Percevil, Brown & McMeeken start. Taylor on the Bench. About time.

Widdop at FBI, Rachford on the LW, Roby starts.

Hall, Watkins, Heighington rested.

Does that mean Bateman's, still in the ? It's a better balanced side, but I fear that even if they play well, he'Lloyd revert back in the QF.

Ratchford on the wing. Probably the only position on the park he has never played.

RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP 2017

GAME ON GROUP A : England v France - Sun - 10:00:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

They have announced that the England quarter final game will be in Melbourne on Sunday if all goes to plan. www.nrl.com/rlwc2017-announces-q ... fault.aspx

They have announced that the England quarter final game will be in Melbourne on Sunday if all goes to plan. www.nrl.com/rlwc2017-announces-q ... fault.aspx

England by 6

Regards

King James

should be a routine win for england by 16+ points

ratchford on the wing is a strange one.. if he actually plays there

pellisier missing for france

will be nice and warm back in perth! 30+ degrees

so if all goes to plan it will be england v png in the qtr finals...played on the sunday... wonder what time kick off will be?? hope its not a 6am start!?

If it's the Sunday game it's at 5am I fairly sure.

Saturdays are qf2 4am & 6.30am for QF3.

I would not be surprised if France sprung an upset and defeated England by 16 points.

But on the other hand England could still win this one now that Jermaine has been cleared of wrongdoing, and is free to bite to his heart's content.

that will be recorded then at 5am!

The clue is in the thread title as to when it kicks off



Although, assuming we finish 2nd, our QF will be at 5 the following Sunday in Melbourne.

well i asked when the quarter final kick off time will be not this game



yep 5am , answered on previous page

Do you really think that?

I really do think that I would not be surprised, yes. But do I think that it will happen? I just don't know. Now that the Vampire has been cleared of all wrongdoing, England could well go on to win it.

You sure about that? Pretty sure he played for us on the wing a few times while at Salford. Not that he's a winger tho.... but shouldn't matter much against a pub standard team.

Don't be stupid

I will give the troll his due, he still gets a fair few chomps.

Well, he confused me because sometimes he appears to talk intelligently about RL, but then he comes up with something like that. Plus he's made over 4000 posts - that's some dedicated trolling!

Confirmation of the infinite monkey theorem.

Bentham's positioning then??? Even if the French player caught it he was going to be in the way.

I know it’s only a desperately poor France team but Widdop looking excellent at fullback.

They look a different team with Widdop & Gale linking up rather than one split either side. Superb handling. Everything stops when it gets to Bateman unfortunately. Percival looks world class & is more than holding his own physically. It will be different against the southern hemisphere teams.

Good start against a bit of a rabble that wouldn't trouble half a dozen sides in this comp.
Nice hands and the fluidity is what we want and is IMHO the best way to beat the other teams going forward and ultimately Australians in the final if we get there.
Widdop excellent at FB, Brown doing really well, Gale better and Roby makes such a massive difference, Hodgson shouldn't get in the 17 frankly as he's offered virtually nothing as many have said.
Percival has done alright too.
Hope Graham gets a long rest this game.

Good job he scored then when it was a 2 on 1 for England and a walk in if he passed.