Kiwis utility Lewis Brown has pinpointed an English outfit on home soil as a massive early test of his sides Four Nations credentials. Neil Walker Jersey .The 30-year-old Brown and his teammates arrived in the UK last week and will head from London to their base in Leeds on Tuesday.They will take on an English squad with their tails up after last years series win over the Kiwis, and a thumping 40-6 win over France on on the weekend.New coach Wayne Bennett took an experimental side into the Avignon match, but will be able to call on a side packed with NRL talent, including skipper Sam Burgess and Canterbury prop James Graham.New Zealand, meanwhile, looked well off their best a fortnight ago as they slumped to a 26-6 loss to Australia in Perth a little over a week ago.Australias smaller forward pack got on top of their trans-Tasman rivals quickly, while halves Shaun Johnson and Thomas Leuluai failed to shine.With both sides boasting similar styles based around the go-forward of massive packs, Lewis is predicting an epic contest.Props Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Jesse Bromwich, as well as rampaging Dally M medallist Jason Taumalolo, figure to be key for the tourists.Im pretty sure theyll try and match us in the middle, Brown said.Games in the UK, some are won with only eight or 10 points, so its going to be whoever muscles up in the middle.Veteran playmaker Leuluai echoed his teammates remarks, saying the English were persistently underrated.Their side included multiple NRL and Super League champions, including Leuluais future Wigan colleagues Liam Farrell and John Bateman.The 31-year-old ex-Warrior will join Wigan at the end of the Four Nations campaign after leaving his NRL side a year early.Everyone talks about Super League and the NRL and the differences, but if you picked the top 17 from that competition, its strong, Leuluai said.We definitely know not to underestimate them.The Kiwis will also have to overcome the challenge of adapting to northern Englands notoriously dreary and frigid weather.New skipper Bromwich, 27, said there was plenty of potential for his side to become homesick but hoped the young players enthusiasm would shine through.With these younger boys, its their first time over there, so theyll be bouncing off the walls, Bromwich said.Bromwichs Kiwis will take on England in Huddersfield on Saturday before matches against Australia in Coventry and Scotland in Workington. 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An 8-1 loss to Honduras that eliminated us from World Cup contention back in October; failure to reach the World Cup finals since 1986, our one and only appearance; a 2-0 loss to Cuba in the 2003 Gold Cup that saw us crash out at the group stage. If you think our embarrassments are unique to the mens program, think again. Twelve months before coming home with a bronze medal from the 2012 Olympic Games, Canadas womens team finished dead last in the 2011 womens World Cup, losing all three group games. Critics can blame the players, the coaches, the weather, the field conditions or any combination of other factors. They are nothing more than excuses. The brutally honest truth is this: we are simply not good enough. That criticism is not leveled at the players, the coaches or staff, who represent our country. They do their very best when wearing the red jersey, and on some occasions - like during last years Olympic Games - they pull off the impossible. The criticism applies to us - you, me and anyone else who is involved in Canadian soccer at any level. We are not good enough. We have stood idly by and allowed soccer to become nothing more than a recreational sport in our country. We have allowed the game to sink to the lowest common denominator, and we have done nothing - absolutely nothing - to put in place an effective development system for players, coaches and referees in Canada. While there are over 850,000 registered soccer players across the country, the vast majority of them are recreational players. Very, very few of them go through what can even loosely be described as an effective development program. Our youth soccer system emphasizes winning over development. The result is a pool of players who fail to master the fundamental skills required to compete at the elite levels of the game. The players - both male and female - who do manage to go on to represent Canada do so by chance, rather than by design. They reach the national team through their own will and determination, not because they have followed a well-researched, well-designed development pathway. It is time for that to change. It is time for the Canadian Soccer Association to put its money where its mouth is and to mandate change in soccer across the country. Thats right. Mandate. Asking for clubs to implement the principles of LTPD is not good enough. Asking for coaches to educate themselvees is not good enough. Kevin Long Jersey. Asking for leagues to implement minimum standards for coaching qualifications, training-to-game ratios and competition formats (including the removal of promotion and relegation) is not good enough. All of these things must be mandated. Because if the CSA leaves it up to the clubs, districts or leagues - if they make compliance with these things "opt-in" or optional - they simply wont happen. Because there is nothing stopping these things from being done voluntarily right now - other than the fact that we, as a nation, sink to the lowest common denominator. How can these changes be mandated? Easy. Create two streams of soccer in Canada - recreational and high-performance. Most clubs across the country do an excellent job of offering recreational soccer programs. The evidence is right there in the numbers - over 850,000 players from coast to coast. Leave the recreational programs as they are, and offer those clubs access to coach and referee education, as well as to a national development curriculum for recreational players. Then create a high-performance stream and mandate that organizations must meet the technical standards required to be involved in that stream. Both non-profit clubs and for-profit academies should be allowed to enter the high-performance stream - provided that they all meet the required standards. This isnt difficult to do, but it requires the CSA to flex its muscles a little bit. Given that there are high-performance leagues either already in existence (BC, Quebec) or about to get underway (Ontario), the CSA might be surprised just how little resistance there would be to such a plan. And heres another important component of pulling this off - the CSA needs to sing it from the rooftops. The CSA needs to go on national television and lay it all out on the table. Tell anyone and everyone what the plan is and why it is being implemented. Go across the country and hold open-mike town hall meetings where Tony Fonseca, the CSAs Technical Director, answers questions about the CSAs plan until all the questions have been answered. That is Fonsecas job; he needs to be able to sell the game from coast to coast. He needs to be able to win over skeptics, to convince the many likeminded people who truly care about the game in our country to start pulling in the same direction and start working to fix the broken mess that weve tolerated for decades in Canada. If he cant do that, then he is wrong man for the job. How many embarrassments must we suffer before we say enough is enough? How many more failed qualifying campaigns must we endure before we realize that the time to change is now? The time for change is now.  Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '