this coming wednesday....im going and would expect quite a few more giants fans down to support England playing in our home town and with 3 Giants players in the team...with few on the exiles side to add abit of spice!

team announced as..

1 Stefan Ratchford (Warrington Wolves, Wigan St Patricks)
2 Josh Charnley (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
3 Leroy Cudjoe (Huddersfield Giants, Newsome Panthers)
4 Ryan Atkins (Warrington Wolves, Stanningley)
5 Tom Briscoe (Hull FC, Featherstone Lions)
6 Matty Smith (Salford City Reds, Blackbrook)
7 Danny Brough (Huddersfield Giants, Thornhill Trojans)
8 Eorl Crabtree (Huddersfield Giants, Huddersfield YMCA)
9 James Roby (St Helens, Blackbrook)
10 Garreth Carvell (Warrington Wolves, Stanningley
11 Carl Ablett (Leeds Rhinos, Hunslet Parkside)
12 Jon Wilkin © (St Helens, East Hull)
13 Jamie Jones-Buchanan (Leeds Rhinos, Stanningley)
14 Rob Burrow (Leeds Rhinos, Featherstone Lions)
15 Liam Farrell (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
16 Lee Mossop (Wigan Warriors, Hensingham)
17 Scott Taylor (Hull KR, Skirlaugh)


a few dropping out from the earlier game v exiles with injuries etc...which doesnt look good but then again alot of people were saying that they prefered the knights team!!! so hey a few have been promoted....vital for next years world cup to try new things and give players a chance


well done cudjoe, crabtree and brough

cant wait to see brough!

not sure about ratchford at full back....has he played there for warrington??
and matty smith...been playing well for salford but not sure hes an international.

Yes mate, on a few occasions - had a stormer V Hull FC last weekend but was a bit ordinary at Salford on fri. Kick returns are top drawer and Tony Smith must now be considering him a direct replacement for Brett Hodgson.
When is the Exiles team being announced? I'd like to see Dobson get in , that would be a great battle with Danny Brough in the halves!

Just hope there's a decent crowd.

intresting warrington are looking to ratchford as a replacement for hodgson at full back.

exiles have named a 21 man squad upto now

Anthony Gelling (Wigan Warriors), Anthony Laffranchi (St Helens), Antonio Kaufusi (London Broncos), Brett Hodgson (Warrington Wolves), Constantine Mika (Hull KR), Daniel Holdsworth (Salford City Reds), Daryl Millard (Catalans Dragons), Epalahame Lauaki (Wigan Warriors), Francis Meli (St Helens), Heath L’Estrange (Bradford Bulls), Jason Chan (Huddersfield Giants), Joel Monaghan (Warrington Wolves), Joel Moon (Salford City Reds), Kylie Leuluai (Leeds Rhinos), Lincoln Withers (Hull KR), Michael Dobson (Hull KR), Sam Moa (Hull FC), Scott Dureau (Catalans Dragons), Sia Soliola (St Helens), Steve Menzies (Catalans Dragons), Willie Manu (Hull FC)

dobson is in!

chan is in for the giants.... faiumu and faalogo have dropped out (faalogo taken ill with virus,miss hull game)

hope so too, tickets have been cheap enough...

seems to have been abit less build up for this game though compared to the first game.

was it 11k at langtree park?

I'm going !

Heard they had only sold 3K tickets as of last week, and are offering Championship ST fans tickets for £10, also you can get a ticket, a england and exiles shirt for £44 adults or £34 concessions.

Not sure this concept is working for a mid week game, that means not a lot and is on TV

One of the most under-rated back-rowers in SL in my opinion

Daniel Holdsworth got the nod over Dobbo , L'Estrange in at hooker. L'Estrange should have no probs finding a new club i would imagine. Like him a lot, if Higham doesnt get a new contract he would fit in well at the Wolves. Unless the Giants go in for him, Moore just signed but Brown on way to the Vikings, could be an interesting off-season to say the least www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... y-england/

Daniel Holdsworth got the nod over Dobbo , L'Estrange in at hooker. L'Estrange should have no probs finding a new club i would imagine. Like him a lot, if Higham doesnt get a new contract he would fit in well at the Wolves. Unless the Giants go in for him, Moore just signed but Brown on way to the Vikings, could be an interesting off-season to say the least www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... y-england/

Score predictions?
I'll go for Eng 22 Exiles 16.
First try scorer - Cudjoe.
Hopefuly we will see a better game tonight, thats if it stops raining for a change!

Quote ="Weav Wire"Daniel Holdsworth got the nod over Dobbo , L'Estrange in at hooker. L'Estrange should have no probs finding a new club i would imagine. Like him a lot, if Higham doesnt get a new contract he would fit in well at the Wolves. Unless the Giants go in for him, Moore just signed but Brown on way to the Vikings, could be an interesting off-season to say the least www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... y-england/'" holdsworth is a very good player too but dobson prob having the better season so far... L'Estrange is good too but dont think giants will be in for him.... we have robinson, lee and moore...with the latter fighting it out for a contract.... lunt is on loan at leeds too from us but cant see him back.

Quote ="Weav Wire"Daniel Holdsworth got the nod over Dobbo , L'Estrange in at hooker. L'Estrange should have no probs finding a new club i would imagine. Like him a lot, if Higham doesnt get a new contract he would fit in well at the Wolves. Unless the Giants go in for him, Moore just signed but Brown on way to the Vikings, could be an interesting off-season to say the least www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... y-england/'" holdsworth is a very good player too but dobson prob having the better season so far... L'Estrange is good too but dont think giants will be in for him.... we have robinson, lee and moore...with the latter fighting it out for a contract.... lunt is on loan at leeds too from us but cant see him back.

i think exiles will win.... bookies think England by 4, been alot of cash for england too.

just goes to show this is better for england as for us getting closer to beating the aussies...if we were still playing france we would be predicting wins by 40+ for England.

Well, the predictions on here have been way off. England have been terrible and Brough has been a disgrace to the shirt. Crabtree and Cudjoe have been ok, but Brough has probably been the worst England player out there.

Why was the crowd so poor? I'm sure it's not the fault of the local fans, I can well imagine it's been under advertised and having it mid-week won't encourage people to come out, but for those of you up there, has the game been given any profile locally?

Brough a disgrace??? He's been no worse than any other England player, who have been poor tonight,what a silly statement to make!
As for the crowd, well its hardly going to atrract a decent crowd wherever it was played but no doubt it will be huddersfield fans fault for not turning out to support their country blah blah blah

And yes the game has been advertised on billboards and on flyers around town but the people of huddersfield wont even support their hometown club never mind the national side

do you ever stop bagging Huddersfields crowds. Stop joining in.

There were plenty of people from Huddersfield there tonight.

It was an INTERNATIONAL blame the people of Bradford, Wakey, Cas, Leeds Bradford and Dewsbury as well.

You are like a broken record

it was tongue in cheek at the digs from others at our crowds recently!

Didnt know it was on till our lass turned TV over halfway through.

I give up

Did you realise how brough was utilised in that game? Erm that's right he wasn't- brough should be in the centre of the field where he can dictate play and utilise his kicking game- the ball barely passed through his hands. Madness of Macca to stick him out wide.
Of course the only wire players who had a good game were those in exiles shirts. Atkins scored a try yes- but defensively ......Cudjoe was miles ahead of him in terms of performance tonight.

Stick to the day job, england were very poor. How many will be in next years world cup squad? Well the answer is not many!
Once widdop, burgess, graham, tomkins, reed, hock, westwood, olockers a
re added the team will improve, scared for the game with the rfl youth development plans though. Cut the overeseas players, promote the youth structure/ pathway, develop english coaches not fast tracking & shake up the rfl from to to bottom!!!
We are light years behind the ozzie game

Dont know how people can say Brough was bad, he hardly got a chance with ball in hand and when he did he seemed to try too hard if anything due to the lack of chances he had, he wanted to impress which is fair enough. Defensively he was spot on, if you want to point blame I'd look at the left edge defence, the combination of Wilkin and Smith was like a hot knife through butter!

thought mcnamara coaching was useless yet again all the play seemed to go through smith who wasnt up to it, brough wasnt involved enough due to this poor game plan , smith,atkins in defence was a nightmare too, was behind the exiles concept and went last night but england lacked passion in my eyes, best 2 players on field for me were bodgy and menzies.

i predicted a exiles win?

brough a disgrace? thats taking it abit far...a new half back combo with only 3 days training together, what do you expect? matty smith wasnt much better.

agree the left hand side defence was very poor, monaghan had a field day and so did menzies

cudjoe had a good game.

i went too, the game lacked passion like you say, it was abit like a training game and players not wanting to get injured....bring back the biff!!!!! thats what this needs...only player trying biff was lauki (but he always does...)