Well I`ll be there and for those complaining its difficult to get to............ Give your head a shake, seriously how MANY folks travel to away games by RAIL.

Well i am on night turn and am gutted as i would have loved to have gone, and for people on about the trains Atherton station is only about 15 mins away by bus to Leigh.

Thats not the point............The train should stop just outside the stadium so some of our " POSTERS" would have to try a little hardy to unearth a worthy excuse NOT to attend.... Broken finger nail, twisted sock etc.

This is true mate.

12,000 miles, or I'd have def been there!

I see what you are saying regarding the attitude of fans towards the international game, but the same applies to the RFL and international authorities.

Personally, football is usually some distance behind RL and, although club comes first, I usually make some kind of effort with England games, say attending at least one of each tri-series. Out of the wider circle I know of Wakey fans, that puts me at the more positive end towards the international game. In this instance, I'd like to watch England in the World Cup. Arranging a low-key friendly on the same day as England's first game is unlikely to persuade any of the less enthusiastic I know, either to make the effort for this game, or to take the international game more seriously (the latter of which is hard to do anyway when Goulding is an international coach).

I'm not going because the actions of the governing body over the last few years have left me feeling disenfranchised. I used to go to every international (even overseas tours), SL Grand Final, Challenge Cup Final etc but now I go to none of them.

I still care about the game, and I care about my club. The problem is that I feel that the game no longer cares about my club.

agree fella ..or docklands in melbourne

Still the same family , but split because they've come into a bit of money and no longer want to be seen with you , they want you to turn up at their parties , but dont come to yours , something like that Derwent

I would go,but I don't know wether if i can make it in time...

Agreed. The England RL brand is horribly tacky, when it should be the pride of our game. Look at the team badge for a start, it looks like it's been designed by a 6 year old on MS Paint. I just can't get excited about England RL at the moment.

As a Welshman living in Ireland I have no affinity (sp?) to England.

However I would have gone if it were a GB game and not England.

Instead I will save some travlling money and have a weekend at home instead of the usual flights back to see Leeds, wherever they may be (no I'm not going to watch them against Harlequins either due to the fixture time change)

Can't afford the 600 mile round trip

go and watch wales (or ireland) then when they play in the european cup at the end of the season

Two things being said a lot on this thread are "meaningless" and "friendly".

Do we actually play international friendlies in RL? I thought this game was actually classed as a Test Match. I'm not sure I can remember any full international RL game actually being called a friendly (by anyone other than RL Fans). In football, a friendly seems to be any game not part of a tournament (or qualification) - so has that mentality come to RL fans, now seeing a stand alone Test Match as meaningless as it's not part of a wider competition. I wonder if RU fans consider their regular autumn internationals as meaningless friendlies.

On to "meaningless" - what gives a game meaning? Serious question. This game is our equivalent of the Anzac Test they play down under, so should the England v France test be branded in some way and given a named cup to play for? Would that make it meaningful? Is it just the (perceived lack of) quality of the opposition that makes things meaningless?

On the transport issue, I'm going to the game later and have just checked out the public transport times. I live less than 10 miles from LSV (as the crow flies - 15 by road) but I can get to Leeds by public transport than Leigh. That's more a dig at the state of public transport than the town of Leigh.