Precisely.

The French offer no real opposition to us, and this will be more of a test. I certainly don't share the opinion of many that we'll get battered.

A lot depends on who will be coaching the so called 'All Stars'. You would have to suggest it will be an Aussie or a Kiwi. My money is on Shaun McRae.

Justin Morgan, he's used to coaching a team of overseas players

(thought I'd get it in before Gutterboy!)

England v SL 'All Stars'

Marketed properly this could turn out to be a good yearly fixture. I'll certainly be supporting it anyway.

I'm excited.

The next post probably sums it up a bit...


The attitude that we are a great team because we stuff the French every year.
If players struggle against this "made up team" (use what ever derogatory phrase you like, probably makes the situation worse for England if they struggle), then this attitude of us being "on the up" will go, and players might actually realise that they need to pull their fingers out if they want to compete against the stronger nations... or even to get selected at all.

Of course, if we stuff them (which I don't think we will at all), then we're back to square one with the "waxing lyrical". It might not make us beat the Aussies, but it will certainly help building a better attitude to it if the game is competitive.

they are'nt gonna be called the "all stars" by the way....


they will be 'the Other nationalities'...playing in green jerseys....

Really?

I havent even read that this fixture is anything more than an idea yet.

Any links?

What about the Barbarians?

Seems to be a concept that works well in RU.

I think it could work really well. Hopefully it will be marketed properly by the RFL, and will hopefully serve as a competitive game for England.








PS: First Post, hi everybody

Meh, let them try.

Aaahh, so you think the people in charge of our game have been lulled in to a false sense of security by our beating a france 2nd string in mid-season tests----repeatedly

But never learned from their mistake when we went on to be defeated by NZ and Australia------repeatedly

But when we play a contrived out of the many overseas players (mostly average) we have in this country players who could be bothered playing 13, and dont win easily, they will suddenly be shocked out of this complacency and improve. Unless of course we do win easily in which case the same complacency will be there.

I'm in favour of the idea, hope its set up correctly though.

I'm not quite sure what you are saying - do you think an overseas select would be a tougher game for England than France? That's all it boils down to - getting as intense a game as we can for England mid-season.