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There are still two more games, three if you include the final, to be played in the 2014 Four Nations.
To date every match has been full of drama, passion and excitement. Without a doubt the Four Nations has been a success.
The legitimate competitiveness between nations that fans have been craving for years seems to have finally arrived.
But rugby league is a strangely attractive beast. All it takes is one single game, one solitary match where a true blowout occurs, for its critics (from both within and without the sport) to emerge from their funk.
Like the oft predicted zombie apocalypse, these harbingers of doom promise the end of times with their radical prophecies. What oracular vision they possess, however, is blinded by their desire to be known to possess it.
In other words, they don’t know anything. They never have.
Imagine for a moment Australia roaring back into life and thumping tournament upstarts Samoa this Sunday. It is quite possible it could happen. But would such a result suddenly reverse the value of what has been a stellar tournament thus far?
Of course it wouldn’t. Nor should it.
But I guarantee that the zombie prophets will be pining for the chance to emerge from out of their graves to death ride international league.
For these people, a classic rugby league match is never a reason to celebrate the game’s potential. In their minds, great matches are always an aberration.
Didn’t anyone ever tell them that zombies, too, are aberrations?
Let’s hope they pay attention and stay in their crypts.
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