Every time I see the Australian Schoolboys take on their English equivalents I cannot believe the size difference. I remember seeing the likes of Oliver Gildart turning out against them at Orrell a couple of years ago and only some slick skills and rugged defence kept us anywhere near so no wonder the colleges lads got thumped. I look forward to the full England team having a run.

But for several bad injuries during that game at Orrell Wigan would have probably won that game

There is a lad called Franklin Pele in the squad. He's mahoosive.

Yorkshire put up a much better fight on Wednesday evening before going down 22-30. They actually led on 40 minutes, but the Aussies just had too much guile and match savvy.
Games are shown on the our league page....Lancs up on Saturday at 1pm GMT..........if it's half as good as the Yorks game it'll be great

Hull KR's Mikey Lewis scored a superb solo try but couldn't help prevent Yorkshire Academy slipping to a narrow defeat against the Australian Schoolboys.

Lewis, who penned his first professional contract in a three-year deal last month with Rovers, helped the hosts at the Mend-a-Hose Jungle take a 12-4 half-time advantage, touching down for a try plus kicking two conversions.

However the visitors hit back with 26 second-half points to snatch the win in a 30-22 success.

I enjoyed the game, I thought they showed up well. The Australian hooker in the 2nd half - Gray - was fantastic. Thought the Yorkshire props did well. I will probably spell their names incorrectly, but Dupuis, Mustapha, Holroyd were excellent. As a Hull fan it was good to see Connor Wynne in the 2nd half at full back who looked dangerous returning the ball and beat men easily, although he had a rush of blood to the head when he made a half break and flung the ball back inside

That was one if the differences in the two sides, aussies had a bit more composure and couple of their speculative passes stuck and Yorkshires did not. Not alot in the two sides, but the number 4 fir Yorkshire got seriously owned severl times by his opposite number.

Enjoyed the game an a good turn out for a mid week kids game.

First guy was my MoM......second kid is a mountain......Aussies hated it when he ran at then.

I thought it strange that Connor Wynne didn't get much game time cos he was originally named at fullback, Liam Whitton was a late inclusion yet started and played most of the game.

Unless you are involved in the coaching set up, how can you be so sure?

Am I missing something here?

This game was against England Colleges. A warm up game for the two matches against the England Academy - the Australian schoolboys equivalent.

Yes, but they also played Yorkshire u19s earlier this week, and will play Lancashire u19s before the first game against the full England side.