yorkshire--

coach - james lowes

1 greg eden
2 tom briscoe
3 kris welham
4 ryan atkins
5 ryan hall
6 danny mcguire
7 danny brough - goalkickcer
8 gareth carvell
9 mick mcillorum
10 eorl crabtree
11 ben westwood
12 carl ablett
13 gareth ellis - captain

14 larne patrick
15 ryan bailey - Would add plenty of fire
16 elliott whitehead
17 rob burrow


LANCASHIRE

coach -mike rush

1 sam tomkins
2 josh charnley
3 darrell goulding
4 kallum watkins
5 chris riley
6 jon lomax - goalkicker
7 matt smith
8 lee mossop
9 james roby
10 ben harrison
11 liam farrell
12 gareth hock
13 sean o loughlin -captain

14 paul wood
15 paul prescott
16 mark flanagan
17 matt blythe

NRL PLAYERS-reed,widdop,l burgess,s burgess,graham.

Based this team on next season so morley and peacock need to make way for the younger forwards.

1 game at langtree
1 game at headingley
1 game at salford

would be a much better concept than the exiles.Wouldnt match the origin but would make a good series and give young players a chance to shine on the big stage.

I know it's so obvious, I can't believe the RFL hasn't tried the whole Yorkshire V Lancashire thing before... Oh hang on

different times now though,i feel more people would get behind it as the exiles thing is a joke

Another Exiles thread. Yay.

yay

It's too dangerous. Splitting the atom created the nuclear bomb. McIllorum and Goulding being split and smashed into each other could easily destroy the world.

It would work if Lancashire evoked any emotion but it doesn't, it's been dissected too much. You don't here chants of Lancashire at games like you do Yorkshire.

There is nothing wrong with the exiles concept, we just need to give it time.

I think the exiles concept is good, however in a few years when all the NRL talent has dried up because they will get more money in the NRL due to the new TV deal it could struggle. Then a roses type match could be good as there should be more english players (probs from yorks/lancs) as there will be less NRL players coming over!

The fact is whatever the RFL do they get slammed. If ppl aint gunna turn up and pay theres not much the RFL can do.

Surely the quality of the exiles team will slowly get weaker because we might see less quality overseas players in super league in the next few years.

East countries vs West counties might work with players representing the county they made their professional career debut. For example Tomkins at Wigan or Sinfield at Leeds. SOO took a while to take off but they stuck with it and look at it now. Then again, most fans are only d about their clubs sides an nothing else!

I like the Exiles concept but I think the RFL made a boo boo taking the game to Langtree. They should have brought it to Hull. The Yorkshire v Lancashire series could have by now been something akin to Origin.

The problem was the RFL pratted around with it, the players didn't take it seriously and how well you played had no bearing on whether or not you would force yourself in to GB. The same old tried and failed guys kept getting picked. Sound familiar?

One bad game and these boards go into meltdown. Classic RLFans kneejerking.

Mossop is from cumbria.

ok then --- lee jewitt

Not to mention the amounts of compo required to Wigan if any injuries were sustained. Economical meltdown.

such collisions could lead to the creation of the 'Menninga Lyon-Boson'.