie Farah.
Now Williams is itching to show what English clubs are capable of when the Warriors take on Hull in Wollongong, New South Wales tomorrow.
“We get put down a little bit and the NRL is on a big pedestal, so it would be nice to show them,” he said. “Sometimes I felt when I was with England it was a case of, ‘It’s NRL or nothing.’
“The game is massive over here with bigger endorsements but everyone looks at the NRL automatically being a lot better than us.”
Stand-off Williams is part of a Wigan side determined to bounce back from last season’s sixth placed finish and he admits that ‘only’ being world champions was a shock.
He added: “The World Club Challenge was a great day and something I’m very proud of but we only played well for six weeks. It was awful, not Wigan standards. Where we finished showed where we were at.”
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