Who's going? Should be a bit of a cake walk for England but it's the first mid season International in our region for quite some time. I believe GB vs NZ a few years ago at Saints was the last? Scully was the captain and [Surprise surprise He limped/walked off injured after 10 mins or so.

I'm going,


i'm looking forward to it, even though it'll be a walk over.

You clearly missed England -v- Australia at Wigan in the last four nations then!

Mid-season?

Fail.

Hmm, yes. I read end of season, not mid season.

me +4 going in the standing end. Cant knock for 8 quid each

I have a better question!

Who is not going but will moan about the crowd and international rugby in general after the game anyway?

England are playing USA today not France, thread title should be amended ASAP.

And how cr@p the players are who are not from their club team.

We are certainly on the same wavelength, just don't tell the wire fans, they will hate you too

Well I'm not going, and I won't moan about the poor crowd, but I might observe that RL international games are consistently less well supported than club games, mainly for cultural reasons.

I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done about it. The majority of RL fans (including me) will pick club over country every time, and I don't see that mindset changing anytime soon.

Our second Fail of the thread. I do enjoy the international games, but, a lot of fans will choose to go watch their club rather than their country this weekend. I'm doing the opposite, as I get to watch Wigan every week, but, this may be the only chance I get to watch England live this year, depending on whether a warm up for the 4 Nations is announced.

Im Sky+ this game and watching it when I return after seeing England draw against USA. I'm more concerned now with the Wakey game tomorrow, after Saints and Wire both got great wins yesterday.

This international fixture is merely an inconvenience.

Shame that most of the club bosses have the same mindset





Players can travel halfway round the globe to play in it yet fans can't bother to travel a few miles

£8 to stand in Leyth for a few hours sounds like a rip off to me. Still going though.

Players are paid to play for their country? Really?

Sad to see 'fans' choosing the football over the rugby.

I want to go, but none of my mates are going. They all want to watch the football instead.

Is it wrong that I actually want USA to win the football? After being told that the England V France game is 'irrellevant' today I cant wait till England football fail & get knocked out yet again.

But in reality it kinda is. I'm interested in the game and will be watching it on sky+ tomorrow, but it's a mid season friendly against a team we should beat. Whereas England are playing their first game in the world cup, and I'll definately watch that over a friendly against a poor side in rl.

EDIT: At the end of the day it's a stupid move by the RFL to have them on at the same time, as I'd much rather just watch both live than have to make a choice.

The USA are an average side who the England football team should beat.
You don't get the same kind of negativity when the football team are playing 'meaningless friendlies' against Slovakia, Japan or Egypt.
If you like football then fair enough. Go and watch it, but please stop going on about how poor and pointless the rugby is.
At times this week I've felt like I'm surrounded by Latics fans and they're tired 'pointless minority sport' mantra.

So who's going to be the 'star man' for England v France this afternoon?

Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing Gareth Widdop in action. Think it's the perfect game for Sam to show some class.

For those of you interested in international rugby league, Great Britain Young Lions beat South Africa Schools 78-0 today.