All the pies are voting for Wire - Leeds and Saints players so that their players won't play (or so they think.) Do they realize that the 13 chosen may not contain any Wigan players but then Bluey and Matterson will pick them to make up the 22 man squad. They ( the coaches)then will chose the team from these 22. At the end of the day they can still end up with 3 Exiles from Wigan + any English players that get chosen.

I wasn't impressed by this idea when Tony Smith first spoke of it whenever that was but it's really grown on me as a concept lately. Although I think the RFL are being their usual idiotic selves in relation to the outworking of what I now think is a great idea, it's a great idea and I hope it is very successful. I've ordered my ticket, even though it means going to Headingley (is there NO other ground in this country?), and I'm really looking forward to it.

I think all the voting for other teams but your own will negate itself in the long run.

Up to 3 Exiles per club. Don't know about England.

They've got 9 in their squad, so some must be on Willie Mason-esque passports.

Get your votes in for Bradford and Wigan players. They are the teams we play the 2 weeks after this game.

If they wanted this to work, the RFL should scrap the magic weekend and play the exiles game on the late May Bank holiday and have no Superleague or National League fixtures on that weekend.

The teams wouldn't give up a bankholiday weekend of fixtures ever

Funny that Perry isn't included.

I agree this should be a stand alone fixture, a club team could have 6 players in the match and be expected to play 2 games in a weekend.

While I like this idea I think England will lose and Australia will take a huge psychological advantage from that.

There's a maximum of 3 players from any one team and SOO players back up so I don't see the problem

With McBanana as coach I wouldn't back England against Thatto Heath never mind a team of top class Aussies and Kiwi's

Isn't that just for the exiles side? Potentially a club could have another three in the England team.

Leeds played missing 7 in 2008 and Saints played the same weekend with 6 of our 7 backing up.

The clubs concerned just have to get on with it.

like FTV said really, the players just need to man up, its not really different from the easter period anyway