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Scotland fly flag for developing rugby league countries in Four Nations | Aaron Bower

Five teams have featured as the ‘fourth nation’ in the tournament without any managing a win but Scotland will benefit by playing England and the sport should give smaller nations more regular opportunitiesWhen Scotland take to the field in Coventry on Saturday to face England in the Four Nations – a sentence that would have been barely computable in rugby league circles a few years ago – it is not only their winless run in the tournament they are trying to end as the sport breaks new ground in the Midlands.Since the Tri-Nations was extended to a four-team tournament in 2009, five teams have taken part alongside the traditional big three of Australia, New Zealand and England – but France,...

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Kangaroos handed warm up game as Four Nations opener underwhelms

Australia’s dominate win over Scotland makes you question the merits of a Four Nations tournament in which only three nations provide a contestIn the original version of The Longest Yard (1974), starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert and James Hampton as “Caretaker”, Reynolds’ character, former NFL quarterback Paul “Wrecking” Crewe has a conversation with Albert’s prison warden Rudolph Hazen.Crewe, for a slew of reasons, has ended up in Hazen’s jail. And Hazen wants some advice from Crewe about how to improve his prison football team, otherwise he’ll further imprison Crewe because he’s been bad. Related: Australia open Four Nations with comfortable victory over Scotland Related: Rugby league Four Nations: team-by-team guide Continue reading...

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