good job you are a wigan fan so you dont have to experience that feeling very often.

Got our tickets for the game against Australia, East stand as usual

just one question will wigan get any reciepts from the game or does it all go to whelan?
other than that i like the jjb i thoroughly enjoyed the last international against the kiwis

The JJB is brilliant when full, but its only ever full for Latics v United and Wigan v Saints every other Good Friday. Oh, and GB v Australia!

I imagine it will all go to the stadium company as that is who the RFL is doing business with. So yes it will go to Whelan.

Brilliant that one is @ the JJB, but a bit of a shocker they coudnt convince Hull to play ball.

Relaunch an old thread but apparently the JJB test will be an afternoon 2:30pm kick off. So you'll still be able to trick or treat at night!

Is it on the Beeb then?

Quote ="AJ"Is it on the Beeb then?'" This says not www.englandrl.co.uk/~englandr/fixtures.php but it would make sense.

Quote ="AJ"Is it on the Beeb then?'" This says not www.englandrl.co.uk/~englandr/fixtures.php but it would make sense.

Quote ="Bilko"This says not www.englandrl.co.uk/~englandr/fixtures.php but it would make sense.'" Yea, I would reckon its nailed on to be the BBC game. They will want to show England, I assume the RFL believe this one will sell out, so they put it forward.

Quote ="Bilko"This says not www.englandrl.co.uk/~englandr/fixtures.php but it would make sense.'" Yea, I would reckon its nailed on to be the BBC game. They will want to show England, I assume the RFL believe this one will sell out, so they put it forward.

Fantastic.

It'll take me back to the internationls at Wembley days.

Was supposed to be played at the Kc, but they wouldnt guarantee the date because they didnt know what would be going on with the football season, so they ended up having to ask the JJB who said that they would guarantee the date, and inform Latics that the groud would be unavailable that day...

We used to play them at places like Wembley when Edwards was sent off for taking Clyde's head off for example. There was about 65000 people on that day. Have watched GB at places like Elland Road as well.

Somehow we lost ether the will or the ability to take such games to big stadia.

The Aussies only played at club grounds when playing the clubs as on their tour.

Those were the days!

Dave

We will never grow as a bigger game if these games are in the m62 corrider we needed to take a game to the midlands with a afternoon kick off i did mention this when the fixtures came out.

If it was marketed properly we could have it at a bigger stadium.

I love the Aus games the the JJB though they are an amazing atmosphere.

Just looked on the englandrl website and there looking for a sponsor for the 4 nations who do you think we should get ( hope they dont get put off when reading this.)

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The problem is the RFL don't have the finances to risk staging the game at a larger venue.

They can't guarantee the media publicity to promote matches away from the so called M62 corridor, compare and contrast with this afternoon when the Lions RU SQUAD announcement was live for almost an hour on Sky Sports News, Setanta, Talksport and 5 Live.

Can confirm the 2:30pm kick off is indeed because the Beeb will televise it Live.

Whilst on the subject of test matches - The mid season England v France test in Paris is Live on Sky on Saturday 13th June at 8pm - which conviently is right after our game in Wales. Sky have a TBC Super League match scheduled for 5:30pm proceeding that so would not be surprised if Celtic v Wigan is what gets picked in that slot.

I wonder how many Wigan players are going to be included in the England team that day?

Well if he can pick Peter Fox last summer then Ainscough may get a look in if he keeps form up. Who knows.

Anybody remember Jason Robinson's international debut?

Wembley v NZ in 1993 iirc.

Yeah, two tries in the corner. Great debut.

None, unless he goes all experimental and picks Ainscough.

Dont think Tomkins has shown enough yet to displace Myler or get in above Eastmond.

O'Loughlin and Hock usually end up in the squad - although after getting dropped in the World Cup, Hock might find himself on the outside.