www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/20632 undersoil heating makes the game on 2pm ko

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/20632 undersoil heating makes the game on 2pm ko

Raining in Leigh now so i'd say it's definately on.

As I am many miles away from Leigh today I would appreciate any advice on the best way to get updates from this match

Thanks in advance

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Absolutely fantastic win for England, 38-30 after being 18-30 down at one point

Without a warm up game, that is an outstanding performance

Aussies fell to bits, got gobby with the ref, completely lost it, full back had a mare. Sounds familiar!

Attendance was 734.

Aussie scrum half looks one to watch along with Englands 8, 9, 11 and 13.

Anyone know the named line ups? Only got a generic tour programme with the squad in it.

We need to act NOW to save Australian Rugby League. It really is capitulating and after embarassing itself in another international arena we need to look to ways to save the sport over there. Pretty soon there won't be any Australians in the NRL as they are not mentally tough enough for competing at the highest level.

Signings of young Australians to the superior Super League competition will help in the short term but long term there is a lot of work to do. Perhaps sending their junior coaches for apprenticeships at Super League and Bartercard teams. Long term that should help with their coaching structures.

But I fear even all this will fail. It's like trying to support a jelly skyscraper with a few planks of wood. It's fundamentally unstable.

England: M Russell (Wigan); R King (Wigan), J Thompson (Castleford), R Evans (Warrington), R Lyne (Hull); G O'Brien (Warrington), S Powell (Wigan); G Burgess (Bradford), A Milner (Castleford, capt), B Evans (Warrington), D Bridge (Wigan), J Hughes (Wigan), J Laithwaite (Warrington).

Subs: A O'Brien (Bradford), J Stewart (Leeds), G Burke (Wigan), M Sarsfield (Wigan).

England team :-

1 - Matthew Russell (Wigan Warriors)
2 - Ryan King (Wigan Warriors)
3 - Jordan Thompson (Castleford Tigers)
4 - Rhys Evans (Warrington Wolves)
5 - Reece Lyne (Hull FC)
6 - Gareth O'Brien (Warrington Wolves)
7 - Sam Powell (Wigan Warriors)
8 - George Burgess (Bradford Bulls)
9 - Adam Milner (Castleford Tigers) (capt)
10 - Ben Evans (Warrington Wolves)
11 - Danny Bridge (Wigan Warriors)
12 - Jack Hughes (Wigan Warriors)
13 - James Laithwaite (Warrington Wolves)
14 - Adam O'Brien (Bradford Bulls)
15 - Jared Stewart (Leeds Rhinos)
16 - Greg Burke (Wigan Warriors)
17 - Matthew Sarsfield (Wigan Warriors)

Australia team :-

1 - Henare Wells
2 - Jacon Gagan
3 - Tautau Moga
4 - Trent Jennings
5 - David Nofoaluma
6 - Jack Wighton
7 - Harry Siejka
8 - Chris Grevsmuhl
9 - Chad Redman
10 - Matthew Groat
11 - Lachlan Burr
12 - Vaipuna Tia Kilifi
13 - Paul Carter ©
14 - Gerard McCallum
15 - Michael Chee-Kam
16 - Anthony Gadd
17 - David Klemmer

Well done to Wigan and Wire. Large part of the squad from 2 teams. Anyone know who got man of the match?

James Laithwaite was the official MoM

Yup. It'll be interesting to see how many of those players become first team regulars at Warrington. This will be the first lot of young players that will see Warrington as a viable alternative to signing for other clubs like a lot have in the past.

I'd be happy if I was a cas fan, that young hooker played really well, same type of player as Lee Jackson. Danny Bridge looked tidy running out wide too, is he Chris Bridge's brother? He was there with a few other players.

Brilliant result. Well done to all involved.


Aussies falling apart when things not going their way. Who'd have thought.

Yup Adam Milner looked fantastic with the limited gametime he got last year. Expecting a big season from him this term.

As for the team: 17 players coming from just 6 Super League clubs is pathetic...

Incredible when you consider that the team that won last years Academy didn't have a single representative in the team. I wouldn't get sanctimonious if I were you as clearly there should have been more clubs represented, the question is why and what's the point in being champions?

You really are a one eyed supporter.

Sorry, what?

I can't understand his rant either. I thought you made a valid point, to be honest, although if you take away Crusaders and Catalans that's 50% of Super League represented.

Vasty. For you to call anyone one eyed is unbelievable! I present you with the FACTS. You may not like them but once again I will show you up.

2 of the representatives Adam Milner GB captain and Jordan Thompson (scored the try that got them back in the game off good work from Milner) CAME THROUGH THE TRINITY SCHOLARSHIP. Do not look for excuses your club let them go.

Trinity won the Academy league a couple of years back, fantastic. The fact of the matter is though that while Trinity were playing the 18's at that level most other clubs were using them in the 21's. Wakefield had a shocking set of 21's the year they won the comp and promoted nobody.

Another Wakefield Scholarship lad has just signed signed for Wigan and is regarded as the best half back of his age group,

Its time clubs realised winning trophies at this level count for NOTHING. Developing players s what its all about. Many of the lads today have had a shot a first team, the Trinity lads from the winning season have not.

The youth set up at Trinity is so poor you have to recruit the likes of Penny, Vievers, Johnson and the lad from Hull whose name escapes me. Where are the Academy champions?

Do not look for excuses, nobody is to blame but Trinity themselves, and please consider you own stance prior to calling anyone one eyed.

Yes he is Chris's brother.

Milner looked very good when he played last year and hopefully will be getting plenty of game time this year, been told that another young hooker we have called clarke has even more potential which bodes well for the future.

Perhaps you could have said well done to the team for what is probably the best moment of their RL lives to date before branding the team selection pathetic?

Just a thought

All of Warrington's representatives played the whole season at u20 level (where Warrington finished top of the table over the regular season). Perhaps if Warrington have left them at u18 level all season they might have won the competition but have players not as well developed.

I know that Warrington has a club want their young players to be challenged week-in week-out so as to make them better players. This tends to give the club an u18 team made up primarily of u16's and u17's (but the best u17's play at u20 level) whilst the u20's consists of a large number of u18's. In fact O'Brien and Laithwaite who tunred out for England u18's have played almost exclusively at u20 level for two years now.