When the game has to resort to staging a Wales international in Wakefield, it really is time to pack it all in and quit pretending to be a professional sport administered by professional people.

Without the GB brand and scheduled domestic seasons between August and May, international RL is utterly screwed, as it has been since 1995/96 .

Is this on tv like the last Wales match was?

Does the same apply to the Brazil football team who stage a number of "home" matches in Europe?

Thats ok then. Wales are big enough that they don't have to play games in their own country to get people interested.

It isn't listed on either S4C or BBC2 Wales programme guides.

Most Rugby Union clubs in Wales have events on at their club houses on a Friday night so a short notice friendly could not be accommodated and of course will be holding games on Saturday be they 1st or 2nd team games.

It's more down to Welsh Rugby Union teams being semi professional and making money outside of rugby than RL and its professionalism.

A bit like a Candian team playing in an English league.

They probably staged the game in wakefield as most of the Jamacian team are from Yorkshire

Well, for all of the "knockers" out there, it was a decent game and but for the ref's (Cobb) whistle, Jamaica would have very likely won this one.
A hat trick for Jones Bishop, the third of which tied the game, giving Jamaica chance to win form the conversion, followed by a contentious decision (not to give a knock on) from the resulting kick off which was spilled by Jamaice, which meant the game finished 16 -16.
The penalty count was massively in Wales favour but, the sin binning was certainly right (for a a "spear" tackle).
Jamaica played some good stuff and defended really well, with Wales struggling to make yards with ball in hand.

Good game and just a shame that so many "fans" prefer Eastenders on a Friday night, instead of spending a tenner to watch a decent game of RL

Think Wales were surprised by the physicality of the Jamaicans and hopefully they came through without any injuries but it was a wake up call ahead of Italy and whilst against Serbia we spread the ball wide throughout the game last night it was too much crash bang wallop and trying to barge our way through the middle and when it leads to spilling the ball inside the opponents 10 4 times in 20mins it wasn't going to work.

It was a game we could have lost but still travel to Monza full of hope especially as two of the star players from Llanelli (Olds and Grace) plus Koppy and Joseph with their bags of experience will return for that one.

Anyone know what the Jamaica line up was?

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I couldn't get there. How did Andrade go or Jamaica?

He wasn't the stand out but, all of the Jamaica boys hit hard and kept going for the full 80.
The second half penalty count was 6/7 - 1 in favour of Wales, plus, the sin binning.
The only second half score for them was on 77/78 mins to tie the game, which was a great effort after having to defend for much of the 2nd half, which was mainly due to the penalty count or, lack of discipline, depending on your view point.